pmcollectorboy: Anyone know how I can get him moving again?
airo77: Hello, I guess, you need a construction ship, but I am not sure. Did you try anything yet?
You can also use the design screen to make refueling tankers. I always Include at least one or two tankers in each of my fleets. The star trek mod does not include troop transports for federation ships, so I got used to making my own designs for them. We are talking about fleet tankers though, so I'll take you through that.
First go to the design menu and select "new design". Now select troop transport as the design role. Your fleet tankers have to be military owned, so I use the troop transport to base my tankers on. First add all the components you need to qualify it as a troop transport. You only need one troop compartment. Now we turn our troop transport into a tanker.
First add one or maybe two gas extractors, and an energy plant to process the fuel. Now, in order to be able to transfer the fuel to another ship (refuel). You will need docking bays and a commerce center (goods must be payed for). I usually put in 4 or up to 6 docking bays as my ship size allows. The number of docking bays determine how many ships you can refuel at a time. Now you just add cargo bays instead of troop compartments and you have a tanker. To fill the tanker with fuel, just select the tanker and right click on the nearest gas giant that has hydrogen or gaslon. The more cargo bays you have, the more fuel it will mine, process and carry.
Remember to mine either hydrogen or gaslon depending on the fuel your ships use. Some gas giants have both. But mine before you attempt refueling, an empty tanker is no good to a thirsty carrier.
As your ship sizes get bigger with research, you can add defenses and other components as well. When I get to mega size I sometimes put in a fighter bay. I always found that these homemade tankers were much handier than resupply ships as it eliminates the need to deploy. You might also want to keep an eye on the tankers. If they sit idle for a while, sometimes they wander off and sell the fuel they mine or refuel a nearby base. Also it will be in the dropdown menu when you cue to build troop transports until you flag it as obsolete.
Hope ya'll find this helpful