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title: 'Fighter'
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# Fighter

![Fighter](images/fighter.png)

A Fighter is a defensive [ship](/wiki/ship/) that can be used to knock out incoming attacks. It
works very much like a [Drone](/wiki/drone/), in that it sits in your SpacePort until it detects an
incoming attack, and then it launches and destroys the attacker. However, it's better than a
[Drone](/wiki/drone/) in that it usually is not destroyed in the battle. See
[ship to ship combat](/wiki/ship-to-ship-combat/) for details.

You can build a Fighter after you've built a
[Pilot Training Facility](/wiki/pilot-training-facility/).

After being used in combat a fighter goes into "reset". If the fighter is defending the body where
its controlling spaceport is located, the reset time is based on traveling 2 map units (flying into
space and back). If the fighter is defending a remote body as reinforcements away from its
controlling spaceport then it is sent home as its reset action.

#### Requirements

- [Pilot Training Facility](/wiki/pilot-training-facility/) Lvl 1

**Categories:** [Ships](/wiki/#ships)

## Community notes

> **Derrks:** As of today (3/5/11), I'm told fighters do NOT survive combats even if they win. But
> Fighters have the ability to fly to other planets or asteroids under their own power. When they
> fly under their own power, they still take up a spot at the Starports they came from, NOT where
> they are defending.

> **gratch:** Fighters survive if they have any combat remaining after the attack they defend
> against. They will then go into reset before being able to defend against more attacks.

> **David Menasce:** When they run out of combat, they are destroyed

> **Semimajorium:** But when they do not run out of combat, do they eventually get the lost combat
> back?

> **Semimajorium:** Sorry, eventually JT and co. will add this!