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Asteroid Research Stations (early game)

This is my take to bring up a fully optimized/compact pack of Asteroid Research Stations (ok, that's an easy one, but why not?) to produce Asteroid Research at high speed!

It's an early game design, which means you can quickly build it up to boost your game start (provided you've unlocked the required structures obviously). Once built, you'll just have to build a bunch of Asteroid Research Bots to operate them.

Have fun! :p

(Planetary Research Stations counterpart: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3341226237)

Features:
- Output: About 235 science/min on normal asteroids (with 25% Research Bonus)
- Reliability: 144 Asteroid Research Bots waiting in the Ship Yards to "instantly" replace dead ones

Blueprint recipe:
- 4 Ship Yard
- 4 Strut
- 36 Asteroid Research Station
- 44 Solar Panel
- 4 Exploration Center

Hints:
- Try and find rich asteroids to put your Research Stations around instead of normal ones to fetch science faster (40% Research Bonus instead of 25%). They are pretty rare but not impossible to find when exploring around your home.

Notes:
- Putting a Ship Yard near the Research Stations helps them to quickly get replacement Research Bots when they self destruct themselves, and also gives time to the Ship Assemblers to build new ships without delaying the research work.
- The Exploration Centers prevent the fog to hide the structures.
- As I play in pacifist mode, I don't use any Signal Dampener to reduce ennemies attacks on stations. Please feel free to adapt to your liking.