Well, OK.  So what are our choices:<br/><br/>Either we spend an effective 10 Power (because we'll be reclaiming ten of it) on a gunstar or we spend 10 Subordinate on a research vessel.  Muse - any chance of you weighing in on this?<br/><br/>As an aside - Caela - I don't really see it as "our choice being taken away from us".  I really don't want to provoke an argument but just to give another point of view:<br/><br/>Imagine I was running a DnD game.  I say "The game is set around a temple in a hostile wasteland.  I want you all to play Clerics or Paladins."  While I guess that is technically taking away a choice its also, I dunno, it feels a reasonable thing for a DM to say.  It's a "this is how the game is, make sure you roll up characters appropriate to that".  While, sure, I'm not enamoured with spending those points and, had kckolbe not said "this is the game" I almost certainly wouldn't, this is the game.  The DMs job is to some extent taking away choices to make sure the game runs the way he wants it to.  We also don't have the choice to roll up a city on Caprica or to play Cylons.<br/><br/>As I say, really don't want to start an argument, just wanting to give an alternate view.<br/><br/>All that said, my vote would go research vessel.  However, it would be kinda useful if Muse could weigh in?  I think we might be a bit stuck until then.