[geoschmo]

Ok, to save confusion I have taken to calling them "Seed ships" for the Last few Posts instead of colony ships to differentiate them from the ships you will be perfectly capable of building yourself.

Quantum reactors will be researchable as always, but you will not be able to build them until you research them later in the game.

However, I will be including one on each of your Seed ships at the beginning of the game so you don't run out of resources while searching for a new home.

Technically if you had some way of anylyzing the reactor, you would be a step closer to being able to build it yourself, but there is no way to anylyze it until you have a space yard. And you won't have a space yard until you colonize a planet. And once you colonize a planet, no more reactor... You get the idea.

(I suppose you could plant a colony, research ship capture, build a ship with boarding parties, and then find and capture one of the other races seed ships. But there is NO way anyone is going to take that long finding a home.)

Geoschmo