Parasite

Parasites feed off of the resources in your ship. They board your ship by your ship being on the receiving end of a parasitic weapon, such as Sleet Sludger or Parasitic Flare Gun, or any other weapon that adds damage over time. To get rid of a parasite, either dock at a station and they will pop out of your ship, or equip an Exterminator which will eat parasites at a specified rate. Some Parasites have a defined size, and can take up hull space. Others are 0 size and can keep on accumulating, making your ship unbearable, and more useful to buy an exterminator. All Parasites are tech 0.

Parasite Mechanics

Decay

Approximately every 1 second, the stack of parasites will take damage equal to = the number equipped * SingleParasiteHP / lifetime (where lifetime = 2 * halflife.)

So if you have 1 parasite with a lifetime of 12 seconds and 12 hp, then every second it will take 1 * 12 / 12 = 1 damage, so after 12 seconds, it will go away. If you have 2 such parasites, then for 6 seconds, the stack will take 2 * 12 / 12 = 2 damage per tick until 1 dies after 6 seconds, and then the second one will die 12 seconds after that, or 18 seconds from when you started. If you had 3 such parasites, then one will die after 4 seconds, the second one 6 seconds after that, and the last one 12 seconds after that, etc. When damage "is applied to the stack" it's always applied to one parasite at a time until it's dead, potentially killing multiple parasites per tick. There's no individual HP of parasites in the stack, just the current HP of the "top" parasite.

Inflicting Damage to the Host

Every damageInterval, as defined in the parasite, the parasite stack will damage the ship equal to parasiteDamage * multiplierFromAugsAndWeapon * numberOfParasitesCurrentlyInTheStack. If these hypothetical parasites do 1 damage per second to the ship, then a stack of 2 will do 2 damage per second for 6 seconds, and then 1 damage per second for 12 seconds, or 24 damage total. Without exterminators, each parasite is going to do all of its damage eventually, but the more parasites in the stack, the more the timeline is pushed out. Each additional parasite added to the stack pushes out the time when the existing parasites get to do their damage.

Exterminators

Exterminators or Fire Extinguishers do a constant DPS to every parasite in the stack, but that damage is all applied to the top of the stack, taking away the same parasite HP's as the natural decay. Exterminators are extremely effective against large stacks of parasites.

Parasites and Fires

Name	Weapon	Type	Damage	Health	Size	Weight	Description	Half-Life	Comments
Basil Bacteria	Basil Bacteria Blaster	Organic	4 every 1 second	800	0	1	A groovy bug	15 seconds
Black Coal	Santa's Coal Shooter	Fire	1 every 1 second	1000	0	100,000	Ho, Ho, TAKE THAT!	60 seconds	Improves: Speed -1%
Blowworm	Blowworm Syringe	Organic	29 every 2.5 seconds	250	1	1	ugh	30 seconds	Duplicates every 20 seconds
Boogie Bacteria	Goblin Boogie Device	organic	3 every 1 second	500	0	2,000	gross	20 seconds	Speed -50%, Radar -50%, Range -25%, visibility: 150
Burger Sludge	N/A	Organic	2 every 1 second	40	0	1,000,000	ugh	15 seconds	Possible green debris in The Serengeti
Critical Fire	Various	Fire	5 every 0.5 seconds	400	0	1	its burning	3 seconds	Visibility: 30
Dark Fire	Infernal Darkness weapons	Fire	6 every 1 second	600	0	1	it's burning	30 seconds	Visibility: 120
Drenched!	Poseidon Wave Special	Nanite	1 every 1 second	800	0	0	Better than front row seats at Sealand	5 seconds	Improves: Rate of fire -10%, Energy Recharge -10%
Duplicator	Strontium Miner	Organic	4 every 1 second	525	0	1	Cute little beetle of destruction.	20 seconds
Elephant Symbiote		Organic	-50 every 1 second	1,000	0	1	Clean your tusks.	5 seconds	Unique
Face Hugger Webbing Spray	Face Hugger Acid Spit	Organic	10 every 1 second	250	0	1000	Stick stuff, really stick stuff.	30 seconds	Improves: Speed -2%, Radar -5%
Flare	Parasitic Flare Gun	Nanite	1 every 1 second	100	0	1	ugh	120 seconds	Visibility: 3500, 4 elec
Holy Fire	High Prophet	Fire	1,000 every 1 second	1,000	0	1	The power of adum compels you!	30 seconds	Tracking -90%
Huge Fire	Various	Fire	10 every 1 second	1,200	0	1	it's burning	40 seconds	Visibility: 120
Ice Sludge	Ice Sludger	Organic	5 every 5 seconds	80	0	15,000	slooow me down	50 seconds	Duplicates every 20 seconds
Jelly Spit	Jelly Spitter	Organic	1 every 1 second	10	1	5,000	Sticky stuff, seem to eat power cables and grow off it somehow.	300 seconds	Duplicates every 60 seconds
Large Fire	Various	Fire	3 every 1 second	600	0	1	it's burning	30 seconds	Visibility: 90
Maimed!	Ares War Chariot Special	Nanite	50 every 1 second	800	0	0	Owwwwwwww	10 seconds	Improves: Speed -20%, Turning -25%, Tracking -25%
Medium Fire	Various	Fire	2 every 1 second	400	0	1	it's burning	7.5 seconds	Visibility: 30
Seer's Blindy Sauce	Seer's Blinder	Nanite	1 every 0.7 seconds	100	0	1	Who turned out the lights?	30 seconds	Improves: Radar -50%
Sleet Sludge	Sleet Sludger	Organic	60 every 1 second	475	0	15,000	slooow me down	60 seconds	Weapon is built in on the Snowflake
Sludge	Sludge Spewer	Organic	2 every 1.5 seconds	80	0	10,000	ugh	15 seconds
Small Fire	Various	Fire	1 every 1 second	200	0	1	it's burning	15 seconds	Visibility: 14
Stemworm	Stemworm Syringe	Organic	7 every 1 second	200	0	1	ugh	30 seconds
Sticky Glue	Glue Gun	Nanite	1 every 1 second	1,200	0	2,000,000	sticky	40 seconds	Improves: Speed -20%, Radar -50%, 4 elec/s
Hot Sticky Glue	Hot Glue Sprayer	Nanite	200 every 1 second	1,200	0	1,000,000	sticky	40 seconds	Improves: Speed -5%, Radar -50%, 4 elec/s
Stingray Poison	Stingray Laser	Nanite	10 every 0.7 seconds	2000	0	10,000	Nanites be eating my cables!	60 seconds	Speed -40%, Shield Recharge -20%, Energy Recharge -20%, Range -20% Removed, instead the laser now gives -25% range and speed
Super Ice Sludge	Super Ice Sludger	Organic	10 every 5 seconds	300	0	30,000	slooow me down	50 seconds	Fertile!
Super Duper Ice Sludge	Super Duper Ice Sludger	Organic	15 every 5 seconds	4500	0	45,000	slooow me down	25 seconds	Duplicates every 2 seconds
Undead Narwhal Parasite	?	Organic	75 every 0.5 seconds	400	0	300,000	Disgusting and hmm, undead?!?	40 seconds
Small Napalm Fire	Small Incendiary Missile	Fire	20? every 1 second	400	0	1	This one really burns.	15 seconds	?? visibility
Medium Napalm Fire	Medium Incendiary Missile	Fire	80 every 1 second	800	0	1	This one really burns.	15 seconds	Visibility: 60
Large Napalm Fire	Large Incendiary Missile	Fire	140 every 1 second	1200	0	1	This one really burns.	15 seconds	Visibility: 120
Huge Napalm Fire	Red Photon Plasma Missile	Fire	2500 every 1 second	1600	0	1	This one really burns.	10 seconds	Visibility: 120
Ksaravisa Ekam	Antu Zakti	Organic	5 every 0.5 seconds	300	0	25,000	A slightly caustic Aveksaka biogenic acid.	30 seconds

Base Parasites

All of these parasites below are Base-Only, and therefore will not appear on Player Ships.

Name	Weapon Tech	Weapon	Type	Damage	Health	Size	Weight	Elec	Description	Half-Life	Comments
Core Drain Device Prototype	10	Unidyne Core Drain Prototype	Nanite	80 every 2 seconds	1,000	0	1,000	8/s	Attaches to large hulls and sucks the energy right out.	3,600 seconds	Improves: Shield Recharge -20%, Damage -10%
Class I Core Drain Device	14	Unidyne Core Drain	Nanite	112 every 2 seconds	1,400	0	1,000	10/s	Attaches to large hulls and leaches the energy from all systems	3,600 Seconds	Improves: Shield Recharge -30%, Damage -15%
Class II Core Drain Device	17	Unidyne Core Leach	Nanite	136 every 2 seconds	1,700	0	1,000	14/s	Attaches to large hulls and leaches the energy from all systems	3,600 seconds	Improves: Shield Recharge -40%, Damage -20%
Core Dump Device	20	Unidyne Core Dump	Nanite	160 every 2 seconds	2,000	0	1,000	16/s	Attaches to large hulls and dumps the energy from all systems	3,600 seconds	Improves: Shield Recharge -50%, Damage -25%
Rubicite Waste	N/A	Rubicite Injection Morphology	Nanite	160 every 2 seconds	700,000	2	100	0	Large industrial processes often have unforseen environmentally damaging byproducts.	3,600 seconds	Improves: Shield -70%, Damage -70%, Shield Recharge -70%

Aveksaka Parasites

Weapon Parasites

Name	Source	Type	Damage	Health	Size	Weight	Description
		Half-Life	Comments
Artisaluna Katur	Parasitic Shield Transference IV Inflicted onto user, while target is inflicted with a Bhisajsaluna Katur	Nanite	10 every 2s	400	0	1	A shield sapping Aveksaka parasite.
		6 sec
Bhisajsaluna Katur	Parasitic Shield Transference IV Inflicted onto target, while user is inflicted with a Artisaluna Katur	Nanite	-20 every 2s	400	0	1	A shield restoring Aveksaka parasite.
		6 sec
Artisaluna Sas	Vaidaya Bhisajamzu Inflicted onto user, while target is inflicted with a Bhisajsaluna Sas	Nanite	12 every 2s	400	0	1	A shield sapping Aveksaka parasite.
		12 sec
Bhisajsaluna Sas	Vaidaya Bhisajamzu Inflicted onto target, while user is inflicted with a Artisaluna Sas	Nanite	-25 every 2s	400	0	1	A shield restoring Aveksaka parasite.
		12 sec
Bhisajsaluna Sahistha	Dhatri Bhisaj Inflicted onto target	Nanite	-30 every 2s	400	0	1	A shield restoring Aveksaka parasite.
		20 sec	Shield Recharge +10%, Energy Recharge +10%

Missile Parasites

Name	Source	Type	Damage	Health	Size	Weight	Description
		Half-Life	Comments
Ksaravisa	Ksaravis'ayu and Visphotakapad Ksaravis'ayu missile Anything damaged by these missiles is inflicted with a Ksaravisa	Organic	200 every 1s	2,000	0	1	Caustic Poison
		10 sec	Resistance -10%

Environmental Parasites

Name	Source	Type	Damage	Health	Size	Weight	Description
		Half-Life	Comments
Abhyagatasahistha	Inflicted by area of effect damage while fighting the Janayitri Sahsitha Rotten Eggs and when the inner / outer area is flooded with toxins	Organic	200 every 0.5s	2,500	0	100,000	A self-replicating alien parasite.
		30 sec	Fertile

Beneficial Nanites

Prospected Nanites

All of these are nanites and are unaffected by exterminators. They can be prospected in Perilous Space. Like any parasite, fire or nanite, they will disappear upon docking, if you want to keep the bonuses they give, you may want to avoid docking in the meantime.

Name	Size	Weight	Bonuses	Elec	Lifespan	Health	Comments	Description
Bule Nanite	0	1	Visibility -40%, Tracking +20%, Range +15%	20/s	1 hour	100	Unique, Can't unequip	An ancient nanite that amazingly still works!
Mzungu Nanite	0	1	Hull Space +10%, Resistance +7%	20/s	1 hour	100	Unique, Can't unequip	An ancient nanite that amazingly still works!
Vazaha Nanite	0	1	Shield +30%, Shield Recharge +20%	20/s	1 hour	100	Unique, Can't unequip	An ancient nanite that amazingly still works!

Seer Nanites

All of the parasites below are Seer-only, Beneficial, and Nanites. Their Size is 0, and Weight is 1. They all have a Health of 100, a Visibility of 100, and a Half-life of 0.2 seconds.

Name	Weapon Tech	Weapon	Description	Bonuses
Transference Config Virus	14	Transference Config Laser	This virus affects your ships systems to increase the power of transference weapons at the cost of efficiency.	Transference Power +20%, Transference Efficiency -10%
Critical Transformer Virus	13	Critical Transformer Laser	This virus affects your ships system to increase the severalty of a critical hit, but slows your ship.	Speed -15%, Critical Hit Strength +30%
Firing Systems Virus	13	Firing Systems Laser	This virus effects your ships systems to decrease the recoil of your weapons buy making them require more energy.	Rate of Fire +35%, Electric Tempering +10%
Damage Re-distributor Virus	15	Damage Re-Distributor Laser	This virus affects your ships system to put out more damage a the cost of weakening defences.	Damage +35%, Resistance to Damage -10%
Projection Passivator Virus	14	Projection Passivator Laser	This virus affects your ships system to increase resistances at the cost of weapon range.	Range -20%, Resistance to Damage +25%
Shield Power Transfer Virus	14	Shield Power Transfer Virus Laser	This virus affects your ships system to increase shield regeneration by sacrificing durability of the shield.	Shield -15%, Shield Recharge +25%

All of the parasites below are Seer-only, Beneficial, and Nanites. Their Size is 0, and Weight is 1. They all have a Health of 100, a Visibility of 100, and a Half-life of 0.5 seconds.

Name	Weapon Tech	Weapon	Description	Bonuses
Transference Configuration Virus	19	Transference Configuration Laser	This virus affects your ships systems to increase the power of transference weapons at the cost of efficiency.	Transference Power +35%, Transference Efficiency -10%
Critical Re-router Virus	16	Critical Re-router Laser	This virus affects your ships system to increase the severalty of a critical hit, but slows your ship.	Speed -15%, Critical Hit Strength +45%
Advanced Firing Systems Virus	20	Advanced Firing Systems Laser	This virus effects your ships system to decrease the recoil of your weapons buy making them require more energy.	Rate of Fire +45%, Electric Tempering +15%
Damage Re-distribution Virus	20	Damage Re-Distribution Laser	This virus affects your ships system to put out more damage a the cost of weakening defences.	Damage +40%, Resistance to Damage -13%
Improved Projection Passivator Virus	18	Improved Projection Passivator Laser	This virus affects your ships system to increase resistances at the cost of weapon range.	Range -25%, Resistance to Damage +30%
Shield Matrix Power Transfer Virus	17	Shield Matrix Power Transfer Virus Laser	This virus affects your ships system to increase shield regeneration by sacrificing durability of the shield.	Shield -15%, Shield Recharge +35%