FTL Interlink Communicators

You need 3 of these, 1 for the Providence and 2 for the Ark.

Buy them

I sell these for 125m each. Like the CCTRs, you can manufacture them yourself, but I think it makes sense to buy these from someone mass producing them. Each race has their own type, and training just to build them is stupid.

Build them

Unlike the CCTRs, if you build these just build them all at once. When you run the hybrid polymers (opens in a new tab), you won't need to run more than a few runs of most, and having to babysit short run jobs is a drag.

Train

• Jump Drive Calibration V

I'm not going to tell you why you need this, but if you don't already have it and you're trying to build FTL Interlinks, you're doing it wrong.

• Electronic Engineering V
• Quantum Physics V

Also one of these:

• High Energy Physics V (Radar, for an Ark)
• Plasma Physics V (Magnetometric, for an Anshar)
• Nuclear Physics Physics V (Ladar, for a Nomad)
• Electromagnetic Physics V (Gravimetric, for a Rhea)

And once you've done that, fuck it YOLO train the other 3 and undercut me on these components, because you've done most of the work already. I won't be hurt, I'll be relieved.

Farm some gas

Probably the most annoying thing here is getting the Fullerite. It only comes from wormholes, and I think the C320 and C540 only comes from C5/C6 wormholes. It's also pretty voluminous so importing it is expensive. If you buy them in Jita, try to get them compressed, but compare the compressed with uncompressed and consider that you lose 5-10% from decompression (based on your Gas Compression skill). Also notice that each Fullerite has a different size, which impacts shipping cost.

Get some minerals

Get the Pyerite, Mexallon, Tritanium, Isogen, Nocxium, Zydrine, and Megacyte listed in your BPC.

Get some P4

Also get 6 Broadcast Nodes, 3 Wetware Mainframes, and 3 Self-Harmonizing Power Cores.

Get some Moongoo

Build Pipeline

1. Start the Intermediate reactions

   • 10 runs Oxy-Organic Solvents
   • 4 runs Thermosetting Polymer
   • 4 runs Rolled Tungsten Alloy
   • 4 runs Promethium Mercurite
   • 2 runs Carbon Fiber
   • 1 run Caesarium Cadmide
   • 1 run Carbon Polymers
   • 1 run Dysporite
   • 1 run Fluxed Condensates
   • 1 run Platinum Technite
   • 1 run Silicon Diborite
   • 1 run Sulfuric Acid
   • 1 run Vanadium Hafnite
   • 1 run Prometium

2. Start the Hybrid Polymer reactions

   • 16 runs Graphene Nanoribbons
   • 9 runs C3-FTM Acid
   • 8 runs Carbon-86 Epoxy Resin
   • 1 run Scandium Metalofullerene
   • 1 run Lanthanum Metallofullerene
   • 1 run Fullerene Intercalated Graphite
   • 1 run PPD Fullerene Fibers
   • 1 run Fulleroferrocene Reaction Formula
   • 1 run Methanofullerene

3. Start the Composite reactions

   • 7 runs Terahertz Metamaterials
   • 2 runs Reinforced Carbon Fiber
   • 1 run Tungsten Carbide
   • 1 run Fulleride
   • 1 run Phenolic Composites
   • 1 run Fermionic Condensates

4. Build the FTL Interlink

For the rig bonuses, this should be done in the "Adv Component" structure. If there are multiple in the system, do the T2 one.

Don't do this in the "Capital Component" structure, that has the wrong rig. What, did you think this was a capital component?