A few questions....

[SPiDER]

Why dont ANT have a Colosus?
Why dont HOP have a Zeus?
Why dont HAT have either Cerberus/Minotaur/Behemoth/Colosus etc
Why dont ARG or ANT attack stations built by HOP?
Why are ***** Instalations invulnerable?
Why do Xenon only spawn defense stations?

[RodentofDoom]

ANT are a sub-faction of ARG
If you check there is also a blueprint that ANT sells that ARG don't

The same pretty much applies to HOP
HAT are a mercenary faction, so not quite the pirates that SCA are.

Not all war features have been enabled yet

Xenon don't need other platform types

[Tomonor]

The first questions are sort of answered by the lore. Antigoné's newly formed faction have become a support faction/trade guild for the Argon Federation. That means they build ships a little bit differently, and they may not have access to all technologies.

Same applies for Hatikvah's Free Guild, although they have a different backstory. They originate from The Hole system, its main goal was to remove itself from the corruption of other factions and promise a new, prosper life. By the time we get to X4 they've turned to piracy in order to survive. Although they did sign a pact to not to disturb Argon waters.

[mr.WHO]

I think he mean that neither HOP nor ANT spawn carrier for their fleet.
I noticed the same in my game, but also see that PAR also don't rebuild their lost carrier.

[SPiDER]

One of my yards has rebuilt PAR zeus 3 times now.....the ARG colosus used to get destroyed a lot too but could never see where it was rebuilt...and yes MrWho you were correct it was not a lore question more of a balance question

Its quite sad too see how badly imbalanced ARG colosus vs HOP Oddy is...either needs more fighters attached to its wing or needs more L turrets to go up against HOP...OOS it copes quite well but IS 2 ARG behemoths and 1 ARG colosus both get wiped the floor by The HOP oddy's

[mr.WHO]

One of my yards has rebuilt PAR zeus 3 times now.....the ARG colosus used to get destroyed a lot too but could never see where it was rebuilt...and yes MrWho you were correct it was not a lore question more of a balance question

Strange - in my game it's in reverse - I don't see any HOP, ANT and PAR carriers build (I check their and mine Shipyards), yet ARG have no problem to rebuild their carrier in Argon Prime for the third time in my game.
Both PAR and HOP seems to be destroyer crazy in my game, while ANT spam Cerberus and fighters.

[Karmaticdamage]

The Xenon and the empires build defense platforms to take over sectors. They are the flag in the ground so to speak, they establish control over the sector. The empires don't care about destroying the production stations as they don't influence control and will continue to drop defense platforms in adjacent systems as long as they continue to take over sectors. Currently none of the empires can really make any headway against each other without the players intervention. If you want to progress a war front, destroy one side's defense platforms and the system will flip control to the other, and the winning faction will build defense platforms in the next system. You can help the ANT/PAR conquer the HOP if you like, or help the HOP conquer everything.

The Khaak hives are invulnerable so that theirs still something left for the player to do if you exterminate everything. If you kill all the other factions ships, shipyards, and wharfs, they have no way to make ships and the game world would be dead and empty forever.