Starbase Mk M Applied Technology and Starbase Units (Starbase, Fusion Starbase, and Meson Starbase) are detailed in this tome.

Starbase (Nova)

Unit Summary: Since Starbases cannot move from a system once it's built, they are great defensive units. They are immune to any Ranged Space weapons, but their low agility makes them susceptible to fighters, space marines, and other units with accurate Direct Space and Close Space weaponry.
Special Abilities: Immune to Ranged Space Weaponry and can bombard planets.

(250) Composite Armor +
(700) Monopols
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Build Starbase in Starport...

Is not the bounty of the Pancreator enough? Are we not content with an entire universe of worlds, that we must now construct artificial ones? Oh ye fools how can ye expect the Pancreator to stay His hand, when ye mock Him so? It is meet that we divorce ourselves from the world of our birth and go among the stars, such is His will, but must ye spurn the spheres ordained for habitation in favor of these orbiting metal abominations, which cannot even support human life save by technomancy?

  Patriarch Edwin's speech to the senators of the Second Republic, preserved in the archives at Pentateuch

Fusion Starbase (Super Nova)

Unit Summary: Fusion Starbases are a good upgrade for Starbases and can be acquired fairly early in the game.
Special Abilities: Immune to Ranged Space Weaponry and can bombard planets.

(850) Ceramsteel +
(2200) Fusion Beams (-3)
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Upgrade Starbase to Fusion Starbase at Starport+++

Meson Starbase (Pulsar)

Unit Summary: Meson Starbases have a very powerful Direct Space and a fairly powerful Close Space combat ability making them excellent planet defenders. Upgrade your Starbases as soon as possible.
Special Abilities: Immune to Ranged Space Weaponry and can bombard planets.

(2150) Powered Ceramsteel Armor (-2) +
(2700) Meson Cannon (-7)
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(1525) Starbase Mk M (-8)
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Upgrade Starbase to Meson Starbase at Starport+++

And so not merely for the myriad worlds do the nobles war, but for the forbidden constructs of the Second Republic: the great floating metal war-spheres from which the godless hosts rained fire and ruin on defiant worlds. Perhaps the most heinous products of that lost realm's hubris, these constructs were not designed to harbor life, but to deal death. Verily, I have heard innumerable accounts of hapless cities, nations, worlds decimated by these hulking fortresses, at the whim of a power-mad noble who cared not that she incinerated the very sphere she sought to possess.


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