Planetary Defense

[SilverSil]

I sure most of us have done it at one point.

But when you build a base on a planet:

- what kind of planet do you prefer to build on?

-What kind of measures do you take to defend your planet from attack?

-what do you build on it?



i like to build on dirt grass planets when possible, and i prefer them without the city. if there are no dirt grass planets around i will settle a desert planet.

I like to build a symetrical defense system consisting of evenly placed heavy turrets aroind the permiter of the planet, supported by orbital-based heavy cannons that orbit generally 400m above the surface of the planet(far enough to avoid issues with collision and can see through the "atmosphere", while close enough to stay with the planet while it orbits the sun and fire on stuff approching the planet.) and in the center of each side i ususally place a super-heavy defense turret.

my current LAN build planet has a starport, bank, halipad for smaller ships(lol), factorys, a missile silo(contains a working giant anti-ship missile for emergency use), an underground bunker complex, and extra empty homes for when i LAN with others via hamachi. :D

 

[LunaMoonbringer]

I will never give up Earth\'s Defense Codes! NEVER!

But in all seriousness, any planet works except ice (the ground is only 1 block thick). Our current one has 6 orbital defense platforms, about a dozen heavy ground-based guns, and over 100 medium turrets on ships orbiting the planet. As for design, we have several hangars, landing pads, a space elevator, a factory, a reactor room, barracks, and docks large enough to hold battlecruisers. Oh, and we have a little surprise waiting for anyone who wants to test us.

 

[Doctor Ragnarok]

I prefer Ice planets myself. They -can- go as thin as one block, but it\'s not terribly difficult to find one that isn\'t. It\'s all about chasm distribution, and I love to build within chasms. My current faction base hardly has any chasms at all, so i\'ve gone with more of a Hoth approach. The top of the planet has few small structures upon it while most everything is underground. The only thing I hate about ice planets is the sheer fact that pirates are terrible at navigating back out of gravity, and it\'s compounded if they make their way into a chasm. For any planet that isn\'t a faction base, this can very quickly mean having holes through everything as the pirates fire in every direction and your own defenses are likely out of reach. The underside tends to have 4 massive turrets that are well capable of taking care of themselves and anything that comes in range, leaving me to focus on keeping the surface polished. In the future I may take to artificial planets. Not just giant stations, but completely removing a planet and leaving a mostly spherical metal object in its place to make use of the atmosphere left behind. This makes heading toward your base from a distance much easier when you know which colored orb to fly toward instead of slowly zigzagging through the coordinates.

 

[elmairin]

i like to have earth or ice planets (only ice when its thick not only one block) and i build like 17 shield generators like the ones on hoth in star wars i then build hangars in the sides of the planet, digging into the bare rock. i station a defense ring of 50 turrets on the edge of the planet and put heavier ones nearer the middle if theres a hill, ill dig the base into that and put minimal buildings on the surface of the planet. ill put power in the very center of the planet along whith a faction module. i then get an orbital defense grid which is 14 orbital turrets linked by walkways and floating bunkers. i also have a blueprint where i got bored and created a station as a ship and so ill station a few of those around, then i dot my fleet around in high orbit to make it look more imposing and voila, a defended planet!!!

 

[Tacotown99]

i have a 3/4 complete planetary defense force (PDF) and sector defense fleet (SDF) it has a 20 strong fleet in orbit one heavy carrier with 20 fighter bombers on board five cruisers four battle cruisers five escort class ships four destroyers and my personal flagship and 8 MAC cannons thousands of SBs+AM five shield bunkers, three generators and four hangers plus some light ground turrets around the hangers and the scattered surface buildings.