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As you earn money doing missions or selling the items you mine, craft or steal, you will be able to purchase ships at shipyards across the galaxy. You can also add ships to your fleet by boarding and capturing enemy or derelict ships.

You control the lead ship of your fleet directly, and the rest of the ships in your fleet follow it. Different fleet formations are available to control the overall behavior of your other ships. If you wish to pilot a different ship in your fleet, you can easily switch to it in the fleet panel, and the rest of the fleet will follow that ship instead.

Upgrade Your Ships

Each ship can be modified at mechanic shops across the galaxy. Weapons, thrusters and modules can be added or removed at the mechanic shop. The mechanic shops will also sell these items and repair your ships if they are damaged. When ships are destroyed, they sometimes drop weapons, thrusters or modules that can be picked up.

Build and Upgrade Colonies

You begin with one small colony that can't provide much, so upgrading your colony and founding new ones is essential. Each colony can provide tax income to fund your fleet operations, a place to repair and refuel your fleet, a place to store your items, markets to trade, shipyards to buy ships, and more. The more and bigger colonies you have, the larger fleet you can afford. The crew on all your ships needs to be paid, so larger fleets will cost more and will require more income to support.

To upgrade your colonies, you can construct various buildings that provide different functions. Each building will require resources to build. These resources can be purchased from other factions or manufactured using factories, smelters and raw resources that can be mined from asteroids.

Mining, Crafting and Trade

Your ship can be equipped with mining lasers to mine resources from asteroids. These resources can be sold or used to manufacture more valuable items. Crafting is done automatically by factories and smelters which can be built at any colony you own. All you have to do is select the item to manufacture and make sure the required ingredients are in the colony inventory. These items can be used to construct buildings or traded at markets across the galaxy.

Piracy

Surviving the galaxy is challenging, and you may be forced to use nefarious means to get what you want. You may have to hunt for bounties, board ships, steal ships, steal money or smuggle goods. Cloaking devices and powerful weapons are essential for those willing to get involved in the underworld.

Missions

The campaign includes a series of tutorial and story missions that must be completed in order to win the game and make it into the high score list.

In addition to story missions, each colony has its own HQ which gives out random missions the player can complete for money. These non-story missions are available in the campaign, custom games and scenarios.

For scenarios, the scenario creators can create their own story mission series in the map editor.

Map Editor and Modding

The built-in map editor allows players to create their own scenarios and mods. A custom galaxy can be created which includes new stars, planets, moons, stations, missions, and more. Mods allow players to modify ships, weapons, thrusters, modules, fleets and factions. E