Nice site, though it's slightly out of date.
"I thought all SY were orbital anyway. If you want the pop mod you need to be on a high pop planet."
I can't make them ALL orbital, otherwise you'd never be able to build ships!
Probably the first thing a player will want to do is build a space yard. The planetary yards will be quite slow except on large worlds with large amounts of space devoted to shipbuilding.
RWittman: there is another problem with the yards. Most HH universe yards produce more than one ship be yard; they've massive beasts.
Space Empires ship yards can only work on ONE thing a turn. Haven't figured out how I will address that yet..
Phoenix-D