Publication and delivery
This course is published for study. Publication does not confirm an available class, appointed instructor or completed practical validation. Before booking, obtain a session brief naming the organiser, instructor and assessor, equipment access and any independent review arrangements.
Before live assessment, the organiser must record the current LIVE build, validation date, ship and equipment used, tasks checked and any known limitations. If a required mechanic is unavailable, defer the affected assessment rather than certify an unobserved outcome. A material game update calls for a check of affected tasks, not cancellation of earlier academic achievements.
Your brief
For salvage crews planning recovery and delivery.
Applied Industry treats salvage as a supply chain. Material left at an authorized target is not stock held by the recovery crew, and an optimistic yield estimate cannot close the ledger.
Stop with material still at the target
Practice case · IO 208 · 2956 teaching edition
- The target is authorized for the drill and the tool action is checked before use.
- The teaching plan allows four equal storage units of output; a configuration check reduces that to two.
- Receiving has accepted two units. No transfer vessel is confirmed.
Before you begin: entry and equipment
Complete these courses
Bring or arrange
Tested salvage tools, a permitted target and an agreed receiving location.
The organizer must confirm equipment access before booking. No ship purchase, pledge tier or donation is required.
Technical knowledge and game skills
Practical instruction revision 1 · 9 October 2026
Salvage from wreck inspection to material sale
Inspect before processing
Confirm the contract or owner’s permission and examine whether the target is intact, occupied, powered or shielded. Recover permitted cargo and detachable components before structural processing; check unlocked ports where required. Never treat a visible wreck as automatically empty. Keep crew outside the processing area and identify which materials and component sizes your vessel can actually handle.
Control the scrape
Enter salvage mode, select the fitted scraper and establish a stable working distance. Sweep over recoverable hull surface while watching yield and storage rather than repeatedly scraping bare patches. Compare a wider head’s coverage with a narrower head’s efficiency on the same kind of surface. Stop before the material buffer or cargo space blocks the next packaging step; safely park before leaving a solo pilot station to handle boxes.
Separate structural material from RMC
Fracture only an authorised, evacuated target within the vessel’s supported limits, then disintegrate the eligible pieces. Hull scraping produces RMC; structural salvage follows its own material and refining chain. Inspect the current processor or refinery options instead of assuming every output is immediately saleable Construction Materials. Package, grid and transport the actual output, retaining any job reference until collection and sale are confirmed.
Practical drill
On an authorised target, inspect occupancy and access, scrape one measurable area, package material and complete a receiving or sale check. Add structural processing only when the ship and session support it; compare output types and record any refinery stage.
Observed-skill checks
- Occupancy, authority and supported processing are established before destructive work.
- Beam control and buffer management produce recoverable material without an avoidable blockage.
- RMC, structural feedstock, refined output and sold quantities are not conflated.
Use these checks to document the technical evidence supporting the course outcomes in your agreed role. Record what you personally performed, what assistance you needed and what remains unobserved. A discussion or simulated action does not certify live equipment handling; Crew Support evidence does not confer Pilot qualification.
Game references and build-sensitive details
The linked pages were read for this revision. Community references mix release eras; each source note identifies what is used and what is excluded. Technical explanations below are an Academy synthesis, and drills and performance checks are Academy-designed. Before practice, compare the named actions with the installed LIVE build and actual equipment. Bind actions by name rather than copying old default keys. Research is not an in-game validation.
- Star Citizen Wiki — Salvage
Component recovery, hull scraping, fracture, disintegration and material processing. Validate the selected vessel’s processing chain and capacity before use.
- Star Citizen Wiki — Cargo
SCU, container geometry, grids and ownership. The page also contains obsolete automatic-loading descriptions and future design intentions; these are not instructions for the present cargo interface.
Check the official LIVE release notes and record the session build, equipment and observed limitations before practical sign-off.
Learn the method
1. Confirm the target and permission
Identify the target, the source of permission and the equipment needed. Check these separately: access to a target does not prove permission, and permission does not prove the available tools can recover it. Resolve either gap before starting.
Treat target access, permission and technical suitability as separate checks. A contract or organiser’s brief must identify the permitted target and scope. Examine the target and the available recovery system before committing the crew; a general entitlement to work does not prove that every material or component can be recovered by this setup.
- Practise
- Brief the target and the checked tool capability.
- Ready when
- You identify permission for the target and a suitable, tested recovery method.
2. Work within storage and delivery limits
Check how much recovered material can be stored and where it will be accepted. Agree a stopping point before tool use. If storage falls, reduce the recovery target or arrange delivery rather than counting material you cannot carry.
Map the material path from tool use to storage, cargo handling and sale or receipt. Check the narrowest stage first. A productive tool can overwhelm a small storage or transfer arrangement, so the stop point belongs before that bottleneck is exhausted, with enough room to complete any already-committed handling action.
- Practise
- Recover a small agreed training quantity.
- Ready when
- Your tool use and stopping decision stay within the checked target, storage and exercise limits.
3. Follow the material to the receiver
Record recovered, stored and delivered quantities separately. Explain any difference using observed events, not an assumed conversion. Give someone the next check for material still in storage or inaccessible.
Keep estimates of material remaining on the target outside the inventory account. They support a decision about another visit but are not stock. If the recovered and delivered amounts differ, examine units, retained material and handling observations before attributing the difference to loss or an assumed conversion rate.
- Practise
- Compare the recovery log with the receipt.
- Ready when
- All quantity claims can be traced and every unresolved difference has an owner.
A worked decision
Storage reaches the checked limit before the target is exhausted. The crew stops, delivers the recorded load and leaves the possible remaining yield out of stock.
- Revise the recovery target to the two units that can be stored and received. Record why the planned four is no longer usable.
- Perform only the checked recovery actions and stop at the agreed limit. Keep an observation of the stopping decision, not just the output.
- Record recovered, held and received quantities separately. Leave unworked potential at the target out of the stock total.
Try it yourself
Brief permission, revised capacity and delivery. Complete the bounded recovery and reconcile its output.
What changes during the exercise
Usable storage is smaller than planned.
Keep this record
- Target / permission source / tested tool action
- Storage / receiving acceptance / recovery stopping point
- Recovered / stored / received / unresolved difference
Plain-text worksheet with this case, your working fields and the assessment criteria. Fill it in privately; downloading does not submit work or record completion.
Check your reasoning
The target still has recoverable material. Is that a reason to continue with full storage?
Compare your reasoning
No. Possible yield is not carrying capacity. Stop or arrange a verified transfer; do not expose the current load to an unsupported plan for the remainder.
Answer first, then compare. In a later session, explain the decision using a changed case without referring to this answer.
How completion is judged
A target-permission brief, recovery observation and quantity ledger.
The assessor checks your own work against all three “Ready when” criteria above. Use the observed-skill checks in the technical chapter to establish the applicable game-handling evidence in your agreed role. A successful team result does not replace an action they did not observe.
Findings, another attempt and review
- Demonstrated
- Your observed work meets the criterion in the agreed role.
- Further practice required
- The assessor identifies the observed gap and the specific practice needed.
- Interrupted
- Equipment, staffing or personal circumstances prevented a valid assessment. This is not a failure.
- Not assessed
- There is not yet enough evidence for this outcome.
A fresh attempt
Keep storage unchanged but reduce receiving acceptance. Require a storage or delayed-delivery decision rather than automatic continued recovery.
Reassess the missing outcome, plus any linked skill that needs new evidence. For prior learning, compare existing work with the same criteria and observe any missing practical action.
Ask for the reasons behind a finding. Reviews must be handled by someone independent of the original decision; defer the review if that person is not available.
Read the Academy Ordinance and review rulesFor instructors
Session setup and coaching
Prepare the session
Tested salvage tools, a permitted target and an agreed receiving location.
Assign crew stations and tell each learner what they will practise. The instructor must be able to hear the calls and see the action being assessed. Brief the callsigns, channel, route and expected duration. Replace the example locations with the places you will actually use.
- Ask the learner to explain the relevant earlier procedure without notes; correct any gap before the practical.
- Teach and demonstrate the technical chapter using the actual game indications. Run its drill with feedback before connecting those skills to the three methods and worked decision. Use the observed-skill checks to identify missing handling evidence.
- Let the learner complete the normal procedure first, then introduce the change described in the exercise. Give them time to respond without coaching. Keep unrelated failures out of this attempt.
- Record the learner's action against each criterion. Give one specific next step for any gap and transfer unfinished operational work before closing.
What to watch for in IO 208
Watch for the learner entering estimated remaining yield as recovered stock. Ask which tool action and storage observation supports the entry.
If another attempt is needed
Keep storage unchanged but reduce receiving acceptance. Require a storage or delayed-delivery decision rather than automatic continued recovery.
Running the exercise
Before the crew assembles, try the exercise in the ship you intend to use. Check station access, equipment and the route. Brief the crew on any faults that affect the task. If a bug prevents someone completing it, repeat that part once it works; do not record a failure for a broken mechanic.
Brief the command “Stop exercise” before starting. On that call, cease the drill and tell the instructor what needs attention. For weapons practice, identify the participating ships and crew; anyone else entering the area is a reason to hold fire.
Session administration: use player handles in your notes. Ask before recording voice or video, and agree when the recording will be deleted. Academy rules and review procedure.
Sources and edition
Lex Astra · School of Applied Industry
Course IO 208 · edition 2956.3 · 2956 teaching edition · revised course text.
Case IO–4: the incomplete delivery
Applied Industry case issued by CDR Tobias Wren in 2956, drawing on the 1968 Neuhaus freight record. The older waybill belongs to the family freight business, not to Lex Astra; the course quantities are new teaching examples.
Professional references and instructional revision
Instruction revised 9 October 2026. Lex Astra cases supply the teaching situations. Professional references inform communication, decision-making and instructional design; they do not confer external qualifications. LIVE capabilities remain subject to the recorded session check.
Editorial context and teaching basis
The lessons are current Academy teaching, not newly discovered historical records. Lex Astra opened in 2891. Historical sources keep their original issuer and date; all case callsigns, quantities, times and conditions are supplied for practice.
Your session brief names the instructor, the crew assignments and the equipment provided. Contact the teaching office above to arrange a place.
Course-text revision: 8 October 2026. Educational references were reviewed for the framework on 8 October 2026; they inform the teaching approach, not external accreditation or current game-capability claims.
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