Mod question: Possible to create research/intell component on ship?

[dmm]

He is being funny. He means pirates and nomads don't do research themselves. Instead, they steal (extract) it from captured (liberated) ships.

[Phoenix-D]

"or how you get rp out of boarding parties & a spaceyard..."

Board the ship, capture it, take it to a shipyard and use the analyze function. You gain at technology if the ship is more advanced than what you have