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****************** Chapter 11 - Upgrading & Building Ships ******************
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Starship upgrading involves adding hulls to an existing ship.
You may only upgrade a ship into another existing ship class. 
The EEM is the primary human affiliation possessing the ability to 
use shipyards. Some aliens also have Ship Building Technology.

See Chapter 3 for details on construction of Shipyards.

Performing the Upgrade

To perform an upgrade a starcaptain must negotiate terms with a colony. 
This colony must provide sufficient quantities of the needed hull 
types and also have SHIPYARD COMPLEXES of sufficient class to perform
the upgrade.

The colony governor issues a pick-up authorization to the ship being
upgraded. This authorization includes the exact additional quantity
of each type of hull needed to upgrade the ship to the new class.
The ship then moves to the colony and orders the upgrade to take
place. This actual upgrade takes 50 TU's to accomplish.

When a ship is upgraded, any THORLIUM coated section which increases 
in size will lose one coat of THORLIUM.

Shipyard Classes

The chart in Appendix E shows the quantity of SHIPYARD complexes needed 
to upgrade or build a ship of each class.

Each shipyard class has the abilities of all the classes below it. 
For example, class 6 shipyard could still build a Yacht.

Imperial Shipyards

The EEM colony Hypso contains the Imperial Shipyards. The EEM is authorized 
by the Empire to perform official upgrades. All EEM colony governors 
have a Hull Account at Hypso. Whenever hulls are delivered to Hypso 
the delivering ship should mention which hull account should be credited.

Since shipyards are incredibly expensive to build, many EEM governors
use the extensive shipyards at Hypso to perform their upgrades. The
procedure for an upgrade is similar to the above except the ship goes
to Hypso and requests the upgrade.  The needed hulls are removed from
the Hull Account of the authorizing colony and the upgrade is performed.

EEM colonies and Imperially chartered HQ colonies are the only ones 
authorized to have hull accounts at Hypso. Players of other affiliations 
must deal with EEM governors to perform upgrades at the Imperial Shipyards.

Building Ships

Building a new ship can be done by any colony possessing shipyards a 
well as the necessary shipbuilding technology. Various hulls are
assembled by the SHIPYARD complexes to create a certain ship class
(see Appendix E).

The actual process of building a ship takes two weeks. On the first 
week the governor sends orders to construct a "seed ship" of a certain 
class. This order expends the necessary hulls from his possessions 
and builds an empty ship. This ship can be given to any other player 
in the game at this time. The governor is then told the ship number 
and on the following week can begin transferring personnel and material 
aboard.
