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Originally posted by raynor:
The Quantum Reactor is a ship component. If you add the QR to a ship, it never runs out of supplies, and if you add a ship containing a QR to the fleet, the fleet never runs out of supplies. You can get this by researching Resupply to the end. Very nice component. 
I've discovered a little trick to this, though. The non-QR ships will resupply at the end of a turn; so, if you use a lot of supplies in a given turn, you can still run fairly low (long movement plus long combat will do this; so will Stellar Manipulations). I'm also not completely certain that the resupply occurs if your ships are moving. I've had fleets with movement orders that take multiple turns to complete end up with many ships low on supply, even though I have a QR ship in the fleet. More testing is probably required...