Use the crafting system in space stations to create the sort of crystal needed for the desired weapon.
If you win, but have damaged crafts, return to the nearest base and mobilise available ships for the next mission. Explore the galaxy and distant constellations, where resources, new life forms and fearsome adversaries abound. The results of all mother-ship battles can be tracked in the space base Hall of fame panel, where your rank is displayed. The battle of the mother-ship is a turn based card collision.