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SETA can be used by the player to increase the in-game speed. When elapsed time: when SETA is active time is speeded up by 6 times. In order to get the SETA the player must find the appropriate items to be able to craft it. After ; after successful crafting, the SETA will end up as an inventory item and can be found in the inventory menu (enter-2-1-3). The SETA icon (right ring on the upper left of the ship status monitor) will then appear.
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When the SETA icon is greyed out SETA is not currently available. There are many reasons for this, i.e. to : eg too close to a ship or a station. Then ; you will have to move the Skunk's position. When the SETA icon is lit, you can press J to activate it. When While SETA is active time is accelerated by 6 times and the SETA icon will rotate.
Some conditions will cancel the SETA time accelerationsacceleration, like eg when the ship gets to too close to stations, or an important a message is being shown on the event monitor.
Crafting
The items below are needed to craft a SETA. These items are rare drops that can be found in lockboxes around the universe.
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In order to use the Jump Drive it has be to charged, which means that the icon must be a solid light blue ring. There is a 10 (real-time; SETA won't help) minute cooldown before the Jump Drive can be used again, but this can be skipped by using the inventory item Jump Drive Coolant (a very rare drop from enemies and lockboxes). During the recharging of the Jump Drive the icon changes colour and goes from begin greyed out to solid blue.