Ship

Imperial starbase

The mightiest ship in the game: a flying fortress with tremendous firepower and a huge cargo hold – but painfully slow.

The imperial starbase plays in a league of its own: a single one has as much attack as 50 destroyers and a hull worth entire fleets. In return, it costs a small fortune and takes a very long time to build.

Strengths and weaknesses

+ Gigantic attack, shield and hull.
+ 3.5 million cargo space – it carries the loot itself.
– Extremely slow: even short trips take a long time, and it slows down any fleet.
– A huge investment: losing it is a serious setback.

Self-destruct

In some universes you can send a starbase into a solar system and blow it up there. The explosion disrupts the Galaxy scanner: for 4 hours (plus 1 hour per level of Black hole research) it shows no fleet movements in that system except colonization flights. The starbase is lost afterwards.

Background

The imperial starbase is the largest ship in the galaxy and the most heavily armed, as it is the only one to have a BHR cannon on board.

Imperial starbase

Strengths and weaknesses

Self-destruct

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