Garrisons hold reserve squads which can be deployed defensively.
Garrison capabilities:
- Garrison Slot Size: The total amount of ships that can be kept in the garrison reserve, active squads, and counted in slots.
- Active Squads: The amount of squads that can be fielded at any one time from the garrison.
- Loiter Time: The amount of time in hours that a squad can remain active once launched.
- Restock Time: The amount of time in hours once a squad returns before its ships can be launched again.
Stations may garrison Fighters, Bombers, Gunboats and Corvettes.
Ships may garrison Fighters, Bombers, and Gunboats.
Ships docked within the garrison can be added to the garrison reserve by the owner or commander , or a character with "Assign" privileges in the faction which owns the garrison base. The character must be owner, commander or pilot of the ship being added. The character must be present in the garrison command room or cockpit to add ships to the garrison reserve.
Ships can be removed from the garrison by the owner, commander of the garrison base or with the "Modify Garrison" privilege.
Each garrison type has a maximum size for the garrison reserve. This size is counted as:
When a ship is first added to the garrison reserve, the restock timer is applied to this ship. This prevents it from being launched immediately.
A garrison squad can be launched from ships within the garrison reserve. Squads formed have a maximum slot size of 12 (like regular ship squadrons). Garrison squads are controlled by the character that launched them.
Garrison squads have the following capabilities:
- Travel
- Attack (following the Space Combat Rules)
- Scan
Notably, garrison squads cannot:
- Dock within any other entity
- Jump to hyperspace
A character may launch a squad from a garrison if they are owner or commander of the garrison, or they have the faction privilege Launch Garrison Squad.
A character does not need to be present at the garrison to launch a squad.
Characters can:
- Control a maximum of 4 garrison squads concurrently
- There is a maximum limit of 2 squads controlled per system per individual character
There are some situations where launching is prohibited. These situations will need to be resolved before new squads can be launched:
- If the garrison base is over weight or volume capacity.
- If the garrison base is over the garrison reserve slot size.
- If the garrison base is docked.
Each garrison squad has a maximum loiter time, this is the amount of time the squad can remain controllable after being launched. When this time expires, the squad is automatically sent back to base. The squad will travel to base, dock, and re-add themselves to the garrison reserve.
While returning to base, the controller cannot issue orders to the squad. Squad scanners are visible while returning to base.
When the squad returns to base, a restock timer is applied. During this time ships from the squad cannot be relaunched. If the squad returns to base within 20 mins of initial launch, then the restock timer is not applied.
Additionally, any character with launch permissions can order any launched squad to return to base.
The following skills are used for calculations involving garrison squads, based on the squad controllers skill levels:
piloting = min(0.3x(Controller piloting) + 0.6x(Controller Space Command), 4)
combat = min(0.3x(Controller combat) + 0.6x(Controller Space Command), 4)
For ship based garrisons:
piloting = min(0.6x(Controller piloting) + 0.3x(Controller Space Command), 4)
combat = min(0.6x(Controller combat) + 0.3x(Controller Space Command), 4)
Skill calculations for station based garrisons:
|
Pilot/Combat Skill |
Space Command | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 1.8 | 2.4 | 3 |
| 1 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
| 2 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 1.8 | 2.4 | 3 | 3.6 |
| 3 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 2.7 | 3.3 | 3.9 |
| 4 | 1.2 | 1.8 | 2.4 | 3 | 3.6 | 4 |
| 5 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 2.7 | 3.3 | 3.9 | 4 |
Skill calculations for ship based mobile garrisons:
|
Pilot/Combat Skill |
Space Command | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 1.5 |
| 1 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 2.1 |
| 2 | 1.2 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 2.7 |
| 3 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 2.4 | 2.7 | 3 | 3.3 |
| 4 | 2.4 | 2.7 | 3 | 3.3 | 3.6 | 3.9 |
| 5 | 3 | 3.3 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 4 | 4 |
Additionally, each point in space command increases the loiter time by 5%, and decreases the rearm time by 5%.
rearm_time = Base Rearm Time * (1 - (0.05 * Controller Space Command))
When a ship garrison is launched from a mobile platform such as a ship then there are extra restrictions.
- The garrison squad must remain within the same system as the garrison base.
- The character who controls the garrison must remain within the same system as the garrison controller.
If at any time while the garrison squad is deployed, these requirements are not met, then the garrison squad will issue a return to base order after 30 minutes. If the garrison squad attempts to return to base, and the base is destroyed, or unreachable, then the squad will immediately disband in place.
