Index -> Playing the Game -> Planning Phase -> Build Orders
Each industrial planet is capable of building four different types of basic entities: citizens, scouts, cruisers, and bombers. (A bomber may be built only while the galaxy is at war.)
When you click on a friendly industrial planet, a production menu will appear in the Information Panel. Each entity that you can build has its name, picture and important stats, along with a minus and plus button. Click these buttons to set how many of that entity you�d like to build this turn.
The entities you build now do not actually enter play until the deployment phase. A single planet can build any number of entities in a single turn, subject to the limitations of its available build points. Build points are not restored each turn, but are instead accumulated through production (described fully under Production Phase). Unspent build points do accumulate from one turn to the next.