Just wondering:
I did the Slug Homeworld quest in my Zoltan cruiser and I picked up Slug Repair Gel. So now I'm a very diplomatic, peace-loving, truce-breaking, thieving low-life pirate!
With a fancy shield! I know I can't attack a trader, then negotiate their surrender with my Zoltan diplomacy (or can I?) but was that intentional? Because the Rock quest doesn't give me plating, Mantis Quest doesn't give me the Pheromones, because they'll turn you into a pirate and those ships have to be unique but Slug Repair Gel? That's pirate stuff.
I guess no one really does want to go into Slug territory for very long to test this sort of thing out