I found AI passive only initially - in fact, it starts developing as soon as you do something important - like conquering a planet next to it. I encountered AIs counterattack then, and then - i thing - AI became 'active'.As for couple of questions, I wanted to give starbases some income bonus or create separate building for it (asteroid mine), but decided against it. One concern is (as always) AI, which would probably either build tpo many or too few of them. Another thing is, if I'd use some slots for mining facilities, we would get less for excellent spaces system. Finally, one of my main reasons of creating this mod was to make space even more important, to stress importance of having trade fleets etc. So it's WAD. On a plus side, remember, you don't have land units to support, so all your pop points can be used on transports instead
