Making them purchasable near Deneb for BS to military while on mission or in high standing +1
perhaps only availible to officers once rank gets added?

A crafted corvus version and a few heavily armed convoys would work well in grey space.

As long as crafting isn't the only way to get it, and the crafting is reasonable.

TU's should probably be a requirement for the crafting side. But TU crafting really should be revamped as well. I was going to make another post about looking at crafting in general, but I realized that only the TU is seriously tweaked, and I ended up losing steam.

Yeah, -1 to anything requiring a TU until the TU is either made easier to craft or given a serious boost in awesomeness. Being able to be used to build an avalon does help their awesomeness factor, but not enough on its own.

+1 to rank requirements on buying Avalons once that is possible.

This thread deserves a major bump