Botany Bay

## Details

### Details

Much like the crew that operated it, the Botany Bay is a relic from humanity's distant past.Built on Earth in the late 20th Century, it was intended to be humanity's foray into deep space exploration. The vessel's engines utilized revolutionary nuclear fission technology that was believed to be a completely self-sufficient energy source and it's X-25 network array could gather data at an astounding rate.

### Mining Bonus

250% to 500% @ Tier 9

See also Augment Space and Data Resource pages for more.

## Botany Bay

The Botany Bay is the Augment Space, Mining/Survey  Ship best for mining Corrupted and Encoded Data. You are then able to **convert this Data Resource to Augment Credits** for items in the Augment faction store. Including Augment Officer Shards, **Common Plutonium**, *available after lvl 20*, Uncommon Plutonium *available after lvl 24,* & **Rare Plutonium** *available after lvl 30* which is needed to upgrade the ship.

Botany Bay blueprints appear in Augment Faction Store starting at Ops level 18.

Dependent on your lvl and reputation (also lvl of the BB) best to finish your **BB Missions** by collecting plutonium for BB Pt 2/3/4/5/6 *before actually upgrading your ship*, otherwise the missions will remain 'unfinished'. Also note the rares and uncommons are also found in the BB packs when available.

**Common misunderstanding Plutonium: (Common, Uncommon and Rare) are parts, not a resource**, you must mine the Data of both types, and then Exchange it for **Augment Credits** to therefore 'buy' the Plutonium Parts in the Augment Faction Store.

Limitations: even if you are above level 18, your shipyard needs to be level 18 or above in order to build the Botany Bay.

The Botany Bay is a Survey ship that, even if it was the very best of its time, is a bit old now. Its combat prowess is mediocre at best, but it has been **modified in order to receive Data from Accelerators faster than any other ship in the Galaxy**.

The main goal of the Botany Bay is to mine Corrupted and Decoded Data Outposts in order to gain rewards from the Augment Faction Store.

The growth of the Botany Bay is slightly different than other ships. You will find out that some upgrades will significantly improve some of its old features like Warp Speed or Protected Cargo. The more you upgrade the ship, the faster you’ll be able to get to those Outposts and the faster you’ll be able to retrieve the data stored there.

## Ability

The Botany Bay’s Ability is “Data Miner”. This ability gives a significant boost to the mining bonus of the Botany Bay’s Mining Component when the ship is mining Corrupted and Decoded Data.

Approximate Mining Speeds: Keep in mind the **Higher the System level you mine, the Faster it mines**.

Decoded data mining speeds

50k nodes = 10x faster : 30k = 7X : 20k = 5x : 8k = 3k : 2k=1x

Corrupted data mining speeds

30k = 4x  : 10k = 1.75x : 8k = 1.5x : 2k = 1x

## Other Notes

**Tip**, as it gets more dangerous the higher reputation you get with the Augments, remember to mine there and not be hit: **1:** Send a ship & closely after, your Botany Bay or other Mining Ship, once the 1st ship is targeted, set your Survey to mine the Data, then warp the 1st ship out before it's hit. Your Survey ship will be safe to mine thereafter. **2:** Send your mining ship **closely followed** by another ship, once your Survey Ship is targeted by the Bounty Hunter Ship, simply attack it with your other ship, you are then safe to mine also toggle on and off to respawn the mine without being targeted again.

### Build Cost

build: 800k trit 29k dilithium 750 common crystals and 180 common gas☆☆☆

## Build / Tier Details

* *costs are appoximate when added*
* see the Data Resource for more information on Mining Data >> Plutonium Parts Exchange.