Expansion Complex

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Special Bases
Garrison Shipyard
Technology Bases
Expansion Complex Supremacy Center
Tactical Laboratory Other Tech Bases
Abbreviation: exp

The Expansion Complex is associated with interceptors. An exp team relies on building outposts near enemy sectors and then boosting there to harass the enemy. Obviously expansion does not work as well on decent sized maps. Expansion is a favoured tech choice because it allows a team to get out a relatively powerful ship at a relatively low cost. Furthermore the Expansion includes upgrades that improve the team's economy, making it even more attractive.

The interceptor is a very good dogfighting ship and can be used quite well in attack and defence. However exp's end-game tech, the heavy troop transport, is only moderately useful as it requires a lot of teamwork and a little bit of luck to successfully use. Often an exp team will rush to get heavy interceptors and then get a second techpath, not bothering to invest in HTTs at all.

Exp is especially poor against shipyard tech.

Expansion technology

The Expansion allows you to research interceptors, interceptor equipment upgrades, and troop transports.

The advanced exp allows heavy interceptors, HTTs, and more advanced upgrades.

The Global Attributes (GAs) which you can research under exp increase the damage output of ships, the health of stations, and the harvesting ability of miners. For instance, He3 yield, PW damage, and PW range are some of the more commonly researched ones.


Station statistics

Information taken from CC_03. Values are representative only (many factions have had their stations individually tweaked for balance).

Expansion Complex
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Construction Station attributes Station abilities
Cost $10000 Armour class Major base
  • Small ships can dock/launch
  • Counts towards conquest victory
Construction time 120 Hull 13333
Asteroid reqd Uranium (orange) Shield 6666
Constructor type Large Signature 250%
Prerequisites Garrison Scan 2400


Advanced Expansion Complex
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  • Hull increased to 20000.
  • Shield increased to 10000.
  • Scan range increased to 3000m.

Factions

Bios expansion complex

Bios

  • All bios techbases start advanced.
Belters expansion complex

Belters

  • Nothing special
Dreghklar Empire expansion complex

Dreghklar Empire

  • Nothing special
Ga'Taraan Federation expansion complex

Ga'Taraan Federation

  • Requires a palisade before it can be upgraded.
  • Miners can unload He3
GigaCorp expansion complex

GigaCorp

  • Nothing special
Rixian Unity expansion complex

Rixian Unity

  • Nothing special
Iron Coalition expansion complex

Iron Coalition

  • Miners can unload He3.
  • IC does not need to research most small class ships:
    • Interceptors available as soon as the exp is built.
    • Heavy interceptors available as soon as the exp is upgraded.
Technoflux expansion complex

Technoflux

  • Nothing special
Omicron Hive expansion complex

Omicron Hive

  • Nothing special
Phoenix expansion complex

Phoenix

  • Nothing special
Draconium expansion complex

Draconium

  • Nothing special