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Each system in Sov Null can potentially have one of each of the following structures associated with it.

* Infrastructure Hub (I-Hub)

 

Each of these structures provide benefits to the owner.

 

TCU and I-Hub can be destroyed by their owner. Any director of their owner corporation can warp to them, right click the sovereignty structure, and select "Self-Destruct". If it is not canceled, it will explode and disappear, allowing players to place a new sovereignty structure in a different location than they want. Any director of their owner corporation can warp to them to cancel Self-Destruct by right clicking it and selecting "Abort self-destruct sequence".

 

Initiating and canceling Self-Destruct on a sovereignty structure will cause alliance members to receive a mail for it immediately.

Territorial Claim Units or TCUs are essentially flags put up by an alliance. Whoever owns the TCU in a system will be listed on the starmap as the owner of the system.  

TCUs do have one tangible benefit, though, by way of a 25% reduction in fuel consumption to any [[Player-owned starbase]] owned by the same alliance in that system.

Infrastructure Hubs or I-Hubs are used to upgrade a variety of aspects of the system. These upgrade can be divded into three categories: Strategic Upgrades, Industrial Upgrades and Military Upgrades. Upgrades, which are actual items that must be produced and delivered to the I-Hub for installation, are unlocked by achieving specific System Index Levels.

Strategic upgrades rely on the Strategic Index, which is dependent on how long the alliances claim on the system has been unbroken.

* Advanced Logistics Network: This upgrade allows the onlining of a Standup Conduit Generator at one [[Ansiblex Jump Gate]] structure in the same solar system.

These upgrades provide [[Cosmic Anomalies|industrial oriented anomalies]], such as guaranteed Ore sites or an increased chance for Data Sites. They rely on the Industrial Development Index, which can be increased by mining ores in the system. The Industrial Development Index will degrade if no mining takes place. Alliance members are advised that it will continue to degrade over downtime and thus they should ensure they have mined enough to cover any degradation when aiming to reach the next index level.

* Ore Prospecting Array 1 - 5: Creates Ore Anomalies in the system. Each level creates one specific belt that's always the same (e.g. Ore Prospecting Array I creates a Small Asteroid Cluster, which always spawns with the same number and type of asteroids). All five contain all ores up to and including Arkonor, and levels 3 and above also contain Mercoxit. If one belt is completely mined out, an identical one will respawn in the same system within a few minutes.

* Survey Networks 1 - 5: Increases the chance of data or relic sites spawning in the system. {{bug|This is thought to not work, or at least provide a statistical increase so small as to not be measurable}}

These upgrades confer bonuses to the presence of [[Cosmic Anomalies|combat-oriented sites]] as well as the chance of [[wormholes]] appearing within the system. They rely on the Military Development Index, which can be increased by destroying NPC ships within the system. The Military Development Index will degrade if no NPCs are being destroyed. Alliance members are advised that it will continue to degrade over downtime and thus they should ensure they have destroyed enough pirate NPCs to cover any degradation when aiming to reach the next index level.

* Pirate Detection Array 1 - 5: This upgrade increases the number of active combat sites in the system (specifically, each level creates at least four additional sites). The term "active" means that if one site is completed, a replacement spawns immediately. Note that this is affected by the ''truesec'' level of the system, so a -0.1 system will still never have Sanctums. However, the higher-level upgrades will tend to produce higher-level sites within the constraints of truesec.

* Entrapment Array 1 - 5: This upgrade increases the chances of DED complexes spawning in the system. (Along with the Military Index requirement, the Entrapment Array I also requires a Pirate Detection Array III installed.) {{bug|This is thought to not work, or at least provide a statistical increase so small as to not be measurable}}

* Quantum Flux Generator 1 - 5: This upgrade increases the chance of a wormhole being present in the upgraded solar system. {{bug|This is thought to not work, or at least provide a statistical increase so small as to not be measurable}}

If a system does not currently have an I-Hub, or TCU  a player may place one.  

Deploying an I-Hub or TCU involves buying or making one, and then launching it in to space (right-click and "launch" or dragging the structure to space). Once this is done the structure is in a neutral state and owned by the SCC. To gain ownership of the structure, a player must activate an entosis link on the structure to capture it. Other alliances are free to attempt to capture the structure while it is in this state.

The base timer for each type of structure is:

* Structure (I-Hub, TCU): 10 minutes

| I-Hub || 50

| TCU || 50

Major staging systems aren't necessarily a safe place for activities that boost Military or Industrial indices, which can have a negative effect on the ADM for those systems. This could make it more difficult for an alliance to defend their home system. To counter this, each alliance is able to designate one system as its Capital system. The alliance must own the TCU in the system it chooses. The system set as the Capital system will have a +2 bonus to the ADM. The maximum ADM is still 6x, the capital boost acts purely as a mechanism to make it easier to reach ADM 6. Changing the capital system of an alliance takes several days to take effect.