How do Pitates build constuctor ships

[Chris21wen]

Subject says it all. This is my first game as a pirate but with no planet how do pirates build them?

[Retreat1970]

Once you have a criminal network on a planet you can build constructors and colony ships. Game concepts in the galactopedia will help.

[Aeson]

Alternatively, you can capture the construction ships of standard empires. Captured incomplete construction ships can be completed using one of your own construction-capable ships, and prewarp construction ships can be upgraded to warp-capable construction ships if you build a station with shipyard facilities in the system in which the warp-incapable construction ship is found.

You can also give construction capability to standard warship types by adding a construction yard, manufacturing plants, and cargo bays to the design, but be aware that some nasty bugs have been reported when using such vessels to construct or repair stations over orbiting bodies and I don't know that those bugs have been fixed, so I would not recommend using such vessels for station construction and repair, at least not at orbiting bodies.

[Hattori Hanzo]

for "orbiting bodies" do you mean asteroids ?

[Aeson]

By 'orbiting bodies,' I mean anything which the game models as having an orbit, i.e. any permanent map object that lacks fixed coordinates. Planets, moons, and asteroids all count; stars, supernovae remnants, black holes, and gas clouds do not.