@elite-dangerous-almanac/core / ships / PreEngineeredVariant

Defined in: src/ships/pre-engineered.ts:86

One pre-engineered module variant — a pairing of a stock module with the engineering identity it ships with, not a module in its own right.

readonly acquisition: PreEngineeredAcquisition

Defined in: src/ships/pre-engineered.ts:119

Where the variant comes from.

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readonly blueprintSymbol: string

Defined in: src/ships/pre-engineered.ts:109

The Frontier id written in Engineering.BlueprintName, e.g. "RailGun_LongShot" or "Decorative_Red".

Most ids join to BLUEPRINTS. A festive Decorative_* id does not, because it identifies a fixed reward article rather than a recipe a player can apply. On any reward variant the id identifies the article rather than reproducing it. Alongside its blueprint and effect, a reward carries hand-set modifier overrides no blueprint grants — that is what makes it a reward rather than a shortcut — so rolling this recipe to this grade does not arrive at the same module, and getBlueprintCost (in ships/blueprint-costs) against it prices ordinary engineering rather than the reward. Read modifiers for what the article actually carries.

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readonly optional damageDistribution?: DamageDistribution

Defined in: src/ships/pre-engineered.ts:142

The fixed damage-type shares the variant arrives with.

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readonly optional engineeringLocked?: true

Defined in: src/ships/pre-engineered.ts:129

Whether the article is final and accepts no further engineering.

Present as true on the final pre-engineered Guardian, Enzyme and AX weapons. Neither a blueprint nor an experimental effect may be applied to these articles, and their baked engineering cannot be removed. Absence means this catalogue does not lock further engineering.

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readonly optional experimentalEffectSymbol?: string

Defined in: src/ships/pre-engineered.ts:117

The experimental effect's Frontier symbol, e.g. "special_feedback_cascade_cooled". Joins to EXPERIMENTAL_EFFECTS. Absent when the variant carries none.

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readonly grade: number

Defined in: src/ships/pre-engineered.ts:111

The engineering grade already applied (1–5).

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readonly optional mercCoinCost?: number

Defined in: src/ships/pre-engineered.ts:140

The shop price in Merc Coin. Present only on mercenary rows — the other routes are not bought with a currency. Merc Coin has no credit equivalent, which is why this is separate from the credit cost a module carries.

The purchase alone. Engineering the article above the grade it is sold at costs further Merc Coin per roll, reported as mercCoins by getBlueprintCost.

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readonly optional modifiers?: readonly PreEngineeredModifier[]

Defined in: src/ships/pre-engineered.ts:148

The hand-set stat block the variant arrives with, sorted by label.

Every catalogued variant carries this block.

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readonly name: string

Defined in: src/ships/pre-engineered.ts:93

The variant's display name. Festive rows include their colour so variants of the same launcher remain distinct.

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readonly symbol: string

Defined in: src/ships/pre-engineered.ts:88

The base module's symbol, e.g. "Hpt_Railgun_Fixed_Medium". Joins to the module catalogues.