>>6017856I can bud in here real quick since I was the one who suggested the mega project idea. The megaproject isn't meant to be locked wholly behind the wormhole tech. Only the last level of it is meant to. Since the last level is a way for the Starbreaker to drop neutron bombs anywhere in the system. The first two levels are meant to work on cruder teleportation arrays.
Secondly, if we were to create habitats able to house humans in the neutron system, it would allow ships to go out on their own as soon as we have discovered the wormhole tech. With a level two starbreaker, we could sit in the neutron star system for like 100 years, produce an entire navy and live nomadically as the flagship of a mobile fleet.