Psychology mods? Increasing the role of troops?

[Pax]

Originally posted by KnidVermicious:
1) Psychotropic Drugs/Rage Engine-Component that increases offense% whil decreasing defense%

Entirely possible, yes. One component with both the combat-to-hit-plus and combat-defense-minus traits.

2) Commissar/political officer-component that adds to boarding defense (counts as X boarding parties or something, but is smaller)

I'll go you one better: make it an auxiliary bridge with anti-boarding properties. Then you can haveonly one per ship, it helps resist the Allegience Subverter, keeps the ship under control if the bridge is taken out, and provides some additional anti-boarding defense.