Why on earth is it a bullet? That doesn't make sense. I can understand it being a separate item instead of being an alternate recipe for the standard capture bot (since then it causes recycling issues) but it doesn't need to be a bullet, surely.

It doesn't need to be a bullet, surely

It does need to be bullet, because rocket turret is not something you unlock on pelagos, if you don't like it you can import capture rockets and rocket turrets from gleba

You don't need the turret to use capture bots. You can use a rocket launcher, which is what I always assumed was the intended way to use them.

...ah, hold on. This is because it's supposed to be possible to progress through the planet without importing copper, right? The rocket launcher recipe has electronic circuits in it.

Still, you could add an alternative recipe for the rocket launcher, or a new, worse rocket launcher that only uses iron. Or make it cannon ammo so the galleon can fire it! It's just weird for it to be a bullet, and awkward to use since the submachine gun fires so rapidly.