Wing

The Wing system in Planetarion was devised by a player called Bartok.

The Empire was the first alliance to operate a wing and fleet structure as an effective way to cope with the large numbers of planets joining the alliance at the end of round. Originally a Wing consisted of 100 planets and in turn was broken down into 10 Fleets. The first wings of The Empire were Alpha Wing, The Phantom Fighters, Ultyra Violence and The 181st Imperial Fighters.

Some alliances have formed from under the protection of a bigger alliance by starting out as a wing.

Wings saw quite a natural death due decline of total number of paying planets within Planetarion. By R8 some major alliances had cut down their wings and concentrated on core memberbase alone. The final stab to wings was given in PaX when a forced in-game limit to the number of members within the alliance was introduced. Alliances could in R10 number only up to 150 members leaving little room for huge wings from past rounds (e.g. Wrath)). Alongside the introduction of alliance ETA in defence (-1) the floor was largely swept away from multi-alliance Battle Groups that had operated in the shadows crippling many alliances from playing to the fullest.