Outer Reaches

At the very edge of the known universe, we exist... fighting for survival... not against alien hordes, but against our own....

Many years ago people fled the confines of our solar system. Some to seek their fortune in the far flung corners of the universe, others because they could no longer stand to see us destroying ourselves. What remains of the historical text's of the day speak of these people as 'The Ancients', what happened to them after they left, no one knows, but one thing is certain, strange things happen in the depths of space.

To get anywhere with research, you are required to build several types of research centers. Not all of the research can be completed with just one planet, so expansion is required. All research is done through the command center and the resources used are taken from your homeworld (planet you start with), so you must make sure that the resources are there in order to start a research. Research centers may be built on any planet you own, they will all be included in the total amount available for research.

Each planet has a limit on how much space it has to build on. When you can no longer build anything on it, its time to either get another planet and continue to expand your area of influence within the universe or demolish some of the current buildings on the planet to make more space. There is a random adjustment factor to the space on all uncolonised planets in the game so a Geological Probe can be very useful in giving the details of how much space is on a planet before you colonise or take it by force.

To expand within the Outer Reaches universe you must do one of two things...

Colonising
To colonise a planet you will require a (TR.2) Transport class 2 ship, also called the genesis. This is the only ship capable of colonising empty planets.

Invading
To invade a planet you must have ground units, they can be added to a fleet if there is a (TR.1) Transport Class 1 or (TR.3) Transport Class 3 ship added to the fleet. Each have a different amount of space available and a different amount of armour. When the fleet arrives at the planet being invaded the transports will only land on the planet surface when all ships/pds, that target the transport ships, have been destroyed, recalled or frozen during the fight, then the planet invasion begins. If you are succesful, you will become the new owner of the planet and all buildings and fleets that are currently owned by the planet. Only when all the defending ground units and PDS are destroyed can you claim the planet. Any fleets owned by the planet that are being transfered or sent to other planets at the time you take control, will become yours (these fleets will be automatically recalled back to the planet).

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