[Hotfoot]

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Drones are not recoverable. That's the way they were intended to work.

This presents a bit of a problem then. In the latest patch, it would seem that if given the opprotunity to do so, ships capable of launching drones can launch all of their drones in one turn, regardless of how many they're supposed to be able to launch per game turn. So if a ship disgorges all of its drones in combat, it can't ever pick them up again. I guess this means limited the drone launcher to having only a few drones on board when you don't intend on using them, and then loading them up with tons of drones from cargo ships right before they hit their intended target.