[quote=@Cale Tucker]
[@Alfhedil] Your armor choice, did you choose reactive, grounded or thick? 

And also, you can only excel in one weapon type. Like I could make gauss cannons and missiles and ion weapons, but they'd be a horrible design and inefficient. "Advanced kinetic weapons"  as bonus makes you outrank every other weapon, even if they are at superior rank

So I'll crunch your gauss technology as standard, if that's okay with you. That's generous. 
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I'll answer this at a point in which I'm not in a foul mood and will likely argue over the arbitrary nature of the tech system.