Knowing full well that this can change over the course of development, how long are we currently thinking it would take to salvage something like a Hornet?

That's a Tony question. But it's not going to be a point-and-click, come-back-five-minutes-later job.

It's an important distinction. There's the ship systems and there's the game systems. And while they certainly interact, they are usually two different design principles. So when we get closer to actually implementing salvage in-game, you can be sure that we'll have a whole one of these with Tony and whoever's working on salvage to answer salvage-specific questions.