Destroyed does not necessarily mean: blown to microatoms.
The ships could be hulks drifting in space. The precident of taking such a drifting hulk and obtaining information from it was set by C4/Vonta in In the Hands of the Gods thread.
One of her (therefore by extension "your" [seeing as you all are on the same side]) arguements were that immediate "use" of said captured data IC established the presence of data on hulk.
When we say a ship is disabled, or crippled, it just means that the ship has no more capacity to fight or defend itself even though the ship is still intact and still has some functioning capacities just no propulsion or weapons.
The level of damage on a disabled or crippled ship is determined in a RP.
It also means that ships listed as such could be repaired later after a battle if not destroyed.
Even if the rule was approved, Griff, Marth couldn't use data from Rachuk to find Bastion. Rachuk is the Mid-Rim Proctectorate, and contains information only about the Mid-Rim Proctectorate.
Vonta, Lup listed it as crippled. The way you rp'd it, it might as well have been destroyed.
A dog with a bum leg is crippled. You broke all it's legs, it's spine, squashed it's kidneys, and bashed in it's brain. According to you, since it has a sliver of a heartbeat, it was still technically alive therefore crippled.
Your reasoning: The extent of damage was not defined so I defined it.
Being destroyed does not necessarily mean being blown to microatoms. Actually being destroyed could mean how your rp'd our warship. And since the said destruction was not necessarily defined, I think Zen tried to define it.
