I've been thinking about how ship fleets will work in the game. This is a pretty integral part of the gameplay, so it's important that I get it right. Here's what I've go so far.

At the top, under the star name you can see there's a new "Fleet" button. Ship fleets are a solar-system "global" thing, so if you build ships on two planets they all contribute to the "solar system"-wide fleet. I'm not sure if this is the best location for this button (there's space for another one there as well, but I'm not sure what would make sense...)

So clicking on the "Fleet" button will bring up something like this:

I am thinking that the way this will work is, on the left you can see a list of the fleets you have. Each fleet is always a single "kind" of ship (scout, fighter, bomber, etc) and the number of ships in that fleet are shown in the list. Tap on a fleet and you get various options on the right:

• Stance describes how the fleet reacts to enemy fleets appearing in the solar system. Do they attack immediately (aggressive), do the only attack if attacked first (defensive) do they avoid contact altogether (passive), etc.
• Move and Attack buttons will allow you to direct a fleet to move to a different solar system, or begin attacking a solar system.
• Split and Merge buttons will allow you to split up a fleet into two, or merge two fleets (of the same ship design) into one fleet.

The main thing I'm having trouble with at the moment is the "Move" and "Attack" commands. Once you've clicked the button, then what? Do we show you a list of nearby stars? Do we pop up the starfield view where you can scroll around and choose the star to move to? This will require a bit more thought methinks.