Rebel Ground Attack

Any of the Rebel's ships can land a very small team of saboteurs onto a planet's surface. The team will destroy money, supplies and planetary structures. In doing so 20% of the colonists on the planet will be killed off. This will really upset the colonists! If there are any natives on the planet they will be very pleased about everything being destroyed. Rebels can "self-destruct" their own planets if they wish by using this ground attack mission.

The Rebel Ground Attack Mission
Any Rebel ship -including freighters- can perform the Rebel Ground Attack on a planet. To perform an RGA, set the ship's mission to Rebel Ground Attack and the planet the ship orbits after movement will be sabotaged - if the sabotaging ship is still alive after the battle phase of the hostrun, because RGA is executed after battles are resolved. To enable Rebel ships to successfully RGA planets, Rebel ships can not be attacked by planets.

A planet can only be RGA'd once per turn, so when three or four Rebel ships are set to RGA a planet only one (the one with the lowest ID number) will actually RGA the planet. The Rebel Ground Attack can be aimed at any owned planet: enemy planets, allied planets and even Rebel planets if the Rebels wish to do so.

When a Rebel ship performs a Rebel Ground Attack on a planet it will destroy 30% of the planet's money, 40% of the planet's supplies, 20% of the defense outposts, 60% of the mineral mines and 30% of the factories. In doing so, 20% of the colonists on the planet will be killed off. This will really upset the colonists, their happiness will drop 60 points. If there are any natives on the planet they will be very pleased about everything being destroyed, their happiness will rise 30 points.

Effect on planets
Put into formulas, with the proper rounding:

• Money after RGA  = INT (0.7 * Money before RGA)
• Supplies after RGA = INT (0.6 * Supplies before RGA)
• Colonists after RGA = INT (0.8 * Colonists before RGA)
• Mines after RGA = INT (0.4 * Mines before RGA)
• Factories after RGA = INT (0.7 * Factories before RGA)
• Defenseposts after RGA = INT (0.8 * Defenseposts before RGA)
  
• Colonist Happiness after RGA = Colonist Happiness before RGA - 60
• Native Happiness after RGA = Native Happiness before RGA + 30

(The INT function effectively rounds a number down to the nearest whole number: it just cuts of everything after the decimal)

The Rebel Ground Attack mission can be performed on enemy, allied or even Rebel planets.

The message the Rebels receive when performing their Rebel Ground Attack: