Noobie Question(s)

[Alari]

A few questions:

You can put supply storage on satellites, but they don't seem to need them...?? Just curious.

In Abilities, there's research point generation, planet research bonus, and system research bonus. Is the planet research bonus really planet-based, or is it sector-based? How does the plain research point generation work if it's attached to something that the player can't directly control/own? (Like a nebulae or whatever) Does the system research bonus stack if there's more than one?

Is there any way to script events? I checked the Events file but it's random events, no logic code that I could figure out (Like "If player has X technology...") I wanted to design a high-level research tree that would do nasty things like wipe out and plague planets, reset technology levels back down to 0, etc. ("Pandora's Tech" =)
I know I can't do it in either Events or the Research tree itself, any suggestions?

...Dunno if it's obvious or not but I have a few ideas for a mod. ^.^

One of the other ideas that I'm fairly certain will work is assigning higher construction costs to a ship and then adding "Reduced Maintenance" bonuses to the components, so that a damaged ship will cost more to maintain, but I'm not sure if that stacks either...