[raynor]

That's an interesting point.

I started to say that right now, the game assumes you built an infinite supply of spare parts for the Stellar Manipulation component when you built the first one but that you never had to pay for it. But that isn't really true, is it? If you are paying maintenance on the component, then I suppose we could assume those resources are dedicated to manufacturing spare parts.

Of course, the problem there lies in your ability to use the component every turn. It wouldn't bother me so much that repairs happen in one turn without costing any resources to complete the repair IF you could only use the component every 4 turns--since that is how long it would take for you to spend the same resources maintaining the component that you spent constructing it.