Sequence of Events

The following sequence of events takes place when a turn is being run:

  1. All orders except for renaming and upgrading orders (C, G, N and T)
     are executed.
  2. C, G, N and T orders are executed.
  3. Hostile ships fight each other.
  4. Ships bomb enemy planets.
  5. Cargo is loaded onto ships at the beginning of routes, and the ships
     are sent into hyperspace.
  6. Ships are sent on intercept orders.
  7. Ships move through hyperspace.
  8. Hostile ships fight each other again (new battles might be possible
     after ships emerge from hyperspace).
  9. Ships bomb enemy planets again.
 10. Production takes place.
 11. Cargo is unloaded at the end of routes.
 12. Identical groups are merged.

A few things to note:

When orders conflict, such as two players trying to unload colonists onto
an uninhabited planet simultaneously at the start of the turn, whoever is
first in the list of players will have his order executed first and
colonize the planet. In practice this does not happen often enough to be
relevant.

A ship which takes several turns to build will be built with the tech
levels available at the start of the final turn.

Because names are changed after other orders, entities which are renamed in
a turn must still be referred to by their old names for the rest of that
turn.