XR Flight Operations Manual Version 3.0
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XR5 Vanguard Payload Camera View with both Deploy and Grapple
Targets Selected
Note: in the interests of playability, the ship allows you to deploy cargo from any slot
even if there is cargo in a slot above it,
“blocking” it. This was a design decision so
that it would not be tedious to deploy a cargo first that you accidentally grappled into
a level-one slot before you launched. You are still free, of course, to always deploy
top-level cargo modules first so that lower-
level modules will not be “blocked”, but
in
the interests of playability XR vessels do not enforce this.
Deploying payload modules while landed is exactly the same as deploying in orbit
except
that there is no delta-V component: the payload in each slot is automatically
deployed to a fixed location adjacent to the ship based on its slot location. The ship-
relative coordinates to which the payload will be unloaded (i.e., “deployed”) are
shown on the screen in place of the delta-V selection arrows.
Here is a screenshot showing a full payload bay deployed (i.e., unloaded) at Brighton
Beach on the Moon:
