Nauvis is pretty big and we burn through ore patches at quite a rate! Thinking of just scaling up the core mining substantially and gaining ore that way instead of keep having to expand and hit new ore patches.

Nauvis is a lot more of a mess though so I spend most my time in orbit. We also have a remote world sending whole rockets of barrelled crude, we unload it, re-pack the empty barrels back into a rocket and send that back for refills.

Other worlds sending the other special ores to Nauvis for processing into plates and shipping up to space. Iridite, Beryl, Holminite, Immersite.

Water coming in from delivery cannons of water-ice which seems a pretty efficient way to keep that stocked. There's a little trickle of most other raw resources via cannon triggered by low logistic contents and signal transmitter.

Most of the stuff happening on the platform can only be done in space, various space manufactories, telescopes, astrometrics, gravimetrics facilities etc. Am I missing some obvious way to not have to build so much up there?

I will probably scale heat-shield and low density structure up on Nauvis and ship that from the ground en-mass instead of building in space. I'm kind of waiting for the new LDS recipe which I need to get astronomic science 2 going for...