Research
Ship Armor
Ship Armor: Increases hull strength for every ship in your fleet, transports included, and satisfies advanced defensive build gates.
How to use it
Increases hull strength for every ship in your fleet, transports included, and satisfies advanced defensive build gates.
Each level increases hull strength for all fleet ships, including transports. Ground defences, Prospectors and probes are unaffected. Attackers use their launch-time research level; defenders use their battle-time level.
Requirements & connections
This project has 5 paid levels. Completed research applies across your planets. Payment comes from the selected world’s Store. Funding from another world does not create another research queue. Started research cannot be cancelled.
Connections: Leviathan, Praetorian, Citadel, Paladin.
Reference values
Each row is the separate cost of reaching that level. Research time uses your capital’s Core even when a colony pays the bill.
| Level reached | Alloy | Crystal | Deuterium | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,662 | 2,869 | 42 | 1.05× hull strength |
| 2 | 10,721 | 6,598 | 96 | 1.1× hull strength |
| 3 | 24,658 | 15,174 | 221 | 1.15× hull strength |
| 4 | 56,714 | 34,901 | 507 | 1.2× hull strength |
| 5 | 130,441 | 80,271 | 1,165 | 1.25× hull strength |
| Rule | Value |
|---|---|
| Available after season starts | 0 h |
| Capital Core requirement | No additional level requirement |
| L1 time at capital Core 1 | 95.37 min |