[couslee]

I did a design for a ship the was intended to take the front line. it only had a couple of guns and lots of shileds. I wanted them to take the brunt of the attacks while the rest of the fleet hung back a spot. it worked kinda ok, but I decided the design was not quite all that. so i went to retrofit them to the other design. The retrofit was refused with "we can't build a new ship".lol
So I don't see how Wanderer is doing that, unless using retro-series building.

I think using retro series is cheezy. and even tho I really wanted to upgrade my "tortise" design I didn't. they will continue on with their current use, or get recycled.

But, to each his/her own