The fights
Order-based fleet combat
Orders
Ships fly on orders: orbit, keep at range, approach, ram. You pick the targets and switch modules on and off from the module grid.
The overlay
Every ship carries a bracket with its class and distance, and lines show who is targeting whom. Four presets go from nothing to everything, and in Settings each element can be set for your ship, your target, threats, friends, enemies and drones.
Fitting and the test range
Build a fit slot by slot. The panel on the right works out its damage, durability, energy and handling as you go, and the test range lets you try it on a target before a real fight. In skirmishes and online, every hull and module is available from the start.
Every face can break
A ship has a nose, two flanks, a tail and a core, each with its own armour and its own slots. When a face breaks, the modules on it are destroyed, so it matters which side you show the enemy.
Read the enemy's fit
Every module is drawn on the hull where it is fitted. Guns show their family's barrels and colour and turn onto what they are shooting, launchers show their tubes, and plates and reactors sit bolted on. An experienced pilot can look at a ship and tell what it carries and where.
Ramming
Ram is an order like any other. The blow comes from closing speed and the rammer's mass and lands on the face it hits, and the rammer takes the same blow on its bow. Ten hulls have bows built for it: blades hit harder, and bumpers hit harder and take less.
Big fights
Five size classes, frigate to battleship, fight in the same battle.
Places to fight over
Stations, asteroids and nebulae. Rocks block fire and movement, and clouds change how ships fight inside them.
Electronic warfare
EWAR modules turn a fight when they're used well. Drag fields slow ships and their turning, ECM throws off their guns, target painters make them easier to hit, and ion jams their modules.
Torcido
Ordway
Ryabin
Hollreuss
Baekjung
Dhanraj
