In this guide, I want to provide information about the most important things in Galactic Crew. This guide will become bigger with future content updates.


While you are travelling through the deep space, you need to take care of your ship and crew.

Credits

Credits are the currency of Galactic Crew. You can spend them to buy goods, items, new pieces of equipment, retrofit or your spaceship and more. There are several ways to earn credits:

• Most space events give Credits and goods as rewards, e.g. for helping a civilian ship or defeating an enemy encounter
  
• Complete missions. All space stations offer a wide range of missions, e.g. delivery, escort or kill missions.
  
• Selling goods. You can sell gathered, looted or bought items at any merchant, space station or shipyard. Using the proper bonus cards makes asteroid mining a great business.
  
• Collecting bounties. Capture defeated pirates and collect their bounties at the next space station.

Resources

There are several resources in Galactic Crew, but the most important ones are Food and Energy Crystals. Whenever you jump to a new sector, you will use one Energy Crystal for each engine in your spaceship. Small spaceships like the Artemis or Var only have a single engine. Therefore, they need only one Energy Crystal per jump. Larger ships like the Zeus or Ebisu have up to four engines and require way more Energy Crystals. Make sure, you have enough crystals in your storage rooms!

Each of your officers and crew members will consume one unit of Food whenever you jump to a new sector or when you perform a time-consuming task, e.g. searching for valuables in a debris field. Food is very cheap, but you can produce it by yourself with Botanical Gardens. If you have enough botanical gardens on your ship, you don't need buy any food!

Threat

At the beginning of a new game, you are not very interesting to others. However, as you gain reputation as nefarious pirate by destroying civilian ships, you generate threat. If you play as a merchant, you generate threat by having too much money. In either case, bounty hunters or pirates will start to hunt you. Every time you reach a new threat level, a Nemesis ship will appear. Whenever you jump to a new sector or when you perform a time-consuming task, it will jump one sector to your direction. As soon as it catches you, it opens fire. These ships may be deadly, especially in the early game. However, there are multiple solutions to get rid of your threat level.

• You can trade five captured pirates at any space station to decrease your threat level by one.
  
• When defeating a space pirate in combat, there is a chance to loot a Fake ID. You can use this item in your ship's cargohold by right-clicking it to decrease your threat level.
  
• Defeat a Nemesis ship! Every time, you destroy one of the Nemesis ships, your threat level will be reduced.

Space combat

In order to attack an enemy spaceship, select one of your soldiers or crew members and select a weapon skill. Then, click on a piece of equipment on the enemy's spaceship to attack it. The weapon will continue to fire until the target is destroyed. You can also click on the proper icon in the status panel of the enemy's ship.

If you have combat or shield drones on your ship, they will launch as soon as the combat starts. If you have at least one shield generator on your ship, the shield drones will recharge your shield with every shot. Combat drones will attack a random piece of equipment on the enemy's spaceship. They will automatically search for new targets once their original target is destroyed.

Asteroid mining

In order to mine asteroids, you need to have an engineer on your ship. In addition, you need either mining drones or mining laser turrets. By using the engineer's skill on any asteroid, all mining lasers and mining drones will start to gather resources.

You can improve your profit by using the proper Bonus Cards during the game creation step. Improve the ore mining yield by increasing the engineer's skill level. You can also get the chance to gather additional goods and items with some of the engineer's passive skills.


There are normal crew members and officers on your ship. Below, you will find a list of their abilities.

Crew member

• Repair damaged or destroyed pieces of equipment
  
• Heal wounded crew members
  
• Use ship weapons to attack another spaceship
  
• They can man all space ship stations providing a small boost.

Pilot

• Using his/her Navigation skill, you can jump up to two sectors instead of one. This skill is very useful to flee from Nemesis ships or to shorten a voyage.
  
• When starting a game as Space Explorer, all sectors are unknown. You can use the Scan Systems skill to scan surrounding sectors.
  
• When sitting on the pilot's chair, hyperdrive charges faster in space combat.

Soldier

• He/she has a damage bonus, when attacking enemies with firearms
  
• Increases ship weapon turret damage by 25%, when using the Weapon Terminal during combat.

Engineer

• He/she repairs damaged pieces of equipment faster than normal crew members
  
• Mine asteroids with mining lasers or mining drones
  
• Interacting with a shield generator results in a shield recharge in combat
  
• Use the terminal of a Drone Booster to increase its efficiency

Medic

• He/she heals injured crew members faster than normal crew members
  
• Resurrect dead crew members (required one Medical Supply per resurrection)

You can customize your spaceship with a large variety of rooms and pieces of equipment. When you are in the same system as a space station or shipyard, click on the "Retrofit" button or open your Ship Overview to customize your ship. Click on a room in the opened Ship Overview and the drop-down menu shows you the available rooms. The properties on the right side of the Ship Overview are updated when you select a new room. Click on Accept to retrofit your ship.

Large rooms

Prison
Each prison can hold up to three or five captured pirates, depending on its size. Every time you defeat a space pirate, you can select how many pirates you want to caputre. Captured pirates can be sold at any space station for Credits or a threat level reduction.

Storage rooms
The number of items and goods your ship can transport depends on the number and size of your storage rooms.

Small rooms

Officer quarters
You can have up to one officer per officer quarter. If you have more officer quarters than officers, you can promote on of your regular crew members. In order to promote someone, select him/her and choose the proper option from his/her tool bar.

Crew quarters
You can have up to two crew members for each crew quarter on your ship.

Botanical garden
Each botanical garden produces one Medical Supply and three Food for each jump and each time-consuming action.

Drone bay
Each drone bay can have two drones. You can switch the equipped drones at any space station or shipyard for free.

Guest room
You gain access to tourism missions at any space station when having at least one guest room.

Pieces of equipment

Reactor
You need at least one working reactor to power your ship's system. If you don't have a working reactor, your hyperdrive won't charge in combat, you can't fire any weapon, etc.

Teleporter
When you are in space combat, select a crew member and right-click on the teleporter to board the enemy ship. You will also need a teleporter to explore planets.

Shield generator
Each shield generator provides you with 250 shield points.

Drone booster
Each drone booster increases your drones' rate of fire by 25% which increases the DPS for each combat drone and increases the efficiency of mining and shield drones.

Resource processor
Any crew member can interact with a resource processor to convert items into goods or to assemble new items. The available recipes might be changed by active Story Lines.