Any suggestions on salvaging rights?

[jmanski]

Here's an idea: perhaps the PCs are salvagers for the Rebel Alliance (or some other such entitiy) and have to race out to battle sites and get all they can before Imperials arrive. This way they are in a time crunch and must be prepared to fight or run....
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[cheshire]

Man, I kept looking in Gry's Starship stats book AND I looked in the Thrawn Trilogy Sourcebook and could not find the things. I don't know why I didn't see them.

I think that the base of the Mole Miner would be a good one to work from (which is exactly why I went looking for them in the first place). I think that having the basic idea is a good one, though I feel as though a salvage ship would also want a few more features, including a more controlled plasma jet to slice apart a ship, rather than just boring through it. But with a few modifications, it looks like a reasonable fit. I may take the mole miner and add a few bells and whistles to make it more fitting.

NOTICE: I would like to use some of these ideas to do an article, including many of the salvage rules, types of salvage, and adventure ideas. However, I'd like to give credit to the people in this thread. If you've contributed something in the thread, please send me a PM and give me your real name and an e-mail address. If you don't want me to use one of your ideas, either post in here or send me a PM to tell me not to use it.

I'll keep posting the ideas here for peer review. If this thread dies off, then I'll still probably keep working on it, and let people know when it eventually goes to print.
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[Raven Redstar]

Lol, I think because it's speeder scale, it was in the Vehicles collection, not starships.
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[Raven Redstar]

[cheshire]

You mean stat one like this:

[Raven Redstar]

What about having an upgrade package or an assembly package for each terrain? Maybe the base model only functions in atmosphere, but you can buy the kit to set it up for space or aquatic. Or it starts good to go in space, but doesn't have the right kind of hover engines for in atmosphere work and/or underwater work.

Each kit costs 4,000 credits and gives the salvage tug separate bits:
Vacuum Kit:
Space: 1
Maneuverability: 1D+2
Pressurized for up to 12 hours on it's own, or you can attach a lifeline to your ship for unlimited work time. Max distance on a lifeline is 200m

Aquatic Kit:
Move: 55
Maneuverability: +2
Self contained re-breather air filtration system allows for 24 hours underwater operation or lifeline attachment can keep the sub continuing to breathe indefinitely as long as the line is attached to a dedicated air source. Max distance on lifeline is 250m.

Kits are a moderate vehicle repair difficulty to install and uninstall and take about 30-60 minutes to complete.
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[Raven Redstar]

Also, what if we created a larger salvage tug? Up the scale to Walker scale and give the cutting torch capital scale damage. Used for large projects like space stations or capital ship salvage. Also it could have a decent sized cargo pod for returning items to the main ship.

Size could be roughly 2-3x the size of the small tug.
Plasma Jet stats are same, except Capital Scale
Give it 1D more Body Strength and up to Walker Scale
I see this as possibly being a little slower but having a much longer uninterrupted oxygen supply, maybe no limit?

I don't know, just some ideas.
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[garhkal]

I can also see salvagers suits, that they wear when they are eva..
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[ZzaphodD]

IMO a salvaging ship should be rather sturdy and not a flimsy speeder.

Flying around in debris fields (after a battle for example) where the moving debris can actually be whole starships would be rather stupid in flimsy speeder. Sure if you could pay all your attention to not getting hit (a nifty speeder would be perfect), but not if you actually wanted to get work done.

Look at your regular tow truck. Not really a fast and fragile sports car...
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[Raven Redstar]

The salvage tugs that we're working on aren't the ship itself, they're the smaller manned pods that get sent from the ship itself to do cutting, gathering, scouting, and retrieval.
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[cheshire]

[Raven Redstar]

I kind of like the vagabond suit for a baseline. It's a lighter weight space suit with sensor bits for scouting out pockets of valuable salvage.

[garhkal]

I'd also add in a grapple arm, and maybe even a toe cable hook up.
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[Raven Redstar]

I like the tow cable hook up more than a grapple arm. It's not a power suit, it's a space suit.
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