¶ 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. |
¶ 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 two 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.
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.
¶ 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.