                               Subject : SHIPS

    Autofish     How to exploit resources at sea automatically
     Autonav     Giving ships automatic sailing orders
 Maintenance     The cost to maintain ships, planes, and land units.
    Mobility     How much mobility stuff costs
  Ship-types *   Description of different types of ships.
 Trade-ships *   How to use trade ships

     assault *   Attack coastal sector from ship
       board *   Board enemy ship
       build *   Build ships, planes, land units, nuclear weapons or bridges
       cargo *   List the commodities on board your ships
  coastwatch *   Check from sectors for nearby ships
        fire *   Fire artillery from sector/ship/unit on sector/ship
    fleetadd     Designate members of a "fleet"
      follow     Cause one ship to automatically follow another
        load *   Load goods, people, etc onto a ship
     lookout *   Check from ships for other ships and/or sector types
        lost *   Report lost items
       ltend     Transfer things between a unit and the ship carrying it
        mine *   Drop sea mines from a ship
     mission *   Assign a mission to a ship/plane/unit
      mquota     Change the mobility quota of a ship with SAIL orders
        name     Give a name to a ship
    navigate *   Move ship or fleet around
       order     Order a ship to auto-navigate
      payoff     Find out the current payoff of a trade ship
      qorder     Query the auto-navigation orders of a ship
       radar *   Perform radar scan from ship or sector
     retreat     Set retreat conditions/paths for ships or fleets
        sail     Give sailing orders to a ship
       sbmap *   Big map of all your worldly knowledge around a ship
       scrap *   Scrap a ship, plane, or land unit
     scuttle *   Destroy a ship, plane, or unit
       sdump     Dump raw ship information
        ship *   Report status of ships
        show *   Characteristics of sectors, units, updates and more
        smap *   Get a map around a ship
       sonar *   Use sonar to look for ships
      sorder     Show ship order statistical information
       sstat *   Report statistics of ship, fleet or ships in a given area
       start     Resume production and repairs
        stop     Stop production and repairs
        tend *   Transfer commodities between ships
     torpedo *   Slip a torpedo to some poor sucker (from a sub or ship)
      unload *   Inverse of load (above)
      unsail     Stop a ship from sailing
     upgrade      Update  the  tech  of  a ship/unit/plane to the current tech
                 level
       xdump     Extended dump of everything under the sun

     Empire4     Changes from the Empire3 server to the Empire4 Server

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