New option in JNG GOLD EDITION is changing ships. You can do this during the shopping breaks. To access list of available ships you have to click on the fourth tab button in the upper right orner of the screen, or you can press F4. Ships are varying in parametres like speed, agility, hull integrity or cooling. You can read the parametres in the ships description, before you choose one. The ships also offer different sets of special devices and set of weapon types they can equip.
When changing a ship, price difference is calculated and the result is added or substracted from your cash. If the new ship doesn't have slots for some weapon already equipped, the weapon is dropped into your cargo bay.
Note: During the campaing you are forced to fly in certain ships several times according to the next mission. Don't worry, no equipped weapons will be lost by this and your original ship is given back to you, when you finish the mission.

## DEVICES

Special devices are listed under your ship's picture. Some of them are very useful, some are just for fun. Some can be bought and sold, some of them are an essential part of the ship (engine e.g.). Several devices can be upgraded the same way as the weapons do to advance it's functions. Don't forget to upgrade your ship's essential devices!

| Federal Hero Licence Click it to get some basic info about your campaign and your hero.
| Hull Integrity (essential, upgrade only) Determines amount of damage your ship can survive.
| General Cooling System (essential, upgrade only) Determines amount of heat and speed of cooling of your ship.
| Engine (essential, upgrade only) Determines the speed of your ship. Upgrade it to rise the chance to avoid enemies and their bullets.
| Wing's geometry (essential, upgrade only) Determines manoeuvrability (inertia of your ship's movement). When the engine's level exceeds wings too much, the ship becomes tough to control.
| Power Shield Lowers damage but part of every hit's energy is transmitted into inner heating.
| Nanomachines They repair the ship automatically during the battle. They are sensitive to the temperature, so the heat must be zero to make them work.
| Circulus Device controls metal balls flying closely around your ship. They give useful protection against bullets and can be used to hit enemies, when they got too close.
| Magneto Gravi-Pad Device generates strong power field around the ship to compensate part of the energy of the collision against the ground and substantially lowers the damage taken.
| Jet-Pack rescue system System ejects the pilot, when your ship is destroyed, and give you one more chance to finish the level, if you get shot down near the end of the mission.
| Weapon Sets Controller Device allows you to keep more than one set of weapons in your ship's slots. Some bosses are hard to kill without a rear gun as they move around the screen and do not allow you to fly in front of them. But when you install one of your guns in a rear slot, you lose a lot of power for frontal attack – which is crucial for the rest of the mission. You can solve this problem by using W.S.C. You just define two different layouts for weapons.
You can switch them during the fight by pressing their numbers. You can have up to 5 weapon sets changed by keys 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
With W.S.C. you will add a new indicator/button in the menu to show the active set and to allow you to switch them with mouse (numbers in red hexes). When you fly you see the active weapon set as a small number between the H.I. and heat display on the top.
| Rotary Cage Sometimes it is useful to cover wide area in the battle or shoot targets on the ground, and sometimes it's better to concentrate your whole firepower on one spot. You can do this with Rotary Cage. You change the angle of your upper and lower FRONT gun by pressing 'Z' and 'X' key. Middle weapon fires forward all the time. Current angle is indicated by a circle and small red arrows around the left heat display. Test it during the shopping break. Watch as the indicator and weapon aiming changes when you press 'Z' or 'X'.
| RemCon RemCon or Remote Controller is a special hacking device, that allows you to get certain automatic machines on the battlefield under your control. Hold SHIFT or 'N' to start the device to transmit it's hacking signal. You have to aim the signal on a chosen target and keep it under it's influence until the inner security of the target is overridden. Targets suitable for hacking are marked by a yellow locator with meter in the lower left corner. The meter shows, how much longer you have to hack the target to activate it's functions.
| Boss Detector Boss Detector displays damage indicator above boss class enemies. It will inform you how much longer you have to fight the enemy to destroy him.
| Time Compressor This allows to slow down flow of time in the game ("bullet time"). You can activate the feature anytime by pressing V.
| Mission Meter Shows percentage of level you have flown through and how long it will take to reach the end in the upper right corner of the screen.
| Body Counter Counts dead troops. Counter appears under the score in the upper left corner.
| Bounty Hunter Licence Bounty Hunter Licence allows you to collect more money for kills. Some enemies are detected as a wanted pirates and marked by a green detection mark. When you kill them you get 5x higher score. There are also 9 champion villains spread around the game. You get them as an item in your cargo, when you destroy their ships, you can extradite them for great sums during shopping break.
| Atarix Atarix device is used for hacking locks of collected cargo containers. Click the container and the hacking device will appear automatically. You have to find the correct combination to break the lock. Type in four numbers (by clicking the buttons or by number pad keys) and watch colors as they appear in the result column. Numbers marked green are correct, yellow ones are in the code but in a different position, red ones are totally wrong. You have several attempts to find the code. Too many wrong inputs destroy the content. If you do not want to risk that, you can sell the container locked, but you get just a small price and you will never discover the hidden item.
Atarix also improves itself with successful cracking. Do a few manual cracks to raise its ability and then use much quicker autocracing option.
| Camouflage You can change camouflage for some ships for free.