Ed, all the ships you see are user made
The shipyard works like Doga, pretty nifty but it does take some extreme measures to cut down on pollies. (It removed a ring shaped object on the side of my freighter because it decided I had too many pollies.)
Yeah, also, the game plays nothing like MOO3, it's actually really fun. You know, instead of rip-out-eyelids frustrating like MOO3.