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Originally posted by Puke:
Okay, so here is my idea to turn this into a full blown RPS variant:

The problem with making these Racial Techs is that the game would be decided before the game started by what techs were chosen by what player. Not a lot of fun, that.

Maybe keep them as normal research items, but make them so frikkin expensive, that you can only support a handful of ships. (probably don't want the build time to be as exaggerated as the maintenance, though, so either SYs would need to build quicker, or retrofitting would need to be munchkinized (ie, free).