Building Starships

Starships are built at Estates with a shipyard.

Starting Construction
To start building a ship the Lord or Steward of the Estate must choose which configuration to build and begins the construction project. The configuration also determines the type of ship that is being built.

This action takes 1 Action Point.

Note: Capital ships can only be built at worlds with a Grand Academy

Assembling Hulls
Once a ship building project is started, any character of the same house at the estate may assemble hulls for the ship at the rate of 5 hulls per shipyard building level per action point. This is increased by 5 hulls per level of the Shipwright skill.

The hulls are removed from the base's inventory.

Finished Construction
Once all hulls specified by the type of the starship, its configuration determines which sections are automatically installed. Further changes to its configuration can be made by an appointed Captain.

Installing Sections
A Captain may now finish the building of the starship by installing items from the current estate's inventory. Installing any number of items into the ship costs 1 Action Points.

A Lord or Steward may also deliver items to be installed into a starship docked at his estate or in orbit of the same world.