[AGoetz]

My understanding from the current PBW Version is that you install the breech pod componenets on your ships and assign them capture ship orders - works for me anyway. The AI will use them when it designs Ship Capture hulls.

Raiders and Gaim have their own Versions that are better than the standard component available to the other races. (The Gaim one may not be in the current PBW Version, will have to check).