<t> What part of the Automation handles Resorts and Stations and their ilk?<br/>
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I'm encountering a 'problem' where the game will ask me about building defensive stations, great and all, but is just building resorts and research and mining outposts as it likes.<br/>
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I watched my ...

Well, then game mechanics might make it a difference between 'in-system' and a radius of the planet.

I'm new and haven't yet had a chance to play, but I'd assume the difference being proximity.

One being ships and fleets just outside the system but 'too close to be comfortable'

The other being actual system border violators