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Ships & Fleet

Ships are built in the shipyard and require crew and resources. There are two classes: destroyers and battleships. Destroyers are lighter and cheaper — they attack enemy fleets to destroy docked ships. Battleships are heavier and more expensive — they steal resources and capture stations. Each ship requires crew (trained from citizens) and consumes power while docked. Advanced variants must be unlocked through research.

Destroyers

Destroyers require launch bays to dock. Each launch bay holds 20 destroyers. The base Needle is available immediately — all other variants require research. Higher-tier destroyers trade off between attack and defence power.

Ship	Credit	Metal	Crew	Power to Launch	Docked Power	Attack	Defence	Score	Build Time	Requires
Needle	200	100	1	100	10	10	10	10	12 turns	Launch Bay
Sword	280	140	2	100	10	20	10	15	12 turns	Research
Dagger	280	140	2	100	10	10	20	15	12 turns	Research
Scimitar	400	200	2	100	10	24	24	25	12 turns	Research
Sabre	600	300	3	100	10	50	25	40	12 turns	Research
Lance	600	300	3	100	10	25	50	40	12 turns	Research

Destroyer Research Tree

Sword and Dagger are available to research immediately. Sabre and Lance both branch from Scimitar. Assign scientists to a project and wait for enough research points to accumulate, or apply sellable RP directly to speed things up.

Research	RP Cost	Requires	Unlocks
Sword	50,000	—	Sword ship
Dagger	50,000	—	Dagger ship
Scimitar	100,000	Dagger	Scimitar ship
Sabre	250,000	Scimitar	Sabre ship
Lance	250,000	Scimitar	Lance ship

Battleships

Battleships do not require launch bays — they dock at your stations directly. The Ravager is available from the start, with more powerful variants unlocked through the battleship research tree. Battleships cost more crew and resources but are the only way to steal stations and resources from other players.

Ship	Credit	Metal	Crew	Power to Launch	Docked Power	Attack	Defence	Score	Build Time	Requires
Ravager	2,000	500	5	200	20	20	20	50	12 turns	—
Annihilator	2,800	700	7	200	20	40	20	70	12 turns	Research
Devastator	2,800	700	7	200	20	20	40	70	12 turns	Research
Executioner	4,000	1,000	10	200	20	50	50	100	12 turns	Research
Leviathan	6,000	1,500	15	200	20	105	55	150	12 turns	Research
Behemoth	6,000	1,500	15	200	20	55	105	150	12 turns	Research

Battleship Research Tree

Annihilator and Devastator are available to research immediately. Leviathan and Behemoth both branch from Executioner. Battleship research is a significant investment, but higher-tier battleships are far more effective at raiding enemy empires.

Research	RP Cost	Requires	Unlocks
Annihilator	50,000	—	Annihilator ship
Devastator	50,000	—	Devastator ship
Executioner	100,000	Devastator	Executioner ship
Leviathan	250,000	Executioner	Leviathan ship
Behemoth	250,000	Executioner	Behemoth ship

Cloaked Ships

Cloaked ships bypass conventional combat entirely. Instead of fighting enemy fleets, they launch hunter droids that target the defender's residential blocks, killing population. No ships are ever lost in a cloaked attack — your Nightstalkers and Nightbringers always return intact. Cloaked ships use battleship launch bays and require research to unlock.

Ship	Credit	Metal	Crew	Power to Launch	Docked Power	Droids	Score	Build Time	Requires
Nightstalker	1,500,000	1,000,000	10	200	20	20	200	12 turns	Research
Nightbringer	2,000,000	1,500,000	15	200	20	40	400	12 turns	Research

How Cloaked Attacks Work

Droids launched — each Nightstalker fires 20 droids, each Nightbringer fires 40 (Advanced Cloaking research adds +2 per ship).
Seeker interception — each Cloak Seeker the defender owns gets 1 roll at 50% to intercept a droid (2 rolls with Advanced Seekers research). Seekers require power to function.
Turret interception — each turret destroys 5 droids automatically (7 with Advanced Seekers research). Turrets require power to function.
Droid strike — each surviving droid has a 50% chance to destroy one residence. Population killed is proportional to how many citizens lived in those residences.

Cloaked attacks resolve immediately on launch (no travel time). Your cloaked ships always return — they are counted against your 2 outbound cloaked group slots while away.

Cloaked Ship Research Tree

Research	RP Cost	Requires	Effect
Cloak Seeker	80,000	—	Unlocks Cloak Seeker ship
Nightstalker	150,000	—	Unlocks Nightstalker ship
Nightbringer	300,000	Nightstalker	Unlocks Nightbringer ship
Advanced Seekers	1,000,000	—	Each seeker gets 2 interception rolls instead of 1
Advanced Cloaking	2,000,000	All standard research (advanced tier)	+2 droids per cloaked ship launched

Cloak Seekers

Cloak Seekers are purely defensive ships. They cannot attack and contribute nothing to conventional combat — their only role is intercepting hunter droids from cloaked attacks. Each seeker gets a 50% chance to intercept one incoming droid (2 chances with Advanced Seekers research). Seekers require power to function and use destroyer launch bays.

Ship	Credit	Metal	Crew	Docked Power	Interception	Score	Build Time	Requires
Cloak Seeker	500	400	2	10	50% per droid (1 roll)	30	12 turns	Research

Turrets

Turrets are stationary defensive structures built from the fleet menu. They cannot attack and cannot be sent out — they always defend your home planet. Turrets require power to function and occupy slots in Turret Emplacements (10 per emplacement). They can be destroyed when you lose a defence battle. Turret Optimization research increases their effectiveness.

Stat	Base	With Turret Optimization
Defence vs Destroyers	20	23
Defence vs Battleships	80	95
Droid interception	Destroys 5 droids per turret (7 with Advanced Seekers)	—
Power consumed	200/turn	200/turn
Score	60	—
Cost	1,000C / 500M / 5 crew	—
Destroyed on defence loss	10%	—
Capacity	10 per Turret Emplacement	—
Requires	Turret Emplacement research	—

Fleet Attack

Fleet attacks are how you wage war on other players. You can launch up to 2 destroyer groups, 2 battleship groups, and 2 cloaked groups at a time. Ships consume power to launch and take time to travel based on the distance between planets. Destroyer attacks target the enemy's docked fleet, while battleship attacks steal their resources and stations. If you lose your entire fleet in an attack, that slot enters a cooldown before you can use it again.

Rule	Details
Max outbound groups	2 destroyer groups + 2 battleship groups + 2 cloaked groups
Fleet lost cooldown	If all ships die, the slot is blocked until cooldown expires
Destroyer attack	Destroys enemy docked ships on success
Battleship attack	Steals resources and stations on success
Launch cost	Destroyers: 100 power each. Battleships: 200 power each
Travel time	Varies by planet distance (Asgard: 2 turns)

Crew training: 100 credits + 1 citizen each.