I don't use that feature and it's been a while, so I can't promise to remember exactly.
I believe it's done before replace_metadata on ships.
But replace_metadata lines for ships_CHARS are applied to the individual names before they are sorted.
Then replace_metadata lines for ships are applied.
As I recall, the intention was to allow for normalizing names in ships and the order before giving a chance to also operate on the now-normalized ships.
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