I was wondering if starbases with an attack power of at least one count as an armed starship in calculating an empire's military stregnth. I'm just wondering if there are ways to make other empires respect you without having to spend lots in per-turn fees for warship maintenance, besides that building that makes ships in orbit look more powerful to other empires. There's a lot of other buildings I'd rather have occupying that valuable real-estate on my planet, and ships that stay in orbit just to look impressive aren't much help when I'm trying to carry out an invasion.
