Capital Ships

Capital ships are large ships with heavy firepower and defenses. They can carry an impressive number of guns and DP, but it is relatively expensive to add engines, scanners, and racks to a capital ship.
 
Basic configuration:
 

• Guns: 35
• DP: 40
• Engines: 2
• Scan: 1
• Racks: 2
• Tonnage: 30
• Cost: 28

 
 
Additional component cost:
 

• Guns: exp(guns/15)
• DP: exp(DP/15)
• Engines: exp(engines/1.5)
• Scan: exp(scan/1.5)
• Racks: exp(racks/1.5)

 
 
 
 
Additional component tonnage:

• Guns: exp(guns/20)
• DP: exp(DP/20)
• Engines: exp(engines/5)
• Scan: exp(scan/5)
• Racks: exp(racks/2)

Gunships

Gunships are the smaller complement to capital ships. They carry a large number of guns, but trade defenses for engines in order to be first on the scene. They have relatively few scanners or racks.
 
 
Basic configuration:

• Guns: 20
• DP: 10
• Engines: 2
• Scan: 0
• Racks: 0
• Tonnage: 10
• Cost: 15

 
 
Additional component cost:

• Guns: exp(guns/15)
• DP: exp(DP/10)
• Engines: exp(engines/2)
• Scan: exp(scan/1.5)
• Racks: exp(racks/1.5)

 
 
 
Additional component tonnage:

• Guns: exp(guns/20)
• DP: exp(DP/10)
• Engines: exp(engines/5)
• Scan: exp(scan/5)
• Racks: exp(racks/2)

Missiles

A missile is a special type of one-shot ship that is loaded onto a carrier's rack and then fired at a target. Missiles are destroyed when they are fired in this manner.  Missiles have no engines, scan, or racks ratings, and all missiles have one DP.  Only the guns component is configurable.  Unlike other hull types, a missile's tonnage is a configurable parameter, which allows you to determine how big a missile class is (and therefore how many racks an instance of that missile class will require).
 
New missile classes are exempt from the one-time design fee.
 
Basic configuration:
Guns: 8
Tonnage: 1
Cost: 1
 
Additional component cost: exp(guns/(13 + (5 * tonnage)))
 

Orbitals

An orbital is a large, immobile ship, typically with heavy DP, a fair number of guns, scanners, or racks, and no engines at all.  Orbitals are used for defending owned worlds and confer some special benefits to friendly ships at those worlds.  
 

• You can repair damage to orbitals for a cost of 3 DP for 1 RU during the Repair phase (instead of the usual 2 DP for 1 RU cost).
• Orbitals fully repair for free any friendly or allied ships that are loaded or boarded during the Repair phase.

 
 
A starbase is a special type of orbital that each empire possesses at its homeworld at the start of the game.  In addition to the standard orbital benefits, starbases provide these additional benefits:
 

• A starbase prevents all devices from functioning within the same sector.
• A starbase negates all ion storm damage to all ships, friendly or not, in its sector.
• A starbase cannot be self-destructed, nor can it be destroyed by self-destructing cargo aboard it.
• A world in the same sector as a friendly or allied starbase cannot be interdicted or blockaded.

 
Basic configuration:
 

• Guns: 30 (starbase 150)
• DP: 40 (starbase 200)
• Engines: 0 (maximum 0)
• Scan: 1 (starbase 2)
• Racks: 2 (starbase 10)
• Tonnage: 20 (starbase 999)
• Cost: 25 (starbase n/a)

 
 
 
Additional component cost:

• Guns: exp(guns/10)
• DP: exp(DP/15)
• Engines: n/a
• Scan: exp(scan/2)
• Racks: exp(racks/3)

 
 
Additional component tonnage:

• Guns: exp(guns/10)
• DP: exp(DP/20)
• Engines: n/a
• Scan: exp(scan/5)
• Racks: exp(racks/2)

Transports

A transport is used to carry several smaller ships. It has plenty of rack space and engines, a moderate number of DP, and relatively few guns or scanner. Note that the generic term carrier refers to any ship that contains cargo but a transport refers to a specific ship type.
 
 
Basic configuration:

• Guns: 5
• DP: 10
• Engines: 2
• Scan: 1
• Racks: 2
• Tonnage: 15
• Cost: 10

 
 
Additional component cost:

• Guns: exp(guns/5)
• DP: exp(DP/10)
• Engines: exp(engines/3)
• Scan: exp(scan/1.5)
• Racks: exp(scan/3)

 
 
Additional component tonnage:

• Guns: exp(guns/5)
• DP: exp(DP/10)
• Engines: exp(engines/5)
• Scan: exp(scan/5)
• Racks: exp(scan/2)

Scouts

Scouts are fast ships designed to collect a large amount of scan data. Its light structure limits the amount of components that can be added to it.
 
 
Basic configuration:

• Guns: 1 (maximum 5)
• DP: 1 (maximum 5)
• Engines: 3
• Scan: 3
• Racks: 0 (maximum 1)
• Tonnage: 2
• Cost: 2

 
 
Additional component cost:

• Guns: exp(guns/5)
• DP: exp(DP/5)
• Engines: exp(engines/3)
• Scan: exp(scan/3)
• Racks: exp(racks/1.5)

 
 
Additional component tonnage:

• Guns: exp(guns/5)
• DP: exp(DP/5)
• Engines: exp(engines/5)
• Scan: exp(scan/5)
• Racks: exp(racks/2)

Wings

A wing is a cheap, immobile ship that must be transported to its destination. Attack wings favor more guns, while defensive wings favor more DP. Wings have no engines, scanners, or racks.
 
Wings (and only wings) can be used to form a defensive screen around larger ships. 
 
Basic configuration:
 

• Guns: 5
• DP: 5
• Engines: 0 (maximum 0)
• Scan: 0 (maximum 0)
• Racks: 0 (maximum 0)
• Tonnage: 1
• Cost: 1

 
 
 
Additional component cost:
 

• Guns: exp(guns/15)
• DP: exp(DP/15)
• Engines: n/a
• Scan: n/a
• Racks: n/a

 
 
 
Additional component tonnage:

• Guns: exp(guns/20)
• DP: exp(DP/20)
• Engines: n/a
• Scan: n/a
• Racks: n/a

Break Alliances

During this phase you can formally break an established alliance.  Either member can break an alliance unilaterally, but the other member is always notified at this point that the alliance has been broken.

Declare Alliances

During this phase alliances are officially established.  In order to establish an alliance both empires must formally declare the other empire as an ally.  If only one empire makes such a declaration without a corresponding declaration from the other empire, the alliance is not established.  Alliances remain in places until one empire breaks the alliance or until one of the empires is officially eliminated.
 
You can maintain alliances with one or two other empires.  In order to ally with a third empire, you must first break an existing alliance.
 
It is important to note that you can ally with two empires who are not allied with (and who may, in fact, hostile to) one another. 

Unload Ships

 
At this point you can unload any loaded ships from their carriers.  An unloaded ship winds up in the same sector as its carrier.  If the cargo and carrier ships belong to different empires, then either party may unilaterally unload the cargo.
 
If you have issued a fire order for a loaded missile or deploy order for a loaded device, it will automatically be unloaded during this phase in preparation for use.
 
Abandoned Empires: Any loaded conquering ships will be unloaded at friendly or allied worlds, or at worlds where they will be used in combat (see below).  Loaded missiles will be unloaded if they are to be used in combat at foreign worlds; otherwise, they will remain loaded.

Deploy Devices

 
During this phase you can deploy any unloaded devices in the sectors that they occupy.  When a device is deployed, it is considered to be activated even if its effect is not registered until a later phase, and any empire in the same sector will register that activation on short-range scanners.  Empires in nearby sectors will not be able to see the device deployment directly, but they may be able to infer its use from its effects.  One-shot devices are destroyed immediately when they are deployed.  Persistent devices remain active until they are destroyed or loaded.
 
A device deployed in the same sector as an operational starbase (friendly or otherwise) will not function.  A persistent device deployed in the same sector as a starbase is simply unloaded and not deployed (and can be loaded and redeployed later).  A one-shot device deployed in the same sector as a starbase is unloaded and destroyed without being activated.
 

Load Ships

 
During this phase you can load your ships onto your carriers.  The ships to be loaded must be in the same sector as the intended carrier, which must have sufficient free rack space to hold the cargo ships.  Loaded ships cannot move under their own power, scan surrounding space, or attack other ships, with one exception: a missile can be fired only if it has been loaded onto a friendly carrier.  (See the Fire Guns phase for details.)
 
You can never load your ships onto a foreign carrier unless it is owned by one of your formal allies.  Both carrier and cargo empires must issue identical load orders; otherwise, the load action will fail.  If multiple allied empires are attempting to load cargo onto the same carrier, the carrier owner decides the order in which rack space is allocated.
 
If a carrier ship is destroyed all cargo ships loaded onto that carrier are also destroyed, regardless of DP.  If a loaded ship is self-destructed, it immediately destroys its carrier and any other cargo ships loaded onto that carrier.
 
Note that nested loads are prohibited, i.e., you cannot load cargo onto a carrier which is itself loaded onto a third ship.
 
Allies: Allied ships are the only foreign cargo that can be loaded.
 

Abandoned Empires: Abandoned missiles will be loaded onto any available friendly racks, starting with the missile having the most guns and the carrier having the most free racks, operational rating, and tonnage (sorted in that order).  Abandoned empires never submit load orders for allied ships.

Remove Map Objects

During this phase the GM can remove any map objects (worlds, portals, nebulae, storms, ships) as part of a particular game scenario.

Move Map Objects

During this phase the GM can move any map objects (worlds, portals, nebulae, storms, ships) as part of a particular game scenario.

Add Map Objects

During this phase the GM can add any map objects (worlds, portals, nebulae, storms, ships) as part of a particular game scenario.  New ship classes can be added during this phase, as well.
 
 

Modify Map Objects

During this phase the GM can make modifications to existing map objects (e.g., change world production values or ion storm ratings) as part of a particular game scenario.
 

Drift Map Objects

 
At this point any drifting map objects (worlds, portals, nebulae, or ion storms) move to their next location. Drifting objects can move according to a fixed pattern that repeats once the object has reached the end of the pattern, or randomly into any adjacent sector.
 
Map objects continue to drift even if they are temporarily inactive (for example, due to the effects of a device).
 

Remove Known Items

During this phase the GM can remove knowledge of worlds, portals, ship classes, or foreign empires from any empire.  The affected empire will no longer be able to establish lanes to the forgotten worlds, name the forgotten portals as wormnet exit points, build ships of forgotten ship classes, or send messages to forgotten foreign empires.  Of course, the affected empire can regain the knowledge of any item through normal game play.

Add Known Items

During this phase the GM can make map objects (portals or worlds), ship classes, or foreign empires known to any empire in the game.  Map objects become known to an empire just as if the empire had scanned the object.  Ship classes become known as if they were given to the recipient empire.  Foreign empires become known as if the recipient empire were in message contact with them.

Stabilize Portals

At this point any previously collapsed wormnet portals reform and function normally.  Any warpdrone devices deployed on this turn will generate new portals during this phase.  The new portal remains activate until the warpdrone is destroyed.  Note that an operational starbase in the same sector as a deployed warpdrone device will prevent it from being activated.

Collapse Portals

At this point any collapsing wormnet portals are disabled, preventing travel through them. This includes any portals that are affected by portal hammers and any portals that drift into a sector occupied by a world or another portal.  A portal can collapse even if it has just stabilized on the same turn.  This can happen, for example, if a portal drifts out of a sector containing one world and into a sector containing a different world.
 
Portals associated with warpdrone devices can collapse (and later stabilize) according to the same rules that govern non-warpdrone portals, but note that such portals are immediately destroyed whenever the corresponding warpdrone device is destroyed.
 

Dissipate Pocket Nebulae

During this phase any pocket nebulae whose corresponding devices have been destroyed are removed.
 

Activate Pocket Nebulae

At this point any pocket nebula device that was deployed this turn generates a new nebula in its sector.  The new nebula remains in place until the device is destroyed (or loaded).  Note that an operational starbase in the same sector prevents activation of such devices.

Dissipate Ion Storms

During this phase any ion storms created by ion generator devices are removed if those devices are no longer operational.

Fluctuate Ion Storms

At this point all ion storm ratings are updated based on the fluctuation pattern of each individual storm (if any).  Storm ratings can fluctuate according to cyclic patterns, or randomly up to the initial rating of the storm.  A storm that fluctuations to strength zero is not destroyed; it merely remains dormant until it later fluctuates above a zero rating. 

Generate Ion Storms

Any ion generator devices deployed on this turn generate new ion storms at this point.   A storm generated by an ion generator device has a rating of seven.  The new storm remains in place until the ion generator device is destroyed (or loaded).  Note that the presence of an operational starbase in the same sector will prevent activation of an ion generator device.

Self-Destruct Ships

During this phase, you may destroy any of your own ships.  A self-destructed ship is immediately destroyed, and cannot fire any guns that turn, although it can be the target of enemy fire (since all combat happens simultaneously).  Any cargo ships loaded onto the destroyed ship are also destroyed; further, self-destructing a ship which is loaded or boarded onto a carrier ship causes that carrier (and any other cargo) to be destroyed, as well.
 
A ship which is self-destructed cannot be salvaged by other empires.  Additionally, for every five tonnes (or fraction thereof) massed by the destroyed ships and cargo, every other unloaded ship in the same sector receives one DP of collateral damage (i.e., self-destruction of less than five tonnes worth of ships will cause one DP of collateral damage to other ships in the same sector, self-destructiong six to ten tonnes will cause two DP of collateral damage, and so on).  All self-destructed tonnage in a sector is totaled together, regardless of owner, in order to compute the collateral damage to other ships in the sector.  A loaded or boarded ship does not receive collateral damage, but it will be destroyed if its carrier is destroyed due to collateral damage.
 
 
Note that only ships that are explicitly self-destructed are exempt from salvage; any ship destroyed by collateral damage can be salvaged.
 
 
You cannot self-destruct your starbase, nor can your starbase be destroyed as the result of self-destructed cargo; however, a starbase will be damaged normally by collateral damage inflicted by other self-destructing ships.
 
 
Allies: You cannot destruct a ship if it is loaded onto an allied carrier, has loaded allied cargo, or shares a friendly carrier with allied cargo.
 
 

Abandoned Empires: Abandoned non-missiles will be self-destructed at foreign worlds if it appears that there are enough foreign guns present to destroy those ships, and if it appears that the abandoned ships will not also be able to destroy all of the foreign ships.  If it appears that there are enough foreign guns present to destroy only some of the abandoned ships, then only those that would be destroyed by the foreign guns (ordering the abandoned ships by the criteria in the Fire Guns phase) will be self-destructed.  The remainder will be moved out-sector.

Form Defensive Screens

At this point you can instruct your wings to form defensive screens around friendly larger ships in preparation for combat.  Wings that make up defensive screens will automatically receive damage from any attacking guns aimed at the defended ships.  If the defending wings are destroyed, any remaining attacking guns will strike their original targets as intended.
 
The defending wings will be activated to interpose themselves between attacker and target in the order that you specify.  Note that only wings can form defensive screens, and they can screen only friendly capital ships, gunships, orbitals, and transports.  Scouts, missiles, devices, other wings, and foreign ships cannot be so defended.  A wing can be ordered to defend only a single target per turn.
 
As a convenience, if a loaded wing is ordered to defend a larger ship, it will automatically be unloaded.
 
Allies: Allied empires can form defensive screens to defend one another's capital ships.

Fire Guns

During this phase any attacking ships will fire their guns and missiles at targets in the same sector.  Each gun fired always hits its target and inflicts one DP of damage.  A ship may fire any, all, or none of its guns in the same turn against one or more targets in the same sector, but a ship may not move and commit guns to an attack on the same turn.
 
Your battle computers provide you with two ways to target enemy ships: automatic and manual.  Automatic targeting is most useful when you have sufficient firepower to destroy all enemy ships in a sector and do not want to be bothered with tactical combat details.  Manual targeting is used when you wish to assign your attackers' guns and missiles to enemy ships in a specific manner.  Each mechanism is described below.
 
Automatic Targeting
Most of the time automatic targeting will be sufficient to carry out your attack plans.  You simply identify that attacking ships and the targeted empires. Your battle computers will automatically coordinate your attackers against all ships belonging to the targeted empire according to following criteria:
 
 

• Ships are targeted in order from fewest remaining DP to most remaining DP (in order to destroy as many individual ships as possible).
• If two ships have exactly the same remaining DP, then the one with the smaller operational rating is targeted first.
• If two ships have exactly the same OR, the the one with the smaller tonnage is targeted first.
• If two ships have exactly the same tonnage, then they are targeted alphabetically by handle.
• Missiles are targeted after all non-missiles, and in the order of their tonnage (from smallest to largest).

 
Attackers are activated in the following order:
 

• Ships with the fewest unfired guns
• Ships with the fewest available guns
• Ships with the smallest operational rating
• Ships with the fewest total guns
• Ships with the smallest tonnage
• Alphabetically thereafter

You battle computers will use your attackers' guns and missiles in an efficient manner to destroy the targets.  That is, missiles will be fired only as needed if your attackers do not possess sufficient guns to destroy all targets.  If a target ship is of an unknown foreign design, your battle computers will not know how many guns are needed to destroy that ship before the battle commences, and you will not know until the battle is over if you committed (or even possessed) enough guns to destroy it.
 
Manual Targeting
In some cases it is desirable to override your battle computers and specify exactly how you would like combat to occur.  Manual targeting allows you to do this, but requires more detailed planning on your part.  In order to use manual targeting you must explicitly identify the order in which enemy ships are to be attacked and how many guns each attacker will bring to bear against those targets.  This allows you to target enemies in any order that you like, but, unlike automatic targeting, your attackers will not use use their guns as a single efficient group.  A poorly planned manual attack can waste guns on an enemy that is already targeted.
 
Attacking Defensive Screens
Any wings that have established defensive screens around larger ships will automatically absorb damage aimed at the screened ships.  If the attacking ships possess sufficient guns to destroy the defending wings, then any excess guns will inflict damage on the original targets as intended.  Since missiles impact only a single target, no excess damage carries over to a screened target if a missile destroys a defending wing.
 
Firing Missiles
When you fire a missile all of its guns are expended against a single target and the missile is destroyed.  A missile must be unloaded from a carrier on the turn it is fired.  You can explicitly unload a missile (during the Logistics phase) before you fire it, but if you fire a loaded missile the game server conveniently issues an automatic unload command for it during combat.  If a missile is unloaded and not fired on that turn, it must be reloaded on a subsequent turn to be used (and it is also fair game for being attacked as unloaded cargo and for salvage purposes).
 Note that firing a missile is not the same as firing its carrier's guns.  That is, a loaded missile can be fired, leaving its carrier free to move to another sector in a "hit-and-run" attack.  It is possible during the Logistics phase to unload one missile, load a second missile in the same rack space, and then fire both missiles during the Combat phase.
 
Allies: Allied empires may never fire guns or missiles at each other's ships.  This includes wings forming a defensive screen, even if the screened target is not an allied ship.  That is, if an ally is defending a non-allied target, no attacking guns will be fired.
 
Abandoned Empires: Abandoned ships will always fire at non-allied ships present at friendly or allied worlds, or at ships belonging to any empire which fired on the abandoned empire during the previous turn.
 
Abandoned ships present at foreign, non-allied worlds will fire guns if they expect to destroy all foreign ships present.
 
Abandoned ships between worlds will fire upon any empire targeted by either of the above two criteria.
 
If multiple empires are targeted in the same sector, the abandoned ships will first fire upon the empire having the fewest remaining DP (or tonnage if there's a tie). 
 

Apply Combat Damage

All combat damage is applied simultaneously to all targeted ships at this point.  A damaged ship has its operational rating reduced according to the damage it sustains.  As a ship's OR decreases, that ship's guns, engines, and scan ratings all decrease accordingly, and the ship will be able to fire fewer guns, move fewer hexes, and scan fewer sectors until it is repaired.  It is entirely possible for any or all of these ratings to be reduced to zero.  A ship with a zero gun rating is no longer considered a conquering ship.  A ship with a zero move rating is immobile.  A ship with a zero scan rating has only SRS ability and cannot scan beyond the sector it occupies.
 

Remove Destroyed Ships I

 
At this point any ship which has self-destructed or which has received damage equal to or greater than its remaining DP is now eliminated from its owner's fleet.  Any ship loaded onto a destroyed ship is also destroyed (and may be fair game for salvage).
 

Auto-repair Ships

 
During this phase each damaged ship repairs some of its damage, increasing its DP by its auto-repair (AR) rating.  These repairs happen automatically and cost no RU.  A ship's operational rating (OR) is correspondingly increased by these auto-repairs.  A ship can never be auto-repaired above its original DP value.

Note that auto-repairs are always visible to any empire which has an unloaded ship in the same sector.
 

Determine Ownership I

 
 At this point all conquering ships in any world's sector are used to determine that world's owner as follows:

• If any world's sector contains no conquering ships, then that world becomes unowned.
• If any world's sector contains conquering ships belonging to exactly one empire, then that empire gains control of that world and all RUs stockpiled upon it.
• If any world's sector contains conquering ships belonging to more than one empire, and the world's current owner is not among them, then that world becomes (or remains) unowned.
• If any world's sector contains conquering ships belonging to more than one empire, and the world's current owner is among them, then that empire retains ownership of the world.

 
 
 
Note that you must leave conquering ships in orbit around a world after you take control of it; otherwise, it becomes unowned.  Any RUs stockpiled at an unowned world will remain at that world until a new owner takes possession of them, but production of new RUs never occurs on unowned worlds.

If the current owner loses ownership of a world, all existing shipping lanes to and from that world are cancelled immediately.
 

Transmit Portal Nav Data

During this phase you can share wormnet portal navigation data with other empires.  You can give portal navigation data to any foreign empire with whom you are in message contact.  The navigation data given is the same as that acquired by actually traversing the portal, i.e., it allows safe navigation through that wormnet to that portal.
 
 
When you receive nav data for a new portal you will automatically be able to tell if that portal is (or is not) connected to any other portals for which you have nav data.  Receiving nav data does not reveal any portals in the same wormnet that are as-yet unknown to you.
 
 
You can give data only about portals which you have traversed or for which nav data has been given to you on previous turns, and the recipient can make use of the given portal nav data on the same turn it is received.  The location of the given portal will appear on the recipient's map using their local coordinate system.  It is not necessary for the recipient to have scanned that portal's sector, but the recipient will not know what else occupies that portal's sector until they scan it normally.
 
 
Allies: Allied empires always share all wormnet portal data with each other automatically.

Move Ships

During this phase any ships that you have instructed to move will jump to their destination sector if their operational rating permits such travel.  A ship's engine rating determines the maximum number of sectors (hexes) that a ship can move in one turn.  Ships jump straight to the destination sector without traversing the intervening sectors, so no scan information is generated for those intervening sectors.  There is no stacking limit to sectors; any number of ships from any number of empires can occupy a given sector.

A ship damaged in combat may not have sufficient operational engines to move to the specified destination, in which case the damaged ship will not move at all, so be careful when planning movement for a ship under attack.  A ship cannot move and fire in the same turn. 
 
You can specify movement orders for individual ships or for groups of ships in the same sector.  Individual movement orders are useful in a combat zone when you want to move each ship to a different destination.  Group movement is useful when you want to move some group of the ships in the same sector to the same destination.  If a ship is damaged before moving, it's possible that it will not possess enough operational engines to reach the designated group destination.  In this case, the damaged ship will be dropped automatically from the group and will not move; the remainder of the group will move normally.
 
Abandoned Empires:  Abandoned ships which are present at foreign worlds (and which are not ordered to self-destruct or fire) will move along the shortest routes (including wormnets) toward the nearest friendly or allied world (choosing the world with the highest friendly-DP-to-foreign-guns ratio in case of a tie).  Abandoned ships between worlds will hold their positions for the first turn of abandonment, but will move on subsequent turns toward the nearest friendly world.  An abandoned ship with a scan rating of three or more will be deemed a scout/scanner, and will always hold its position between worlds.

Traverse Portals

If a ship ends its move in a sector that contains a wormnet portal and has at least one operational engine, then it may traverse the portal as part of its movement.  You may specify an exit portal, but unless you have acquired navigation data about both the entry and exit portals, your exit portal will be determined randomly.  You can specify an exit portal for which you expect to receive navigation data from another empire on the same turn, but if the donor empire fails to provide you with this information, your exit portal will be selected randomly.
 
Once you have traversed a wormnet, you will receive navigation data for both the entry and exit portals of your journey.  You may then navigate safely between those portals without error.  You will not know if there are other portals connected to that same wormnet unless you continue to explore random exits, or until another empire gives you the navigation data for those other portals.
 
If a wormnet portal drifts to a different sector during the Astronomics phase any planned entry from its previous sector will fail, and any exits from that portal will end up in the new sector.  If a wormnet portal collapses altogether, all movement into or out of it is cancelled.
 
Allies: A temporary portal created by a warpdrone device is normally accessible only by the empire that owns the warpdrone.  Allied empires can traverse each other's warpdrone portals.

Acquire Nav Data

At this point your empire acquires updated nav data for any new wormnet  portals traversed this turn.

Weather Ion Storms

Any ship that ends its movement in a sector containing an ion storm suffers damage equal to the storm's rating. This damage is equivalent to attack damage from enemy ships, and can reduces a ship's OR, prevents doubled auto-repair, or destroy it in the same fashion.  If there are multiple ion storms present in the same sector, any ship in that sector suffers damage equal to the sum of all the storms' ratings.
 
Any deployed storm shield device will negate all ion storm damage to all friendly ships  in that sector for one turn.  Starbases confer the same protection from ion storms to friendly ships in the same sector in the same manner.
 
Allies: Any starbase or deployed storm shield automatically confers its ion storm protection to all allied ships in the same sector.

Remove Destroyed Ships II

At this point any ship which has received damage from ion storms equal to or greater than its remaining DP is now eliminated from its owner's fleet.  Any ship loaded onto a destroyed ship is also destroyed (and may be fair game for salvage).

Determine Ownership II

At this point, world ownership is determined again, using the same procedure as described in the Determine Ownership I phase.  The two separate ownership phases allow an attacker to take possession of a world after combat is resolved before the defender's reinforcements arrive during the Movement phase.

Relocate Homeworlds

Every empire must maintain a single homeworld if it possesses any worlds at all.  An empire's homeworld receives the following benefits:
 

• Homeworlds cannot be interdicted (although they can be blockaded).
• Homeworlds are immune to the effects of pollution bomb devices.

 
 
If an empire's existing homeworld is conquered, its homeworld is automatically relocated at this point to the next safest world, as follows:
 

• The safest world is considered to be the world owned by the same empire that has the highest ratio of friendly or allied DP to enemy guns.
• If there is a tie among one or more worlds, then the world with the highest friendly or allied DP count will be selected.
• If there is still a tie, the world with the highest production will be selected
• If there is still a tie, the world closest to the previous homeworld will be selected
• If there is still a tie, then a world will be selected randomly from the remaining candidates.

 
 
Homeworld relocation ignores blockade and interdiction rules.  Additionally, the newly selected homeworld will have its production doubled for the current turn. 
 

Establish Interdictions

If the conquering guns present at any world are strictly more than three times the DP of the conquering ships belonging to the world's owner, then that world is said to be interdicted.  No designs, builds, or repairs can take place at an interdicted world, nor can any RUs be shipped offworld (as per blockades).  This interdiction remains in place from turn to turn until the above condition is no longer true.

Note that it is the total number of foreign guns, regardless of owner, which determines the interdiction; thus, it is possible for multiple empires to interdict a world (possibly by accident) that none of them could interdict alone.  Missiles and devices are not included (by either side) for purposes of determining interdiction.
 
An empire's homeworld cannot be interdicted (although it can be blockaded).
 
Allies: Allied ships count as friendly DP, not as foreign guns, for purposes of establishing interdictions.  Note that an interdiction affects all allied stockpiles on a world, as well as the owning empire's stockpile.
 

Establish Blockades

If the foreign conquering guns present at any world are strictly more than twice the DP of the conquering ships belonging to the world's owner, then that world is said to be blockaded.  No RUs can be shipped offworld from any blockaded world; this restriction remains in place from turn to turn until the above condition is no longer true.  A world that is interdicted is also blockaded, but the reverse is not necessarily true.
 

Note that it is the total number of foreign guns, regardless of owner, which determines the blockade; thus, it is possible for multiple empires to blockade a world (possibly by accident) that none of them could blockade alone.  Missiles are not included (by either side) for purposes of determining blockades.
 
 
Allies: Allied ships count as friendly DP, not foreign guns, for purposes of determining blockades.  Note that a blockade affects all allied stockpiles at a world, as well as the owning empire's stockpile.
 

Salvage Ship Designs

At this point you can attempt to salvage the design of any ship that has been destroyed on this turn in the same sector as one of your ships.  You will salvage a destroyed ship's design automatically if all of the following conditions are true in the same sector:

• The destroyed ship was not explicitly self-destructed.  You can salvage designs for ships destroyed by enemy fire, collateral damage, or an ion storm, or was destroyed when its cargo/carrier was destroyed.
• The destroyed ship was not a deployed device or a fired missile.
• The destroyed ship has just been destroyed on the same turn as the salvage attempt.
• The salvaging empire possesses a conquering ship in the same sector as the destroyed foreign ship.
• The salvaging empire possesses conquering guns in the same sector as the destroyed ship that total strictly more than three times the total remaining DP of all conquering ships in the same sector that belong to the same empire as the destroyed ship.  That is, a sufficient foreign force will prevent you from salvaging designs belonging to that empire.
• The salvaging empire possesses the most conquering guns of all empires present in the sector containing the destroyed ship.

 
 
Each destroyed ship is evaluated using these rules, and if they are all true, then the destroyed ship's design is added to the salvaging empire's list of known ship classes for their future use; otherwise no salvage can take place for that particular ship.  Only one empire may be the salvaging empire in a given sector, although it need not be the empire that destroyed the salvaged ship; in the case of a tie, no salvage takes place in that sector.  If the salvaging empire already owns the salvaged design, then no other empire receives that design on that salvage attempt.  Note that any cargo loaded on a destroyed ship is also fair game for salvage (again, unless it was explicitly self-destructed).
 
 
Allies: Allies always cooperate in salvage operations.  Allied empires combine their guns as a single friendly unit for purposes of determining salvage rights of foreign ships, and combine their remaining DP to prevent any foreign empire from salvaging an allied ship design.  If a member of an alliance salvages a design, then all empires in the alliance automatically receive the design, even if they were not present in the salvaging sector.
 

Create Ship Designs

During this phase you can create new ship designs.  Designing new ships requires prototyping and testing by your empire, so the cost of the design is half the cost of the ship itself (rounded up).  This is a one-time research fee that will be deducted from the RU stockpile at whichever world you specify.  New missile designs do not require the one-time design fee.  See the Ship Design page for more details.

Once you have paid the design fee, you can build new ships of that type starting on the same turn.  The new ship design can also be given to another empire on the same turn that it is created.  You cannot design a new ship class on a world during the same turn that you take control of it, nor can you design on a world that is interdicted.
 

Give Ship Designs

During this phase you can share your known ship designs (either those you created or those salvaged from other ships) with any other empire with whom you are in message contact.  The recipient(s) will receive the designs immediately and will be able to build ships of those classes on the same turn.

Allies: Alled empires always share any designs salvaged on this turn.  New ship designs created by your empire are not shared with your allies automatically; you must share them explicitly.

Produce Resource Units

During this phase each owned world's RU stockpile is increased by the production rating of that world. Production does not take place on unowned worlds. Interdictions and blockades do not affect production. There is no limit to the amount of RUs that can accumulate on an owned world.
 
If an empire has relocated its homeworld to a new location this turn, that world doubles its production for this turn.

Pool Resource Units

At this point you can pool any or all of your stockpiled RUs to a world that you own.  This is a convenient way to gather all of your RUs in one place and then disburse them as you see fit.  RUs at blockaded worlds cannot be shipped off-world for pooling purposes, but RUs can be pooled to a blockaded world.
 
 
Allies: Allied empires can pool RUs to either other's worlds.   If you pool your RUs to an ally's world, your RUs will be maintained as a separate stockpile at that world for as long as the alliance lasts.  If the alliance is later broken, the world's owner immediately takes possession of any non-allied RUs stockpiled there.  Similarly, if the owning empire loses control of that world, the new owner will take control of all separate stockpiles, unless the new owner is also an ally of the stockpile's owner
 
 
Abandoned Empires: Abandoned empires pool RUs at the owned world with the highest friendly-DP-to-foreign-gun ratio. 
 
 

Transfer Resource Units

During this phase you can transfer RUs from your worlds' stockpiles to other worlds in the galaxy.  RUs can be distributed from their origin point to one or many destination worlds.  For example, if you own a world that has 12 RUs stockpiled, you can transfer six RUs to destination A, four RUs to destination B, and leave the remaining two RUs at the origin world.  RUs can be transferred off-world during the same turn that you take possession of the world, so you can set up a tentative order to transfer RUs from a world that you plan to acquire in the coming turn.
 
If you are the owner of both the origin and destination worlds involved in the shipment you need only specify the number of RUs you wish to transfer.  If you wish to send RUs to a foreign empire, you must also indicate the intended recipient empire, as well as the destination world, since that empire might not own the world at the time the shipment occurs.  If the intended recipient does not own the destination world, the transfer order will be cancelled.  You must be in message contact with the recipient empire at the time your transfer order is submitted and the destination world must be known to you (though not necessarily current scanned).  The recipient will know that your RUs have been delivered, but will not know which of your worlds supplied the RUs.
 

RU transfers are executed in the order that you define them.  If a world's stockpile does not have sufficient RUs remaining to match a given transfer order, the remaining RUs in the stockpile will be sent for that order, and all subsequent transfer orders for that stockpile will be cancelled.
 
If a world is blockaded, no RUs can be transferred off-world from it, but note that a blockaded world can still receive RUs transferred to it.  Any unsent RUs remain stockpiled, without spoilage, and carry over to the next turn.
 
Allies: Allied empires can transfer RUs to each other's worlds, can maintain these RUs as separate stockpiles owned by each ally, and can transfer RUs from those allied stockpiles as if they were at friendly worlds.  If you transfer RUs to an ally's world, they will automatically be stored in your separate stockpile unless you explicitly identify the allied empire as the recipient (in which case they will be added to the ally's stockpile just like a regular transfer to a foreign empire).  If your ally does not own the destination world during this phase, the transfer will be cancelled altogether.
 
Note that if an alliance is ever broken, the world's owner will take possession of any non-allied RUs stockpiled there.  Similarly, if the allied empire loses control of that world, the new owner will take control of all separate stockpiles, unless the new owner is also an ally of the stockpile's owner

Build Ships

During this phase you can build new ships for your fleet.  You can build ships only in sectors containing a world owned by you (or one of your allies), and the requisite number of RU must be present at that world.  If you (or your ally) lose ownership of a world before this phase, or if you fail to stockpile the necessary RUs, the build instruction will be cancelled.  You cannot build ships on a world during the same turn that you take control of it, nor can you build on a world that is interdicted.

Unique serial numbers are assigned automatically to each ship built.  You may give a name to each ship you build, although those names must be unique for each ship in your empire.   Ship names can be any combination of alphanumeric characters, but they must contain at least one non-numeric character.
 
Allies: Allied empires may build new ships at worlds owned by their allies, assuming they have created a sufficient RU stockpile of their own at the foreign world.  See the Transfer Resource Units phase.  If you build a ship on an allied world, that ally automatically acquires that ship's design (i.e., it's impossible to hide the details of a ship's construction at a world owned by someone else).
 
Abandoned Empires: Abandoned empires always build on any world where there are stockpiled RUs.  New ships to be built will alternate between the class which has the most DP that can be afforded and the most guns that can be afforded (choosing the cheapest design in the case of ties), until no RUs are left with which to build.
 

Repair Ships

You can use the this phase to repair a damaged ship beyond what it can auto-repair on its own.  You can repair two DP for each RU spent, but you can never repair a ship beyond its original DP rating.   A repaired ship's operational rating is correspondingly increased by these repairs.  You cannot repair ships that belong to another empire unless you are formally allied with that empire.
 
Damaged ships can be repaired in any sector, but you must specify which world will supply the RU for the repairs.  You may schedule contingency repair orders for ships which you expect will be damaged during the upcoming turn, but if that ship is not damaged (or if it is destroyed) then no repairs will be performed, and the RU earmarked for those repairs will sit idle.  A world cannot fund a repair operation on the same turn that you take possession of it.  Note that repairs are always visible to any empire which has an unloaded ship in the same sector.
 
If a world is blockaded (but not interdicted), then ships belonging to that world's owner can still be repaired in that world's sector, but the RU on that world can be used to fund repairs only on that world.  That is, since the blockade prevents RU from being shipped off-world, they cannot be used to fund repairs elsewhere; however, the lack of interdiction does not prohibit repairs at that world itself.
 
If a world is interdicted (and therefore also blockaded), then no ship belonging to that world's owner (or an ally) can be repaired in that world's sector (regardless of where the RU funds come from), and RU at that world cannot be used to fund repairs anywhere at all.  That is, the interdiction prohibits that world's owner from conducting repairs at that world, and the implied blockade prohibits that world's RU from being shipped off-world for repairs.
 
 
You can repair a friendly or allied orbital at a ratio of three DP (instead of the normal two) for each RU spent.  In additional orbitals automatically repair fully any friendly or allied ship loaded within it (regardless of any interdiction present in the same sector).
 
 
Note that the empires enforcing a blockade or interdiction can repair their ships at the site of the blockade or interdiction so long as the requisite RU are available from some other (unblockaded) world.  Repairs can always be performed in empty space sectors that do not contain worlds, regardless of the empires present.
 
Allies: Allied empires can repair each other's ships for normal RU cost.
 
Abandoned Empire: Any RUs which cannot be spent on building new ships will be used to repair damaged ships, starting with the ship that has the smallest operational rating (or fewest remaining DP if there's a tie).

Rename Ships

During this phase, you can rename any of your ships as you wish, so long as the new names follow the rules for naming ships when they are built.

Toggle Transponder Modes

During this phase you can toggle ship transponders from private mode to public mode, or vice versa.  A ship with a private transponder is visible on LRS only to the empires that you choose.  (See the Identify Ships phase.)  A ship with a public transponder is always visible on LRS to all other empires, known or not.  By default all ship transponders are set to private mode.
 
 
Allies: Allied empires always identify their ships to one another, regardless of their ships' transponder modes.
 
Abandoned Empires: Abandoned ships will always enable private transponder mode.
 

Conceal Ships

During this phase you can reset the private transponders for your ships so that they conceal themselves from any empires you choose.  If you conceal a ship from an empire, that empire will see that ship on LRS only as unidentified tonnage (and will only be able to see its owner and class if it on SRS).  A ship with a public transponder cannot be concealed from any other empire; you must first toggle that ship's transponder to private mode.
 
Allies: Allied empires can never conceal ships from one another.
 
 
Abandoned Empires: Abandoned ships will always be concealed from non-allied empires.
 

Identify Ships

During this phase you can set the private transponders of your ships to identify themselves on LRS to any empires you choose.  The selected empires will be able to see those ships' classes and your identity as their owner on their LRS.  All other empires will see your ships only as unidentified tonnage on their LRS.  Note that you cannot identify ships to individual empires if those ships transponders are in public mode; you must first switch their transponders to private mode.
 
A ship's transponder settings remain in effect until you alter those settings, either subsequent identifications or by concealing those ships from other empires.  Note that loaded ships are never visible to foreign empires, regardless of their transponder settings. 
 
Allies: Allied empires always identify all of their ships to one another.

Deny Scan Access

At this point, you can instruct your ships to withhold any scan data they may have been sharing with other empires.  The recipient empire(s) will no longer receive scan data from you from turn to turn.

Allies: allied empires never withhold scan data from one another.
 
Abandoned Empires: abandoned empires will withhold scan data from all non-allied empires.

Authorize Scan Access

During this phase you authorize other empires to access scan data that you collect later in the turn. This data access remains in place until you deny that same access in a future turn.
 
You can authorize a foreign empire to access your scan data at any of these levels:
 

• by sector -- the authorized empire(s) will be able to access scan data only for the individual sectors that you specify
• by ship -- the authorized empire(s) will be able to access scan data only for sectors directly scanned by the individual ships that you specify.
• ship class -- the authorized empire(s) will be able to access scan data only for the sectors directly scanned by all ships of the classes that you specify.
• all data -- the authorized empire(s) will be able to access all of your scan data.

 
Allies: Allied empires always authorize full access to all of each other's scan data.
 

Collect Scan Data

 
At this point each ship collects short-range scan (SRS) data for the sector it occupies.  Long-range scan (LRS) data is gathered by all ships for all sectors within range of their scan rating, as allowed by the the presence of any nearby nebulae and ion storms.

Destroyed ships (including missiles) generate only SRS info for the sector in which they were destroyed, and only through the Remove Destroyed Ships sub-phase of the Combat phase of the turn (i.e., a destroyed ship cannot scan ships which were moved into or built/repaired within the destroyed ship's sector since those actions occur after combat occurs).  No LRS data is ever available from a destroyed ship, and, similarly, destroyed ships never appear on LRS for other ships.  All destroyed ships in a sector, including cargo, will appear on the SRS of any empire that has a ship in that sector.

Loaded ships report neither SRS nor LRS information, nor do they appear on LRS.  They appear on SRS only for the empires that control the cargo or carrier ships.
 

Share Scan Data

At this point any scan data that you have collected this turn is shared with any empires that have access to your empire's scan data.  Shared data is merged with the recipient's map using the "most visible" status of each shared sector.  For example, if a sector is visible to you, but has only scanned status on the recipient's map, then it will appear as visible to them; however, if the shared sector is stale on your map, it will still appear as scanned on the same recipient's map. 
 
Only scan data that your ships collect directly will be shared with the authorized recipients, i.e., any data given to you by empire A will not be given to empire B.
 
 
Sharing scan data does not share ship designs, portal navigation data, or message contacts.
 

Record New Map Objects

At this point any new map objects (worlds, portals, nebulae, or ion storms) that have been discovered by your empire are added to your map.  Any known map objects whose sectors have become stale on your map are not forgotten, but you will not receive any current information for these objects.