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Junker Marauders Relay Network
Terminal: Beaumont Spire
Date: 10.03.824
Callsign: Sean Roberts
Greetings, to whom it may concern within the Auxesia, er...what have you.
You'll forgive my lack of specific knowledge with your organization. Ivankov was sparse on the details with this job, and seemed to suggest it'd been a while since it was originally offered to begin with, so I'm tossing this message across to ensure you're still interested, and letting you know he's got a capable person on the job this time around.
In specific, I'm referring to this job. Ivankov didn't tell me much more about it than what's written there. Now, if you're still in the need for a quality salvager and prospector, I'll fire up one of our trusty salvage boats and start making the rounds. If you need something different, if the wrecks you're looking at or the resources you're looking for are different now, anything like that - well, just let me know. I'll be around.
NEURAL NET ID: Alan Stacker SECURITY CLEARANCE: Venator ENCRYPTION LEVEL: Extreme PRIORITY:HIGH FREQUENCY: ATARAXIA DELAY: N/A TOPIC: Salvage
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Sean Roberts,
I was wondering when we'd hear about this particular job again. The timing is right on the mark, too. I'm Venator Alan Stacker, head of logistics. I'll be spearheading this.
In general we're in need of any salvageable components that may even require refurbishing. Bulkheads, hull plating, hangar door mechanisms, even fully assembled components that can be broken down and re-assembled elsewhere would be sufficient. Cost effectiveness right now is a priority, so what better way to skirt costs than to find existing pieces and re-purpose them? It's good for the environment, AND our wallets.
Anyway, whenever you're ready to start go ahead. Rest assured you'll be properly compensated for your work once a manifest is provided of what was recovered. Anything you grab, just take back to Invergordon, and we'll send a ship or ships to collect it once we're notified.
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Junker Marauders Relay Network
Terminal: Scrap Fiend
Rebound: Rochester Terminal
Date: 10.06.824
Callsign: Sean Roberts
Hello again.
I'm reporting in mid-transit right now, on my way to Copperton and Silverton while picking through the automated sorters and the like, seeing what came out the other side of my analysis of the Dallas wreck.
SDRONE-01 feed: 10.04.824
As you can see, there's a severe amount of external damage, and most of the station modules are drifting apart from each other, covering a wide field of debris that made it a bit of a struggle to analyze. The mainly intact systems were the habitation block, the administration wing, and what appears to be an engineering bay or testing module.
First thing I did was check the computers in administration, but most of them were fried by the radiation, and the ones that were hardened enough to still work were wiped clean of any data. So, unless you're looking for ten-year-old computer tech, those can probably be tossed out for their components. The rest of the administration wing was mostly intact, so it's quite likely you could strip the hull panels and armor plating off if you're looking for those, though keep in mind you'd have to run them through an anti-rad scrubber a couple hundred times.
Speaking of which. Habitation suffered mostly the same fate, bathed in hard radiation but otherwise mostly intact. The armor plating and such look fine enough to strip if, again, you're looking for that sort of thing - but all the electronics are fried, and...
Well. No way to put this, other than, a poorly-shielded habitation module suddenly hitting enough radiation to make a neutron bomb jealous, and well, I'll just be glad there's no smell from a salvage drone's camera feed, or that good of a picture of it while we're at it. Here's hoping they died quickly.
The last section, the, er, engineering section if I had to guess, is sheared clean in half, and despite the best of my efforts I couldn't find the remainder. If I had to guess, it's probably what's making up most of the finer debris around the station. Regardless, there's some machinery here that shouldn't be too hard to get fixed up, mostly things like food recyclers and what looks like an auto-assembly line for micromunitions, that sort of thing. You'd need to replace the electronic components since it looks like the shielding gave out there too, but that shouldn't be as much of a hassle.
So, all in all, not much there in Dallas. Would've stayed longer and gotten you a better readout of the place, but even our rad-hardeners aren't up to scratch against that kind of abuse. Not sure if anything there's worth the effort for you to rip off and fix up, but if anything I said sounds enticing, I can make a second trip out and try to get you some specific numbers on salvage, and get an unmanned effort going to strip it.
For now, the Scrap Fiend and I are headed to Colorado. Should prove a little more fruitful now that we're not dealing with the power of the atom fighting against us.
NEURAL NET ID: Alan Stacker SECURITY CLEARANCE: Venator ENCRYPTION LEVEL: Extreme PRIORITY:HIGH FREQUENCY: ATARAXIA DELAY: N/A TOPIC: RE: Salvage
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Well,
That's a lot more than we expected to be found at Dallas. It was more or less curiosity, but either way get what you can. That machinery you mentioned is definitely worth an examination.
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