[Strategia_In_Ultima]

But only for the biggest... the small (i.e. somewhat normal) warships take less to build. A light cruiser is the size of a Baseship (1500kT) and can be a (small) backbone for your spacefleet. Anything from Light to Heavy Cruiser (Battlecruiser if you're economically superior) can be the backbone of your fleet. The largest ships (anthing above Battlecruiser is a Capship, and a Battlecruiser is 6000kT) take looong to build and lots to maintain. The absolutely excessive costs of COMCAs makes them an economic nightmare... but in a military environment it is worth a solid Sphereworld (Dyson sphere) in compressed diamond. The basic COMCA (where "basic" is nothing but a Master Computer) takes over 100 turns to build, if you fill it with weapons it will be about two to hree hundred. DO TAKE NOTE HOWEVER that the maintenance cost has been INCREASED TO 50%!!!!!