Living Metal Station is Built Prior to Tech Completion

[EarthboundPapa]

I have a living metal harvesting station built early. I didn't think it was supposed to allow this and there are a few details that suggest there's something incorrect the program. I thought maybe the harvest was coming from somewhere else, such as empire modifier, but there is actually a station built above the site in the system...

Acquiring the living metal harvest site was done by completing one of the special projects about a health issue in a robot colony, or something close to this. There was a contact screen with visual feed, and three choices at the end. I chose to research a health project to help the robot colony, or something close to this. There was a title to the health project research, and it required presence of a scientist. I had built mining and research stations within the system, just like any other. You'll see in the first picture below, I'm already harvesting living metal at the very beginning of the game, prior to having the research complete. The third picture is of the station actually built when it shouldn't be allowed yet. The point symbol remains white (incomplete).

Probably not a bug, just needs to be fixed after the last console update. I understand there's something I could be missing about this, but the presence of the station makes it unclear to me enough to post.

 

[Critical_Damage]

Do you have a planetary deposit on one of your colonized planets, similar to Zro, that can be found with the Zroni as Ancients?

 

[MrFreake_PDX]

its possible this system was owned by another empire that was destroyed before you took it over, or maybe you have the void hive civic?

 

[EddieB212]

Not really a bug, just a fortunate incidence if this was generated through an anomaly event that provides research, and has a station in orbit, before finishing the 2nd stage of the event. Since living metal is collected through research stations the station remains unaffected by a change in the deposit

 

[EarthboundPapa]

Not sure if this is actually incorrect. I should replay the story to make sure the mining station isn't built FOR YOU in some way as part of that story. This would explain why there is a harvest prior to the player being able to build one themselves. This was at the very beginning of the game, so there was no reclaiming involved. Sounds like EddieB212 is on with the idea of a fortunate incident. It's possible the resource type changed in the moment the station was being completed for another and the game isn't programmed to cancel the build in this circumstance? Or perhaps the station IS simply part of the story and they give you a station prior to having the ability to build one.

The story was the C.A.R.E interactive interface robots. The option chosen at the end was to research a cure, this opens up special project: 'Develop a Cure for the Ferrofuge'. Upon completion, the player might receive this station.