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Half-baked knightship is a class of knightships, based on well-known half-bakery reaction with a glider. Components for the ship were found by common efforts of Chris C, Ivan Fomichev and Dave Greene. Adam P. Goucher proposed base design for the ship and wrote a Golly script, that put the components together.
In May 2014 Ivan Fomichev found the key reactions, which allow long chains of half-bakeries to regenerate themselves at (6,3), and also to regenerate seed constellations at one end of the ship. When triggered, the seeds produce the small glider salvos that mediate the (6,3) offset reaction.
Like the (2,1) self-reconstructor, this knightship moves very slowly, but unlike the self-reconstructor, only a tiny fraction of the Half-Baked Knightship has an embedded construction recipe. The half-bakery chains encode a small slow salvo recipe, but their positions are not encoded anywhere else.
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