How does resources work +

[Randallw]

I'm glad this thread exists, because I have a related question. We all know resource storage stores resources (of course). But does the facility allow the empire itself to have a larger storage capacity or does the actual facility hold the resource. In particular if I capture a planet with, for simplicity, a single mineral resource storage facility I know the other empires storage capacity goes down 20,000. But what I want to know is along with my storage capacity going up by 20,000 because I have an extra facility, do I actually get the 20,000 resources stored in that facility?.