High self-esteem.

good weapon

All sorts of lasers and plasma guns... Rockets are better in every way, in my opinion. Besides, in engineering, there are various technologies with crystal organics, something like that. All of this is expensive, but it looks promising.

no mood penalties from equal rights with synthetics

Hmm, yes... I didn't get to the synthetics, so I didn't know about this feature.
Thanks for the advice, Ples.