[StarShadow]

And I could argue right back that you could always get an extra 1000 points by taking inept farming/inept refining. The 5% hit on farming and refining is really rather miniscule since organics are still barely used (unless you take the organic trait), and rads are still used less than minerals. Plus you get access to more than one weapon, and some nice facilities (system-wide training, for example), also.