Your local MClass planet is suffering high Food prices (making your upkeep costs spiral out of control). You don’t want to let your worker population drop below 30,000 (since you’ll lose a Pylon and the buildings on them).
What can you do to reduce the burden on the MClass planet while you help to get the planet prices and population back on track?
The short answer is to starve the starbase of Food until it’s population drops to a little over 30,000 and then return to feeding it again until the population is restored.
The long answer (and explaination as to why) follows…
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Commanding a Starbase doesn’t end once you have upgraded from a Trading Outpost. Failure to keep the worker population supplied with Food and Water will cause them to leave.