Building facilities is the process by which a player adds mines, refineries, production sites and defenses to a system in Star Wars: Rebellion. Facilities do not appear on their own: a Construction Yard on a system the player controls must build them.

Requirements

A system can receive a facility only if it has free energy, shown in the Sector window by blue and white squares, with every new facility converting a blue square to white. A mine also needs raw materials, shown as red squares, and finished mines appear as yellow squares. The manual says the total number of energy slots on a system cannot be changed. Building also costs refined materials and, except for mines and refineries, maintenance capacity.

Facility types

The manual divides facilities into manufacturing and production facilities and defensive facilities. The production list is:

• Mine: opens up a system's raw materials.
• Refinery: turns mined material into refined material.
• Construction Yard: builds other facilities. Two yards double the speed and three triple it.
• Training Facility: builds troops and Special Forces, with the same speed rule.
• Orbital Shipyard: builds capital ships and fighters, with the same speed rule.
• Advanced Construction Yard, Advanced Training Facility and Advanced Shipyard: do the same jobs more efficiently than the standard versions.

Advanced facilities become available only when Research and development produces the technology. Defensive facilities, which the manual describes as shields and batteries, are built by a construction yard on a system the player controls.

Giving the order

A build order is given by right-clicking the Facilities Under Construction area in a system's Manufacturing and Production window and choosing Build, which opens the Build Selection window. The window can be set to build more than one facility, and units are built one after another, each announced when it is deployed. The estimated days to completion are a best case: building slows without enough refined materials and is suspended during a blockade or an uprising.

The agent droid offers a shortcut. Its Build Facilities option asks for a target system and then has the nearest available construction yard do the work. The manual notes that ordering the yard directly gives more control, and that the yard's location matters because facilities take longer to reach distant systems, and a very long time to reach another sector.

Stopping, destination and status

• Stop: a right-click choice that halts construction and returns the maintenance the project was using. Starting a new project also cancels the current one.
• Destination: lets a yard build onto any system the player controls, provided that system has the energy (and raw materials for a mine). The tutorial advises setting the destination before starting to build.
• Status: opens the Facilities Under Construction window, which gives the day on which construction will finish.
• Reserve: keeps the agent's Manage Production option from using that yard for mines and refineries.

Tabs and scrapping

Besides the default Manufacturing tab, the Manufacturing and Production window has tabs for the production facilities on the system; a grayed-out tab means there are none of that type. Right-clicking a unit gives access to its Encyclopedia entry and Status, which reports the expected arrival or deployment date for a unit still under construction or traveling.

A facility can be scrapped through the right-click menu on its tab. Scrapping returns the maintenance and part of the refined materials, and frees energy on the system. The manual's examples are scrapping a mine to make room for a construction yard, or replacing a training facility with an advanced one.

A new facility on an unpopulated system gives it a population that is entirely loyal to the player's side.