Fleet and missions

Each Weapons Factory works on one order at a time. A finished ship hovers above its factory and waits until you move it into a free hangar. While it waits, that factory takes no new order. Several factories build at the same time. That is also how you quickly replace a ship lost in a raid.

Hangars

• Fleet base: roof build of a skyscraper with 3 slots in orbit, at most 3 per city (Fleet Base). Missions only start here.
• Base hangar: one slot in the base of a skyscraper.
• Roof hangar: a roof platform extended into a hangar.

Ships in a hangar join the fight during attacks and circle the attackers.

Missions

• Spacia raid: 8 hours, loot 50 to 100 metal, raw iron, kryptonite and spice. A small risk of losing the ship is shown on the button.
• Exploration: the ship roams and reports a find every 8 hours. You can recall it after 2 hours at the earliest, after 7 days it returns on its own. There are no losses.
• Trader: a flight of 2 hours for 25 spice. You swap resources at the trader's rate, which is fixed at launch. Your goods leave at launch, the ship brings the new ones back. The trader flies once a day.
• To the coalition: sends resources to the coalition storage without any ship (Storage and bonuses).

You start missions in the orbit of the base under Missions and pick a free ship there. Each base flies one mission at a time. With the coalition bonus Raid, the Spacia raid brings more loot (Storage and bonuses).

Return and unloading

A returned ship keeps its cargo on board until you unload it. In orbit it is listed under Not unloaded yet, a click on Unload books everything into treasury, storage and vault. Until then the ship flies no new mission and cannot be moved.

For every return you get a message in your Mailbox with the loot and a To the fleet base button. Once unloaded, it shows when. Finished ships also report there with a View ship button. You open the mailbox in the city at the top right next to the tasks, or in orbit with Reports.