Hwat happend to my ship?

[Martin the Dane]

I was building an "Eagle Attack" at my home world, and needed it quite badly as one of my bordersystems just had it's defenses whipped. The SitRep told me that I had built an Eagle Attack at Tali I, but there's no ship, and no combat happend. (my system ships are still there).

The particulat model of Eagle Attack was obsolete, as I on the previose turn had researched some new long-range weapond.

So where did my ship go? Was it scrapped? Or is it being upgraded or??????
This is my first game, and it's my first real starship, I have built a few system and colony ships.

[Proteus_MST]

Starships go directly to the reserves.

Look into "Shipyards" and there click on the Tab on the right, If I remember correctly it is named "Fleets".
There you should find your Ship

To deploy a Taskforce right-click on a System which has a Mobilization-Center (at the Beginning of the game usually only your Home System has one of those and choose "Deploy Taskforce". Here you can build Fleets of certain Sizes with the Ships in your Reserve and they appear one turn later in the System where your deployed the Taskforce

[Martin the Dane]

Thank's

Well I accidentally found out. But why is there nothing about this in the "Masters notes" or the manual (don't answer, it's just a retorical question)

[vmxa1]

If you want a ship to be built and stay on that planet, it needs to be a system ship. At first Hawks are enough, but later you will want to make the Hawk on a bigger hull or it will not be able to intercept.