You get access to those 3 weapons once you research Xeno Ethics and align with evil. Good gives you access to defense components, while neutral gives you access to an advance trade technology and research improvement, although the research improvement is bugged and gives you nothing.

It should (that's what the description says) but it doesn't.

I noticed the bugged research centres last night . . .

Yeah, the psionic beam weapons rock.

I loaded up a huge hulled ship with them, the best shields, and the best engines, and it was able to singlehandedly wipe out all opposition. Just one ship. If only it looked as cool as the robot in the ship design thread.

Evil man Evil Attack is the best form of defense didn't you ever watch ZULU?

Because destroying things is always easier than creation, letting people do what they like is harder than trying to get them to see reason and reservation. Humanity on a whole is evil it is only the law and the governments that stop us from being so.

Basically good and evil are really order vs chaos. A chaotic race can't progress since there is no stablity to allow research and development, a ordered society would have great advantages since it allows for stability. So really no race that is capable of FTL travel is actually evil, they are just leaning someway towards it.

This is why there is always middle ground for peace. This is also true with countries in the real world like Iran and North Korean. Both are suppose to be evil but man believe me when I say they are as far from pure evil as humanly possible. Pure evil would be like the Raveers from Serenity, but without the society, they would just be monsters running around tearing everything to bit including one another. The idea that a society could advance from that is just plain stupid.

Anyway morality aside.

Neither the Drengin or the Yor are really evil they are just less tolerate of others, they are like the NAZI on Earth and as such gain an affinity for destruction. They would lean heavily towards more and more destructive abilities since they would be obssessed with destroying more and more of their enemies.

The opposite would be good with them caring about life and their people and so looking for the ability to defend themselves better, hence better shields, armour, PD.

Think the Ancients from Stargate, they were hyper advanced but had the stuffing kicked out of them by an agressive numerically overwhelming race who needed to feed on Humans, they had great weapons but no defensive capability at all. The Ancients had massive defensive technology but were really poor in offensive capability. Humans on the other hand are pretty balanced in both. The Wraith are evil, the Ancients are suppose to be good, and Humans are the neutrals.

J

In my opinion, in the game, the best alignement is neutral, it boost your moral (wich can indirectly boost your loyalty), it boot your trade (boosting your economy) and boost ground force power against non-neutral parties. Love that alignement. Good and evil might be useful in some galaxies, but I prefer the neutral path, weapons and defense in the normal tech tree are strong enough for me.