Ships serve as your primary way to explore the galaxy and participating in combat.

 

Different type of ships have different advantage and disadvantages. For example, survey ships are not great at combat but will give you a mining boost.

 

 

Interceptors, Explorers, and Battleships have accompanying strengths and weaknesses. You’ll gain a slight advantage in battle if you choose the correct ship type. Remember the combat triangle always.

 

 

Survey Ships are made specifically for the purpose of mining and carrying Resources. They can participate in combat but they will not be particularly good at it.

 

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Blueprints serve as the first step to building a ship. You can only build a ship once you collect enough blueprints for it. Some ships may require additional research or shipyard level to build even if you have enough blueprints.

 

Tap on the Ships button on the top left of your screen in a map view to access the ship construction page.

Tap on the BUILD or INSTANT buttons to build a ship.

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You’ll need a drydock to use ships. Each drydock can have at most 1 ship assigned to it. If all of your drydocks are full, you can swap out your currently assigned ship by tapping the SWAP SHIP button on the ship management page of the drydock. Your ship must be recalled home before you can swap ships.

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You can upgrade any ships that are docked at your station by tapping on the ship itself at the bottom of your screen to open a ship menu, tapping the MANAGE button, and then the UPGRADE button on the bottom of the screen.

On the upgrade screen you'll see that you can spend Ship XP to level up the ship, whilst more specific components of your ship can be upgraded in order to provide powerful stat boosts.

 

Upgrade all the components on your ship to unlock tier up. Tiering up takes time, you won’t be able to take that ship out of the drydock until the tier up has been completed. Tiering up will allow you to upgrade your ship’s components even more.

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Your ship must have a Captain assigned to it before you can send it out into space. Any Officer can be a Captain.

 

Tap on any point on a System map to open a menu. Tap the GO button to send your selected ship to that point. Your selected ship will be highlighted in white on the bottom center of your screen.

 

If you tap on an object of interest, such as another ship or mine, tapping on an action button such as MINE or ATTACK will send you to the location of that selected target.

Go to the Galaxy View by tapping the Galaxy button on the bottom right of your screen when you’re in System view.

Tap on any System to open a menu. Tap SET COURSE to send your selected ship to that System. After you’ve discovered a System (sent a ship there), you will be able to VIEW that System, even if you don’t have a ship in it.

 

A ship has to enter warp to travel between Systems. While a ship is in warp, it cannot be attacked by another player. You will not be able to redirect your ship while it’s in warp.

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As you get more ships and explore more of the Galaxy, it may get harder to keep track of where your ships are.

 

You can always view the location of each ship by tapping on that ship’s icon on the bottom center of your screen when you’re looking at a map view.

 

Then tapping the LOCATE button on the panel that opens up on the bottom left of your screen.

This will bring you to a System map centered around the selected ship if that ship is in a System. Or it will bring you to the Galaxy map centered around the selected ship if that ship is in warp.