OK so in my viper I have a 500k shield gen and you'd expect it to have a good recharge rate? Wrong, it is incredibly slow. But then you see cobras with shield generators which recharge almost instantly? What sorcery is this!?! In all seriousness though, in the shop I did notice there were two different rankings of shield gen Does that mean one shield is weak but recharges very fast whilst the other class is very very sturdy but recharges at snail pace? On a side note, I have recently gotten a permit to the Beta Hydri system from the federation and it says I will get a communique or something. That just extra text for show or do I actually have to meet an npc in a uss in the system?