[Alneyan]

Heh. Remote-mining works well enough to enable all these bases to run, and most of them to construct (along with resource conVersion, trade treaties and so on). I would say all bases can construct something if I were to turn off the units I build at my planets without a SY.

However, there is indeed no way I could even *think* of building these bases without external income. My own resource production is ludicrous, and most of my efforts have been to increase intelligence and research (remote-mining research has never worked well). And my BSYs have only Space Yards I, so if you happen to have a better technology, you do not need nearly as many as I do.