Production
One builds production facilities for equipment (shipboard weapons & equipment), tanks and starships (fighters, destroyers, cruisers); and Flagships require their own production facility, an orbital station. Each factory contributes to a total factory capacity, which designates how fast the player can produce items (given the player has enough money to produce units).
Starships above fighter size come with basic equipment (e.g. a hyper drive and some of the weakest weapons); The player has to produce the desired equipment and manually reequip every ship in a fleet. While this works out fairly good in the beginning, it gets tedious in later stages of a game, when it's not uncommon to handle five or six fleets at once. . It is unknown why Digital Reality went for this system instead of a generic blueprint design, which you can change in one place (much like in Master of Orion 2 or in Digital Reality's sequel game Imperium Galactica II - Alliances)
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