You are making some assumptions.<br/><br/>1, that fighting without scouting will even be possible.<br/><br/>2, that the pirates will be in conveniently small enough groups for us to defeat each time we run into them.<br/><br/>3, that having both ships will be more powerful than having just one.<br/>Previously, that was not so, as we only have one pilot hot enough to take advantage of our two ships incredible speed and maneuverability.<br/><br/>A lesser pilot would have let the bad guys shoot at us a whole heck of a lot more...<br/><br/>So who's going to be flying the Aquairre into danger?