Onyx Hive Shipyards Impervious To Missile Attacks?

I am a big fan of missile attacks and have used them extensively. One thing that I have noticed and do not understand is that Onyx Hive shipyards appear to be impervious to missile attacks. I have attacked the shipyards of many other civilizations with missiles and the missiles have done damage, but not those of the Onyx Hive.

The first screen snapshot shows that I have 2 fleets next to an Onyx Hive shiyard. It also shows that I have used my missle attack for this turn for one of those fleets. The second screen snapshot shows that I have also used my missile attack for this turn for the second fleet. The third screen snapshot shows that the Onyx Hive shipyard has not lost any hit points as a result of my missile attacks.

Questions:

Is there something we can do (research, etc.) to make our shipyards impervious to missile attacks?
Is there something about the Onyx Hive civilization that makes their shipyards impervious to missile attacks?
Is this a bug?

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Old-Spider

Join Date 04/2006

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The shipyard is defended. You have to destroy all defending ships before you can attack the shipyard.

Check the defending ships to see how much damage they have received.

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Thank you for the explanation, Old-Spider. It would be nice if missile attacks gave more information about the results of the attack. It does not need to be as detailed as the Battle Viewer, but something that shows what was attacked, the strength of the attack, the strength of the defence, and the resulting damage incurred. Right now, you fire your missiles, then hover over the target and see if the hit points went down.

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