Vessels come from the HANGAR and never from the fleet. The fleet is what the
player is flying, and taking a vessel out of it to crew a building would be
the game undoing the player's own arrangement. "Whenever available" means
"when one is sitting at the mothership", and an outpost asking for a hull
nobody has built simply waits.
They travel, down the same vessel_deliveries path a finished crafter order
already uses to reach the mothership, rather than teleporting.
What is already in the air counts against the shortfall. Without that the
dispatcher sends the whole hangar to fill one berth, because the crew does
not grow until the first arrival lands.
Two directions, not one: lowering the order flies the surplus home rather
than stranding it, and a vessel whose outpost is levelled under it lands in
the hangar instead of being destroyed - the same rule a transporter
mid-delivery already follows with its cargo.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
