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An important note about ship sizes is that they will now be race specific, so while the Federation can research a Galaxy class starship, the Klingons will not. They will be able to research Klingon ships, which will be of different sizes.
Have you considered making all ships require generic "ship design" research also?
This would allow the Romulans, having captured a Galaxy, to deconstruct it and gain insights on how to build ships in general, thus allowing them to create Warbirds. The romulans would never be able to build Galaxies, but would learn
something by analysing a much bigger/high tech ship