What good does the special Thalan Starbase Tech do if you cannot use its defense plusses to defend starbases? Adding a +24 to all types of starbase defenses means NOTHING if you cannot even get a single type of attack tech for a starbase anywhere in the tech tree. [For those of you wondering what I am talking about, a starbase with attack of zero in all categories can have 150 defense in all categories, and still be destroyed by a 1 attack 0 defense 1 hit point ship.] IF this is an oversight, I would like to see it corrected... (PS: That means I would love this post to be outdated and invalid within a couple weeks.)