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The Pirate mod is cool if you want to play from a different point of view. Even though new techs and components are added they are only for the Pirate to use and actually are worse than the standard items in most ways.
It's not the fact that the techs are les useful, its the fact that you have to come up with innovative ways to make them useful.
Some are downright amazing technologies.
-A 100kT shipyard! you can cram it into an escort for instant building away from home, while the normals need Cruiser tech before they can do the same. It may not be fast, but you can build a small construction base with it, and let the base build the serious stuff.
-Swashbucklers! Boarding parties from turn one! Even a single crew quarters can fend them off, but you can use them en masse.