May 2025 Competition

May 2025
The Sinister Six
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Entrants	Ranamar DoctorX Rochdale BrendyBear Hype Imre Stunty omgbear Fredrick Von Strudel Zenrath Force_10

Goal & Prize

Create the most effective combat ships(s) and see how it holds up against the competition! All submitted ships will compete in a bracket competition. See build details below. The winner receives the Competition Winner flair and/or associated roles in the Discord server.

Submissions & Rules

All ships must be submitted by May 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM EST / 23:00 UTC. Totengeist and Johnny_Struggles will not submit any ships to participate in the tournament, as they'll be running the battles.

You may submit your ships in the following ways:

• Submit to the Ship Showcase on Discord and tag as a Competition Entry
• Send a Steam Workshop or Shipyard link to Johnny_Struggles
• Send a .ship file to Johnny_Struggles

We will allow up to 2 submissions from each contestant, and each submission may be composed of 1 or more ships, so long as the combination of them meets the requirements below.

The tournament bracket is randomized (3 times using RANDOM.ORG), so we may end up having 2 submissions from the same person fighting each other.🚀

Build Requirements:

You must use your own ship design(s).

• Build 1 or more ships with a combined price cap of 1m space bucks.
• Each ship must have at least 1 docking port.
• Ships must have at least 1 engine.
• Ships must not have any armor.
• External objects should not be placed as shields. Any designs that appear to have objects placed as shields will be rejected.
• Ships must not travel at speeds higher than 130.
• Items must not overlap.

Only for ships that have crew:

• Maximum of 2 crew.
• Crew must have food and water.
• Ships crew capacity must be equal to or greater than the number of crew.
• Ships must have breathable atmosphere where spacesuits are not required by the crew.
• The atmosphere must be maintained with oxygen supplied from a bottle or from reprocessing.
• C02 must be captured and either bottled or reprocessed to oxygen.
• Sewage must be captured and either bottled or reprocessed to oxygen.
• You may use weapons officers and consoles.

Combat rules:

• Combat will take place in a meteor shower!
• Ships will start combat facing each other outside of Railgun Range.
• The games AI will control all the combat.
• The default orders will be on so hull repair will be enabled during combat.
• Ships will fight each other twice and the ship with two kills wins. If both ships get a kill then the ship that killed it's opponent the fastest wins the tie.
• Combat has a 5 minute time limit. If ships are stuck in a loop, judges can call the battle early. If the limit is reached, the ship(s) with the highest percentage of health left wins.
• Each entry will be multiplied by 4. (Ex: If you submit 2 ships and your opponent submits 1, the battle will be 8v4.)

AI options:

To add even more excitement we can alter the basic strategy your ship uses by default for combat. They are defined below, so you now have the opportunity to choose one that you think best fits your ship. Now, two things to be aware of. It's possible the AI will change the strategy it's using based on the situation it's in so it may not stick to what you have picked.

Strategies to choose from:

StrategyVeryCloseOrbit	Broadside orbits within Gatling gun range.
CloseRangeAggressive	Broadside orbits in cannon range just outside of gatling gun range.
MediumRangeOrbit	Broadside orbits at far end of cannon range.
LongRangeSniper	Broadside orbits at railgun range well outside of cannon range.
FastMovingJet	Forward facing strafing Runs, fly's straight at opponent then circles around to do it again.

Entries

• Ranamar's Eel Fighter
• DoctorX's Stunned Mullet MK II
• Rochdale's Ascension of Mass
• BrendyBear's Gatattack Drone
• DoctorX's Blowie MK II
• Hype's Atom
• Rochdale's Asceticism of Action
• Imre's Borealis Fighter
• Stunty's Sai-Class Heavy Fighter
• omgbear's Speck
• BrendyBear's Annoying Fly
• Fredrick Von Strudel's Turkey-Vulture
• Ranamar's Asteroid Crab
• Stunty's Harpy-Class Drone Gunship
• Zenrath's X
• Fredrick Von Strudel's Sparrowhawk - Mk4
• omgbear's Big Y
• Imre's Crossfire-Class Outpost
• Hype's Photon & Atom
• Zenrath's Squeege Shredder
• Force_10's F10 Enterprises Hybrid Eco Fighter Mark II

Battles

Competitors	Round 1 Winner	Round 2 Winner	Fight Winner
Preliminaries
Eel Fighter vs. Stunned Mullet MK II			Eel Fighter
Ascension of Mass vs. Gatattack Drone			Gatattack Drone
Blowie MK II vs. Atom			Atom
Asceticism of Action vs. Borealis Fighter			Borealis Fighter
Sai-Class Heavy Fighter vs. Speck			Speck
Level 1
Annoying Fly vs. Eel Fighter			Eel Fighter
Turkey-Vulture vs. Asteroid Crab			Asteroid Crab
Harpy-Class Drone Gunship vs. Gatattack Drone			Gatattack Drone
Atom vs. X			X
Sparrowhawk - Mk4 vs. Borealis Fighter			Borealis Fighter
Big Y vs. Crossfire-Class Outpost			Crossfire-Class Outpost
Photon & Atom vs. Squeege Shredder			Squeege Shredder
Speck vs. F10 Enterprises Hybrid Eco Fighter Mark II			Speck
Level 2
Eel Fighter vs. Asteroid Crab			Asteroid Crab
Gatattack Drone vs. X			X
Borealis Fighter vs. Crossfire-Class Outpost			Crossfire-Class Outpost
Squeege Shredder vs. Speck			Squeege Shredder
Semi-Finals
Asteroid Crab vs. X			X
Crossfire-Class Outpost vs. Squeege Shredder			Squeege Shredder
Finals
X vs. Squeege Shredder			Squeege Shredder
Competition Winner
Squeege Shredder

Choice Awards

Category	Winner
Coolest Ship	Imre's Borealis Fighter
Best Back Story	Stunty's Sai-Class Heavy Fighter
Best Fight	Photon & Atom vs. Squeege Shredder Big Y vs. Crossfire-Class Outpost
Least Like a Penis	Zenrath's X
Survival	Force_10's F10 Enterprises Hybrid Eco Fighter Mark II