¶ Ships
A ship is a single vessel in the galaxy. Each ship is built from a ship design at a planet's production queue, inherits all of that design's stats, and then lives its own life — moving, fighting, taking damage, and being repaired — until it's destroyed or you scrap it.
You manage individual ships under Command → Ships.
¶ Where ships come from
Ships are produced by planets. In a planet's production queue you pick:
- The design to build (see Ship Designs).
- How many to build (one or many, repeated, etc.).
- Where they go on completion — left ungrouped, added to an existing fleet, or assigned to a patrol route.
Each ship costs the design's production cost. When the build finishes, the new ship spawns at the planet's coordinates with full hit points.
¶ What a ship carries
Every ship inherits its design's stats and then tracks its own runtime state on top:
 Stat |
What it does |
|---|---|
| Current / Max HP | The ship's durability. Max HP comes from the frame + armor. Current HP persists between battles — damage taken in one fight carries over to the next until you repair. At 0 HP the ship is destroyed. |
 Shields |
A damage buffer applied during each battle. Shields refresh at full strength at the start of every battle — they're not a depleting resource between fights. |
 Max speed |
Derived from the design's thrust and mass. Determines how fast the ship crosses the map. |
 Scanning range |
What the ship can see around itself (see Fog of War). Uses the best scanner fitted, not a sum. |
| Position | Current (x, y) on the galaxy map, plus a predicted arrival point if it's en route somewhere. |
| Action queue | The list of commands the ship is currently working through — move, attack, settle, follow, defend, patrol, repair, wait. |
| Name | Each ship starts with the design's name but can be renamed individually — useful for telling members of the same design apart. |
| Fleet | If the ship is part of a fleet, its fleet membership is tracked here. A ship can be in at most one fleet at a time. |
| Veterancy | Experience the ship has earned in battle and the tier it holds, Green to Legendary. See Veterancy below. |
¶ Damage, repair, and death
Damage is persistent. A ship that limps out of a battle at 30% HP stays at 30% until you repair it.
There are three ways to recover hit points:
- Repair components on the ship (e.g. Nanobot Repair Matrix, Infused Repair System) heal a small amount per day while the ship is outside combat. One repair component is barely felt — stack several for a meaningful rate.
- The Repair command parks the ship at its current location and heals it. You can repair until fully healed or for a fixed number of days. A ship can only repair itself; repair components don't heal fleetmates. See Ship Commands.
- An Orbital Ship Repair Dock (a building unlocked by hiring Kira, the Maintenance minister, 250 production) fully repairs one of your damaged ships in orbit per day, the most damaged one first (lowest hit-point percentage). See Cabinet.
When a ship's HP reaches 0 it's destroyed and removed from the map. There's no salvage — the production cost is gone with it. If the ship was in a fleet, the fleet continues with the remaining ships.
¶ Refitting
Ships can be rebuilt into another of your designs at an Orbital Refit Dock: a planet building unlocked by Superconducting Materials, 250 production, 10 credits a week, and it cannot be bought with ore. Any number of ships can refit at one dock at the same time. See Ship Commands for the order, cost and duration.
¶ Veterancy
Every ship that survives a battle earns experience for the damage it dealt:
xp = round(100 * (damage to ships + 0.5 * damage to planets) / own max hit points) + 10 * kills
Damage is measured against the ship's own maximum hit points, so a Medium frame that lands its own weight in damage advances as fast as a Dreadnought. Damage to planets counts at half weight, every enemy ship you destroy is worth a flat 10, and damage taken earns nothing. A destroyed ship earns nothing either: its experience dies with it.
| Tier | Experience | Attack | Shields | Repair |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Green | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Blooded | 40 | +4% | 0 | 0 |
| Seasoned | 120 | +8% | 0 | +10% |
| Veteran | 300 | +12% | +5% | +20% |
| Elite | 700 | +16% | +10% | +30% |
| Legendary | 1,500 | +20% | +15% | +50% |
The bonuses apply on top of the design's stats, rounded down, and a stat of 0 stays 0. Attack means both attack vs ships and attack vs planets. There is no hull bonus: a Legendary ship is still a ship you can kill, just one you should not underestimate.
Veterancy belongs to the ship, not to its fleet or its design. The Ships list has a Veterancy column showing each ship's insignia; hover it, or open the ship's details, to see its experience, kills, battles fought and current bonus. Battle replays end with the experience gained floating above every ship that earned it, with a star when a ship reaches a new tier.
¶ Renaming and organising
- Rename: each ship's name is independent of the design name. Right‑click a ship (or use the Ships list) to rename.
- Ship Groups: a lightweight label you can apply to ships in the Ships list to filter and find them more easily. Ship Groups are not fleets — they don't share commands and don't appear as a unit on the map. Use them to organise (e.g. "Eastern patrol", "Reserve").
- Fleets: the real grouping mechanism. See Fleets — a fleet shares commands across all member ships and shows as a single icon on the map.
¶ Related
- Ship Designs — the blueprints ships are built from.
- Ship/Fleet Commands — every command you can give a ship or fleet.
- Fleets — grouping ships together.
- Battles — how combat resolves and how damage is dealt.
- Fog of War — what your ships can see.
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