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				 Re: Retrofitting retrofit nitpicks 
 well, you could quickly build a ship that used roughly equal numbers of resources, and then refit it into anything else that you wanted.
 but thats only abuse if you consider retro-seriese upgrades to be abusive.  i consider it to be a feature.  if you want to pay the higher cost and take the repair time, you can get the faster build time.
 
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