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Vulture Salvage Ship

Built for the UESC Contest 58!

NOTICE: Conveyor lines on this ship aren't functional, do NOT use for Survival without alteration.

As he FWA insurgence died down, opportunists looked at the wrecks of hundreds of ships lost in the conflict and decided to make a profit from them. Modifying any spaceframes they could find with little care for regulations or crew safety on small, semi-legal yards, these opportunists ventured out into the unknown, mostly from the Frontier side of the Void due to laxer regulations, and set about depriving the wrecked ships of both sides of their valuables, often with preciously little care for the fates of the former crew members.

The Vulture was one such ship. a modified Liftmaster-class transport equipped with a landing pad, a grinder array for dismantling chunks of debris too small for the embarked craft and an ore detector that would (in theory) allow the ship to fill a secondary role as a raw ore mining barge. This technically made the ship a mining vessel, which meant that many regulations usually associated with salvage ships could be bypassed.

The Vulture was lost on her first trip with her two man crew, Anthony Buyers (the ownder) and Larss Kant (a hired deckhand with a license to operate small craft). Logs recovered (ironically by a fellow salvage ship) showed that the crew had been working to disassemble a wrecked fighter with the Vulture's bottom grinder array when an explosion, presumably from some stored 200mm rockets, heavily damaged the ship. Lars, who operated the snub craft, perished in the explosion, his captain, A. Buyers, died shorty thereafter of asphyxiation.