[WhiteHojo]

thanks for the quick reply SJ

some points of clarification:

1) pirates should get ship capture... don't they already have it at the start? or while not the 'ship capture' tech, they have 'swashbucklers' or something at the start and can capture ships... is the cost to get to 'ship capture' worth the reduction in penalty for the Swashbucklers? (something like 155,000 for lvl 1 ship capture to remove the 30% penalty the swash'klrs have?)

2) storm systems - so in the one space storms I can see everything in system but they can't see me... and in the system wide storms nobody can see anybody? (except your own ships)