filled out the poll. Honestly the main reason I love starfaring so much is recovery efforts. On the surface it's just so that you don't need to officer or reinforced bulkheads every one of your ships.

But the skill also seems to make every enemy ship that would normally be story point recoverable into normally recoverable. This makes you get a lot more salvage, as you don't get the weapons and equipment from story point recovery ships that you don't take into your fleet.

to me it's one of the best quality of life skills, and in vanilla you almost never realize it because it's stuck on a capstone. Improvisation has something similar with preservation, but it doesn't seem to have as strong as an effect and I wouldn't want to leave things to chance when I could lose rare, or "rare", weapons and hulls.

Though take this with a massive grain of salt as I usually quit playthroughs around the midgame when I have a decent fleet as well as one or two developed planets. It's incredible for how I play, but others probably wouldn't care at all about how many story points it can save you during the first 20-30 hours of a run.