Science Again: Is it not possible to steal tech from the Thoraxians?

[nas1m]

Or are there other prerequisites I have to meet?
They have the tech I want, that's for sure.
But the respective hostile act is not available to me (even though the advisor lists them as one race that I could steal the tech from...) .

[Mick]

Do you have enough credit to do the action? There was one time I wasn't able to steal tech from a race I thought I could, but I figured maybe it was because I was too low on credit for that action to show up.

[x4000]

Andors and Thoraxians don't have informants, so you can't steal from them, no.  I'll need to update the text to show that.  Thanks!

[Hyfrydle]

If that's the case how can we get tech off these races?

[nas1m]

If that's the case how can we get tech off these races?

Only by researching it with them as a sponsor, I would presume...

[x4000]

Right.  So if they already have it, you can't get it from them at all.  Queenie does not share...

[Hyfrydle]

I used to like the Andors now I'm not so sure.

[x4000]

Ha!   

All the races have their pros and cons, and there are specifically certain types of activities that are forbidden with each one.  It makes them much more unique, I think.

[keith.lamothe]

Just paint a nice moon-sized bullseye on the Andor homeworld.

Maybe there'll be some tech you can steal floating around with the debris?

[Tridus]

The Andors are pretty easy to get along with. Don't worry, there's always the Evucks to steal from.

[nas1m]

BTW: How do I station security goons at a science outpost? I seem to fail to find the necessary friendly action  ...

[keith.lamothe]

BTW: How do I station security goons at a science outpost? I seem to fail to find the necessary friendly action  ...

You don't have to: security goons protect all your outposts simultaneously.

They're dumb, but they're fast.

[nas1m]

BTW: How do I station security goons at a science outpost? I seem to fail to find the necessary friendly action  ...

You don't have to: security goons protect all your outposts simultaneously.

They're dumb, but they're fast.

Then they are too dumb to do their job! I got 20 security goons and a single science outpost captured from the Arcutians and it has a defense level of zero . Currently I am holding on to this little gem by manually fending off attackers again and again ...

[keith.lamothe]

They're there, and they're fighting.  They're just not shown in the power thing, since they're not really armadas like the stuff that's shown there.  We're improving their display in 0.902

[nas1m]

They're there, and they're fighting.  They're just not shown in the power thing, since they're not really armadas like the stuff that's shown there.  We're improving their display in 0.902

Ah, okay. I will take your word for this ...