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Each ship you unlock has certain features which distinguish it from the others. The Zoltan ship has the Zoltan Shield Augment, Engi ship has the Med Bot dispersal Augment etc.

Is it possible to come across these augments in the wild whilst piloting another ship? So say I'm using the Red-tail, can I "find" or "buy" the Zoltan shield as an augment?

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Neither one will show up in shops or as random rewards. However, there is one event that occurs at distress beacons in Engi sectors that has a guaranteed med-bot dispersal as a reward.

There's an Engi ship being attacked by rebels. After you defeat the rebel ship, you choose to give them some resources. Give them 40 scrap, two missiles, and two fuel, and they'll give you a med-bot augment.

As far as I know it's not possible to get the Zoltan shield or other "special" augments / subsystems outside of starting with them.

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That encounter is pretty rare. The only time I ran into that random encounter was when I started with the engi ship, such a waste >_< – spartacus Jan 23 at 12:31
It's also probably not worth it. Med-bot dispersal is of questionable usefulness unless your crew is mostly engi/zoltan. – Joe Wreschnig Jan 23 at 12:33
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not having to pull crew off their stations in the middle of a battle helps a lot actually, especially with fires and breeches. – spartacus Jan 23 at 12:37
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It is useful with boarders as well. You have a clear advantage one on one!! and can basically stop worrying about who will win the duel as long as they are evenly matched(when I say that I dont mean a Engi v/s Mantis!!!) – Samyam A Jan 23 at 13:45
You have a clear advantage in 1 v 1 because you have a med bay and you upgraded the doors to level 2 long before any boarding parties showed up and probably at least one rock or mantis crew and you're not an idiot like the AI. If your strategy involves paying ~50 scrap to avoid having to play skillfully, you will end up behind the real power curve and lose. – Joe Wreschnig Jan 23 at 17:23
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