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The only thing is you have to be careful not to make a racial tech cloak that is only defeatable by a racial tech scanner. Otherwise you have an "Uber-weapon". For example if Psychic cloaking device (Doesn't exsist, but easily moddable) is only defeatable by a Psychic scanner, and the only race that can have a pcychic scanner is another psychic race, then they would have an insurmountable advantage over non-psychic races. This would through throw the game totally out of whack.
That is not entirely correct. Balance can be achieved by allowing each race an uber-weapon only defeatable by others of the same race. Then balance is achieved by each having an advantage others cannot defeat verses every weapon or component having a counter available to everyone. It is certainly tougher to set-up which is why you seldom encounter that type of balance. But given what the individual racial traits are supposed to mimic, actually makes more sense. It would certainly add to the depth of strategies in a multi-player game. Who do you ally with and ships with such weapons/components would be a valuable trading commodity.