V0.7 — Military Specialists & Combat Depth

Archive Date (A-Date) is the official in-game time standard. One cycle = one in-game day; character age = days_old / 144.

Pilots

• Train from population: 10 population + 20,000 credits
• Grades: C 60% / B 25% / A 12% / S 3%
• Assign to ships (one pilot per hull). Ships can fly without a pilot; pilots need ships to affect combat
• Grade multiplies that hull's orbit contribution (C 1.0 → S 1.50)
• Ship destroyed → pilot KIA, listed on the combat report
• Character sheet with rename (privilege is per-player)

Commanders

• Same training cost as pilots
• Reinforce with soldiers from the home planet (cap 20 going forward)
• HP: (10 × soldiers) + (10 + 2 × grade points) — C=2, B=5, A=7, S=10
• Feed into ground defense when orbit is breached
• Ground casualties reduce soldiers; unit wiped → commander KIA

Combat reports

• Planet Military tab shows the latest report only
• Full history via the report list
• Ground forces table: Commander | KIA | Combat Ready
• Structure damage on ground fights

Structure damage

• Damaged structures go offline (no production bonus) until repaired
• Tier > 1 also drops one level on a hit
• Repair costs credits + iron + carbon (tier-scaled)
• Engineer cost on repair deferred to a later build

Also locked this cycle

• Race pool (8 peoples) for future galaxy seeding
• Mercenary / upkeep schema hooks on specialists (not active yet)

V0.8 opens next: component crafting tree, special mining bonus, and more industry depth.