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==Drone basics== | ==Drone basics== | ||
If you undock with drones in your drone bay, a new window for controlling drones will appear on your screen. Via this window you can launch drones from your drone bay, give commands to them once they are in space, and recover them back into your drone bay. This window also shows the active status of any drones you currently have in space, and if any of those drones are damaged. | If you undock with drones in your drone bay, a new window for controlling drones will appear on your screen. Via this window you can launch drones from your drone bay, give commands to them once they are in space, and recover them back into your drone bay. This window also shows the active status of any drones you currently have in space, and if any of those drones are damaged. | ||
[[File:Drone control window.png|thumb|right|200px|The drone control window, showing drones in the drone bay and drones in space.]] | |||
You can issue commands like "attack that target", in which case the drone will fly to the target you have selected and start firing on it once it's within weapons range, ''but you cannot exercise any finer control than that''. You can give commands to each drone individually, or to all of your drones at once. | You can issue commands like "attack that target", in which case the drone will fly to the target you have selected and start firing on it once it's within weapons range, ''but you cannot exercise any finer control than that''. You can give commands to each drone individually, or to all of your drones at once. | ||