A question about solar panels

[Slick]

Oleg, I would have to disagree. The components that use supplies are ship's systems and I think they represent basically a composite of fuel & ammo. Engines and weapons use supplies and a few other non-life supporting components like Stellar Manipulation components. Supplies can be viewed as energy required to operate the ship's large systems. Life support uses no supplies, nor does a stationary ship. A ship can be on station guarding a sector for the entire game without running out of supplies. If it doesn't move, the only way it can run out of supplies is if it fires its weapons enough times. If the intent was that supplies should also represent crew support, some component like Life Support would use supplies each turn even if the ships don't move.

Slick.