Fighter Bay
Cost to Build: 50B CR + 450 Aidonium
Cost in Upkeep per day: 2.1B CR
Artifact Description: Deploys a squadron of fighters to assist in attacking enemies and protecting your ship.
Artifact Effects: Size: 150, Attack: +750, Defense: +1050
Artifact Limits: Rank 600 minimum, one Fighter Bay per 2500 decks (e.g. a ship with 5,000 decks could fit two Fighter Bays)
Bonus: Threat Interception. Reduces effectiveness of incoming artifacts and NPC effects used against player’s ship by 4%, with a slight change of negating them completely. Stacks.
Ability: Harry. Used on enemy ship. Sends squadron of fighters to attack, reducing enemy ship’s attack and defense by 5% each for 3 minutes, and tripling attacker’s chance at critical hits. Can only be removed by disabling carrier ship. During usage, the Threat Interception offered by Fighter Bay is removed until cooldown has expired. Ability costs 20 energy and has a 10 minute cooldown. Does not count against TM limit, Does stack.

Troop Pod: Ship Module
Cost to Build: 60B CR + 500 Aidonium
Cost in Upkeep per day: 2.4B CR
Artifact Description: A state of the art combat information center equipped with orbital attack mountings turns your crew into a more massive and elite fighting force than ever before.
Artifact Effects: Size: 170, Invasion Attack: +1700
Artifact Limits: Rank 700 minimum, one Troop Pod per 3000 decks
Bonus: Module reduces the cost of planetary invasions by 7%, stacks
Ability: Besiege/Pacify. Used on enemy planet. Weakens planetary defenses by 9% for 2 hours; while under the effect, there is a slight chance that an attack may cause the population to surrender, starting at 50%, checking again at 5% intervals, allowing for immediate invasion. Ability costs 500 energy and has a 40 hour cooldown. Ability does not stack.

Holofun SuperCenter: Ship Module
Cost to Build: 70B CR + 600 Aidonium
Cost in Upkeep per day: 2.2 B CR
Artifact Description: Only the best in rest and relaxation for your crew and protected members of your galactic empire. Take a break. You deserve it!
Artifact Effects: Size: 165, Shields: 1320, Cloak: 495
Artifact Limits: Rank 800 minimum, one Holofun SuperCenter per 3500 decks
Bonus: Morale Boost; increases production of owned, guarded planet not attacked in the last 2 weeks by 2% (stacks); on owned and ally guarded planets that have been attacked in the last two weeks provides 5% bonus to defense and attack (stacks).
Ability: Virtual Shore Leave. Increase the productivity of all crew members by 6% for 2 hours (i.e. increases max energy, attack, defense, and research generated by crew). Cost: 50 energy, cooldown: 20 hours, does not stack.

Core Cannon
Artifact Type: Ship Module, Device
Cost to Build: 90B CR + 1000 Aidonium
Cost in Upkeep per day: 3 B CR
Artifact Effects: Size: 200, Attack: +2400
Artifact Limits: Rank 900 minimum, one Reactor Core Cannon per 4000 decks
Bonus: +6% attack against bases
Ability: Core Blast. Targeted ray of pure energy deals damage to enemy player or NPC equal to your max energy (e.g. somebody with a 25k energy bar would do 25k damage), capped at 15% of the enemy player's total hull on normal hits, no cap on critical hits. Shields cause dispersal: if it hits shield rather than hull, damage is halved. Furthermore, damage against NPC Bosses is ½ (thus only ¼ if shields are up) and it does not work against bases and planets. Cost: 100 energy, 90 minute cooldown. Leaves ship vulnerable for 60 seconds after use (attack, defense, and max shield reduced 25%, 25%, and 50%, respectively, effect cannot be caged). If two cannons are installed, the ability is linked; damage, energy cost, and cooldown time are doubled.

Observation Research Platform (ORP): Ship Module
Cost to Build: 110BCR + 1300 Aidonium
Cost in Upkeep per day: 3.2 B CR
Artifact Effects: Size: 190, Energy: 1140, Shields: 950: Scan: 285
Artifact Limits: Rank 850 minimum, one Observation Deck per 5000 decks
Bonus: Produces a small amount of XTS-9 per hour (0-2) and gives a 2% base increase to critical hit chance
Ability: Experimental reactions. 500 Energy, 40 hour cool down. Gives one random artifact:

• Brain Candy: +50% research for 12 hours. May cause blindness or sudden rage.
  No Hulls Barred: bind durtanium past its breaking point at the subatomic level and refine thruster configuration for +25% hull and 15% defense (12 hours, cannot be debuffed)
• Unstable, Possibly Sour: (Random) upgrade for your Androids… maybe. Use, and receive 50 helmsmen, or unleash an antimatter storm causing catastrophic damage to your ship (lose shields, 20% energy, and 30-70% of hull), summoning an Anti-Reaver to BT. Shields will charge normally, but ship cannot be repaired until Anti-Reaver is pulled back into vortex (2 hours) or disabled (you can alert legion). Alternately, your scientists’ work, while non-quite-functional, is promising, and receives a letter of commendation for your government (receive 20-50 political favor and a grant of 150-200 complex tech parts)
• Nanobots Gone Wild: replicating droids repair your ship’s hull at 3% per minute for 4 hours. If ship is disabled, effect is neutralized
• It’s the Halc Puncher: this artifact causes you to ignore the effects of Halcyon Trap. 1 use, lasts 5 minutes. If you disable somebody under the effects of a Halcyon Trap, you are automatically alerted to the disabled player’s legion as a war criminal.
• Spiders of Fortune: your scientists’ batch of biomech spiders greatly assist your crew and improve your yield from raids by 4x for 4 hours. Unfortunately, they are exceedingly fragil and have a short lifespan.
• Unstable, Probably Sweet: Your scientists successfully prepare a cache of Antimatter torpedos! Use on enemy player for damage equal to 40-60% of their total health. Warning: there is a slight chance you can be caught in the blast for 10-60% to your own ship’s total health. Uses per artifact: 2-5. Cooldown: 5 minutes.

Incorporated Refinery
Artifact Type: Ship Module, Device
Cost to Build: 125B CR + 1500 Aidonium
Cost in Upkeep per day: 2.5 B CR
Artifact Description: Mega construction allows further refinery of minerals on board your ship.
Artifact Effects: Size: 230, Hull: +6900, Shields +1725
Artifact Limits: Rank 1000 minimum, one refinery per 6000 decks
Bonus: Increases EM yield from mining pulls by 6%, increases the chance that each mineral pulled is of “good” quality (i.e. Kurenite and Aidonium) by 0.2%
Ability: None

-1 to: Virutal shore leave, I think that this 6% bonus to crew attack, would just make ships able to hit even harder on bases and planets, even quicker.
-1 to the base attack bonus of the core cannon, Im against any % bonus to bases, attack, or invasion from a chain restricted to one play style

the rest of the idea though, +1

I like all the above ideas. I do think the occasional single shot vaporizing a smaller opponent is more realistic and more interesting too. Sure, it changes the dynamic of certain parts of the game quite a bit, but in my opinion that is a good thing. Change motivates growth.

DECK DEPENDENT SHIP MODS

Goal here is simple:

• Do nothing to to take away from the inherent economic and defensive advantages of the SSB and MSB ship builds. These are very real, worthwhile, and rewarding styles for many players and should remain unaffected.
• Provide an advantage to players who are/want to be LSB ship builds that is not attainable by other ship classes -- if you want these modules you have to have a certain number of decks. Said advantages play to their strengths (Base killing, planet munching) while keeping their vulnerabilities intact or even exacerbated them (massive cost, vulnerability in dogfights, etc...)

Fighter Bay
[b]Artifact Limits: Rank 600 minimum, one Fighter Bay per 2500 decks (e.g. a ship with 5,000 decks could fit two Fighter Bays)
Bonus: Threat Interception. Reduces effectiveness of incoming artifacts and NPC effects used against player’s ship by 4%, with a slight change of negating them completely. Stacks.
Ability: Harry. Used on enemy ship. Sends squadron of fighters to attack, reducing enemy ship’s attack and defense by 5% each for 3 minutes, and tripling attacker’s chance at critical hits. Can only be removed by disabling carrier ship. During usage, the Threat Interception offered by Fighter Bay is removed until cooldown has expired. Ability costs 20 energy and has a 10 minute cooldown. Does not count against TM limit, Does stack.

Troop Pod: Ship Module
Artifact Limits: Rank 700 minimum, one Troop Pod per 3000 decks
Bonus: Module reduces the cost of planetary invasions by 7%, stacks
Ability: Besiege/Pacify. Used on enemy planet. Weakens planetary defenses by 9% for 2 hours; while under the effect, there is a slight chance that an attack may cause the population to surrender, starting at 50%, checking again at 5% intervals, allowing for immediate invasion. Ability costs 500 energy and has a 40 hour cooldown. Ability does not stack.

Holofun SuperCenter: Ship Module
Artifact Limits: Rank 800 minimum, one Holofun SuperCenter per 3500 decks
Bonus: Morale Boost; increases production of owned, guarded planet not attacked in the last 2 weeks by 2% (stacks); on owned and ally guarded planets that have been attacked in the last two weeks provides 5% bonus to defense and attack (stacks).
Ability: Virtual Shore Leave. Increase the productivity of all crew members by 6% for 2 hours (i.e. increases max energy, attack, defense, and research generated by crew). Cost: 50 energy, cooldown: 20 hours, does not stack.

Core Cannon
[b]Bonus: +6% attack against bases
Ability: Core Blast. Targeted ray of pure energy deals damage to enemy player or NPC equal to your max energy (e.g. somebody with a 25k energy bar would do 25k damage), capped at 15% of your total hull. Shields cause dispersal: if it hits shield rather than hull, damage is halved. Furthermore, damage against NPC Bosses is ½ (thus only ¼ if shields are up) and it does not work against bases and planets. Cost: 100 energy, 90 minute cooldown. Leaves ship vulnerable for 60 seconds after use (attack, defense, and max shield reduced 25%, 25%, and 50%, respectively, effect cannot be caged). If two cannons are installed, the ability is linked; damage, energy cost, and cooldown time are doubled.

Observation Research Platform (ORP): Ship Module
Artifact Limits: Rank 850 minimum, one Observation Deck per 5000 decks
Bonus: Produces a small amount of XTS-9 per hour (0-2) and gives a 2% base increase to critical hit chance
Ability: Experimental reactions. 500 Energy, 40 hour cool down. Gives one random artifact:...

Incorporated Refinery
Artifact Type: Ship Module, Device
Artifact Limits: Rank 1000 minimum, one refinery per 6000 decks
Bonus: Increases EM yield from mining pulls by 6%, increases the chance that each mineral pulled is of “good” quality (i.e. Kurenite and Aidonium) by 0.2%

I don't think these ideas are OP, think they offer a very real choice in style to players, and would definitely use the modules myself if I ever intended to add the decks. That said, I would of course be concerned about any mission chain that caters to only certain playstyles.

I would be able to get one, and bigger ships would be able to get two or maybe three (assuming they have been adding the decks to take advantage of these new "LSB modules," since 9k decks sounds like a lot to me). A price reduction on invasions and a chance to not burn energy against population sounds great. I should note that presupposing the ability could be used on alerted planets, SSBs could still benefit from Besiege/Pacify, although they would be reliant on the generosity of their LSB legionmates (I am not sure if that was intended in the design).

Ooh boy, a super cannon. I would not be able to get one at my current decks, but some ships might be able to get a couple. On so many levels, this module is awesome. Can you imagine if you were one of the toughest ships guarding Exotica, and five people decided to Krionite then Core Blast you? Alternatively, a lower ranked ship holding off several stronger ships with KVT spam suddenly dead due to a Core Blast. The strong emotional reaction might be enough to make me add decks again. Not to mention the shields being valued more and that the use of Core Blast would add a tactical edge that I feel Galaxy Legion lacks. Again, something that might actually make me consider adding decks. Oh, when you say capped at 15% of your total hull, do you mean the ship with the module equipped (which is what I am currently assuming) or the target, because in the first case, the cap might not make much of a difference and in the second case, 15% might be too low in my opinion.

I could not get one. I do not think most ships will push to 15k decks for awhile, even with this suggestion being implemented, so maybe two of these modules at most? I do not think I would add the decks for this module, but Antimatter torpedoes and the Halc Puncher could cause so much rage as well as add tactical/strategic advantages that I might not be able to ignore this module. I would have to consider if abandoning the defensive advantage of the MSB would be worth being able to stock up on powerful ship killers, because I really do not mind getting disabled (the main advantage of the S/MSB), I might abandon the MSB altogether in hopes of stockpiling superweapons.

Alright, so closing comments. I loved most of your fluff. You seem to be creative in both fluff and game design. I know little of programming and have no idea how easy or hard these suggestions would be to implement, but the intent is excellent and the overall ideas are great. Like I noted above, I am a MSB, and if this idea was implemented, I would probably add some decks and possibly abandon the MSB completely. S/MSBs would still be great for those who did not like to be disabled or wanted to be defensive, and the Core Blast and Antimater Torpedoes would be great for aggressive players who barely cares about getting disabled. I can imagine the Halc Puncher would get tons of complaints from the passive crowd but be a huge boon for offensive players.

And I'm against any one play style that drastically reduces the damage you take from all opponents, makes you far more efficient in PVP, and allows you to free up several mining planet slots in favor of artifact worlds!

I kid, I kid.

But I don't think any play style should be able to have it both ways. Players should be forced to make a choice, and the choice shouldn't be: "Do I want to be efficient, deadly, and an uber-pain in the butt for other ships to take down in the PVP arena? Or do I want to be exorbitantly expensive and far easier to target by other ships?"

Because that's not really a choice (well, it is, it's just not a very good one).

To me, it seems like a good trade off for increased cost and PVP vulnerability would be the ability to better do the things you would expect larger ships to do: kill bases, conquer worlds, and dish out major damage (as well as have more amenities for crew and "exploration/science vessel" stuff going on).

Now there: that is a real choice with real consequences. No doubt, some completists would add even more decks to get all of these mods -- ships with 8k plus decks (!) -- adding several hundred to their cap, as well as a hefty increase in upkeep. But they'd also get some sort of tangible reward for their playstyle (which is legitimate, even if it is not my own), just as the SSB and MSB crowd receive.

That being said, I am totally open to the suggestion that some of these ideas are overpowered. In fact, I actually do think the core cannon should be tweeked and nerfed a bit (see changes to cap and cost). A "Super Dramatic Massive Attack" cannon would be awesome, but as written, any coordinated attack would make guarding Exotica impossible, and low-ranking ships would die in a single shot from its blast (everybody deserves a chance to get away!)

Lets look at it this way, the core blast iis the way of the lsb saying, yeah: like that damage cap of yours means anything to me. Its the way that the playingfeiled for pvp is evened out a bit. Theres no way in hell a ssb can take out another ssb say if there on exotica. Howeve a co-ordinated core blast from several lsb can take out even the most determined ssb defender. This is how lsb gains its boon.

I dont see why lsbs should get a bonus for base attack or invasion attack because they are actualy better off, albiet very slightly, due to more weapons installed: than ssbs. So theres realy no benifit in base battles or invasions in being ssb and therefore I dont think the lsb should get a % buff there/

maybe add that the core blast cant take them lower than 10% hull and that due to the immense energy expenditure cannons require 15-30 seconds to come back online (cant attack for 15-30 seconds)
requires more coordination if trying to blow someone away off exotica.

Not being able to use such a magnificent weapon for a killshot takes away too much drama, IMO. Having weapons systems go completely offline for 15-30 seconds after use, though... gotta say that's kinda cool, and definitely would require even more coordination