For the placing of the claiming beacon, you have to go to the ship's fire groups and set the sci suite to a fire group, then be able to deploy the beacon, the info told to you with the tutorial and mission screen doesn't tell you this.
CCM composite -Recommendations
A) remove requirement for CCM composite.
or
B) Increase production rate at source bases. *(by a lot, from current rate)
At current production levels with how much is required and how many things require it, asking this much *(lol) is too much.
Insulating membrane
Recommendation:
either increase production rate at orbital stations or remove requirement for insulating membrane.
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