Regarding Tech Levels: The CIS and Republic lack agency by design to represent the titular "minor" factions. I'm experimenting with unlocking the ability to escalate the war by completing certain actions, like capturing Dantoonie as the CIS or Coruscant/another important core world as the Republic. There would be theoretical thresholds where everyone has to realize there's a new major player on the scene.

However, as of Patch 7, Starbases for the Republic and CIS are NOT tied to Tech Levels anymore. They all unlock at Tech Level 1, since none of the vanilla factions are similarly handicapped. Despite that, certain larger vessels (like the Providence and Lucrehulk) are gated behind some low tech level advances to show a remobilization effort using existing technology.

So for the cis /republic tech how do you tech up to get a lukerhulk/subjugator class ?

Thank you for this sub mod this is now my go to mod combo. One question though and unsure if this falls into the discussion above, When playing the Republic, the Space battle Star base upgrades are not appearing at all regardless of star base level or tech level, these are your generic Hard point and system wide buffs for space battles (hope you know which I mean). I have not tried the CIS yet to see if the same issue also noticed that despite building the star bases the graphic doesn't appear in the planetary zoom in window either So i cannot tell unless the starting planet is attacked if the is a star base already built there. I'm not sure if this is expected or using a corrupt download. Many thanks regardless