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- Rapid Response M7M ships will waste their personnel by launching it in Boarding Pods they spawn with at any enemy boardable ship that loses shielding. If these missiles are shot down by the player they have a 50% chance to drop several 4-5 star Marine personnel for the player to collect. This makes the south gate of Circle of Labour a good early source of highly trained personnel (assuming the Argon are not shooting holes in the player ship).
- Cloudbase South East, Montalaar, Heaven's Assertion, Great Reef, Ocean of Fantasy and Senator's Badlands (add more) are good sectors for boarding TLs since there is almost always a TL present and seldom more than 3 fighters to defend the sector.
- Keep the new personnel coming. It takes a long time to fully train marines/mercenaries so hire every individual with a high Fighting Skill from the start of the game until there are about 100 in training (enough to obtain at least one of every boardable ship including Xenon which mince personnel).
- Use Return Ship and Return Abandoned Ship missions to train the fighting skill of personnel (can spawn M6/M7 ships if the player has a Trade Rank of (insert)).