Antilles Archipelago propulsion systems and vessel manufacture 

A wide range of power generation, propulsion, and vessel manufcaturing techniques are applied across the Antilles Archipelago of 2467 CE.

Some factions are reliant on scavenged Ancestor technologies, while others have developed novel methods based on scientific advancement or organic Seablight hybridisation. 

Hopesail Confederacy

The substantial dry docks on Hopesail Island, Nazau Island, Encore Station, and Key West construct maritime, aerial, and drone vessels made from metals, fiberglass, timber, and other materials. Steel laced with Chrominium is preferred for laying keels, cross-bracing, and armour plating.

Common power generation sources include enhanced hydrocrabon engines, Ancestor Lampshade Accelerator pellets, traditional nuclear reactors, closed-cycle turbo-impulse rockets, and ultracapacitors with stored electricity.

A typical Confederate ship may have a partial wooden superstructure clad in a mix of metals; generates acceleration through hybrid power, such as an enhanced hydrocarbon engine; has backup electric power stored in an ultracapcitor battery; and may have contractible solar cell threaded kinetic smart sails and/or a Surge Wave Drive turbine.

The 24th Century spin-polarised fusion Lampshae Accelerators that enable gravity-defying flight are exceedingly rare. Vessels with LAs are maintained with care, rarely used, and often protected by supporting vessels, extensive counter measures, and advanced sensors. The most advanced vessel in the Hopesail Confederacy is the SkyLance Enchantress controlled by the Northern-Teknocracy, which is supported by a task force of littoral missile corvettes.

The Kontore League Atlantica (KLA) has brought its aerial mastery from Nuropa to the Antilles Archipelago, including the design of the Breezeway Glidecopter. The KLA’s Wolke Meisters hold court at the Voliere in Encore Station, where pilots are trained and airships are designed, tested, docked.

Masqued Guildas

Like the Hopesail Confederacy, the Masqued Guildas utilise salvaged Ancestor technologies while maintaining their own production facilities.  Nueva Esperanza has impressive manufacturing capabilities only rivaled by those in the Lucayan Archipelagos.

The Masqued Guildas’ Chefes and Falcao do mar favour vessels that utilise silent hydrofoil gliders, massive solar cell threaded kinetic sails, ingenious Surge Wave Drive turbines, and fifth-generation air cushion landing craft. For this reason, SkySails are utilised by the Windward Islands Empresa more than any other faction    

Following the rise of the First Navegadorex in the early 25th Century, the Mascarada Cabala and Principal Guildas have also developed unique manufacturing industries and power generation technologies, including nanite-clad Chrominium hulls. They have independetly developed an enhanced hydrocarbon engine capable of silent gravity-defying airlift. as well as efficiently utilised  wave-and-sail propulsion, resulting in the flagship Anjo Voadar. Many of their vessels are capable of quickly switching between power generation and propulsion systems, such as the Velejar Navios and Mastro Alto Navio Mercante. Their most powerful class of post-Seablight Deluge vessel is the Mercúrio Corvette, representing the next generation of post-Seablight Deluge technology.

Pyrate Republic

The Pyrate Republic are the ultimate Ancestor technology scavengers of the Antilles Archipelago. The quality of vessels maintained and manufactured across the Caribbean Sea vary greatly between the pyrate enclaves of Habaguanex, Kingstun, Bosque Fresco, Santiago, and Nido Mutante Nest. The Malvada Armada’s foundries in Habaguanex are capable of maintaining a significant fleet of diverse vessels, while Kingstun’s shipwrights have the expertise to design the unique Pauper’s Fortune.

The limited supply of Ancestor materials available tot he Pyrate Republic factions results in a hybrid mix of cheap, efficient, and post-apocalyptic ship designs. There are many variations of gas, steam, rotors, hovercraft, and extendable solar cell-threaded kinetic sails used when manufacturing craft.  Common between these factions is the prevalence of Surface Threshers, Surface Waveriders, Perimeter Quadcopters, Trojons, floating sea bases, and barco de chatarra. The most powerful Pyrate Republic SkyLance vessels include the Malvada Armada’s Trio, Cibernetix Legion’s Chucilla Oscura and Blakbard Bucceneas’ Thunderbolt. 

The Yucatan Flotilla and Cangrejo Hybrids are unique in the types of submersible vessels they can deploy. The Yucatan Flotilla has a consider fleet of hunter-killer submarines, including the Delfin and the multi-purpose underwater/sea surface/aerial Barracuda. The Cangrejo Hybrids gestate organic Symbiotic Seablight entities that work with mutants to attack from beneath the waves.  

Blighted Tribes

The Blighted Tribes command a host of archaic, hybrid-organic, and techno-abomination Seablight-infused vessels.

The mainstay of most Blighted Tribes is the humble lancha – simple boats frenetically rowed by determined Kogregan.

Purely organic vessels such as the Cuboza are used to attack lightly defended seas vessels and transport Kongress Hunting Packs for coastal raids. 

Some Blighted Tribes vessels fuse Ancestor hulks with psychic-infused Seablight tendrils. Chief among these are the Spindletop Disciples Predator Drones and Blight Blimps. The ultimate organic Seablight vessel monstrosity is El Casco, a psychic Tyde Kyndrid Madre Hyve piloted by High Blightspeaker La Almriante.      

New forms of techno-organic Seablight vessels are constantly being created as Madre Hyve gestalt consciousnesses grow in size, strengthen their linkages with their enthralled High Blightspeakers, gain insights into Ancestor technologies.