Great; thanks for the info!
-The Foundry can produce droids up to approximately the size of an AT-ST, however it can only produce said "giga-droids" in much more limited quantities. You can build Basilisk Droids, but you're not gonna be able to produce them a tenth as efficiently as you could a legion of BXs as an example.
Does the Foundry have a limited production capacity? Are we limited to building 5 BX squads OR 1 Basilisk droid OR 1 Devastator, or can we expand production according to our resource pool?
-The Foundry can build snubfighters, however since it wasn't designed to build anything flight-worthy aside from resource-gathering drones in the first place the most you're gonna be able to do is prototype something by hijacking one of the drone construction zones. (Leave it to Cheriss)
Can we build more mining drones? (Can we increase the rate at which we gather resources, and therefore the rate at which we can build things?) Can we retrofit mining droids into probe droids/scouts? (The mining droids must have hyperdrive capacity, since the asteroid field around the Foundry is now empty).
-The Foundry cannot build anything larger than a snubfighter, largely because the Rakatans were too arrogant to assume that they wouldn't have constant access to the Star Forge and didn't install any ship-producing facilities.
Makes sense.
-The Foundry cannot mass-produce phrik armor, stygium cloaking devices or the like unless it has an active supply of the materials used in its construction. In other words, if the station can't get the proper material to build it, it ain't happening.
Got it. Can we customize mining droids to focus on gathering those meta-materials? Alternately, does the Foundry have facilities for generating such materials (in the case of phrik, it's an artificial alloy with several rare metals mixed together -- can we dedicate space to the alloying process?)
-The Foundry can be used to mass-produce conventional weapons because what else would you arm droids with? However the same limits apply to anything else.
What kind of weapons are feasible? Just the traditional personal weapons (blasters), or the more exotic ones (sonic guns, slugthrowers, masers, etc.)? How about larger ordnance like turbocannons?
-The Foundry can mass-produce armor...kind of. The system can be cheated by installing a "droid plan" that doesn't have an interior but the problem is that it's only in one size - the cost of getting it into mass production is a lack of ability to customize them effectively. Normally this wouldn't be too much of a problem...but this is Star Wars. One size does not fit all of the many races in the galaxy.
Hmm... could we use the Foundry to mass-produce modular
components of armor, that can be arranged and assembled in different ways for different sizes and different builds?
Finally, (and this is a big one) can we
move the Foundry to a different system? Does it have hyperdrive engines built in, so we can move it to a different area (for security or access to resources)? Alternately, would we be allowed to refit the Foundry with engines to enable it to be moved?
