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  Backup/Restore last turn(s)

Maybe something went wrong like one of your players sent a trn file, but it came in too late because of problems of his ISP. So you may want to restore the last turn. Tim built in backups for up to the last 5 turns! In his help file Tim describes how to restore a trn file.
You have to look for only 2 files named below and then do what Tim told: Here I have Tim´s comments:

*.YG1: A backup of the last turns YIG file.

*.TN1: A backup of all the TRN files turned in last turn (a PKZIP file). 

To restore from the backup files rename *.TN1 to *.ZIP and unzip all the old TRN files. 
Then rename *.YG1 to *.YIG. With all the safety measures built into host it will be very 
rare for anyone to have to restore a game from the back up files.

Barbitic Mine Dropper

ship device
Converts ordnance units into Barbitic mines and drops them. Barbitic mines are powerful anti-ship mines that also can be used to destroy enemy minefields. When a barbitic minefield is detonated it does damage to all ships in the field and destroys all minefields in the radius of the field.
When a minefield is set to d e t o n a t e it will do so b e f o r e a l l m o v e m e n t starts. Blowing a Barbitic minefield will completely clear the area of mines and allow safe travel through the area.
All minefields have a limited life time of around 20 turns before they run out of power and disappear.
Any ship belonging to another race moving through your barbitic minefield risks hitting a mine and taking massive damage. Minefields can be stacked on top of one another. Ships traveling speed 12 or less are safe from hitting barbitic mines.

Base Chunnel (=Ground Base Chunnel)

look here.

(Coalition) Bio Computer

Ship Device
The ship must have at least 1 high guard ranger on board the ship for it to give you a combat bonus of +100 accuracy and +50 evasive.
The Bio Computer is always on and uses 4 med units per cycle. If the ship runs out of med units the ship will take a massive amount of system damage.
Ships with this device must always be worried about Privateer ships stealing all the ship's med units disabling most the ships weapons and rendering the ship mostly harmless.

Bioscanner

Special Ship Device
Its primary use is detecting native life on planets out to a distance of 700 LY. When on the bioscanner's findings will be reported in the ship's log. Using the scanner does not make the ship any more visible to the enemy than normal.

Boarding / Boarding Laser

Boarding

• A ship with no system or hull damage can only be boarded by:
  • An enemy ship with a Boarding laser
  • A ship belonging to a Fed
  • A ship belonging to a Stormer
    One little point of hull damage and you can be boarded by anyone. .
• A boarded and captured ship stops moving.
• Ship crew defending a ship from a boarding action get a 10X kill bonus and 10X defense bonus. Ship guests have normal defense powers.
  Tim: The defending crew does not get any defence bonus VS high guard, they only get that vs colonists, crew and troops.
  I.e.: 240 Birdmen Highguard on a Deth Specula can kill 25200 enemy crystal crew members and almost as many of other races. The most high guard the enemy crew can kill is only 1. They will also kill a simular number of troops and colonists.
• Colonists attacking an enemy ship by boarding it have 0.1X attack power. (WEAK!)
• Transporter commands commands canceled after a boarding attempt.
  
  Race typical:
• Cyborg colonists are transformed into troops when sent over to an enemy ship for a boarding action.
• Transport Inhibitor" : Blocks boarding action of an enemy and costs 10kt of fuel a turn to use.) (University Race V102)

Boarding Laser

Special Ship Device look at: Ship Devices Screen

Only used when you are transporting your colonists, troops, crew, or high guard to an enemy ship as a hostile boarding action. The boarding laser helps your troops take over the enemy ship.
It cuts holes in the enemy ship doing between 5% and 300% hull damage to the target depending on the size of the target ship.
To use the device just turn it on and transfer your crew to the enemy target using your transporters.
Tactical hints: There are 200 movement phases and combat will not start until phase 50 so during the first one quarter of movement you have time to fly past an enemy ship, transport over a boarding party, rip the enemy ship up with the boarding laser and get away back out to deep space. You could hyper jump in on top of your victim ship with a hyper drive ship (occurs before movement) and then run away and hopefully be out of combat range before movement phase 50 comes around.

• It kills up to 10% of the enemy crew, 40% of the enemy colonists, and 10% of the enemy troops. For every 5 enemy to kill at least 1 attacker must be transported to the target ship.
• Boarding laser does not work if the attacker has over 50% system damage
• Boarding laser damage changed to (100 / ( hull_mass + 1 ) ) * 30 + Rnd * 4
• These are damage that a boarding laser can do:
  Up to 64% for a 50kt hull
  Up to 34% for a 100kt hull
  Up to 7% for a 1000kt hull
  Up to 5% for a 2000kt hull
  
  
  Race typical:
• Boarding lasers do not work on Crystal owned ships
• Boarding Laser (Privateer Advanced): Same as above only the weapon kills 15% crew, 50% colonists and 40% troops and you need to beam over only 1 of your guys for every 20 enemies that you want to take out.
• Boarding Laser (Privateer Advanced, With Plans): Same as above only the weapon kills 20% crew, 60% colonists and 40% troops and you need to beam over only 1 of your guys for every 40 enemies that you want to take out. This bonus only applies if the ship doing a boarding attack has the plans to the target enemy ship in their memory bank.
  
  
  

build ships

You can build ships in two ways: (1)Base Overview Screen => Ship || (2)Quick Ship Build

• New ships start with attack ground targets turned on.

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