Ships

Designing a ship

You fully design your ship blueprints on the 🚀 Shipspage. You choose a capacity (the ship's size), then install components according to the available space. A ship must have a generator (energy), an engine to move, and a weapon to fight. Everything else is optional but determines its combat and mission capabilities.

The capacity not used by components will serve as storage for the ship to transport resources, equipment and populations.

Hull

The hull determines the ship's natural resistance before adding shields. You can choose the number of hull layers and the material used, from most basic to most resistant:

Generators (energy)

To function, a ship needs energy. Each installed component — engine, weapon, shield, module — permanently consumes a certain amount of energy. You must therefore install enough generators to cover the total consumption of all components. Otherwise, the ship cannot be produced.

Engines (speed)

A ship's speed depends on the thrust / total capacity ratio: the more capacity a ship dedicates to engines, the faster it is. The relationship is not linear — returns are diminishing. Speed is expressed as a percentage of the maximum attainable speed in the galaxy.

Movements follow an acceleration → cruise → deceleration profile: the fleet gradually accelerates to its cruising speed, maintains it, then slows down before arriving at the destination. Over short distances, cruising speed is never reached and the trip is entirely in acceleration / deceleration.

A fleet's speed is that of its slowest ship. It is therefore important to choose consistent engines across all ships in the same fleet.

Weapons and protection

Special modules

Active schema limit (Military Headquarters)

You can create as many ship schemas as you like, but only a limited number can be active (and therefore buildable) at once: 2 by default, +1 per level of your highest Military Headquarters. A new schema created beyond this limit is automatically deactivated instead of being refused.

A deactivated schema shows an "Activate" button instead of "Build". If there is still room under the limit, it activates immediately. Otherwise, a window lets you pick another active schema to deactivate in its place. A schema can only be deactivated if it has no ships left: none on a planet, in flight, under construction or evolution, or on an orbital station.