[Kellicus]

although I would love to use the allegianc subverter, i usually grab organics and religion. Not many points left over after that.
And, although there are pluses and negatives to both, I like boarding parties over the allegiance subverter. On the plus side, although the allegiance subverter can only be used once per combat, you can have more than one on a ship and that would allow each ship to take over more than one enemy ship each combat. On the down side, I believe it doesn't work against master computers (which I use on all my large combat craft).