Will we have the ability to fabricate weapons/armor/ship parts?asked by Raggs

When a player owns an economic node, one of which could be a factory/maker of these parts. We're not planning on having an "everybody owns their own node", but some will be available in later stages. This'd be a longer term goal for someone who is interested in a business tycoon path rather than combat or exploration etc. You could on-sell those goods, or even consume them yourself if you needed to. In terms of someone having the ability to fabricate weapons/armour on a small scale themselves not really initially. I kinda would see at some point we may have a smaller scale economic node, like say, a factory ship someone could buy and that could do that. You need to get this many resources, then after a certain amount of time with appropriate crew it might spit out a good.