

This can greatly accelerate the movement of ships across the galaxy. Once you research the Dark Matter Shielding technology, you can enter one wormhole and exit from any other in the Galaxy. When you travel through a wormhole, your fleet uses all its Move Points, so you arrive at the destination without having the possibility to move in the same turn. In order to use wormholes for travel, players must research Applied Casimir Effect Technology. At the beginning of the game, players cannot travel between systems using wormholes. However, while a cosmic string looks like a straight line connecting two systems, a wormhole looks like a wavy or blurred line. Like cosmic strings, wormholes link two star systems together. Wormholes are different from normal cosmic strings. Ships can not reverse direction once travel along a cosmic string has commenced, they must continue to the opposite system.Ĭrossing a Star System appears to use some of the fleet's movement allowance. Research can increase the of a ship traversing a cosmic string. Move Points are carried over when you reach the end of a cosmic string, so if you still have a further destination to reach you can start travelling on a new cosmic string in the same turn. Longer cosmic strings will take longer to travel along, sometimes taking multiple turns for a single cosmic string. Each cosmic string takes a certain amount of Move Points to travel, based on the length of the cosmic string. This is used to determine how far along a Cosmic String a ship moves.Ĭosmic Strings are the simple connections between Systems that define where a ship on that given Planet can move to next.

4 Influence, Diplomatic relations and Fleet movementįleets have a Speed, measured in parsecs per turn, defined by the Ship Hull and Engines used.
