Defense Ship

The defense ship is a very useful addition to any fleet.
It extends its shields to protect smaller ships, such as fighters, bombers, and heavy bombers.
When you are attacking, you do not need to enter a number into the defense ship field; it will act automatically, even if the units are in another fleet in orbit of the same astro.
Example:

• You have 2 fleets on an astro, 1 of which has 10 defense ships.

• An enemy player lands and attacks your second fleet, which is composed by 200 fighters.
• The shield distribution will be:
• total of defense ships * it shields / total of small ships * hangar space needed
• 10 * 40 / 200 * 1
• 400 / 200 = 2
• However, there is a top limit, defense ships cannot extend the shields to cover more than 2 shield per ship.
• because of this, your Fighters would fight as 4/4 (2) [ attack/defense (shield) ].
• The Defense Ship shielding will be higher based on your Shielding tech.