Will alien tech sometimes be better than UEE tech? (Example: Banu- more efficient jump engines, jump scanners, BIG BAD WEAPONS to hang on the sides of our Hulls ;) Will alien tech be useable on UEE ships at the same level of effectiveness the equipment has on its native vessels?asked by Grand-Admiral-Kern

We've always sort of established a lot of the big alien races/civilizations are roughly around the same technological level just because it felt like if somebody had a, was far advanced than Humanity maybe they would just, if the Xi'an were just a super power basically compared to Humanity they would just wipe Humanity out, and just not be much of a war. That idea that everybody can hurt everybody was important. That being said each one will have things that we specialise in that they are better at. We've already sort of seen it with some of the Xi'an ships that they tend to do be vertical, they have fewer main thrusters, more maneuvering thrusters type of stuff, trying to give them different feels and flavours and stuff like that.

Even down to the nitty gritty of that like parts of the components, there can definitely be some things for you, Banu make and model, things like the scanner could have some different parameters that a UEE make and model scanner wouldn't have favoured. It would always be a give and take, you're going to equip either Banu or Xi'an tech for this purpose and wouldn't so much be just a general always better type of thing.

Do you think as far as, can I take an RSI ship and put in a Banu scanner?

I would definitely say so, that's also why we did some of the component size standardisation so that we've got the housing and the box for, this is a volume of a small class power plant or a small class radar but what each individual race and manufacturer delivers for that could look very different while the functionality and that interfacing into the ship is still very much the same.

Or it's converted to do its thing.

Yeah. Adapter plates!