the ability to establish an in-orbit shipyard after a set of requirements are fulfilled.
An example of how this can work:
1. Make a space station with a lot of storage, also some specialized parts meant to assemble and launch rockets from.
1.5 (this can take a lot of missions to do)
2. If there's enough stuff on the space station, you can launch stuff from it.
3. if there's not enough stuff, you can't.
This is already a function of Planet Studio: https://www.simplerockets.com/CelestialBodies/View/V10kjW/Saturn-Orbital-Shipyard
Featured in:
https://www.simplerockets.com/PlanetarySystems/View/8t6NSi/137-Bodies-Stellar-Neighborhood-v2-0-Real-Lava-Update