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Outside of the "if it fits" concept, what ships other than the Reclaimer will be able to actively break ships apart for salvage purposes?

TL;DROnly the Reclaimer is purpose-built for salvage so far, the Caterpillar and Crucible can do light salvage, and more salvage ship concepts are being looked at, with more to come later.

Matt ShermanDesigner

Undetermined.

So yeah, as of right now, the Reclaimer is the only one. Now the Caterpillar and Crucible can do light salvage type stuff as well as some repair things. So those are the only ships that we've released.

Calix ReneauDesigner

So far the Caterpillar salvage stuff is all meant to use EVA tools, right? None of that is on board the ship. So you'll be able to do this with conceivably any ship as long as you get out of it, because you're doing it with your face. But so far the Reclaimer is the only one that's purpose-built for this.

Ben LesnickDirector of Community Engagement, Online Strategy and Spaceships

But I will say that we are right now looking at concepts for... basically in the last year we've done the biggest salvage ship we can think of, the biggest mining ship. So we get the systems worked out, and we are now looking at early concepts for where we fill in the blanks. There'll be more on that in the future.

Reverse the Verse›December Subscriber Edition·
Published on this date.10 Dec 2015
EpisodeSalvageShipsMining