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		| Ed Kolis said: Adamant has a few, like the Magnetic Screen which is an inferior shielding technolgy, but nice if you haven't researched shield tech (or you're an organic race which can't get shields for ships
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 AIC and Proportions have multiple levels of the unique techs, so while you need the ruins to get you started, after that you can improve on them with research...
 
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 As does Adamant.
There was a large collection of unique techs posted a while back (3 years ago?), which included lots of ruins techs, even some racial ones (only for Religious races, for example).
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		| Gandalph said: I have added unique ruins in the yet to be released Stranger Mod, but rather than giving you a component, it opens a unique research area that you can then research to get the component, usually in several levels.
 
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 GMTA. 

 Adamant does this as well. You even have to have various theoretical techs available first before you can develop your ruins techs, including a Xenoarchaeology tech area that does nothing but allows ruins techs to be utilized.