Pirates & Ninjas

So, anyone remember SJ's Pirates & Nomads mod for SE4? Well, nomads don't quite work in SE5 since there's no remote research/intel generation, but no matter - just replace them with ninjas!

Here's my changelog so far - I branched this off of Balance Mod v1.16 in case you were wondering

Pirates & Ninjas Mod History

v1.0.0 (Oct. XX, 2008)
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1. Added - Pirates, Ninjas, and "Anarchistic" racial traits. (Anarchistic is required to take Pirates or Ninjas, and prevents the construction of colonizers.)
2. Added - Space Piracy and Ninjutsu racial techs (each with 5 levels).
3. Changed - Boarding Parties can be obtained by researching either Ship Capture or Space Piracy.
4. Changed - Cloaking Devices can be obtained by researching either Cloaking or Ninjutsu.
5. Added - 5 additional levels of Boarding Parties for Pirates only!
6. Added - 5 additional levels of Cloaking Devices for Ninjas only! (No extra cloaking beyond what a tachyon sensor can detect, but the supply usage decreases at these levels.)
7. Added - Black Market facility (pirates only, spaceport which also increases scrap value and reduces ship maintenance costs system-wide)
8. Added - Civilian Insignia component (pirates only, grants low-level cloaking but decreases defense rating)
9. Added - Smuggler's Hold component (pirates only, stores additional resources on board a ship)
10. Changed - Empires no longer start with level 1 in racial techs.
11. Fixed - Combat replays are enabled in Settings.txt.
12. TODO Added - Poison Needle Gun for Ninjas - direct fire weapon which kills crew like a Toxic Injector.
13. TODO Added - Shadow Cloak for Ninjas - troop component which grants bonus to defense above and beyond Small ECM.
14. TODO Added - Smoke Bomb for Ninjas - can create storms in a sector, as well as be fired at ships or planets to disrupt weapon reload time.
15. TODO Changed - Tractor Beams (but not Repulser Beams) can be researched via either Tractor\Repulser Weapons, Space Piracy, or Ninjutsu.
16. TODO Added - 5 additional levels of Tractor Beams for pirates and ninjas.

I'm thinking Ninjas (and maybe also Pirates) should get some bonuses to intel, but I'm not sure yet...

Thoughts/comments/whatever?