Haha yeah you can afk your planets but only if you don't want to actually do anything useful with them. Steel only builds up to about 400k so you hae to check about once every 2 months to build. Also wtf with the big enough stuff, that doesn't even make any sense. Military power is more or less proportional to number of mature planets. Tedium shouldn't be a constraint on size of empire. No rome references pls.
Thus why I like links. I regularly have well over 3.5 million steel available for use at my capital. Also, it's called build your fleet, then scrap it at the planet you wish to build ships from. Or if you have linked planets, build then scrap until you have all your resources able to be used by one planet in the link chain. ^_^ It's how I build huge fleets even though my empire is relatively small. (compare me to Amazoneon)
