In an alternate timeline where the Battle of Endor did not transpire well for the Rebels, fight for power in a new war as the Black Sun Pirates, Empire, or Mandalorians. Featuring two converted factions, graphical enhancements, new nonplayable factions, GCs, and more.
Now actually useful in skirmish.
yea they were really quite useless in the original.
so will the weapons all the same as the original Asteroid base?
Some of the ships in there are modified/special ships as well, not the same as they were in vanilla, with a different role in GC as well. We just haven't gotten the chance to edit the icons yet.
As of right now, the weapons on the Asteroid Base will remain the same (they wreck fighters, which seems about as powerful as a capturable structure should be). We figured the Base would be more useful as a recruitment structure than as a weapon itself, given the mobility of, well, units over a station.
Oh, and as russia said, two of the ships serve slightly different functions than may be expected. One of them I've deliberately kept secret; it's part of a larger picture that we want to reveal all at once :p