This might be a dumb question but I need to ask. What do I do with the Fed Hostage floating in space? There's no switch with which to beam it over and it explodes when you shoot it. The only thing I've found I can do to it is beam over marines and "take it over". After that I have no idea what to do with it.
Shooting it (machine gunning the refugees) and taking it over (taking hostages for hopeful ransom) are both acceptable actions
There are (minor) advantages to one or the other, but I'll leave it to you to find them.
On a related note, can I beam over the spare part in the boxes if I have a full stock of spare parts already?
You can, and they will disapper from the cargo box, but they won't do you any good. When your spare parts are full, they are full.
-Herr Burt