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- An owning faction must have no ships or stations in the zone (zones can be bigger than Skunk radar or visible ranges).
- Either the zone is ownerless or the current owner is hostile to you.
- No other faction may have a military capital ship in the zone.
- You must have an owned capital ship in the zone.
- You must build within the zone either a regular station or have enough credits (10-20 million) to order an outpost CV, which are fast and convenient but takes up a build spot (The outpost is called by bringing up the universe map. Then pick a zone and hit plot course. The option is there to build an outpost along with other things).
- Outpost CV's use up a build spot so be warned! Even when an NPC builds one!
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