[Taqwus]

Saxon, you've hit upon what's possibly a weakness -- it's tricky to find out what tech an ally has. You can use espionage to steal ship designs or more directly get a technology report, IIRC, but doing so risks irritating them... If you're lucky, a mutual enemy captured one of their ships, and you can use crew insurrection to take THAT back, and examine it.

AFAICT, AI allies generally keep mum about their tech, and whether or not they could help (or, conversely, whether they badly need assistance).


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