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*** Multi-Contained Munition (Beam Weapon) has weak effects of a cloak, guidance system, mine dispenser plus decent penetrating scanner and bomb, with very modest mass. It's weaker than beam weapons you'll have, but now you can stop making ponderous bombers good for very little beyond their primary function and being an expensive mobile fuel tank, and instead build bombing warships - light enough to use stargates, with decent protection so the won't fall to the cheap interceptor fleets ''and'' even when not bombing they still scan and lay mines (at least you won't need to use up one more design slot for a dedicated minelayer)!
** They also circumvent component restrictions from racial traits: Langston Shell, Mega Poly Shell and Multi-Contained Munition are penetrating scanners you can build despite '''No Advanced Scanners''' LRT; Alien Miner is outperformed by the 2nd mining robot, and secondary benefits are of dubious usefulness for a miner ship<ref>except cloaking: not being noticed in the first place is the best defense, as miners remain slow even with these robots; and since most of the time they're orbiting and only visible to penetrating scanners (in shorter range), cloaking about 50% for Mini-Miner gives a good chance near enemy territory</ref>, but still works 2.5 time better<ref>and since it's cheaper, you can build about twice as many ships</ref> than the only component available with '''Only Basic Remote Mining''' LRT.
** Jump Gate allows equipped ships to gate even from deep space (limited only by receiving stargate). Good for IT because they have less limited gates and this increases mobility, good for everyone else because now they can gate cargo<ref>to avoid using the station's stargate transports need to move away from the colony for 1 year, but it's still an improvement</ref>.
* [[Jack of All Trades]]: A Primary trait allowing extra population and free scanner automatically upgraded to your Tech Level in any ship built with either of 3 small "scout" (Scout, Frigate, Destroyer) hulls, and a boost to starting Tech Levels.
** '''Generalized Research''' lesser trait allows to allocate only 50% of research spending on the chosen field, but gives 15% into others, i.e. adds up to 50%+5*15%=125% total research points from the same resources. As such, it has cost between minor negative and minor positive values.
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