I don't think im going to bother responding to redtide, in my years of helping games be balanced out and even making some of my own scenarios in WC3 I have never seen someone be so stupidly blind and in denial as him. The Talion is a ship, the ability revives ships END of story. Im only harsh against people who are intentionally blind to the fact. It is not a bug, a bug is an unintended effect such as units revived from Reanimation are enemy units that are supposed to die. But Return of the Fallen has them return. THAT is a bug, there is no bug about one of your own units that you payed for, coming back, because the tooltip says that ships are revived.

Deal with it red tide. Aerias and Destras get revived they are cruisers, just like the talion. Which is why you dont see the Capital Ships and Titans being revived please stop being stupid now.

Precisely, they also come back as real illuminators correct?

Revives frigates and cruisers;

No capital ships, no titans

A Talon is a cruiser.

Not a bug

Reduces the pricing of a starbase to compete with vasari starbases

Allows your empire to spread more culture with culture starbase modules.

Good luck

Not quite. See the guardian HAS a purpose in being alive be it antimatter food for your titan or it's abilities in combat. Losing a guardian is net loss in the long term. The talion being alive serves no purpose. The only utility it has is to build a starbase. If that talion or any other ship was destroyed in combat or fed to a titan (would be an odd choice), then I think it should be eligible to return but just building a starbase is pure gain. It's a special case that I doubt was foreseen with the tech and should be discussed.

The difference in opinion is that I'm looking at Return of the Fallen from a programmer perspective as something to recoup loss. Building a starbase is not a loss and as such I consider it an unintended consequence that needs to be at least addressed. In programming, a bug is something that creates an incorrect or unexpected result. Thus, from the description of the ability and no knowledge of what the development team has discussed, I would consider this a bug until told otherwise. 

In all honesty, I don't really care about this particular issue that much. It's just tiring seeing the same old arguments in RTS games that certain "features" should stay in because "Race X needs it to compete with Y" or "It's not game breaking so it's fine" rather than analyzing the design and how it affects new players. I've played too many games where minor bugs or quirks were left in that destroyed any chance of new players to join the community and I don't want that line of reasoning to make Sins even harder for new players to enjoy. 

More like if you use common sense:

If you look at this from a realistic perspective then it shouldn't work period. When a Talion creates a Starbase what happens, does it explode and thru magic the SB just suddenly appears? No, it morphs into the SB like the Mobile Construction Unit from the Command & Conquer series or a Caterpillar to a Butterfly.

So please, do explain to me how a cruiser turning its self into a SB is death for the ship, when in reality the ship was not lost but simply transformed into the building block of something else, no loss of life or materials.

Now Advent Rebels are incredibly weak right now pre-patch (hoping for tomorrows buffs) so I don't really care about this bug but do not pretend this isn't going against common sense.