Alliance Chat
Added a full Alliance Chat tab.
Alliance chat now has General, Market, and War channels.
Existing chat history remains available in General.
Added independent unread counters and message history for each channel.
Improved reconnect handling, background message recovery, scrolling, and new-message indicators.
Preserved translation, player profile, reporting, deletion, and moderation controls.
Added responsive desktop and mobile layouts.
Chats are strictly isolated by universe, alliance, and channel.
Fleet Commander Role
Added the new Fleet Commander alliance role between Member and Officer.
Fleet Commanders can initiate station capture operations.
They can manage the attacking roster of operations they personally initiated.
Leaders, deputies, and officers retain full control of both attacking and defending rosters.
Fleet Commanders do not receive unrelated officer or diplomacy permissions.
The alliance penalty for recalling a station capture has been reduced from 24 hours to 4 hours.
Station Operations
Station attack and defense screens now display the actual Command Point total.
Attached Command Vessels are now included in Command Point calculations.
The 8,000 CP limit and the initial 500 CP requirement are clearly enforced.
Garrison dispatch now shows occupied, incoming, and available dock capacity.
Known invalid deployments are blocked before dispatch.
Station constraints are also validated again when the fleet arrives.
Rejected station fleets now return safely instead of becoming stuck.
Players receive a message explaining why a station-bound fleet was returned.
Combined Attacks
Defenders now receive an updated arrival time when a participant recall accelerates a combined attack.
Incoming fleet lists and attack warnings update immediately.
Dead Space Sleep Shields (New Frontier)
Launching a hostile mission from a sleep-shielded planet now shows a confirmation warning.
Confirming the launch disables the sleep shield only on that specific source planet.
The planet remains unprotected until its next scheduled sleep-shield window.
Sleep shields on the player’s other planets are unaffected.
Planetary Shields
Planetary shields can no longer be bypassed by eliminating the final conventional defender.
Empty planets protected by an active shield can no longer be defeated by token fleets.
Command Vessel
AI Officer Scatter can now evacuate a ready Command Vessel from the threatened planet.
The Command Vessel contributes its real speed and fuel requirements.
Scatter can operate when the Command Vessel is the only eligible ship.
The vessel remains attached to the evacuation mission and returns normally.
Research
Corrected the Precursor Fragment research-time modifier.
Leadership bonuses now amplify the base fragment discount instead of adding excessive percentage points.
Client previews now match the server calculation.
The existing minimum research-time floor remains unchanged.
Fleet Fuel
Same-system fuel calculation is now consistent across manual and automated missions.
Local routes use a small standardized virtual fuel distance.
This applies to planets, moons, stations, hubs, markets, asteroid fields, mining operations, espionage, outposts, colonization, cyberwarfare, artifacts, xenoarchaeology, alliance trade, and logistics.
Previewed fuel costs should now match the amount charged by the server.
Android Notifications
A temporary Capacitor or token-refresh error no longer overwrites an already valid Android push registration.
Previously registered devices remain shown as connected.
Genuine first-time registration failures are still reported normally.
All new interface text and notifications have been localized across all 26 supported languages.