编辑“恒星基地”（章节）

== Defenses ==
[[File:Mammalian Ion Cannon.png|thumb|Mammalian Ion Cannon]]
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Because starbases are vital targets during warfare, an empire must ensure that they can maintain control over their own starbases to prevent their opponents from seizing control of the system. Investing resources into arming a starbase can allow to function as a strong deterrent to enemy invasions, a powerful supporting power during a fleet battle in the system and a starbase that is heavily armed enough can potentially even repel an entire enemy fleet by itself.
Successfully maintaining control over every single starbase in the empire is by itself enough to allow an empire to end the war through a status-quo without losing any systems, earning them a defensive victory.  

A starbase's self-defense capabilities can be reinforced with the construction of ''defense platforms''. Defense platforms are smaller military stations that are deployed around the starbase and act as weapons platforms. 
Defense platforms have two sections for weapon slots which can be outfitted with a [[Ship designer#Defense platform sections|wide variety of weapon configurations]]. They will engage any incoming hostile ships, effectively acting as a supporting weapon, by attacking and distracting them from focusing their efforts on the starbase itself, allowing the starbase to engage the enemies and support the defense platform(s). When compared with ships, platforms are situated between Destroyers and Cruisers [[Ship_designer#Types|classes]], their hull and armament slightly better than the former, while their armor-potential is equivalent to the latter. However, due to them having no {{iconify|Evasion}} whatsoever, individual platforms are still very vulnerable, and if a strong, sustainable firepower is a priority it is wiser to put more turrets on the base itself and only add in Defense platforms once the starbases available armaments have been maxed out.

As opposed to the auto-fitting of the starbase's components, defense platforms can be altered through the ship designer allowing for several designs to be built based on the different needs in each front and upgraded based on this designs. However, unlike ships, their designs cannot be switched once built, necessitating dismantling and complete rebuilding. It also renders any transferred platforms non-upgradeable.

Each starbase can support only a certain number of defense platforms based on its level. However, the ''defense platform capacity'' can be increased with the following:
* ''Globally'': {{green|+5}} [[File:ap_eternal_vigilance.png|21px]] Eternal Vigilance, {{green|+4/+8/+12}} {{icon|mega-engineering|24px}}Strategic Coordination Center galactic wonder, +50% [[File:Tradition icon unyielding.png|21px]] Unyielding tradition finisher
* ''Locally'': {{green|+8}} {{icon|starbase}} Defense-Grid Supercomputer 
If all of these modifiers are applied, a single starbase can support up to '''60''' Defense platforms when upgraded to Citadel level. And more if a player gets more than 1 Strategic Coordination Center galactic wonders.
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In addition to the regular defense platforms, a citadel-level starbase is also capable of hosting an Ion Cannon, a more powerful platform type that carries a weapon identical to the ''[[Perdition Beam]]'' titan weapon. It is titan-class hull-wise, but only battleship-class armor-wise. Each Ion Cannon has an upkeep of {{red|8}} {{iconify|Energy}}.

An ion cannon platform is equivalent to '''8''' defense platforms in terms of capacity slots and can only be constructed on citadel-level starbases.

=== Defense platform modifiers ===
Additional modifiers which affect various defense platform parameters are summarized below:

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! width=30px | [[File:Mod_shipclass_military_station_damage_mult.png|24px]] !! width=250px | Defense platform damage
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| {{green|+25%}} ||
* [[File:ap_eternal_vigilance.png|21px]] Eternal Vigilance
* {{icon|agenda|21px}} Secure the Borders
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| {{green|+10%}} || {{icon|Synchronized Firing Patterns|21px}} {{tech|repeat|Synchronized Firing Patterns}}
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! width=30px | [[File:Mod_shipclass_military_station_hull_mult.png|24px]] !! width=250px | Defense platform hull points
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| {{green|+25%}} || {{icon|agenda|21px}} Secure the Borders
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| {{green|+10%}} ||
* {{icon|Fortified Core Layers|21px}} {{tech|repeat|Fortified Core Layers}}
|-
| {{green|+500}} || {{icon|Improved Structural Integrity|21px}} {{tech|rare|Improved Structural Integrity}}
|}

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! width=30px | {{icon|Armor}} !! width=250px | Armor hit points
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! width=30px | [[File:Mod_shipclass_military_station_build_cost_mult.png|24px]] !! width=250px | Defense platform build cost
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| {{green|−33%}} || {{iconify|Fortifier|21px}}
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| {{green|−15%}} || {{icon|agenda|21px}} Secure the Borders
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{| class="mildtable plainlist" style="float:left; margin-right: 30px;"
! width=30px | {{icon|speed}} !! width=250px | Build speed
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| {{green|+100%}} || {{icon|edict|21px}} Fortress Proclamation
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