# The flët resource

A flet resource defines the parameters for a fleet, which is a collection of ships that can be made to appear randomly throughout the galaxy. The flet resource's fields are:

1 | LeadShipType | ID of the fleet's flagship's ship class
2 | EscortType | IDs of the flagships escorts' ship classes. If you don't want to use four different escort types, you should still set the unused fields to a valid ship class ID. (you can set the min & max fields to 0 and just have the extra ships not appear)
3 | Min | The minimum number of each type of escort to put in the fleet.
4 | Max | The maximum number of each type of escort to put in the fleet.
5 | Govt | ID of the fleet's government, of -1 for none.
6 | AppearOn | A control bit test field that will cause a given fleet to appear only when the expression evaluates to true. If this field is left blank it will be ignored.
7 | LinkSyst | Which systems the fleet can be created in
8 | Quote | Show a random string from the STR# resource with this ID when the fleet enters from hyperspace. Any occurrences of the character '#' in this string will be replaced with a random digit (0-9).
9 | Flags | If checked, freighters (InherentAI 1 or 2) in this fleet will have random cargo when boarded.

Based upon the EV Nova Resource Bible by Matt Burch, ©1995-2006 by Ambrosia Software, Inc.