[Suicide Junkie]

Well, I tried some stuff in v1.49, and I learned:
1) You can't be given a (racial) tech that you don't have the prerequisite tech area for, even if you could eventually have gotten the tech.

Things I confirmed:
1) Repairs do not happen to components you haven't researched the tech for.
2) If you have one requisite tech, but not the others, you still can't repair it.
3) When you analyse you only get the tech from intact components.

Things to consider in the homecoming scenario:
- Your race has access to ALL racial techs (7500 racial points).
- There are a lot of crossover technologies in the mod: analysing one component can often get you more than one tech levelup.
- Multiple components use the same techs: just because the enemy's shard cannon is destroyed, dosen't mean you can't get the SC tech from the HEM beams.