User blog comment:Owlfeathers0117/Technologies of BSCN/@comment-11181609-20141124162444/@comment-27797576-20141124165731

Qap, the only reason MRP has equivelent tech to you(even though they have been around for one month), is because they reversed engineered multiple techs from raided navies. They haven't traded for a SINGLE TECH(except maybe eventually MAC's and AI, but that's about it), while you are trading for basically most of your tech(and by most, I mean 50-75% of it.)