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If you're talking about Research Bureau:
1) It shouldn't affect your emblems, since if you've already earned it - it won't go away.
2) Right now only one ships is available in the Bureau, if you don't wan't to use the Bureau - in the very same update we've added Tier II-VIII French DD's in the Tech tree, as well as Smolensk and Somers, that can be bought with coal and steel, respectively. And none of those ships requires you to use the Bureau. So it's a system for those players who want some extra goals, those who don't want to use it aren't forced to use it in any way.