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Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Sounds like mothballing to me 
Something like a -98% to maintenance built into the hulls of ships, and -99% for bases?
In that case, purchasing racial maintenance bonuses can reduce your maintenance from 2% down to 0.5%
A ship would be good for 50 turns before you've paid enough maintenance to buy a new one.
Mothballing would require the Shadows to have a large storage of resources to use to unmothball their ships, which they just don't have.
And they'd need space yards on all those random planets and moons where they kept their ships.
That system could work, as long as you can also reduce the number of colonies that they make.
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Earth Force is just that. Earth. Maybe a little trade with Mars, and the occasional scientific outpost.
The Earth Alliance has
24 worlds in 14 star systems.