Blue Stars

**The article "Blue Stars" is a *Work In Progress.***
**Notice**: Data on this page may be for before and after the Dark Nebula update, and may otherwise be incomplete. If data you need is missing, **HadesSpace** is an excellent resource with new information.

**Blue Stars** are short lived, free-for-all, last-man-standing star systems that collapse by several AU every 20 seconds. Any ships caught in the collapsed area are immediately destroyed. Any ship that enters the star sector will receive damage.

## Accessing

Blue Stars can be found using a Blue Star Scanner, which requires a level 9 planet.

## Battle Royale

   This dangerous system has a very limited lifetime and collapses from the outside towards the star. All battleships fire at each other and Cerberus ships . 5 Players will compete to be the last battleship alive. One player will compete against four other players, at least one of which is a Lone Battleship - see below. The objective of Blue Stars is to be the last battleship alive. Ships will take direct damage upon entering the central hex containing the Blue Star.

The collapsing area of the blue star is bounded by the blue and red circles. Players can travel through the red area without taking damage but must be inside the red circle before the star collapses. Ships that leave the area bounded by the blue perimeter will be instantly destroyed. Battleships in danger of getting destroyed in the next shrink will be indicated by a flashing circle in their center.

Blue Stars last for 5 minutes and 25 seconds. During this time period, the Blue Star will go through 17 different stages between 8 large shrinks followed by 5 smaller shrinks and 3 even smaller shrinks, until the timer hits 5 seconds, where the Blue Star will finally go supernova. Should the match end earlier, the timer will jump immediately to 4 seconds.

## Lone Battleship

Lone Battleships are AI-controlled Battleships that can be found in Blue Stars. Their level and the modules they carry will depend on the difficulty of the Blue Star.

Lone Battleships can equip Battery, Laser, or DART Launcher, along with Passive Shield, and one of these Support Module builds:

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## Blue Star Rewards

Depending on your position in a Blue Star, you will receive blue star fragments. Blue star fragments are what you use to power your relay station, and get higher on the blue star leaderboards. The fragments for your position are as follows:

* 1st - 12 fragments
* 2nd - 8 fragments
* 3rd - 5 fragments
* 4th - 3 fragments
* 5th - 0 fragments

If multiple players tied for a position, then all of them will get that position's reward, unless they all tied for 1st place, in which case all of them will get 2nd place rewards.

You'll get credits for the first win (without equipping sanctuary module ) every 24 hours.

* Loss without sanctuary : you receive 90% credits back.
* Loss with sanctuary : you will get 0% credits but your ship back.
* FIRST win without sanctuary : you still get 90% credits as a bonus.
* Subsequent win with or without sanctuary : you get 0 credits, until the 24 hour timer lapses.

You will also gain 10% of your hydro storage per win (2nd - 6%, 3rd - 2,5%, 4th - 1%, 5th - 0). The maximum amount of hydro you can get from the Blue Stars per day is 25% of your hydro capacity.

**TL;DR: you have a net gain in credits if you win 1 Blue Star per 9 attempts.**

## Ranked Matches

Matches will be considered ranked if there are no more than one Lone Battleships on the map, and you can only have 3 ranked matches every 24 hours. Only ranked fragments will count towards the leaderboard score. When you visit the Blue Star, "RANKED" will hover on the center of the screen for a few seconds.

## Blue Star Leaderboards

Every month, there is a blue star leaderboard. After every month, this leaderboard resets and everyone's blue star fragments are wiped. Depending on your placement on the leaderboard, you may earn distinctions , this guide  may help you.

The crystal rewards are based on your position on the blue star leaderboard, and how many ranked fragments you get. These crystal rewards are:

200 or more fragments - 50 crystals

400 or more fragments - 100 crystals

600 or more fragments - 200 crystals

Top 200 on blue star leaderboard - 500 crystals

Top 20 on blue star leaderboard - 1500 crystals

Top 3 on blue star leaderboard - 3000 crystals