Forge Industries

Forge Industries are a pacifist faction.

Forge Operations

Forge Industries are a pacifist faction with no interest in Conquest expansion. They own stations throughout subsectors that focus on refining ores and salvage. There are no named contact personnel nor questgivers.

Unlike other factions, Forge stations offer no mission boards at all. Instead they have a special Industry Operations mission type that grants Forge Tokens if successful.

Forge Tokens are used in the specialized Industry Shop, which normally offers very high-quality (blue/purple) blueprints, and other general gear in exchange for these tokens.

Industry Operations

Industry Operations is a mission that requires the player to gather resources and craft "Operational Supplies" for an ever-increasing cost and reward payout, while the Forge station crafting these supplies is under a constant barrage of enemy waves, of an also-ever-increasing difficulty.

Player will have to manage salvaging scrap, mining asteroids, forging repair packs, ammo packs, defense turrets, and managing resources for actual Supplies, and also engage in combat of some sort to help fend off these attacks, all at the same time.

General Guide: While many strategies exist, usually a salvage or mining ship with some sort of combat turret or combat drones will be required, ideally a long-range weapon like a Railgun. Farmable resources will respawn upon completing the mission and a new cycle will start with a higher target number, but will reward more Forge tokens as a reward. Manual steering is advised, as is frequent docking and undocking to unload collected resources and manage forging queues. Skillsets with Industry, Drones, Mining/Salvaging and Combat mix are suggested.

Ships Manufactured

Forge does not have a ship manufacturer, and while they have shipyards with general ships (Frontier and Utixon Corp), Forge does not offer very powerful ships that are available elsewhere.