Aliens

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Aliens are a non-player character within the universe. At a randomly chosen time they will launch an invasion against the universe. Generally this occurs 3 times per season, roughly each 25 days.

Aliens will scale their fleet size based on the fleet size of the players in the universe, growing along with each player. The aliens will create new colonies randomly across the universe and deploy Deathstars in large quantities to defend them. This deploy mission typically takes about 3 hours to arrive, giving players a window of opportunity to raid the colony. If a player successfully raids an alien colony before the Deathstars arrive to fortify it, the aliens will recall the mission and abandon the colony.

Once aliens have been able to colonize more planets within the universe than all players combined, they succeed in their invasion and cause rampant destruction, resulting in pentalties to other mechanics for the rest of the season. Because of this, its in players best interest to destroy alien planets as quickly as possible when they are spawned to force them to abandon and retreat from the universe.

Once no alien colonies exist which players can attack, aliens will recall deathstars automatically from a few randonly chosen colonies. This mechanic enables players to systematicaly destroy alien outposts a few at a time in reverse of the order they arrived.

Each alien outpost will generate a small amount of resources consistently, so generally the more resources you see on an alien planet the older it is.