Originally by: Gavin DeVries

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If you blow up the tower, you now get the option to unanchor all the various modules that were around the tower. If you unanchor a module, everything inside the module is destroyed in the process. You get the module but no contents. If you instead blow up the module, all the contents have the usual 50% chance of surviving a wreck. You potentially get contents but no module.

The one oddity comes with blueprints that were in research. When a blueprint is placed into research it vanishes from its location and doesn't reappear until the job is delivered or cancelled. If the blueprint was in the lab to begin with, it won't be destroyed when the lab is unanchored, because it wasn't inside the lab when the lab was unanchored. If that's the case, repackaging the lab ends the job, the blueprint tries to go back to the lab but cannot, and it pops out in the hangar where the lab is located.

If the blueprint was installed from a corporate hangar at an office in an NPC station in the same system, then it goes back to that hangar when the lab is repackaged.

End result is this:

Guns and other defense modules - steal. You only lose ammo.
Ship maintenance array, corp hangar arrays, and such - destroy. They're not worth a lot, and you have the potential for some nice stuff to drop if you destroy them.
Laboratories - If there's an NPC station in the same system, steal the lab. You're unlikely to get anything out of destroying it, and labs are worth 90-150 million each. If there's no NPC station in the system, blow it up. A lab wouldn't be there if it wasn't being used, and the only way to use a lab in that situation is to put the blueprints inside.

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