Sounds good Iso, and actually ties in delightfully with the organic brains I was thinking of giving Concordat ships. So a sort of halfway point between cognition engines and employing vacare; sentient cognition engines that control the entire ship perhaps. I'll write it up in my NS in more detail, but the general idea is the Concordat will take every Vacare they find, put their brains in a jar, and wire them into a ship. [@Flagg] Am I understanding right that Petrichor can be used to awaken/activate psionic potential? Because then the Concordat would like a whole bunch of that.