# Alliance projects

**ALLIANCE PROJECTS**\
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Alliance projects are unique features available to Alliances only.\
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Alliances can invest some of their activity points (called **Alliance Points, or APs**) to unlock their first project slot.\
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First projects will usually begin with buildings, which once completed will help the alliance gather new materials, receive new mission packages with rewards, or receive minor bonuses to its members.\
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Other projects could expand the alliance with more member slots, or **transform existing member slots into specific roles with specialized bonuses in materials they generate** for the Alliance itself.\
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Such as specializing several slots as "Research Specialist" slots, which generate more alliance "research materials" when they complete a research ingame.\
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Continuing on the path of more important projects (and choosing its progression among several options) the alliance will then continue with more important endeavours:\
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\- Such as **a Market Node in the new galaxy**, allowing captains to trade resources in and out of this node with faster and cheaper transportation, also receiving a customized market fee in the process if the node is open to non-members ; or allowing manual transportation made easily between member colonies.\
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\- Or **unlocking an Alliance fleet slot**, an Alliance fleet will act in the world of 2325, with every member contributing their individual Evacuation Fleet to it. Please see our article about [**Evacuation Fleets**](https://elindos-phar.gitbook.io/exode-white-paper/white-paper/staking-evacuation-fleets) to learn more about this feature!\
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\- Or **adding Alliance stores**, or **production of new tradable cards** (minted rarely, but customized to a point),\
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\- Or more options even, which will be implemented later.\
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It is envisioned that the most ambitious and prevalent Alliances will ultimately become like player made factions, with their own traits given to generated characters of Alliance members.\
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**WHEN WILL ALLIANCE PROJECTS BE MADE AVAILABLE?**\
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The first Alliance projects will be made available before the end of EXODE alpha, and before introducing beta.