oh i should probably also say:
i support
>>5216023 as i also wish if we could get some knowledge from the outside
and after the visits to alpizar and datz, i would definitely wanna ask the merchants & merchants son about the possibility of a "salvage fleet" aka, a small group of merchant ships which would follow us around and gather any and all killed/incapacitated ships to tear them apart for use back at the station, or to repair into new small frigates if they were undamaged enough.
& QM, can we possibly in the future have a "surrender, and yet live" option when meeting smaller pirate fleets? that way we could roll to see which ships might defect to our side.