Structure

"Big ships have a lot of inertia and if you don't want them to fall apart every time they take a hit you will need to reinforce them with some extra structural components. The bigger the support structure the more support it provides per tile"

Structural components are used to increase a ship's integrity while adding non structural components will increase a ship's inertia. If a ship's inertia ever climbs above its integrity the ship will begin to make ominous groaning noises and any damage the ship sustains will have a chance to damage additional tiles throughout the craft, turning the ship into Swiss cheese. At a base any tile which is not occupied by any component will contribute +300 to a ships integrity, this means that even when empty tiles are damaged your ships integrity can suffer.