Combat mega structures and space building

[pogiepnoi]

Before anybody says anything, yes I know the game is focused on the Dyson sphere, but I think a bit smaller mega structures would be cool.

Let's say there is a fleet of enemies with forces stronger than your defenses that are going for a very important planet. If you are able to build planet engines, you can use a ton of fuel and resources to launch the planet to another system in which you have better defenses or the enemy doesn't follow.

On the subject of defenses, what if you wanted to make sure you had a system secure? Well then you could construct huge system guns. These wouldn't be as large as a dyson sphere but maybe a small planet. They would operate as ships but would be giant guns that can deal lots of damage to large slow entities. Would use a very very high amount of energy but only when used. If able to, this could be made customizable. What I mean is since the structure is so large, you can use the space inside it to make it's own fuel or other resources. could also be used as a space station.

Now on the subject of space buildings, I don't have any specific ideas but I do think it would be cool to have big space stations as extra space for factories, be used as ship repair facilities or both.
Now in the context you made a station as both a factory and a repair station, you would need a potential new item that would be like the platforms we use to terraform but would build floating floors off of the station that you can build on. Now imagine you have huge platforms of factories coming out from huge frames which ships go through and get repaired. Certain things like station cargo storage could also be added but that's a whole other rabbit hole. As it is though I think it would be really pleasing to fly up to a massive station with factories all working and moving as ships move in and out of the repair areas.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/301389400057106472/?d=t&mt=login
(the only thing I could find, don't make fun of me because it's on pinterest)

Different sizes of repair frames could repair certain ships. Now this whole repair thing depends mostly on if there even will be player constructed combat ships instead of just enemy ships. If so then i hope there are different classes of ships.

I could say much more but I don't want to make this too long. Other types of stations like stations with engines, station guns, customizable ships, types of enemies and Boss enemies etc. But that will be for the devs to decide if they want to slowly add all of my space idea stuff mostly inspired by other games.

[ZakaryX]

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1366540/view/3065231317858269345

"Tons of contents you are looking forward are included in it - such as "Combats", "Assembly Space Platform", "Workshops", etc."

Maybe the assembly space platform (whatever that means) will be another megastructure.

[commissaire lachance🇫🇷]

I think another interesting idea would be the dyson nicoll beam, a weapon using the energy of a dyson sphere to send a beam of photons directly from the light of the star, such a beam would be able to annihilate an entire fleet but would prevent the production of energy from the sphere the time of the shot

[the2pages]

I just watched Moonfall and no spoilers, but this would be awesome. I would love the idea of being able to build a megastructure that would act as a sort of "mobile base" to move the operation into other solar systems. Especially when it comes to combat.