Say that again when there's something you want in the Rom reputation and you've got zero Rom marks (because of the pathetic rewards) and you need 800 of them to unlock Mk XII DHCs and Turrets (2 x 150 Rom Mark unlocks) and 500 for a torpedo launcher.

I never want to scan another radiation sample ever again - hell, I barely want to set foot on New Romulus ever again.

254 runs of Elite STFs got me everything at least twice - and damn, I made enough dilithium to refine for a year. The new system is horrible.