A Fleet is a group of ships carrying out a single mission together as a single unit. A fleet’s size can be as small as one ship and is limited only by ships available and amount of deuterium (fuel). Fleets are one of the essential tools of the game and are used to transfer/transport resources from one planet to another, or to attack another planet.
A fleet can have as many ships as the player wants: there is no limit either for the number of ships or number of types of ships a fleet can have. However, every ship consumes fuel, and so the higher the number of ships, the higher the fuel consumption. The total resource-carrying capacity of the fleet is determined by the sum of the cargo capacity of each ship in the fleet minus the fuel it needs.
Fleets are launched and recalled from the Flying Fleet Detail screen.
At the start of the game, each player is allowed one “flying” fleet (or “fleet slot”) at any given time. You may have any number of ships at any number of planets, but only one fleet traveling or performing a mission at any given time. To launch more fleets simultaneously, you must research Computer Technology.
Every level of Computer Technology researched adds one more available “fleet slot”. This allows you to have one additional fleet of ships flying at any given time. The number of fleets available to a player is as follows:
(Level of Computer Technology) + 1 = Number of fleet slots available.