The Reference

By: C. Pirx

Last updated 20th of May 1995

• For every 20 defense posts the ground combat ratio increase by 1, so a planet with 100 defense posts does ground combat at 5:1 instead of 1:1.
• Privateers robbing cloaked ships is host configurable so check it when you play them.
• To break a tow at Warp 9 you have to have a waypoint set farther than 1month (81 ly) away, just having the warp set to 9 at a planet will NOT prevent a tow.
• Tech 8 torp’s are cheaper and just as good for battle but cost the same amount of money as Tech 10 torp’s for the same size minefield.
• Cloaked ships have the same chance as uncloaked of hitting web mines.
• Hyperspace ships will not hit a mine if they HYP into and out of a minefield.
• Force a surrender mission takes place before and after movement now IONIC PULSE
• If a planet detects that it is a victim of a super spy mission and it has more then 30-defense outposts, it can burn up 10 of the defense outposts to emit an ionic pulse that will uncloak all cloaked ships in orbit. A planet has about a 20% chance of pulling this off.
• Hyper jumping ships do not get sucked into planets by warp wells.
• Hitting a deep space mine will slow a ship by 10 ly.
• Cloaked ships that hit a mine and are damaged will come out of cloak.
• Engine shield bonus is not in effect when a ship is attacking a planet.
• A Loki will decloak all ships even if those are of the same race as the Loki (except Fed and Lizard ships). E.g. privateer owned Loki would decloak all privateer ships.

• Outrider Class Scout Cargo = 40
• Nocturne Class Destroyer Cargo = 0 / 150 torpedo’s loaded

• Serpent Class Escort Cargo = 20
• Small Deep Space Freighter Cargo = 70

• Swift Heart Class Scout Cargo = 20
• Small Deep Space Freighter Cargo = 70

• D7a Painmaker Class Cruiser Cargo = 120
• Small Deep Space Freighter Cargo = 70

• Outrider Class Scout Cargo = 40
• Small Deep Space Freighter Cargo = 70

• B200 Probe Cargo = 15
• Small Deep Space Freighter Cargo = 70

• Opal Class Torpedo Boat Cargo = 0 / 19 torpedo’s loaded
• Small Deep Space Freighter Cargo = 70

• RU25 Gunboat Cargo = 1
• Small Deep Space Freighter Cargo = 70

• CAT’s Paw Class Destroyer Cargo = 0 / 300 torpedo’s loaded
• Small Deep Space Freighter Cargo = 70

• Taurus Class Scout Cargo = 140
• Small Deep Space Freighter Cargo = 70

• Taurus Class Scout Cargo = 140
• Small Deep Space Freighter Cargo = 70

1. 1. Intercepting ships with a cloaking device attack their intercept targets.
   2. The Friendly Code Battle orders.

• • Super Refit
  • Double taxes
  • Only mine at half the normal rate
  • “Scotty Bonus”, all weapons remain online no matter how much damage the ship has and shield regenerate 25% between each battle in a turn
  • Bohemian Survey Ship = Heats planets to climate type 50
  • Eros Research Ship = Cools planets to climate type 50
  • Brynhild Escort = Bioscanner will detect type and number of natives and climate type of 20% of the planets within range of its Sensor Sweep mission (Will not work on planets with 20 or more DP’s)
  • Loki Destroyer = Loki will detect and uncloak all cloaked starships within 10LY and attack those at its coordinates (Will not uncloak Fed and Lizard ships)

• • Ships with LIZARD CREWS ONLY can take 150% damage
  • 20x ground combat
  • Mine at double the normal rate
  • The Lizard HISSSSSS! mission calms a planet down (only ships with beam weapons can do this)
  • Cloaking ship; Reptile Destroyer, Lizard Cruiser, Saurian Light Cruiser
  • Eros Research Ship = Cools planets to climate type 50
  • Loki Destroyer = Loki will detect and uncloak all cloaked starships within 10LY and attack those at its coordinates (Will not uncloak Fed and Lizard ships)

• • Cloaking battleships
  • Super Spy mission(like an exploration with a little extra info and the friendly code of the planet)
  • Ship that cloak will cloak during SuperSpy
  • Enhanced Super Spy mission can change planets friendly code 100% of the time with 5 ships at the planet
  • Cloaking ships: Swift Heart Scout, White Falcon Cruiser, Bright Heart Destroyer, Fearless Wing Cruiser, Resolute Battle Cruiser, Red Wind Carrier, Dark Wing Battleship

• • Pillage planets mission (20% of natives and/or colonist are killed and their belongings are turned into money and supplies)
  • Takes about 6 turns for riots to occur
  • Can have small colonies of up to 6,000 colonists(60 clans) on desert worlds
  • Cloaking ship: D7 Coldpain Cruise, D3 Thorn Destroyer, Deth Specula Frigate
  • Glory device: Saber Frigate, D19b Nefarious Destroyer

• • Rob enemy ships (steal there fuel and cargo), this is one of the earliest occurring missions for the HOST. It happens before movement.
  • All beam weapons do three times(3X) there normal Kill damage for the Privateers
  • Three(3) of there ships have Gravitonic Accelerators which allow them to go twice as fast as normal ships (ships traveling at Warp 9 will go 162LY instead of just 81LY)
  • Privateers robbing cloaked ship are host configurable so check it when you play them.
  • Cloaking ship : Dwarfstar Transport, D3 Thorn Destroyer, Red Wind Carrier
  • Cloaking ship with Gravitonic Accelerators: BR4 Gunship, BR5 Kaye Torpedo Boat, Meteor Blockade Runner
  • Lady Royale Cruiser = Lady Royale is a gambling ship that generate 1MC for every clan onboard
  • Privateers can capture ships in space with no fuel by initiating a tow on the fuelless ship, some of the crew from the towing ship will be transferred to the towee

• • The Cyborg will convert a native population into Cyborgs when Cyborg colonists are placed on their planet (normally the entire population will be converted within 10-15 turns)
  • They can repair there ship damage at 10% per turn while in space, while repairing they cannot move
  • When the Cyborg destroy an enemy ship the debris is beamed aboard as minerals
  • The B200 Probe can use the HYP friendly code to hyperspace 350LY years from there current position. The waypoint has to be set at least 20LY in some direction and a warp speed of something set (i.e. Warp 6)
  • Hyperspace ship : B200 Class Probe
  • Firecloud Cruiser can Chunnel , takes 50KT of fuel and two Fireclouds with the same friendly code to create a chunnel

• • The Crystalline’s biggest advantage is they can lay WEB mines.
  • These mines only do 1/10th the damage of normal mines
    • When you are hit by one, your ships stops where it struck the mine
    • 25KT of fuel is drained from you ship
    • If you were cloaked, you are now uncloaked
    • CLOAKED ships have just as much chance as uncloaked ships of hitting WEB mines
    • As long as you are inside the minefield 25KT of fuel will be drained each turn whether you strike a mine or not
  • They can also live on desert worlds if the HOST is set to Crystal like desert worlds
  • Their highest population growth will be on desert worlds
  • Onyx Frigate: Heats planet to 100
  • Crystals can capture ships in space with no fuel by initiating a tow on the fuelless ship, some of the crew from the towing ship will be transferred to the towee

• • The captains of all ships in the Evil Empire can use the “Dark Sense” to detect enemy colonist living on planets within 400LY. There is a 20% chance that colonists on a single planet will be detected. The “Dark Sense” is never wrong! Nothing can hide a planet from the “Dark Sense”.
  • The “Dark Sense” cannot find the Rebels no matter how hard it looks!!!!
  • The PL21 Probe can use the HYP friendly code to hyperspace 350LY years from there current position. The waypoint has to be set at least 20LY in some direction and a warp speed of something set (i.e. Warp 6)
  • PL21 Probe: Hyperspace ship :
  • Super Star Destroyer can initiate an Imperial Assault. To do this drop 10 clans from this ship on any enemy planet no matter how many colonist or DP’s and you will capture it intact The Super Star Destroyer is immune to all NUK/ATT attacking planets if the Imperial Assault mission is turned on. It does not matter which race owns the Super Star Destroyer, it is immune. It is a ship thing, not a race thing.
  • Starbases build 5 fighters each turn using minerals only

• • When Robots lay mines, they make four times the number of mine units per torpedo, thus their minefields are four times the size for the same number of torpedo’s used as any other race
  • Can have small colonies of up to 6,000 colonists(60 clans) on desert worlds
  • They can build fighters in space if they have (for one fighter):
    • 3 tritanium
    • 2 molydenum
    • 5 supplies
  • Pawn Baseship: Bioscanner will detect type and number of natives and climate type of 100% of the planets within range of its Sensor Sweep mission (Will not work on planets with 20 or more DP’s)

• • The Rebels have a very nasty mission called the REBEL GROUD ASSAULT, this mission destroys these things:
    • 30% of the planets money
    • 40% of the planets supplies
    • 20% of the planets defense posts
    • 60% of the mineral mines
    • 30% of the factories
    • 20% of the colonists
    • In doing so the natives will become very happy, while the colonist will RIOT!! This mission occurs after movement.
  • Can have small colonies of up to 6,000 colonists(60 clans) on desert worlds
  • Can have small colonies of up to 20,000 colonists(200 clans) on arctic worlds
  • They can build fighters in space if they have (for one fighter):
    • 3 tritanium
    • 2 molydenum
    • 5 supplies
  • Hyperspace ship: The Falcon Escort can use the HYP friendly code to hyperspace 350LY years from there current position. The waypoint has to be set at least 20LY in some direction and a warp speed of something set (i.e. Warp 6)

• • The Colonies can use their fighters to sweep mines for them. Each fighter destroys 40 mine units per turn. They can do this up to 100LY away from their ship, The ships beam weapons will also mine sweep to if they are 25LY or closer to the minefield
  • Can have small colonies of up to 6,000 colonists(60 clans) on desert worlds
  • They can build fighters in space if they have (for one fighter):
    • 3 tritanium
    • 2 molydenum
    • 5 supplies
  • Cobol Research Cruiser has a Bioscanner that will detect type and number of natives and climate type of 20% of the planets within range of its Sensor Sweep mission (Will not work on planets with 20 or more DP’s)
  • Cobol Research Cruiser has a Ram Scoop that generates 2KT of Neutronium for every 1 LY traveled in deep space
  • Aries Transport: Aries turns any mineral into Neutronium one for one at no cost
  • Lady Royale Cruiser = Lady Royale is a gambling ship that generate 1MC for every clan onboard

• • Bohemian Class Survey Ship: Feds warmer till type 50 reached
  • Eros Class Research Vessel: Feds, Lizards cooler till type 50 reached
  • Onyx Class Frigate: Crystals Turns to desert (type 100)