*you can buy, sell, trade and mail people (bridge and duty officers)...

*keep excess unwanted officers in your cargo bay...

*purchase crew-members prepackaged in a special box, from a machine...


Is it just me or does that make the modern temp-labor/staffing-service economy seem sane by compare?


Also apparently you can harvest wildlife from a planet, raise it/mutate it in a lab, then sell them to a vending machine in trade for heavy weapons. You can't even do that in JAPAN, home of wacky-vending-machines-GALORE!