Shipping drones can be hacked and intercepted. There are currently two places where you can find shipping drones, and both require the Juryrigged Antenna effect active:
- On the Tainted Shoreline (noncombat)
- On the Great View choice encounter on the 5th Floor of the damaged building in the slags
Drones can be hacked to redirect packages to you. Drones have identifiers that correlate with particular shipping companies. All drone names are seven characters, with a 1-3 letter prefix, an optional hyphen and 3-6 digits. Some drones are unregistered smugglers.
Shoreline drones
| Prefix | Company | Likely Payloads | Filter |
|---|---|---|---|
| A ACC ALL FREE X XCC |
Alliance | toys, electronics, goods | Alliance Filtering |
| MCC MOF MS MSH |
Midgard Shipping | riot gear, office supplies | Midgard Shipping Filtering |
| NCC NOT NT |
NickOTime | electronics, materials | NickOTime Filtering |
| OCC OL OT OTL |
OmniLunch | food, beverages | OmniLunch Filtering |
| REG UNR |
Common | All of the above | |
High Altitude drones
| Prefix | Company | Likely Payloads | Filter |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAL FREE X |
Alliance | high-end clothing & oddities | Alliance Filtering |
| M IOM MCC MIO |
Midgard Shipping | weapons, internal research | Midgard Shipping Filtering |
| ARG HG SCR SLV |
Silver Courier | antiques, high-end food & drink | Silver Courier Filtering |
| REG UNR |
Common | All of the above | |
Filtering
By examining the Drone Registry routines in drones from a given company, it is possible to learn quest recipes that lets you filter only drones from that company. The filters give 20 turns of the filtering effect for the cost of one Filtering Script).
Silver Courier does not fly along the shoreline, and OmniLunch/NickOTime do not fly at high altitudes. Having the filtering effect in these cases does not seem to do anything.
Routines
See Shipping Drone Net Site Structure for full details on all shipping routines.