there is a "jigsaw piece"to the left of the wepon whilst in the equipment dealer click on it

Yup, what he/she said. A little tip: Carry a variety of weapons on the ship when going to new systems and carry a variety that is not equipped (like if you have Ones good against Graviton, Positron or Molecular).

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"Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defence"

I've always found that if you equip one pulse weapon(shield killer), it really doesn't matter what kind of weapons you have or shields he has, because they go down pretty quickly.

Trent: It's not the time, it's the sides that keep changing.

You do realize you can't install in space, right? You have to be in a base.

You guys rock!!
You probably cant imagine how frustrating it is selling guns to the vendors to get them auto-equipped and they wont sell them back cuz you're not on friendly enough terms or not high enough in level... and then there is the lvl 9 and 10 guns that you cant afford to buy back
Anyways, thanks again. The game will be a heck of alot more fun now

The equiped hardpiece must be unequiped in a base and replaced in a base. How are you going to fix something in a vaccum