Galaxy Ownership
See Station Building for similar topics.
Players with an active subscription can stake and claim Wild Space galaxies. Unowned galaxies can have active PvP or PvE (if claiming AI empire galaxies), but once owned, only the threat of termites (which *will* eventually occur to any system) provides a real risk requiring kits to be properly geared/auged and players to be properly skilled.
This system is novel and different from the system of yesteryear with HQs and outposts and owned space does not have to be contiguous to a team's borders. However, it is recommended to route bots through protected (by any team) space.
Unowned systems can only have attached kits and unattached CnCs. Drones are only allowed in owned galaxies.
To claim a system, a T16 "CnC" ownership kit must be deployed within 2,000 distance of any sun by a player on a team. This special ownership kit is the Command and Conquer Kit and is purchased at Building Academy Entrance for 4,000,000,000 credits and is 5,000 size and quite heavy. It cannot be attached.
This will aggravate any AI empire station kits to be hostile to the kit and kit owner (but not to other team members).
Ensuring your Command and Conquer kit is fully healed/geared is often crucial when there are galaxy contests.
Deploying the kit then requires the player to successfully construct the Nullification Generator Build in the construction tab ideally as soon as possible. It requires 10,000 Sentient Chatbots and 10,000 Steel Girders so ensuring you have sufficient infrastructure via Extraction Expert kits is crucial.
There is an additional equipable Nullification Generator Construction Support that once equipped and fed 300 Fusion Cells every 10 minutes will speed up the ownership construction process, which spawns healing drones that heal the CnC and orbit 7,500 distance from the CnC. As long as they are not destroyed (by enemy players or enemy AI empire kits/drones) they will speedup the ownership process.
Although you cannot build unattached kits besides the CnC in an unowned galaxy, you can risk building attached kits to bootstrap your infrastructure that later will be protected from PvP once ownership is done and maintained. Alternatively, the resources may need to be garnered through diplomacy, the public market, or the team market.
Once the Nullification Generator Build is completed, ownership might be delayed until the server's next 10 minute tick fires. Once owned, the galaxy in the galaxy map will be circled by a white circle.
The quickest ownership can be done is around 100 minutes or 1 hour 40 minutes. Without the ownership booster drones, it takes 180 minutes or 3 hours. If failed to properly supply the required materials, it may never complete.
If there are multiple team's CnCs racing for ownership in a system, the first one past the post wins and any other non-teamed kit will be abandoned/destroyed.
After ownership is done, 100 Fusion Cells/10 Minutes or 14400 Fusion Cells a day to maintain ownership. This should not be done manually as a best practice, and any bot that feeds the CnC should take care to source from the same galaxy (all galaxies are guaranteed to have enough Nuclear Waste to support ownership) or another galaxy that does visit any unowned galaxy to avoid PvP. Additionally, it is recommended to lay a separate defense kit, and if the galaxy is high enough in rarity (Rare/Exotic) ensuring the kit is owned by a Station Mastery having character.
If at any point in time, the CnCs fusion cell tick occurs and there are not enough fusion cells or if the CnC kit is destroyed by termites/starvation, galaxy ownership will be lost (warnings will propagate in team chat), with a small safety cushion of time determined by how long the galaxy had previously been owned (up to 3 days, and initially an hour of buffer time).
Special "LACS" prefixed galaxies exist and cannot be owned, but provide a source of Goop which may be used to enhance extraction output in the galaxy by 25% if fed to a CnC with the properly equipped factories/industry or fed as inputs into special Colony Commodities.
While the End of the Universe event is active (the last 7 days of the universe) ownership within Wild Space can no longer be lost. Players at this time should pack anything they deem of value and worth keeping.
