Newbie questions at turn ~50 of a PBW game

[geoschmo]

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Originally posted by Rhinestone Cowboy:
1- If by Racial Traits you mean Racial Technology like Psycjic Weapons, then as far as I know, no one else can use that technology. (You have to be Psychic in order to use a Psychic weapon, you have to be religious in order to use a religious artifact). Can't Give'em, Can't trade'em, can't steal'em.

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While it is true you can't give, trade or steal the racial technology itself, you can give trade and steal ships with racial tech components on them.

If a psychic race builds a ship with allegiance converters, he can give it to me, or trade it to me, or I can maybe capture it with boarding parties or intel, or get it if he surrenders to me. I can then use it just as he would. But I can't build new ones, and I can't repair the racial components if they get damaged. And I can deconstruct and anylyze it, but it won't do me any good, because I can't understand the technology behind it.

Geoschmo