What does RELOC do?
The RELOC button lets you automatically send the ships that one planet builds to another planet. This is useful to assemble your fleets at one common staging point. To RELOCate your ships’ destination, select the RELOC button, then select the planet you wish to send your completed ships to. A blue line will appear, connecting the worlds. To cancel the RELOCation, select the RELOC button, then select the same source planet as the “destination” (i.e. relocating your ships to where they started.)

Can I refit my existing ships to use new technologies?
No. If you wish to equip ships with new technologies, you have to design a new class of ship to use them. If you already have six classes in use, you may have to make a tough choice to scrap some older ship types to make room
for the new design.

What is this Guardian thing that keeps destroying my ships?
Legends hold that the Ancient Ones built terrible automated war machines to protect Orion from invaders. So, if you find a planet protected by The Guardian, you have probably found Orion. Needless to say, you will need a large fleet with advanced technology before you can defeat the Guardian, and capture Orion.

Why can I research some high level technology, when I did not get a choice to discover lower level advances? For instance, I can research “Deuterium Fuel Cells (Range 5)”, but I never got to choose “Hydrogen Fuel Cells (Range 4)”?
The technologies that your scientists can research are partially based on random chance (the muse of scientific inspiration is fickle). If you cannot research a particular device, you may have to acquire it through espionage or
diplomatic exchange. You can also get new technology by capturing enemy planets, provided that you have left some of their factories intact. The more factories, the greater chance of finding technology.

The Master of Orion team would like to thank the following people who provided design suggestions, caught bugs, and otherwise helped to polish v1.2 of the game: Don Aldrich, Gail & Patrick Barnes, Ken Fishkin, Tom Holsinger, Tim Jordan, William Kutscher, Marvin Lamb, Kelly McCauley, Stephen Mintenko, Jerry Pournelle, and David Weinstein.