
I did do a forum search for this topic but came up with nothing relevant.
I'm using a mod "autocrew" - as I've only just started to play and figured it sounded like crewing ships was a lot of hassle and previous games required no crews to be recruited so it's lore persistent and not a cheat to my mind.
anyway - I just had my first successful boarding attempt and...
my 5 star marine (found by chance) and the 50 marines I bought have vanished.
in autocrew it says that the marine does the recruiting for boarded ships - but says nothing about what he does AFTER.
He's not on the skunk, I've looked all over the capped ship, and if I talk to a recruitment guy it shows I've got no marines.
Apparently without "autocrew" you can land on a captured ship and tell the marine officer to go back to the skunk - along with his marines, some of which might have gained a level.
Having autocrew sound like a very handy thing if I'm going to be building a fleet, but not if I have to buy 50 raw marines and a leader each time ...
anyone else had this problem and can suggest how to fix it?
seems like asking questions here is going to be a thing I'll be doing for a while...

I'm using NO OTHER MARINE MODS of any kind.
Update Edit: Ok I've just capped another ship with "autocrew" turned off and aaaand..... the new marine officer is nowhere to be found.
I can't find him to talk to him to return to the skunk.
is this REALLY how it is?
Ok the loss of the marine officers now isn't a big deal, but if I want to get to have Elite marine officers and marines.... just wth am I supposed to do?
NVM I found him..... oops