Ship Lab

"The Ship Lab is responsible for researching new ship hulls, as well as new types of armor."

Stats
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General
The Ship Lab is one of three research labs. It enables you to research up to Tier 3 hulls, armors and cargo holds. In addition, crafting recipes for hulls, their upgrades and the fusion of related materials can be researched here.

The level of the Ship Lab and Ship Factory determines the range of hulls you have the ability to build.

Most Blueprints and some Reusable Items that are armor or cargo holds, as well as advanced thrusters, can only be constructed after your Ship Lab has reached a certain level.

When damaged, ongoing research is paused until the structure is fully repaired.

Strategy
In the early stages, consider protecting your labs because enemy attacks may damage them and delay the completion of your research.

At higher levels however, there is not much left to research, so feel free to use them as cannon fodder.

Trivia

 * It used to be called the "Naval Lab".
 * All Miner Rebellion modules (except Terminus Mines) received Anti-Pierce in the mid-January 2020 update which is basically infinite Counter Pierce.
 * The Ship Lab had its build and upgrade times reduced by 30% for all levels in the late April 2020 update.