23 May 2026: Rally action · the Preacher calls the faithful
A generic Rally capability on the unit-type, with per-race label overrides · First adopter: the Vatari Preacher
One click. The whole fleet on the way.
- The Preacher is no longer just another mid-cruiser. Pick a Preacher in the system view and click Call the Faithful. Every active ship you own across the galaxy plots a multi-hop autopilot course to that Preacher’s system: one click instead of dozens. The faithful answer the bell.
- Real hyperspace travel, not teleport. Ships obey the usual jump-range, jump-speed and routing rules; the Rally just queues the courses for you. A ship eight hops away takes eight hops to arrive. Existing hyperspace courses, trade runs and auto-explore orders are replaced by the new rally course.
- What doesn’t answer. Structures (immobile), ships docked inside carriers (their carrier rallies for them), ships you’ve loaned to other players, ships in the middle of an active jump, and story-locked mission ships. Everything else heads for the rally point.
- Costs and cooldown. 500 RP per rally. 24 game-hours of cooldown on the Preacher who sounded the call. Run multiple Preachers in your empire to stagger the bells.
- A generic capability under the hood. Rally is a unit-type flag, with a per-type label override. The Preacher invokes it as Call the Faithful; future race ships that adopt the capability can be labelled differently (a Knosson herald-ship could ring it as Summon the Fleet, a Sharne war-drum as Sound the War-Drum) without any further code changes. Same mechanic, race-flavoured name.