Shipyard

The Shipyard fabricates ships, one queue per colony, priced per unit. A ship's cost is paid once; what you get is a hull in the colony's hangar, ready to leave on a mission. Weapon, shield and hull decide how it fights — rehearse a raid in the Combat Simulation before spending real hulls; cargo is what it carries; speed, with your drive research behind it, is how fast it gets anywhere.

Not every hull is for fighting: the Pod and the Maw haul, the Seeder founds colonies, the Scavenger sweeps debris fields, the Spore reads foreign colonies, and the Bloom and the Grub stay home feeding the grid and the mines.

Logistics

	Name	Cost	Weapon	Shield	Hull	Cargo	Speed	What it does
	Pod	2,000 Iron, 2,000 Carbon	5	10	400	5,000	5,000	A quick light hauler for small freight runs.
	Maw	6,000 Iron, 6,000 Carbon	5	25	1,200	25,000	7,500	The bulk freighter — five times the hold on thicker plating.
	Scavenger	10,000 Iron, 6,000 Carbon, 2,000 Hydrogen	1	10	1,600	20,000	2,000	Harvests the debris fields that battle leaves behind.
	Spore	1,000 Carbon	0	0	100	5	100,000,000	A tiny sensor drone that reads foreign colonies.

Support & expansion

	Name	Cost	Weapon	Shield	Hull	Cargo	Speed	What it does
	Seeder	10,000 Iron, 20,000 Carbon, 10,000 Hydrogen	50	100	3,000	7,500	2,500	Carries a founding population to claim a new world.
	Bloom	2,000 Carbon, 500 Hydrogen	1	1	200	0	0	A stationary orbital collector feeding the grid.
	Grub	2,000 Iron, 2,000 Carbon, 1,000 Hydrogen	1	1	400	0	0	A stationary surface rig that boosts the mines' yield.
	Seeker	8,000 Iron, 15,000 Carbon, 8,000 Hydrogen	200	100	2,300	10,000	12,000	The expedition scout that sweeps debris on the way.

Line ships

	Name	Cost	Weapon	Shield	Hull	Cargo	Speed	What it does
	Wasp	3,000 Iron, 1,000 Carbon	50	10	400	50	12,500	The cheap swarm hull of every early war.
	Hornet	6,000 Iron, 4,000 Carbon	150	25	1,000	100	10,000	A hardened fighter with triple the punch.
	Mantis	20,000 Iron, 7,000 Carbon, 2,000 Hydrogen	400	50	2,700	800	15,000	The fast anti-fighter hull with rapid-fire batteries.

Capital ships

	Name	Cost	Weapon	Shield	Hull	Cargo	Speed	What it does
	Drake	45,000 Iron, 15,000 Carbon	1,000	200	6,000	1,500	10,000	The line hull — heavy guns on a heavy frame.
	Wyrm	30,000 Iron, 40,000 Carbon, 15,000 Hydrogen	700	400	7,000	750	10,000	A hunter built to gut battleships and cargo lines.
	Blight	50,000 Iron, 25,000 Carbon, 15,000 Hydrogen	1,000	500	7,500	500	4,000	Plasma payloads for cracking ground defenses.
	Ravager	60,000 Iron, 50,000 Carbon, 15,000 Hydrogen	2,000	500	11,000	2,000	5,000	The heaviest conventional gun platform afloat.
	Leviathan	5,000,000 Iron, 4,000,000 Carbon, 1,000,000 Hydrogen	200,000	50,000	900,000	1,000,000	100	A moon-sized graviton lance — slow, and near unkillable.
	Reaper	85,000 Iron, 55,000 Carbon, 20,000 Hydrogen	2,800	700	14,000	10,000	7,000	Fights, then harvests the debris it makes.