Well... for starters, Cortez can pilot the Aquairre.  He's got the skill, and a good quality MIU, and Darius can shoot its guns.  Thraius can push it's engines and lead repairs, so we've got that pretty much covered.     None of us are Sarah, but combined we'd be a lot better than the NPC captain.  It wouldn't be as good as if Sarah was flying, but with that combo it'd be far from a liability.<br/><br/>Since both ships are equally fast... (in theory, anyway) there wouldn't be a huge problem escaping if we were badly outnumbered...<br/><br/>Still... there is another reason or two why I'd like to do the whole flying through space thing as a group...<br/><br/>One, it lets TGT narrate a single plot line... speeding things up.<br/><br/>Two... I have a dream... one where we fight pirates (and reavers, etc...) in space, and our victories mean more than just clearing sectors... one where after we clear a sector, leaving a blasted pirate ship or two in our wake, our Salvage/Repair ship, flies up to the hulk, and chomp chomp chomp, salvages all the useful stuff off it, which we cart, booty style, back to Attica Station to, say, outfit the orbital platforms and our cruiser with stolen guns, create a stockpile of looted spare parts for engines, shields, etc... and even capture a ship or two to add to our fleet (which we can refit with our growing stockpile of parts we loot from wrecks...)<br/><br/>It's a pirate's dream come true, but we get to do it and be the good guys!  It'll take time, but slowly, battle by battle, instead of having our strength whittled down, we'll grow and grow in strength, acquiring parts and booty through conquest instead of just getting equipment through acquisition tests.  After all, are we lowly merchants, or powerful Rogue Traders?