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Hollow Wasp
A one-seat electric flyer: four guarded props on a tube cage with carbon fairings. Quick and nimble, it runs on its battery instead of gas, and the Hollow Charging Station fills it back up from your power grid.
How it works
- Learn the Wasp at Vehicle Adventures 95; the charging station comes much earlier, at 40 (with the Hollow Volt Bike). Build both at a workbench.
- Place the charging station and wire it to your power like a light. It idles on almost nothing and draws 100 W only while it is charging.
- Fly: Space climbs, C descends, W/S fly, A/D turn, Shift is faster. Let go of everything and it holds its height.
- Charge: land within about 4 m of a powered station and leave it. A cable runs from the station to the Wasp, the station pulses amber and the ring on its face fills; it turns solid green when the battery is full.
- Look at the station to read it: Charging 64%, Charged 100% or No power.
Tips
- A full battery flies about 13 minutes. Empty to full takes about 10 game minutes at a station on a healthy grid.
- Gas cans do nothing for it: the fuel ring on the driving HUD shows the battery and blinks red below 15%.
- If the battery runs flat or you step out in the air, it settles to the ground on its own.
- A station on a weak grid (too little power for 100 W) shows No power and does not charge; add a battery bank or a generator.
- Road skills help: Hypermiler makes the battery drain slower, Fast Charge charges it 25% faster per rank and Extended Cells gives 15% more flying time per rank. When the Wasp sits on a station with nobody aboard, its owner's Fast Charge counts.
- It carries almost nothing: three small slots under the seat (the Wasp Cargo Pod adds a pod and a row).
- It takes its own kits, not the vanilla vehicle mods; each shows on it and works on the battery (Vehicle Adventures 96-102, workbench): Nose Searchlights (two searchlights under the nose), Cargo Pod, Spare Battery Pack (a second pack on the tail, about 70% more flying), Prop Ducts (ducts round the props: 45% less drain, quieter), Overdrive Rings (glowing outer rings: faster climb and top speed, but hungrier) and Carbon Armor (40% less damage).
- Wasp Solar Canopy (its own mod, learned with the Wasp): a curved roof of solar cells over the seat that trickle-charges the battery in daylight under open sky, about a sixth of a station at noon.
- The props lean into the way you fly, like a real drone.
- Its plate reads MEAN3. Dyes tint the carbon fairings.