Mission types

The 8 mission types

Here is the full list of available missions. Click a link to open the dedicated section when one exists:

• Attack: offensive combat against an enemy planet
• Transport: deliver resources to a planet (yours, an ally's, or even an enemy's)
• Deploy: permanently station ships on one of your own planets
• Support: post a fleet on an ally's or friend's planet to help defend it
• Espionage: send Recon Drones — see Espionage
• Colonize: establish a new colony — see Colonization
• Harvest: collect a debris field — see Debris recycling
• Expedition: explore a Point of Interest — see Expeditions

Attack

• Target: a planet owned by another player
• Fleet composition is free — favor military ships to win the combat
• All protections are checked before send: newbie shield, point ratio, anti-bashing, vacation mode — see Protections
• Combat is resolved on arrival; the surviving fleet returns home immediately with the loot

Transport

• Target: your own planet, an ally's planet, or even an enemy planet (to deliver tribute)
• The cargo is fully transferred on arrival to the destination planet's stock
• The fleet returns empty immediately toward its origin
• Very useful to rebalance your stocks between colonies or support an ally in need

Deploy

This mission is strictly internal to your empire — it never concerns an ally.

• Allowed target: only your own planets
• Ships are merged into the arrival planet's garrison — the fleet is dissolved on arrival
• No automatic return: to recover the ships, launch a new mission from that planet
• Perfect to reorganize your defense or concentrate power on a strategic point

Support

Support is the cooperative mission: you send a fleet to defend a planet you do not own.

• Allowed target: the planet of an alliance member or an accepted friend
• Ships stay stationed on the host planet; they participate in defense when attacked
• You keep ownership of your ships — you can recall them at any time
• Automatic recall if your alliance is severed with the host, or if the host leaves the alliance/your friends list
• A deuterium upkeep cost is charged periodically while the fleet is deployed

Travel time

All missions share the same travel time formula: it depends on distance, the speed of the slowest ship and your propulsion technology. Fleets always return home in the same time as the outbound trip.

• Fleet speed = speed of the slowest ship (the others match its pace)
• Fusion engines: unlock standard intra-galaxy travel
• Alcubierre engines: enable inter-galaxy travel with a fixed jump time
• Distance: the farther the target, the longer the trip — no strict cap

Recall and return

• Any moving fleet can be recalled before arrival; it turns around instantly and takes the same elapsed outbound time to come home
• A recalled fleet delivers nothing on arrival — no attack, no cargo, no espionage
• Some missions do not auto-return (Deploy, Colonize, Support): to recover the ships, you must launch a new mission manually

Fleet slots

• Each player has a maximum number of simultaneous fleets in motion or stationed off-planet
• Base: 1 slot, +1 per Astrophysics research level
• Deploy, Colonize and Support fleets consume a slot until they are returned or recalled
• Round-trip missions (Attack, Transport, Espionage, Harvest, Expedition) release their slot as soon as they return to their origin planet