Editing Netrek (section)

===Planets and facilities===
The game galaxy consists of 40 planets distributed about the map. The map is further divided into 4 sectors of 10 planets each. ''Netrek'' divided the players into one of four teams, loosely based on the ''[[Star Trek]]'' universe; the [[United Federation of Planets|Federation]], [[Romulan]]s, [[Klingon]]s, and [[Orion (Star Trek)|Orions]] (or "feds", "roms", "klis", and "oris", respectively). Each team is assigned to a single sector when the map is reset.

The planets differ from each other in terms of military or agricultural development; at the start of a game each team has several planets under their control one of which is their homeworld, usually named after an actual planet in the [[Star Trek]] Universe (such as Earth for feds, Romulus for roms, Orion for oris, Klingus for klis).  Some worlds, however, have special facilities that help any friendly units in orbit of them.  Repair facilities, represented by a wrench, speed up repairs to the player's hull and shields, which take damage while battling enemies. Fuel depots, represented by a fuel can, speed up the fuel recharge rate of any ships in orbit of the planet.  Some worlds may have both these while others have one or none.  As well as fuel and repair facilities, some planets generate armies at a faster rate than other planets; these planets are known as agricultural planets, or "agris". A team's home planet always offers fuel and repair facilities, but is never an agricultural planet.  Of the nine other starting planets, two are agricultural and others are assigned fuel depots or repair facilities.  Planets slowly generate armies (and at a faster rate if agricultural), which may be beamed up by players, and then beamed back down onto enemy planets to capture them. Planets can be bombed to kill off armies, but only to a point; dropping armies is always required.

Planets will fire upon enemy ships in orbit, even to the point of captured homeworlds firing upon ships from the homeworld's starting faction as they appear over the planet.