Voted for melting, reasons:
1. Personally, I do not like the Redeemer much, as it's sort of a specialized Ship that doesn't excel in it's specialization.
2. We know "larger Ships" are going to be harder to obtain relative to their price in $, meaning if a Redeemer for 250$ would cost 250.000UEC, a Polaris for 750$ would cost way more than 750.000UEC.
3. Frankly, I expect the Redeemer to be a Ship you'll se at every corner and I'm reasonably sure we have plenty of those in the ORG.
4. Even if the Redeemer would turn out to be a really awesome Ship by getting buffed all over and we would somehow end up with a shortage of them, I'm reasonably sure we could get our hands on plenty of those on short notice, be it by people CCUing their Connies etc. or simply via UEC later on.
5. Having a Polaris early on would allow us to evaluate it properly, meaning if it's a really great Ship, we could set a goal towards getting multiple ones.