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If I build a starbase in proximity to a relic and I don't have a planet within the zone of influence of that starbase, do I still get the effects of that relic? What about mining starbases? Will I get the commodity mined if a planet is not within that starbase's ZOI?
Of course you have to have the right tech to get the benefits of the relic or the mining, not just build a starbase. And the relic's benefit is empire wide.
It took me a while to realize that when the benefit listed is "colony" that means every colony; when it is "starbase" the same, and so on. It should be a bit clearer. Once I figured this out, my priority for mining and defending relics increased about a factor of 100. 
Bamdorf: ditto for me. I like to stay ahead in the research race, and even the early levels (+10% and then +20%) of bonuses on the blue research relics can really add up if you are tapping into 2 or more of them. Often my early expansion focuses first on standard habitable planets, once most of those are claimed I shift to relics that I have located and try to get a starbase built by each of them as I am getting the techs for Extreme Colonization and then swing back into colonizing those planets as they become available.
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