Interceptor (Starship)

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This article is about the type of player starship. For the hostile ship, see Sentinel Interceptor.

Interceptor is a type of starship.

Summary[]

Interceptor (also known as Salvaged Ship or Sentinel Ship) is a type of starship in No Man's Sky. It was introduced in the Interceptor update. Like the Living Ship, it has its own distinct technology. However, unlike the living ship, normal technology can be installed alongside the existing tech.

It has the advantage that you don't need to craft Starship Launch Fuel or Warp Cells to recharge its technology. Instead, you just need Radiant Shards to recharge, which can be found in abundance on corrupted planets.

Be warned though that repairing the technology requires resources from corrupted planets. This can lead to the player getting trapped on a planet if their ship is completely broken, for example after jumping to another galaxy. Make sure you have Repair Kits with you to repair your Interceptor.

Technology Alternative[]

Technology upgrades are compatible with their alternate counterparts.

Technology	Normal Technology Equivalent
Anti-Gravity Well	Launch Thruster
Luminance Engine	Pulse Engine
Crimson Core	Hyperdrive
Sentinel Cannon	Photon Cannon
Aeron Shield	Deflector Shield

Obtaining[]

Sentinel Interceptors can be obtained in the following ways:

Bespoke Story Mission: A Sentinel Interceptor seeking help appears as a space encounter. When communicated with, it will broadcast a garbled message, then give you three options: Attack, Offer Assistance, and Wait. No matter which option is chosen, it will warp to another system, leaving a warp path to its crash site.

Harmonic Camp: Interact with the terminal at the harmonic camps. Input the correct override glyphs to gain access to the dialogue option "Locate Dissonance Spikes".

Corrupted Sentinels: Defeating wave 5 of Corrupted Sentinels on a Dissonant planet will also reveal a Dissonance Spike, marking a crashed Interceptor.

Carrier AI Fragment: You can get this item by destroying a Sentinel Capital Ship or as a possible mission reward from The Nexus. After activation, you will receive a crash site location. This however is a rather slow way of searching for an S-Class Interceptor compared to the method above.

After a crashed Interceptor is located, you need to interact with it in order to remove the damaged items to begin the repair process.

Item	Acquire/Repair	Note
Pugneum	Acquire
Salvaged Glass	Acquire	Used to get Sentinel Upgrade Modules, alloys and other items
Hyaline Brain	Acquire
Pilot Interface	Repair	Repair with Radiant Shard x3, Inverted Mirror x1 and Harmonic Brain

After you acquired the Radiant Shards and the Inverted Mirror, you will need to interact with the Hyaline Brain. It will point to a nearby Monolith to turn the brain into a Harmonic Brain. The Interceptor will be marked to help the player return to the crash site.

Process the above material in order to repair the Pilot Interface. You will now have the option of claiming the Interceptor.

This process is almost always required but on rare occasions the ship can be claimed immediately once it is located.

Note: The exact aesthetic variation of ship that shows up is tied to the system it is discovered in, so repeated dissonance spikes will always result in the same looking ship, just with different stats.

Autophage[]

Near the crashed Interceptor you can find an Autophage, which after taking either 71 Pugneum or 20 Salvaged Glass out of it and then feeding it the requested Lost Circuits (71 Atlantideum) will say "The [first to eleventh]: " followed by a 7-digit binary code that is always the same for the number, for instance "The first:" will always be followed by "1010110".

Sometimes it will also say "The Seventeenth: ???...".

Below is a table with the discovered numbers, binary codes and the letters you get by standard binary to text conversion.

The first to eleventh	Binary code	Letter
The first	1010110	V
The second	1001111	O
The third	1001001	I
The fourth	1000100	D
The fifth	0100000
The sixth	1001101	M
The seventh	1001111	O
The eighth	1010100	T
The ninth	1001000	H
The tenth	1000101	E
The eleventh	1010010	R

The seventeenth	???…

There are no binary numbers found beyond eleventh. The meaning of the seventeenth binary number is unknown.

Release History[]

Interceptor - Added as a starship.

Additional Information[]

This ship can still be upgrade with Upgrade Modules, despite the core technology being unique.
The back of the Interceptor can be up to 9-11 engines, starting from 1.
Using a Harmonic Camp to find interceptors, claim them, and scrap them can be extremely profitable. Payout varies by class, but even a C-class scraps for enough to be worth the time to farm.