====== SALVAGE SPACE: SALVAGING ======

When Adventurers think of salvage, they typically imagine a drifting wreck stuffed with valuable artifacts waiting for them to haul off.

Experienced or thrifty Adventurers think beyond get-rich-quick salvage and keep their eyes out for opportunities to salvage value from anything and everything around them.

Everything made wears out eventually, including spacesuits, spacecraft, stations, and colonies.

Many Adventurers turn their hand to salvaging, recycling, scrapping, and scavenging as much as possible from these during their downtime between glory-hunting salvage expeditions.

These actions can yield stores of ready-made spare parts as well as scrap to recycle into new parts.

Adventurers simply need tools and time to salvage parts and scraps from broken gear.

A small shipboard tool bag or machine shop and long flights between colonies can provide plenty of opportunity to catch up salvaging parts from damaged gear.

Disassembling complex components requires patience, specialized tooling, and roughly the same skills as crafting the gear.

Some disassembly benefits from researching operations or service manuals and other documentation before tearing into the device.

Rushed disassembly can break delicate components or connectors and reduce the useful yield.

But, the careful Adventurer knows that in space, nothing truly qualifies as junk to jettison.

Someone dockside, somewhere, has a need or use for even the most damaged gear and the ability to profit from recycling it.

Adventurers can build networks of contacts for these opportunities as well, sometimes simply by checking dockside service listings.

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