Jack DekerdtI know it has been talked about ad nauseum on the FD forums but I find it strange that salvage laws do not exist in the sense that I am happily flying along and cargo appears within sensor range. Now, I didn't waste the ship that carried it but if I pick it up I am in possession of 'stolen' goods. It would seem there ought to be a way to differentiate between salvagers and pirates when it comes to 'found' cargo, that is the status of the salvager ought to have a bearing on designating whether cargo is 'illicit' or not.

Ok, minor rant over.

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Jack DekerdtI know it has been talked about ad nauseum on the FD forums but I find it strange that salvage laws do not exist in the sense that I am happily flying along and cargo appears within sensor range. Now, I didn't waste the ship that carried it but if I pick it up I am in possession of 'stolen' goods. It would seem there ought to be a way to differentiate between salvagers and pirates when it comes to 'found' cargo, that is the status of the salvager ought to have a bearing on designating whether cargo is 'illicit' or not.

Ok, minor rant over.

I'm assuming it works on a valid possessor system, in which cargo is locked to a certain transponder, which itself is built onto/into either a cargo ship or a terminal. The cargo's manifest is set to "Illegal Salvage" if it loses the signal from the transponder, which of course happens upon ship blowing up. A pilot appears to have the option to deactivate this feature themselves (abandoning cargo), but I would assume they'd have little reason to do so if they were getting killed. It'd probably be something they can do to save themselves by paying the highwayman, so to speak.

It'd be really nice to have an option of being a legit salvage reclaimer for a faction, though. A company ship, once its pilot reaches a proper affection level with it, could in theory equip a universal transponder and go get it back for the company - or, on the flip side, a pirate could lay hands on a hot universal transponder and use it to take loads of "found" goodies to port without sweating the pigs.

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