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Arkcon said:
And another 20 space station shipyards to build each stellar manipulation starbase. 
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Really? What I like to do is put the spaceyard components on the plate and cable bases themselves - you can find room if you use Master Computers, which I've inevitably researched by that point in the game. Then I only need one spaceyard ship to get the thing started, and construction proceeds exponentially!
(Just remember to build the gravity field generator Last, because it's the most expensive, so you don't want to be paying maintenance on it the whole time!
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edit: I wonder... when it says you need 20,000 kT of the plates and cables in the sector, do that have to be installed on a ship, or can they be installed on units which are launched in the sector? Something I ought to try in a mod is create a 2000 kT fighter size called "Stellar Construction Barge" and/or a 2000 kT satellite size called "Stellar Construction Satellite"; they would have a 99% requirement for cargo bays and no command/control requirement, and I'd give the stellar construction materials a dummy cargo bay ability. Then you could actually carry your building materials with you to the star on a large transport... yeah, I know I could just change the plates and cables to 100kT or something... anyone have any practical reason to do it this way? I think I did but I forgot...
