For the first 11 turns, Emergency Build is your friend. What I do every KOTH game is immediately stick my homeworld on E-Build, that way I can pump out a colony ship per turn for 11 turns if so desired (the duration of E-Build). If you don't use it, you can only build one colony ship per two turns, which can really stunt your development in the early game. Of course, you can vary this theme; building a couple base space yards to get a little extra production; build a couple frigate scouts to speed up exploration, etc. Note that the above examples can all be built in a single turn, but ONLY if you have E-Build on.
I'm not entirely sure, but you may also require a bit of a racial trait boost in order to get colony ships/base space yards built in a single turn. But I always like to take a +20% boost to spaceyard rate, so that never an issue
Hope this tip helps!
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