Escort ships are game cards that you can connect to your game when launching.

If you do so, an option to Activate Escorts will be displayed in your cockpit.

When you do, they will warp in within seconds and join Starfleet.

• This will add to Starfleet strength. This score is compared with Alien forces and reduces chances of being overwhelmed.

• This will add to Intercept chances. Every second, aliens can fire at you and the fleet total intercept chances is tested first. This score can get to 100%. If the intercept roll succeeds, then the hit is canceled.

Every second aliens will also do their best to destroy Starfleet ships.

Every ship destroyed no longer contributes its Strength and Intercept chances.

Also, once alien forces exceed Starfleet strength, the maximal intercept chances are reduced. Once alien forces exceed Starfleet by several times its strength, the maximal intercept chances are further reduced; this means the defense line is breaking.

There are many different ships composing Starfleet and only some of them will come in time in your Evacuation. All current Starfleet which can help you is detailed here.

All escort ships should have the Escort keyword.

At the end of your Evacuation, all escort cards are retrieved (they don't stay connected to your game).

They will receive a cooldown. This cooldown is extremely low if you did not activate them (just a few minutes), but gets longer depending on the number of destroyed ships in your escort squadron.

After this cooldown, the Escort will be usable again for another Evacuation!