MP and TP help

MP and TP help

This may seem like an embarassingly dumb question but I'm completely
new to this game and need help understanding how the mp's and tp's work.

I see shields, hammer and flask icons appear in planets stats,
and I realise how these are produced. However I'm a bit lost
as to how to use them.

In the manual it says:

'A ship’s cost is the number of shields of Military Production that will
have to accumulate at a colony in order for that colony’s Star Port
to construct the ship'.

But when I go to build a ship I see no cost in shields only
cost in bc's. I don't see where or how the hammer and flask
icons are used either. And why are the shields 'dulled out' on
some of my colonies?

One more question, I build a simple new design in ship builder give it
a beam weapon and a couple of engines. I can then build this ship
in game and see that it has beam weapon attack etc. When I go to
upgrade this ship and add a new weapon type my original beam weapon
is missing?

Sorry for the dumb questions but any help in clearing
things up appreciated. This is the fourth time I've tried to post this
message I don't where the others went?
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