Unique Techs, worthless?

[Jubala]

I agree, the guns are useless and the shield facility is way to expensive to be practical to build. In the time it takes to build that facility I can build alot of weapon platforms with shilds and wepons and have more damage soak capability and I can fire back and I save a facility space.

Never used the neural net but I can see it's use. Does the ship with the highest experience also have the net for the low exp ship with the net to get the exp boost?