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Player Owned Starbases, or POS are anchorable structures that provide various services in space. They are deployed all over New Eden and Anoikis, filling various roles for vastly different entities. They require fuel to run and are a risky asset because they're in space, meaning they can be shot.

Characteristics

Core Mechanics

A Player Owned Starbase Tower of Amarrian design.

All POSes are initally erected with a tower which provides a protective forcefield, CPU and powergrid space for adding modules, a strontium calathrates (stront) bay for reinforcement and a UI to configure related roles and access to the forcefield.

Once the tower is fueled and a password entered for the first time it will generate the forcefield bubble, granting protection from enemies. Ships and structures inside the forcefield cannot be locked or lock anybody outside. Smartbombs and bombs don't work either. While the forcefield protects everything inside it, the tower itself is exempt from this feature.

If the stront bay is fueled and an unfriendly entity starts shooting it, at 25% shields