No longer needing to have a ship damaged to be 'procured' the salvage corvette has the engines and the armor to acquire enemy spacecraft for the cause, use it wisely.

Little more than a heavy tin can with a high tech phased disassembly array, the resource collector is the backbone of the fleet. Without a means of collecting and transporting the materials used in construction we would have no fleet. Armored for heavy duty the collector still needs protection from direct assaults.

Keep in mind the collector can also be used in an offensive manner if the need arises, we all must be willing to sacrifice for the cause if we are to avenge our brethren.

Scientist were able to develop a small persistent wormhole device, based loosely off the warp drive model the mothership uses, that allows for a remote drop off of resources. Using this wormhole we were able to develop the Resource Controller.

With the mobility the Resource Controller adds to the collection of resources, a means of refueling several ships was added so that a defensive force could be kept on station and not have to return to the MS or require a Support Frigate for refueling.

Unmanned, inexpensive, fast, and expendable, the probe is there-fore equipped with engines that will exceed the maximum recommended velocity for their use. A one shot tool for gathering intelligence in territory suspected of having numerous enemy ships.

The key to victory is knowledge, in battle knowing what the enemy is doing is as valuable as gold and can be the key to your victory.

The discovery of cloaked ships in the enemies fleet required the development of a means to detect the tale tell signature of it's usage. Little more than an advanced sensor package with a fusion engine and a remote controller strapped to it, allows this ship to be sent anywhere with out the fear of loss of life or fuel.

As fast as a scout and just as agile, the Proximity Sensor can be used in number for low cost intelligence gathering systems that do not require refueling. Keep at least one with each main group for cloak detection.

Who would have believed that freeing the sensors package from the confines of the Mothership and giving it a slightly larger resolution manifold (and an engine) would result is such a massive increase in situational awareness?

As surprising as it sounds that is essentially what happened. One of the sensor technicians was sure that interference caused by the ships hull, and all the electronics built there-in, where limiting our ability to resolve the sensor data the MS can produce. Good thing for us she was as persistent as she was sure that she was right. Now we have the means to determine the exact location of all enemy ships and their numbers.

The nature of high energy and weapons research requires we investigate such developments outside the hull of the Mothership to prevent any possible damage to it due to accidents. By also incorporating a linking system we can add some speed to the research already in progress by linking additional research ships or expand the different branches being explored at once.

A side benefit of the linking ship system is an increase in the total armor of the research facility. Use this knowledge wisely.

The usefulness of cloaking technology required it be applied to a frame capable of cloaking several frigate class and above ships. Despite the limit on how long the field can be active, the different uses it can be put to are so numerous that production of several is feasible.

Cycling 3 Cloak Generators can produce a never ending field of invisibility when needed. Used cleverly a Cloak Generator can wreck havoc on an enemies ships in the most annoying manner.

No other ship in the arsenal developed after the destruction of Kharak is as dangerous to strike craft as the Grav Well Generator. Capable of capturing and immobilizing any ship smaller in size than 300 Tons, the Grav Well can give even an Ion Cannon Frigate the time it needs to lay waste to a fighter swarm.

Another produce of this device is the ability to halt hyper spacing ships in their tracks. Any ship hyper spacing in on an active Grav Well will be trapped and helpless until the field goes down. Any ship trying to hyperspace OUT while a field is active will suffer the same fate.

The Missile Destroyer is intended as more of a support ship than a front line attacker. It's limit of only 4 targets at a time reduces it's overall usefulness as a front line strike craft interdiction device unless in high numbers. It does, however do good when paired with a Grav Well Generator. It's best use is one of Salvage Corvette interdiction as it can eliminate them fast enough to prevent a total route of your ships.

The missile tube dump can be effective if used on a single ship but is generally not a good idea, the cool down time of the tube systems takes so long the ship is vulnerable to even scouts in numbers.

Massive, ungainly, hardened, and deadly. These are the words that come to mind when looking upon the visage of the Heavy Cruiser. It is as slow as the desert sands giving up water, but makes up for this in its ability to absorb punishment as it is dealing it out. The shear size of it can send ice through the blood of an enemy. The greatest desire of any Admiral having one in his fleet is that the enemy targets it in an attempt to remove it from the fleet.

The damage a Heavy Cruiser can absorb can allow the almost complete annihilation of an opponents fleet if target acquisition is properly executed. Don't ignore these ships but also do not fall prey to the fear they can instill.

Large operations require mobility, a single point of production reduces productivity and replacement of lost ships. To supplement the production and replacement of frigate class ships and below a carrier ship was designed and produced.

Acting as a mobile refueling, repair, and production facility the carrier can extend our range and allow us to create multiple fronts from which to attack and decimate our enemies. Use great care when allocating build queues if using the carrier in the field, you would not want the ships built at the Mothership if you need them from the carrier.

The Mothership is our sole source of life, it is our source of sorrow, and it is our source of hope. It took several generations to construct it, many people died in it's construction, many more on it's launch. It is our last greatest hope for a return to our Homeworld and the only means with which we can secure it's soil.

Guard her carefully, spare no enemy to give word of our existence, let determination be your standard as we seek out our true Home.