A Space Cove is the endgame structure your crew builds on one of its asteroids. It turns that asteroid into a base other crews can visit over the P2P network, and it holds a set of buildings that unlock fast travel, trading, tournaments, and pirate recruitment.

Building a Space Cove

The cove is built on an asteroid your crew has settled, while your team is stationed there.

You can only build one Space Cove across all your asteroids. When you start the build you get to name your cove: that's the name other crews will see in their galaxy, so make it count. Your Engineer's Upgrades bonus reduces the construction time, so assign a skilled Engineer before starting.

When construction finishes, the cove automatically gains a Teleportation Pad, so you can teleport to it for 1 Rum per crew member without building a pad separately. A finished cove also opens the asteroid to the network: other crews can travel to it, and it appears in their galaxy. In turn, you can travel out to the coves other crews have opened, which is how you reach other players to trade, play games, and join tournaments.

Buildings

Once the cove is finished you can construct buildings inside it. Each one costs resources and takes time to build, and only one can be under construction at a time.

Teleportation Pad

Granted automatically when the cove is completed. It lets any crew travel to the cove instantly for 1 Rum per pirate, and it's what opens the asteroid to visitors.

Market

Adds a market to the cove where resources can be bought and sold, just like a market on a populated planet. Asteroids have no market otherwise, so this is the only way to trade out among them. Prices at a cove come with a wider gap between buying and selling than on a planet, so it's handy rather than lucrative. See Resources and trading for how markets work.

Stadium

Required to host tournaments. A finished cove is no longer enough on its own: without a Stadium you cannot organize your own tournaments. Each tournament you then open costs 1 Gold.

Tavern

The Tavern attracts free pirates to your cove so you can hire them there. It runs on Rum:

• You stock it with Rum from your crew's supplies and choose how much it serves each day.
• Each day the tavern draws that much Rum from its store. Serving about 5 Rum a day fills the tavern roughly half the time; serving more makes a full house of up to 3 pirates increasingly likely. If the Rum runs out, fewer pirates turn up.
• The pirates are drawn from the populations of the asteroid's parent planet, and pirates found at a cove tend to have higher potential the higher your team's reputation.

Only your own crew can hire the free pirates at your cove, so a well-stocked Tavern is a way to keep a steady supply of recruits coming to you.

Tips

• The Space Cove is a large investment. Save up resources before committing to it.
• Build a Stadium only if you want to host your own tournaments. You can still play in other crews' tournaments without one.
• Keep Rum flowing into the Tavern to keep attracting recruits.