[ROS] Whats the deal?

[RParade]

Terminology sounds wrong, but this is where...well...ordering, comes in? You pay them, they start building it, you wait 5 god damn years,you buy it, you own it

No.

When you're talking about a Military, only an Admiral (or higher) can sanction new ships into an armada. Even in an unlawful organization like the Rogues (or Al Qaida, if you need a RL example), you'll have one guy who says "yay" or "nay", and he's not going to just make the decision lightly, you know? It's one hell of a task to build something of that scale, I mean.. Alot of it in the real world is done by Human hands (because it has to be, as you can't trust machinery to build something that'll be the shield for thousands of Human souls), so... Some of what you pay to build these things cannot be accounted for in money or credits, because it may take years to complete and the resources you need for it are almost always limited (in the case of nuclear propulsion and submarines, very much so). "Sacrifices must be made for power", n' all that.

Weapons like these are generally so sophisticated that you can't make profit off of them by building them and selling them. It's why you don't see superpowers like Rheinland and Liberty cranking out fleets of capitol ships day and night, 'cause it isn't possible for them to do that sort of stuff. Same reason why no one in the real world does it, the American Navy only has a couple thousand nuclear submarines in it's arsenal, and it's the second largest submarine fleet in the world. Russia takes first, but doesn't have that much more than America (500 units or so, perhaps). If you start talking about Navy destroyers, Gunboats, and all of the other vessels that Space/FL/Discovery ships are modelled off of then the numbers involved become even smaller.. You also have to take into account though that each House Military/Organization/Faction in Sirius is going to be significantly larger than anything you'll find on our real world planet, Earth.

ADDENDUM: In the old days, back when Germany was the stomping grounds for Hitler and the Nazi's, only Hitler and his very close circle of Elitescould sanction a new U-Boat into their Navy, because at the time the U-Boat was their most prized war machine as it couldn't be detected by Radar and they couldn't afford for it to be lost to enemy hands. Do some research on the "enigma code", it's pretty interesting. In the US Navy of today, they keep the reactors for nuclear submarines locked up tight in a bunker outside of America, solely to retain control over the production of these vessels. Can't build one without flying the reactor in from halfway across the world. You don't build a submarine in America without every Navy officer above the rank of Commander knowing about it, for example. Hells, these days it's difficult to build one anywhere on the planet without some superpower like Britain, America, or even China knowing what you're building. Same is true with alot of your fighter jets and so on, aswell.