[Puke]

yes, and this discussion has been had. the general consensus was that yes they are silly, and even if they could convert resources at will, they are pretty darn special if they can convey all resources instantly from any part of your empire to one central point in a much shorter space of time than it would take your fastest warship to travel. and then convey them back to storage areas.

so, you can conclude that either A) the resource converter has some sort of whacked out homeworld-style matter transmission thingy built in that can instantly zap raw materials about the galaxy. or B) that SE4 is silly and has absoluetly no representation for supply chains or logistics.

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