I found a mistake in your mod that alters the races. The Norak's Settings.txt file has it's maximum maintenance % of revenue setting set to "00". I set it to 80 on mine.
The Norak kept building ships, then scrapped them to meet the maintenance requirement.
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"What do -you- want?" "I'd like to live -just- long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this..." *waggle* "...can you and your associates arrange that for me, Mr. Morden?"