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Flight: SESCP

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       Name: SESCP                                                   [Show more]
       Type: Subroutine
   Category: Flight
    Summary: Spawn an escape pod from the current (parent) ship

    Context: See this subroutine in context in the source code
 References: This subroutine is called as follows:
             * TACTICS (Part 4 of 7) calls SESCP




 This is called when an enemy ship has run out of both energy and luck, so it's
 time to bail.



.SESCP

 LDX #ESC               \ Set X to the ship type for an escape pod

 LDA #%11111110         \ Set A to an AI flag that has AI enabled, is hostile,
                        \ but has no E.C.M.

                        \ Fall through into SFS1 to spawn the escape pod