Building your own base where you can: buy stuff cheaper
Sell to merchantships (you put stuff in KI takes stuff and trade/buy it)
Buid defensive platforms
Repair cheaper
Have storage
And maybie even have Bigger factories
Some defensiv events
#building your own base
flint void
silver crypt
You can already build yourself a station, I think more so would be configurable options for a ship. (This is on the roadmap)
i.e the default ‘ship’ option, a ‘defence platform’ option where the ship becomes only capable of spinning( however this will be possible when/if gyros get added), a ‘station’ option where you can select your type of station (arms, trade, personnel etc),
Each none ship type will have specifications for eligibility:
For example a station must have a certain amount of storage space, over a certain size, less than a certain amount of thrust or none, more than a certain amount of crew.
A defence platform must be small, minimal thrust and crew.
This may be able to use the system that determines if a blueprint is eligible to be built
ornate lynx
Has already been suggested a lot of times