Station Interior

Build and upgrade the buildings in your station interior to strengthen your ships and station. Different buildings will have different benefits.
 
Operations
The command center of your station. Upgrade this building to increase your player level, unlock additional buildings, and increase your weapon damage bonus.
 
Academy
Houses your officers when they’re not assigned to ships. Upgrade this building to recruit more officers and increase your officer stats.
 
R&D Department
Construct this building to gain the ability to research new technology. Some technology may be the prerequisite for constructing ships or buildings.
 
Parsteel, Tritanium, and Dilithum Warehouses
Determines how much of each resource you can hold at your station. Once your warehouses are full, you will not be able to collect that resource from your resource generator buildings. Any resources you get from chests, missions, the store, and events can go over your warehouse limit.
Parsteel, Tritanium, and Dilithum Generators
Generates resources over time. Tap on the buildings to collect the generated resources to add them to your resource stockpile. If the warehouse for a particular resource is at capacity, you will not be able to collect that resource from your generators.
 
Parsteel, Tritanium, and Dilithum Vaults
Protects a set amount of a particular resource from enemy players.
 
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Station Exterior

Build and upgrade the building in your station exterior to strengthen your ships and station defenses.
Defense Platform
Defense Platforms serve as your first line of defense for your station against enemy attacks. Defense Platforms are located on the exterior of your station. Your Defense platforms can be upgraded using resources. Any damage that your Defense Platforms sustain during combat is slowly repaired over time.  
 
Drydock
Each drydock  can have at most 1 ship assigned to it. Your assigned ship can be deployed into space. The assigned ship can be found at its drydock if it’s in your station. Build more dry docks to increase the number of ships you can use to explore space. Upgrade your drydock to increase the repair speed and decrease the repair cost of the ship assigned to that dry dock.