Shuttle engine

Shuttle engines are items added by the Odyssey DLC, used exclusively for the construction of passenger shuttles.

Acquisition[edit]

One shuttle engine will be obtained from deconstructing or destroying manned shuttles with the Odyssey DLC active, which are the imperial shuttle, crashed shuttle, and passenger shuttle. The spacedrone and crashed mechanitor ship will not yield a shuttle engine when deconstructed or destroyed.

The shuttle engine can also be acquired by trading with exotic goods traders, combat suppliers, or faction bases — as long as the trader or base is of the Traders guild faction. As that faction is only in orbit, the colony will need have a comms console to purchase one. Only one shuttle engine can be in stock at a time. Shuttle engines can also be obtained as a quest reward.

Summary[edit]

A single shuttle engine is used in the creation of a passenger shuttle.

Usage[edit]

Product	Ingredients	Type
Passenger shuttle	250 + 150 + 6 + 1	Building - Odyssey (Buildings)

Analysis[edit]

Passenger shuttles are a powerful late-game alternative option for transportation, which makes acquiring a shuttle engine highly desirable.

A shuttle engine can be gathered for free from the crashed shuttles in the quests Sanguophage Transport and Shuttle Crash . Alternatively, one can accept a quest involving taking in pawns from the Empire, which will usually guarantee that an imperial shuttle will arrive at the base, which can be destroyed for one shuttle engine. By refusing to load the necessary pawns onto the shuttle, you may anger the faction, but because neutral relations can be regained, this is infinitely repeatable. The call transport shuttle permit can be used to summon a shuttle, allowing you to destroy it for a shuttle engine without harming relations with the Empire.

Without either the Royalty or Biotech DLC, obtaining a shuttle engine is much more inconsistent. You have to rely on either finding it for sale on the comms console or get lucky and have it show up as a quest reward. Their relatively high value makes the latter method especially difficult compared to others.

Outlander and Tribal settlements will not buy shuttle engines sold by caravans.