I'll give the long winded explanation in the overview (one of the reasons it will be long one), but here is the explanation in a nutshell for those who are interested.
This was the month the oldest boy brought to my attention that Plasma Torpedoes don't do x3 dmg vs no drive field :|
Our previous games had only one minor race that used PT, and my inexperience with PT's, and the Ultra rules, kind of got us into a bit of a bind on this one
. We house ruled it away because the players were fairly proud of what they had accomplished, and didn't want to start over (well, the oldest girl may have, but she didn't push the subject. Her little project she was working on had her fairly excited.)
This was our test game for the Ultra rules and a number of systems (Cp, Pt, others to be divulged later...), so we made our share of mistakes and tweeked things as we went to suit ourselves.
With many apologies for our waltzing all over the rules, I hope this sheds some light on what has been going on this month.