Are there incompatibilities planned between Item 2.0 components, for example Vanduul and human tech items? Will you be able to take components out of a Vanduul Scythe or a Glaive and put them into a Super Hornet?
TL;DRThe first version probably won't restrict components between races, but restrictions may be added after balancing, such as non-removable parts on a captured Vanduul ship, and some cross-race interoperability is expected.
I think for our first go at this, we won't have those restrictions quite there yet. But as we start balancing them, figuring out the best places that each of the items should live in, we'll figure out where those restrictions need to occur. What's appropriate, what's not. And then if we need to make bespoke items for ship types.
And the recent Banu Defender is a good example. It's got Tevarin shield generators, it's got Xi'an engines, and the power plant was from, I can't remember the third race, but it's got technology from three different races in it. So to some extent there will be some interoperability, but there will probably have to be, for balance reasons, some captured Vanduul ship where it's like, okay, you can't take the components out of that one.
We'll have to play with the system first and figure out exactly where we're at.