Starfleet Hired Guns

Starfleet Commander Hired Guns comes with Conquest speeds (one-third the flight and build times of Starfleet Commander Original), and introduces new missions, new quests, new ships, new techs, new buildings, new territories, and new mechanics.

Starfleet Commander Hired Guns launched 2013-12-05 19:00 UTC. The URL is: http://guns.playstarfleet.com/

Ships and Defenses

In Hired Guns you’ll not only find six new ships in the game, but you’ll find new methods of acquiring and building and ships. The first notable change you’ll find is that some ships belong exclusively to certain races to build.

Human players can build the following ships on their planets:

Alien ships can exclusively be built on Alien Space Docks, or must be stolen with Triton Class Recyclers from NPCs or other players.

Krug ships:
Urcath ships:
Seekers ships:

Note that the ship types are slightly misleading. Urcath and Krug NPCs will spawn with any ship types regardless of race, and Seekers NPCs in Hired Guns spawn with no ships at all.

Other Mechanics

You can read the pre-launch announcement here: http://forum.playstarfleet.com/index.php?topic=20514.0