I hear starting heavy industry causes "problems" with the other factions. Given I have no idea what these "problems" amount I'm nervous about when to start it. My situation is:
* Three planets in one system sizes 5, 4 and 3 at the moment producing a net income of about 100k per month after fleet costs.
* One has military base, the other two patrol HQ's
* One is a beezer mining world, +3 rare ore and + 2 ore (plus bonuses from my skills)
* I have four pristine nanoforges
* I'm not that happy with my fleet but it amounts to one Legion single D-mod carrier (hull debuff), a Heron, two dominators, two Apogees, an Eagle, a Falcon and a couple of overdriven Hammerheads plus sundry smaller ships. Enough to do 250k bounties and bases reasonably easy it seems.
* I haven't found any good capital ship blueprints yet, only the crumby Atlas one.
* I got 3m credits in the bank
* I took a commission with Hegemony to kick start my colonization but have resigned it now. But my ranking with the Persians and Magenta coloured faction are still not good, they are still suspicious.
I thought of doing some outer system exploration expeditions to see if I can find some decent capital ship blueprints or even derelict examples as a break from the bounty grind, but I'm unsure if I should start heavy industry now or if I should first upgrade my fleet and colonies in some way before doing so or perhaps grind up some better rep with the two major factions that don't like me very much.