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Every hero has a Hero Ship specific to their class these take a diverse set of modules (including some unique to Hero ships) and do not add any CP to the fleet. You can assign Heroes to your fleets, and they will participate in space combat.
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It occurs when an attacker's fleet chooses to attack another hostile fleet in the same system (only possible in neutral or attacker territory if in cold war with the defender unless the attacker has "Righteous Fury" law) by taking the Attack action, which causes them to automatically engage the strongest hostile fleet. Ship combat takes place in orbit around systems.