Some card abilities allow players to dock ships to a carrier ship. Docked ships (and their equipped cards) are placed to the side of the play area, and are considered to be inactive for all purposes (they are not assigned dials in the Planning phase, they cannot attack, be attacked, perform actions, be assigned tokens, be target locked, etc.). Ships must be docked pregame, during squad building, and players must pay squad points for these ships as normal. If the carrier ship flees the battlefield, it and all its docked ships are destroyed.