a few lines of code mean a big explosion

Yes, the ships explode. I just coded that in, so if you get into a fire fight with another ship, one of you is bound to explode. Now the part that is left to code is to create time dependant creation of bases on asteroids and planets, balancing the weapon damage and repair progress. Then to make the resource gathering process to work better and finally to code in the game rules.

Then, it will be time to code in the tooltips, special UI elements and the creation of many sprites for the different weapon effects. lets see how that goes.