A special ability of the Crystals and Privateers. These races can take over a fuel-less enemy ship by just towing it. A boarding team will beam over and secure the ship. Depending on the original owner of the ship, some parts of the crew will run traitor, otherwise, the captor gives up to 1/2 of its crew to man the ship:
- Federation: 90% traitors
- Privateers: 100% traitors
- Empire: 40% traitors
- Colonies: 70% traitors
All other races must tow fuel-less ships to their starbases and use Force Surrender to take them over.
This special ability is widely-known as Tow Capture. PHost now tries to avoid that term, to keep "capture" strictly reserved for capturing in battle, whereas "boarding" is boarding a ship using this ability.
