[iaen]

Thank you, that does work better!

In spite of your advice, I couldn't help but try it in my current game...
It took them a year or so, but they seem to have caught on nicely. Besides the exact component versions, their designs look identical to what the other races use.
I designed a colonizer manually for one of them, which it seems to have built and then marked obsolete in favour of its own new design.

Ofcourse, they do have about a hundred planets worth of catching up to do now...