Derelict Ship
| This ship is adrift and powered down. Closer inspection may yield salvage or a recovery operation. | ||
–In-Game Description | ||
Derelict Ships are empty ships adrift in system or Hyperspace, interacting with it will provide salvage equivalent to scuttling a ship of its size class or potential for recovery & incorporation into the player's fleet.
Similarly to debris fields, derelict ships also comes in 2 variations of stable & unstable orbit. Likewise, stable ones generated as part of the Sector's procedural generation while unstable ones can appear after combat. Additionally, they can also appear a sensor ghost in hyperspace.
Drops
Derelict ships usually just drop Metals, Supplies, Fuel & Heavy Machinery when salvaged, ones that are recoverable will sometimes have weapons still on them, which will also be part of the loot if salvaged or will just stay on if recovered.
Occasionally Crew, Marines or Harvested Organs (from poor souls) can be obtained.
On rare instances, an Officer can be rescued, who would be at least level 5 with 1 elite skill. Even more rarely are "legendary" officers that are level 7 with 5 elite skills, of which only 4 can be found each campaign.
An Administrators can also be found, who will almost always have the Industrial Planning skill.
On very rare instances, the salvage teams may encounter a safe on the ship containing rare loot like Blueprints.
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