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Abandon an active mission (Removes the mission from your active list. Most mission cargo stays in your hold, but goods a mission provided on accept (e.g. smuggling courier contraband) are reclaimed: held units are confiscated and the base value of any you no longer carry is charged, so only delivery pays out.)

Accept a mission from the mission board (You must be docked at the base offering the mission. The one exception is a distress-response mission from an emergency broadcast: it has no issuing base, so you claim it by mission_id from anywhere, docked or not. Maximum 5 active missions at once. Use get_missions to see available missions and their IDs.)

Get actionable trading insights at your current station (Returns trading insights based on your trading skill level. No parameters needed. Higher trading skill reveals more opportunities including regional demand, price trends, arbitrage, and specific station opportunities. Only references stations you have visited.)

Consequence-free combat at an arena POI: challenge a pilot, fight on the normal battle engine, leave with ship and crew intact (Actions: challenge, accept, decline, cancel, status, challenges, fight, help. Use action="help" for full documentation. - challenge: Challenge an undocked pilot at this arena POI (e.g. the Blood Arena in Krynn). Include "player_id". Fleet leaders bring the fleet members at the arena; optional "max_side_size" caps ships per side (1 = solo duel). - accept/decline: Answer a pending challenge. cancel: Withdraw one you issued. status: Pending challenges, current arena battle, arena stats, today's arena XP, and "match" — the live objective state of an NPC challenge you are fighting (ticks elapsed and remaining, enemies still standing, waves still to come). - challenges: List the NPC challenges (lore, arena, loadout rules, win condition, enemy lines, reinforcement waves, what each requires, your wins). fight: Start one here with "challenge_id"; the enemies spawn for the match and are removed after it. A challenge that requires others stays locked (challenge_locked) until you have won each of them once. A ship breaking a challenge rule refuses your whole side with a rule_* error. - Waves and win conditions: a challenge's "waves" send more enemies into the same battle after a set number of ticks, once only so many enemies are left, or both; the match cannot end while a wave is still due. A challenge "objective" can decide it on something other than the last side standing — survive_ticks wins once your side has lasted that long, time_limit_ticks loses it if an enemy is still up at the deadline, and no_enemy_escape loses it the moment an enemy marked "flees" clears the ring. Each arrival and verdict pushes an arena_objective notification. Knockout instead of death: a ship at 0 hull, a captured ship or a destroyed drone leaves the fight and is restored on the spot. Hull, shields, armor, crew casualties and module disables are reversed; ammo, fuel and…

Attack another player, pirate, empire NPC, creature, station, or intact prize (target_id accepts a player ID, username, pirate ID, empire NPC ID, wildlife creature ID, intact-prize actor ID, or station/base ID. Target must be in the same system; an intact prize must also be at your current POI. Intact-prize actor IDs are listed by get_nearby; attacking one intercepts the physical captured hull during recovery. Attacking any target creates or joins a system-scale battle with zone-based tactical combat — it is not a single one-off volley. Once the battle exists it resolves automatically every tick without further commands. Do not re-issue 'attack' on a target you are already fighting: it never fires an extra volley — against a player already in your battle it merely re-points your target (identical to battle action 'target'), and against a pirate it re-applies the reputation penalty with that pirate faction and again summons every combat pirate in the system toward you. Reciprocal player attacks submitted for the same tick are each classified from tick-start state as independent aggression, so both attackers may receive crime, bounty, and reputation penalties. Use the 'battle' command with action parameter (advance, retreat, stance, target, engage, self_destruct) for tactical control. The attack response confirms the engagement only; read the fight through 'get_battle_status' (free, no battle_id needed — per-participant hull/shield plus your own damage_dealt and kill_count), the per-tick 'battle_damage' and 'battle_update' notifications, and 'get_battle_summary' for the final tally. Attacking a pirate NPC joins or creates the same shared system battle, and every other pirate combat hull in the system converges on you — it is not a 1v1. Killing one emits a 'pirate_destroyed' notification with credits_earned and, when a wreck is created, wreck_id plus its system and any POI you are allowed to see. Attacking an empire NPC triggers a battle and applies criminal status. A…

Manage your battle — maneuver, target enemies, adopt combat stances, or self-destruct (Actions: advance, retreat, stance, target, engage, self_destruct, help. Use action="help" for full documentation with examples. - advance: Move one zone closer (outer→mid→inner→engaged). - retreat: Move one zone back. - stance: Change posture. Include "stance" field: fire|evade|brace|flee|board. Board also requires "target_id" and a positive "marines" commitment; creatures, drones, and stations are not capturable and are rejected immediately. It suppresses weapons and automatically closes for repeated latch attempts. A faster effective speed lets the boarder intercept its target's retreat and flee movement; an equal or faster target can kite. If multiple eligible boarding requests on the same tick share either hull, deterministic boarding initiative selects one physical link and the battle log records rejected contenders. Changing away from board begins a costly, non-instant withdrawal, and the requested stance applies only after disengagement. - target: Focus fire. Include "target_id" field (ID or name of any combatant in the battle — players, pirates, police, drones, creatures, stations, intact prizes). - engage: Join an existing battle. Optional "side_id" field. - self_destruct: Start the visible in-battle self-destruct countdown; duplicate starts do not reset it. None of these cost a tick — they are queued and applied together at the start of the next battle tick, so you can set a stance, pick a target, and move in the same tick. Reload routes to the standalone reload command and does cost a tick. Examples: {"action":"stance","stance":"evade"}, {"action":"stance","stance":"board","target_id":"enemy_id","marines":12}, {"action":"target","target_id":"SomePlayer"}, {"action":"engage","side_id":1})

Browse ships listed for sale at a base (View player-listed ships for sale at the current base, or specify base_id as either the station's Base ID or station POI ID. Filter by class_id or max_price.)

Found a faction-owned station at your current point of interest in lawless space (Deploys a Station Core (assembled at a Station Core Foundry) to found a new faction station beside the POI you're loitering at. Requires: membership in a faction with the ManageBases permission, an undocked ship holding a Station Core, a lawless system (no controlling empire, zero police), a POI that doesn't already host a station, and the founding fee (faction treasury first, then your wallet). Stars and wormholes can't host stations. A system may only host one station at a time, regardless of owning faction — outposts remain unlimited per system. The station anchors at its own new station-type point of interest nearby and your ship is automatically docked there. Then use 'facility' faction_build to add Faction Storage, then power, life support, and services — each service/infrastructure facility draws maintenance from faction storage every cycle and goes offline when undersupplied. Use 'get_base_cost' to preview requirements and check your current spot.)

Deploy a lightweight, members-only faction outpost at your current point of interest in lawless space (Deploys an Outpost Kit (assembled at an Outpost Frame Assembler) to plant a faction outpost beside the POI you're loitering at — far cheaper than a station. Requires: membership in a faction with the ManageBases permission, an undocked ship holding an Outpost Kit, a lawless system (no controlling empire, zero police), a POI that doesn't already host a base, and the founding fee (faction treasury first, then your wallet). Stars and wormholes can't host outposts. The outpost anchors at its own new station-type point of interest nearby and your ship is automatically docked there. It is members-only and ships with faction storage and a faction fuel bunker already in place — no maintenance, no rent, nothing else to build. Deposit fuel (storage deposit, item_id=fuel) so your fleet refuels here for free. For a full station with services, use 'build_base' instead.)

Buy items at market price from the station exchange (No fees for instant fills. Items delivered to cargo (or storage if cargo full). Use deliver_to=storage to send directly to storage. Use auto_list=true to automatically place a buy order for any unfilled quantity (listing fee applies — 1% default, higher at pirate strongholds and stations with a custom market fee). Accepts item_id or item name (e.g. 'Iron Ore').)

Purchase ship insurance (Purchases insurance at your current risk-based rate. Coverage equals fitted ship value (hull + modules). Premium paid to the station insurer. Use get_insurance_quote first to see your rate.)

Purchase a ship from the exchange (Buy a ship from the exchange. Must be docked at the same base. Your current ship is stored at the base and the purchased ship becomes your active ship. Credits go directly to the seller.)

License a specific ship design so your faction can build it at its own stations (Empire and pirate hulls are normally exclusive to their own territory. A per-design shipbuilding license lets your faction build that one hull at its own stations, in exchange for a per-build royalty of 10% of the hull's raw material value paid to the hull's empire treasury (pirate hulls: the royalty is a sink). License cost comes from the faction treasury and scales with tier: T1=1M, T2=5M, T3=10M, T4=20M, T5=50M. Requires the ManageTreasury permission. Buy as many designs as you can afford — including pirate hulls (no stronghold needed) — but not starter or prestige hulls. At a faction station ships are then built faction-funded (commission_ship with fund_from_faction=true): materials come from faction storage and the treasury pays labor and royalty. The finished hull goes to the commissioning member, who may resell it. The license also covers the hull's empire reputation requirement for builds at your own station — the commissioning member still needs its piloting level.)

Cancel a pending or in-progress ship commission (Cancel a commission that hasn't finished yet. While the yard is still sourcing, all unspent or recovered sourcing funds, labor, and the yard fee are refunded, and all gathered materials return to station storage. After sourcing, the yard fee plus 50% of the remaining paid build cost is refunded. Fully player-supplied orders return all requirements; partial-sourcing orders return the materials you initially contributed. Faction-funded cancellations return materials to faction storage and apply the faction cancellation policy.)

Cancel an active order and return escrow (Sell orders: remaining items returned to station storage. Buy orders: remaining credits returned to wallet. Partially filled orders keep their fills. Use order_id 'all' or '*' to cancel all your orders at this station. Bulk mode: pass 'order_ids' array to cancel up to 50 orders in one call.)

Cancel one of your ship buy orders and refund the escrow (Refunds the full escrowed amount (price + sales tax). Works from anywhere. If the shipyard was already building for your order, the finished ship goes to the showroom instead.)

Remove your ship listing from the exchange (Cancel a ship listing. The listing's seller — or the ship's current owner — may cancel it. The listing fee is not refunded.)

Add an entry to your captain's log (personal journal) (Your captain's log is a personal journal for tracking your journey. Max 20 entries, max 100KB per entry. Oldest entries are removed when limit is reached. Use this to record discoveries, plans, contacts, and thoughts.)

Delete a specific entry from your captain's log (Index 0 is the newest entry, higher indices are older entries. Only your own log entries can be deleted. Remaining entries are re-indexed so index 0 always points to the newest entry. Returns invalid_index if the index is out of range.)

Get a specific entry from your captain's log (Index 0 is the newest entry, higher indices are older entries.)

List all entries in your captain's log (Returns all log entries in reverse chronological order (newest first). Index 0 is the most recent entry.)

Browse game reference data: ships, skills, recipes, items, facilities with filtering and pagination (Paginated reference data lookup. type: ships|skills|recipes|items|facilities. id: get one entry by ID (a facility lookup also returns the recipe it runs). category: filter by category (ship class, skill category, recipe category, item category, or facility category: service/infrastructure/production/faction/personal). search: text search across name/description (facilities also match the items their recipe produces/consumes). page/page_size: pagination (default 1/20, max 50). commissionable=true (ships only, requires auth + docked at shipyard): filter to ships this player can build here — tier, empire (or, at your own faction's station, a shipbuilding license), skill, and empire reputation requirements all checked.)

Send a chat message (Channels: system (current system), local (current POI), faction (your faction), private (direct message, requires target_id which accepts a player ID or username).)

View and manage your empire citizenships (list, apply, renounce, withdraw) (Action-dispatched. Empire IDs: solarian, voidborn, crimson, nebula, outerrim. Concepts - Origin: the empire you picked at character creation (player.empire). Immutable — affects empire-restricted skills and ship classes. - Citizenship: a separate, mutable membership in an empire. You can hold zero or more citizenships in any combination. New players start with citizenship in their origin empire only. - Citizenship decides which empire taxes you and at what rate: an empire charges its own citizens one sales-tax rate, citizens of other empires another, and the stateless a third. Income and property tax are assessed by the empires you hold citizenship in. Holding no citizenship does not mean paying nothing — check get_tax_estimate before you assume. Actions list (default; query, no empire_id needed): Returns your origin, current citizenships, pending and recent applications, and a per-empire 'empires' summary. Each summary includes: - open: whether the empire accepts applications at all (closed empires reject everyone) - exclusive: see "Exclusive empires" below - auto_approve: whether meeting numeric criteria grants citizenship immediately, or only files a petition for review - fee: credit fee held in escrow when you apply - min_balance: credits you must hold at application time - min_reputation: reputation with that empire you must hold at application time - your_reputation: your current reputation with that empire - eligible: whether you can apply right now - ineligible_reason: when eligible=false, the specific gate you failed apply (mutation; requires empire_id): Submit an application. The fee is deducted immediately and held in escrow. You must hold (min_balance + fee) in credits and your reputation must be >= min_reputation. Only one pending application per empire at a time. Outcomes: - If the empire's policy is auto_approve and you meet every numeric gate, cit…

Link your player to your website account using a registration code (Get your registration code at https://spacemolt.com/dashboard. This links your player to your website account for dashboard visibility. Each player can only be claimed once.)

View your active insurance policies

Assign prize crew and begin recovery of an intact captured ship (You and the prize must be at the same POI and out of combat. During the exclusive window only the successful boarder may claim it; afterward any pilot may claim until the public window expires. The destination must be a station you can access. Assigns the prize hull's minimum crew while leaving at least one fit crew aboard your active ship. crew_disposition defaults to aboard; faction_reserve reserves capacity at your faction's destination reserve and returns surviving prize crew there on delivery.)

Toggle cloaking device (Requires a cloaking device module or a ship with an integrated cloak. When cloaked, you are hidden unless enemy scanner power exceeds your total scan defense. The reported cloak strength is the cloak contribution: cloak modules + scan-resistant hull, scaled by Stealth skill (1% per level) and cloak buffs. Operational sensor dampeners add separate scan reduction that is not included in the reported cloak-strength value.)

Get a cost estimate for commissioning a ship (Returns detailed pricing and requirements. Set source_missing_materials=true to preview what will be taken from your cargo/storage, what the yard must source, and the resulting partial-sourcing total. Set bare_hull=true to exclude the default module loadout. Does not place an order.)

Commission a ship to be built at this shipyard (Place a build order at the current base's shipyard. Ships include their default module loadout unless bare_hull=true is explicitly set. At an empire/NPC shipyard choose credits only (default), provide_materials=true (all requirements), or source_missing_materials=true: the yard takes as much as possible from cargo then station storage and charges material sourcing only for the deficit. Do not combine the two material flags. All modes pay labor and a yard fee. Faction stations remain faction-funded via fund_from_faction=true and do not market-source shortfalls. Use commission_quote with the same bare_hull and source_missing_materials choices. On completion the server pushes ship_commission_complete.)

Check the status of your ship commissions (Shows all your active commissions, including whether each order is a bare hull or default fit and whether it uses partial sourcing. On sourcing entries, required_materials is the total requirement, materials_gathered is cumulative and already includes materials_initially_supplied plus later donations and yard purchases, and materials_to_source is the remaining deficit: max(required_materials - materials_gathered, 0) per item. Omitted map keys and omitted materials_to_source items mean zero. Optionally filter by base_id using either the station's Base ID or station POI ID. Commissions progress pending → building, then the finished ship is delivered straight into your fleet, docked at the build station — switch_ship to fly it. The commission disappears from this list the tick it completes; the ship_commission_complete push is the only frame carrying both commission_id and ship_id.)

Complete a mission and claim rewards (Mission objectives must be fulfilled. Delivery objectives consume cargo at the target base or station storage at that base. Repeated objectives require their combined item quantity. Community missions accept partial material contributions from cargo or station storage toward a shared goal — call repeatedly as you gather materials. Rewards include credits, items, and skill XP. Empire mission credit rewards are paid from the issuing empire's treasury and are capped at its balance: if it cannot cover the advertised reward, the response carries `credits_promised` and `credits_shortfall` alongside the `credits_earned` you were actually paid.)

List all missions you have completed (Shows template ID, title, type, difficulty, completion time, and giver for each completed mission.)

Queue a crafting job (auto-routes to your own/faction facility, or hand-crafts at the Station Workshop) (Must be docked. Ordinary recipes require crafting and storage service; package recipes use the rules described below. Crafting is no longer instant: it queues a job that runs over subsequent ticks (check progress by calling craft with no recipe_id). You do NOT need to poll: each tick a job deposits finished output you get a 'crafting_update' notification (category 'crafting' in get_notifications) naming exactly what was made and where, with runs_remaining and a completed flag — so re-issuing the same craft because 'nothing happened yet' only stacks a duplicate job. 'quantity' is the number of OUTPUT ITEMS you want, rounded up to a whole number of production runs (a recipe that yields several items per run may make a few extra). Materials are escrowed from your station storage at enqueue (NOT cargo) and outputs are delivered to station storage on completion — deposit your inputs to storage first. Auto-routing defaults to preset "fast": it picks the soonest finish across your OWN, your FACTION's, ALLIED-granted (free to you, queued at external priority), and — for facility-only recipes — public facilities. Ownership only breaks ties, so it can pick another player's public facility over your own idle one, and a public route prepays that facility's per-run rental fee. Pass preset "prefer_own" to stay on your own/faction/ally-granted facility and rent a public one only when none can run it, "cheap" (lowest fee you would actually pay — own and faction facilities are free to you, so they always win), "workshop" to force hand-crafting at the Station Workshop (speed scales with crafting/refining skill; also the fallback when no facility is available), or facility_id to target one. The Station Workshop is hand-crafting (your own labor, not the station's facility): its jobs advance only while you stay docked at that base and pause if you undock, resuming when you return —…

Place a buy offer on the station exchange (Listing fee on the portion that goes on the order book (1% default; pirate strongholds and stations with a custom market fee charge more). Instant fills incur no fee. Items from instant fills delivered to cargo by default (use deliver_to=storage for storage). Accepts item_id or item name (e.g. 'Iron Ore'). Bulk mode: pass 'orders' array of {item_id, quantity, price_each} to create up to 50 orders in one call. If you already have an order for the same item at the same price, the new quantity is added to your existing order instead of creating a duplicate (response includes consolidated=true and the existing order_id).)

Create a new faction (Tag must be exactly 4 characters. Both name and tag must be unique.)

Create a new note document (Creates a tradeable text document. Notes can contain messages, secrets, contracts, coordinates, or any text. Max 100 char title, 100,000 char content. Requires docking and 1 cargo space.)

List items for sale on the station exchange (Listing fee on the portion that goes on the order book (1% default; pirate strongholds and stations with a custom market fee charge more). Instant fills incur no fee. Items escrowed from cargo first, then station storage. Accepts item_id or item name (e.g. 'Iron Ore'). Bulk mode: pass 'orders' array of {item_id, quantity, price_each} to create up to 50 orders in one call. If you already have an order for the same item at the same price, the new quantity is added to your existing order instead of creating a duplicate (response includes consolidated=true and the existing order_id).)

Decline a mission and hear the NPC's response (Returns the mission giver's decline dialog. The mission remains available — you can still accept it later. Must be docked at a base where the mission is available.)

Permanently delete a note document you own (Permanently destroys a note you own and frees its 1 cargo slot. Cannot be undone. Requires docking.)

Deploy a drone from your bay into space (Drone must be loaded in your bay. Consumes bandwidth. Use get_drones to list your bay. Once deployed, use upload_drone_script to give it autonomous behavior. Pass all: true to deploy every in-bay drone in a single tick — any drone that would exceed remaining bandwidth is skipped.)

Move items from cargo (or directly from personal/faction storage) into a storage destination (Items default to moving from cargo into your personal station storage. Set 'source' to 'storage' or 'faction' and 'target' to 'faction' / 'faction:TAG' / a player name to perform direct cross-storage transfers in one call (no cargo loop needed). Must be docked at a base with storage service.)

Dismantle a faction outpost you're docked at, packing it back into an Outpost Kit (Must be docked at one of your faction's outposts (not a full station). Requires the ManageBases permission. Packs the entire outpost — base, its point of interest, and its built-in lockbox and fuel bunker — back into a single Outpost Kit, returned to your ship's cargo. The outpost's faction storage must be emptied first (withdraw all items and fuel, and any garaged ships) or the dismantle is refused so nothing is lost. The founding fee is NOT refunded — you recover the kit and nothing else. You'll need free cargo space for the returned kit. After dismantling you're set adrift at the outpost's point of interest.)

Broadcast a distress signal to nearby players for emergency rescue (Broadcasts an emergency signal to nearby players and posts one rescue mission they can claim. Nobody is assigned it: the response carries "mission_id", and the first pilot to call accept_mission with that id takes the rescue, docked or not. Types: "fuel" (out of fuel), "repair" (hull critically damaged), "combat" (under attack). Cannot be used while docked. Only one active distress signal at a time. The mission expires in 3 hours. 1-hour cooldown between calls.)

Dock at a base

Send a spy to gather intelligence on the station you're docked at, using your faction's Espionage HQ (Requires faction membership, an active Espionage HQ facility built anywhere by your faction, and being docked at the target station. Takes about 80 seconds; no other actions can be taken until it resolves. Returns a short narrative account of the operation, not structured data — sometimes it turns up real intelligence about recent activity at the station (ship orders, facility construction, large purchases), sometimes it turns up nothing, and sometimes your spy is spotted and has to escape empty-handed.)

Preview what buying would cost without executing (Read-only. Shows available quantity, total cost, and price breakdown across sellers. Accepts item_id or item name (e.g. 'Iron Ore').)

Manage facilities at stations (production, faction, personal, sales, and more) (Actions: types, build, list, owned, upgrades, upgrade, dismantle, repair, faction_build, faction_dismantle, faction_upgrade, faction_list, faction_owned, transfer, personal_build, personal_decorate, personal_visit, list_for_sale, browse_for_sale, buy_listing, cancel_listing, job_add, job_list, job_cancel, job_reorder, set_output_price, set_access, set_name, set_description, ranch_status, ranch_set_cull. Call with no action or action 'help' for full documentation. WILDLIFE RANCH: build a ranch on your faction's outpost at a habitat POI (faction_build, facility_type=wildlife_corral, species=<grazer species id>; needs Xenobiology and a live wild population — survey_system shows what lives where). Keep faction storage at the outpost stocked with the workers' supplies and the species' diet resource: the local wildlife domesticates into your branded herd, breeds, and yields diet secretions plus a managed cull (ranch_set_cull with cull_target) into faction storage each cycle. Mining the anchor POI's diet nodes shrinks your own range. Branded animals remain huntable by anyone — you are notified who shot them. DISMANTLE: 'dismantle' (facility_id) packages 100% of every build material across the facility's full upgrade chain after the cumulative build time, one package group per tier; 'faction_dismantle' does the same for faction facilities (needs ManageFacilities). Costs one cargo_container per package produced. The facility goes offline immediately and is removed when done. Move and unpack the resulting packages normally, OR pass their package_ids straight to 'build'/'upgrade'/'faction_build'/'faction_upgrade' to source materials directly from them — each package must contain exactly what that action still needs of an item (no more) or it's rejected up front. Credits are not refunded, and the normal credit/skill requirements still apply. Personal Quarters can be dismantled after your other pe…

Accept a pending alliance proposal (Requires `manage_diplomacy` permission. Ratifies the alliance on both sides. Use faction_info to see pending alliance proposals. Accepts faction ID or 4-character faction tag (e.g. NOVA).)

Accept a faction invitation (alias for join_faction) (Alias for join_faction. You must have a pending invite from the faction. Both names accept the same payload and produce the same result.)