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I think it is potentially that powerfull, but not always. besides, you have the ability to destroy it before it gets back to a shipyard for study. as far as the level of the project, its probably good where it is.

I would argue that its far easier to have a crew insurection than it is to get a planet to rebel. I will point to all the mig pilots that defected to the US during the cold war. now, the obvious counter to that is that the only warship of note that defected was in a Tom Clansey book, and we have puppet political parties all over the place.. but we dont have puppet politicians in any first world countries, and interplanetary empires are hopefully at least as organized as most modern nations in that respect.