Yeah, I agree effectiveness wise that might be the better idea.  My thought was more RP-wise - why does the military own these resource gathering ships?  Its the shreds as you say, and it just seemed to make sense that military type ships are what the military possessed, civilian type ones what the civilians possessed.  We make do with what we have, basically, rather than have everything we need.<br/><br/>I'm by no means overly fussed - my post on the previous page was very much suggestions rather than anything else.