Originally posted by Arezz: Is it possible to board a ship with organic tech and analyze it to get it?
No. The option to modify the data files to allow that is possible.
"Ha, I have boarding tech -- soon I will have organic & crystal armored, talisman mounting, dreadnoughts built at my temporal shipyard -- and I spent no racial points to get it. See me puny mortal and fear me."
You can board the ship and capture it, yes. Then, you can even use it yourself. But, you can only analyze it (and repair it's special components) if you have the trait required to gain access to the tech area.
Of course, if the ship has useful NON-organic components on it (ie engines, fighter bays) then you can analyse that. YOu just don't get racial trait stuff.