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Hello, I recently started a new colony under the League of Independent States and have some questions about what exactly they can do. For starters, are they unable to build the space elevator, and is that because the black market bazaar performs the same function? Secondly, I thought after I had completed research of the ancient alien language I would be able to build aluminum generators, but I cannot find where to build the extraterrestrial builder. I've looked through the tech tree, and encyclopedia but I'm having a tough time understanding if some technologies, buildings, etc. are faction specific.