My favorite tactic in Masters of Orion 2 was the use of assault shuttles (AS). The AS were loaded up with space marines that would enable you to capture ships from your opponents. Better yet, if you captured a ship, took it back to your base and dismantled it, you would receive all of the technologies that were used to create that ship. This was a very fun way to jump up the tech tree. The only defense against an AS was to start building marine barracks in your cap ships.

Likewise, Conquest: Frontier Wars had AS that you could use to capture enemy platforms.

I would love to see such a feature in a future patch/V2 of Sins. Any takers?