Insult to Star Trek. Very VERY expensive. I paid a couple of grand real money to STILL get crushed. Devs don't give out any shields over 8 hours. One can BUY shields so one must time it to come back online or else there's a million or so psychopaths that are happy to destroy a base and steal it's contents. Time consumption has never been so tediously slow. One can't even mine without having to stand guard over each vessel unless you want it destroyed and it's contents taken. Avoid this game.