What about an artifact / trap that is only seen by legion members when it goes off. I know a beacon distress call has been mentioned before, but this one is one you can apply to your ship or planet. With this artifact make it costly like 10k or even 25k. The Artifact will last say 1 week, and only go off when you sustain 25% damage. As a counter measure you can add an artifact that is a jamming beacon. This artifact will have a 50% chance to block all calls for help.

What the Alert will do is alert all legion members of a planetary invasion, and summon legion members to aid your ship if it’s being attacked. As for the ship defense one make it only people of the same level range so there is no crying, but for the planet artifact it should be any legion member, help may day planet under attack send assistance.

Or even another idea for this ship alert system. I notice from time to time a lot of player docked on the same planet. I do not think anyone would sit by and allow a friend to be blasted if they were all sitting on the same planet together. So why not make the distress signal summon only the ships that are in the same system as you. So if your ship is being attack and you’re docked at a planet for the night it should alert those ships as well.

This makes me think of a more powerful version of the Unstable Wormhole Emitter. I call it the Space Scattering Bomb. it's 5 to 10 times more artifact points than the Unstable Wormhole Emitter, (or also is much more rare) but it removes ALL defending players from a planet!

As for you idea, I agree a automatic legion alert trap is a good addition to artifacts. I disagree about it pulling legion members into the fight against their will, but I like how it will also alert the attacker to the foolishness of their attack!

Agreed did not mean to imply it pulling them without their approval. Just alerts those around you and if they want to help they can help, or by remaing with them you get a % bonus nothing major but a small defense bonus say 5% or 2%per ship not to exseed10%.

Could you stop that please it's getting a bit annoying now.

Cut it out