no, i think just like ship abilities you have to tab + click through them

depending on the distance to target, you could ripple fire them and keep the effect lasting longer?

thats the only reason i can think of

Yeah, even when I run through them as fast as I can, it is rare that they all hit at once because each cannon has to turn and they're all at different distances.  And yeah, I think it's the fourth one that kills the extractors, by six I don't remember seeing logistics structures at all, around 10 upgraded starbases don't have shields and are hanging out all by themselves.

The strategy I'm working on here is to mass fire them deep into the enemy territory and chase it with the main fleet.  Blow the planet to hell, while a lone canon is opening a phase gate on the opposite side of the enemy fleet.  Rinse and repeat.  The strategy relies heavily on not losing ships to planetary defenses, though, but I can run through the ice/volcanic planets faster than the enemy can reclaim them.  I want to be able to do that on terran/desert planets, too.

You can travel to it from any planet with a phase gate or a starbase with the upgrade (activated at the right time)

Or even from the node opened by your antorak.

Which race?

Kostura gate - to - Kostura gate might be fun if possible, but the timing would have to be pretty good.

(Note to devs:  It would be useful to have a 'synchronize orders' toggle, so that you

(1) enter this mode,

(2) give orders to multiple units / facilities

(3) end the mode,

(4) watch as the orders start executing in the fastest possible timing such that they take effect at the same time

This does not seem too complicated for a society capable of running an interstellar empire and micromanaging fleet battles at arbitrary distances.)