Ships

There are a total of 40 ships available - from interceptors to massive cargo vessels. As you travel the universe, you will find various ways to earn credits which are used to purchase these ships. Eventually, you could own them all!

Upgrades
All ships can be upgraded with various purchased or crafted components with four tiers of quality from basic through legendary. This includes:
 * Shields
 * Hull armor
 * Warp drives
 * FTL drives
 * Targeting packages
 * Electronics packages
 * Cargo expansions
 * Hardware mount points
 * Beam weapon turrets
 * Projectile weapon turrets
 * Missile turrets

Crew stations
Crew members can be recruited throughout the galaxy. You can discover new crew members on space stations orbiting planets. At any one time, you can have a total of 10 crew members - yourself and 9 hired mercenaries. Crew can be assigned to your ground exploration team and/or ship stations. Crew members learn skills over time and enhance your piloting, weaponry, electronics and targeting efficiency. Over time, they will earn skill perks that further enhance your ships performance. Crew members can be swapped between stations and new crew members that you find with higher level skills can be added to your team and assigned to stations using the crew manager. Crew members can also be swapped between stations in the "Ship" UI.

Weaponry station: The weaponry station affects weapon tracking speed, reload speed and efficiency.
 * Turret bonus damage
 * Target reload speed
 * Turret energy efficiency

Piloting station: This team member affects overall speed, maneuverability and evasion.
 * Adjusts ship speed
 * Adjusts ship turn rate
 * Adjusts ship evasion

Targeting station: This station manages the targeting computer, affecting lock speed, chance to hit and weapon strike through.
 * Turret lock speed
 * Turret chance to hit
 * Attack shield bypass

Electronics station: The electronics station manages all hardware and software systems.
 * Scan range
 * Ship security (for the boarding system)
 * Shield bonus efficiency

Ships
Ships serve a variety of purposes in Stellar Tactics. From small interceptors to massive cargo carriers.