Actually, there is a distinct limit to the amount of damage a blackhole does in the game. It's not 'absolute destruction' to be at the center of a black hole. It's only 5,000 points or so of damage. You can build a space station with god-awful amounts of organic armor that can sustain that. You just have to create it VERY quickly, like a single turn, or the space-yard ship won't survive to completion.
So a stunt with the 'upgrade' command is required to build an empty station and then upgrade in a single turn through several revisions to the necessary components to survive the black hole. Then the SYS can run away and let the station get sucked into the center of the system.
This is one of those 'imperial ego' projects like having a triple-molly.
[ February 10, 2004, 15:24: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]
Re: space stations
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