I enjoyed this game a lot, please keep working on it. I'd like to offer some suggestions to improve it:
1. Add a key/legend to explain the on-screen symbols. Please make it clearer how mines and research labs work.
2. Could research & build menus be permanently on screen?
3. Needs some explanation for each option on the research screen.
4. I got to a point where under the research menu I had: starline, Homeworld shield project and Energy Upgrade 3 were shown greyed out with numbers in square brackets beside them (what do they mean?). No matter which square I went to, none of the options were available - is this a bug? I then had to give up.
5. It needs a hover over / peek ahead type option, currently you just have to blindly enter a square without knowing anything about it.
6. Solar panels shown on the ship, but they don't generate energy ;-)