Can you "use up" a Security Station?

[bbq]

Thanks for the replies. The odd part about all this is that this "all or nothing rules" only applies to ATTACKING boarding parties.

In a failed attack attempt (you should have done the math and not attack to begin with basically), all your boarding parties die and all defending boarding parties AND security stations survive.

But in a successful attack attempt, all your boarding parties still die, but any defending parties that were there are now yours.

Stranger still, if you have 10 boarding parties and there is only 1 unit of defender, you will always send ALL of the parties aboard, the defender will be captured, all 10 parties will be destroyed and the defending party surviving. The inabilitiy to choose how many boarding parties to send will leave your ship completely empty and vulnerable to other boarders unless you have a self destruct device.

It seems two things should happen :
1. If the defender loses, any defending parties or security stations should be destroyed.

2. The boarder should be able to specify how many units to send over (and always "used up" in the process).

What do you think?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Make security stations and boarding parties use the same component?