LEX ASTRA ACADEMY IO 208 / Salvage and recovery planning Lex Astra · School of Applied Industry Teaching edition 2956.3 / Live practical ———————————————————————————————————————————————— LEARNER WORKSHEET For salvage crews planning recovery and delivery. This is a private working copy. Downloading submits nothing and records no completion. Use exercise identifiers, not private player information. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— SESSION DETAILS Learner identifier: ____________________________________________________________ Instructor / assessor: ____________________________________________________________ Session date / agreed role or variant: ____________________________________________________________ Vessel, configuration and equipment: ____________________________________________________________ LIVE build / capability test date / tested by (if practical): ____________________________________________________________ Stop signal / recovery contact / communication arrangement: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— PURPOSE Plan an authorized salvage task and track the recovered material through delivery. COURSE CONTEXT 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. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— ENTRY Complete: IO 102 Equipment: Tested salvage tools, a permitted target and an agreed receiving location. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— CASE: Stop with material still at the target 1. The target is authorized for the drill and the tool action is checked before use. 2. The teaching plan allows four equal storage units of output; a configuration check reduces that to two. 3. Receiving has accepted two units. No transfer vessel is confirmed. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE AND GAME SKILLS Salvage from wreck inspection to material sale Practical instruction revision 1 / 9 October 2026 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. My action / observed result / assistance / evidence reference: ____________________________________________________________ Live, simulated or unobserved: ____________________________________________________________ Beam control and buffer management produce recoverable material without an avoidable blockage. My action / observed result / assistance / evidence reference: ____________________________________________________________ Live, simulated or unobserved: ____________________________________________________________ RMC, structural feedstock, refined output and sold quantities are not conflated. My action / observed result / assistance / evidence reference: ____________________________________________________________ Live, simulated or unobserved: ____________________________________________________________ Apply the technical checks in the agreed role. Discussion and simulation do not certify live handling; Crew Support evidence does not confer Pilot qualification. GAME REFERENCES 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 https://starcitizen.tools/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 https://starcitizen.tools/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. Official LIVE release check: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/patch-notes ———————————————————————————————————————————————— 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. My action and observed result: ____________________________________________________________ Evidence reference: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— 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. My action and observed result: ____________________________________________________________ Evidence reference: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— METHOD 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. My action and observed result: ____________________________________________________________ Evidence reference: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— 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. 1. Revise the recovery target to the two units that can be stored and received. Record why the planned four is no longer usable. 2. Perform only the checked recovery actions and stop at the agreed limit. Keep an observation of the stopping decision, not just the output. 3. Record recovered, held and received quantities separately. Leave unworked potential at the target out of the stock total. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— YOUR EXERCISE Brief permission, revised capacity and delivery. Complete the bounded recovery and reconcile its output. WHAT CHANGES Usable storage is smaller than planned. My decision and reason: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— YOUR WORKING RECORD Target / permission source / tested tool action ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Storage / receiving acceptance / recovery stopping point ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ Recovered / stored / received / unresolved difference ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— CHECK YOUR REASONING The target still has recoverable material. Is that a reason to continue with full storage? My answer before consulting the explanation: ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— EVIDENCE TO KEEP A target-permission brief, recovery observation and quantity ledger. Criterion 1: You identify permission for the target and a suitable, tested recovery method. Individual evidence / finding / assessor's reason: ____________________________________________________________ Criterion 2: Your tool use and stopping decision stay within the checked target, storage and exercise limits. Individual evidence / finding / assessor's reason: ____________________________________________________________ Criterion 3: All quantity claims can be traced and every unresolved difference has an owner. Individual evidence / finding / assessor's reason: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— FINDINGS AND NEXT ATTEMPT Demonstrated: observed work meets the criterion. Further practice required: an observed gap needs a specific practice task. Interrupted: conditions prevented valid assessment; not a failure. Not assessed: enough evidence has not yet been collected. All three criteria need individual evidence. A team result or quiz cannot replace an unobserved practical. Practice variant for a fresh attempt: Keep storage unchanged but reduce receiving acceptance. Require a storage or delayed-delivery decision rather than automatic continued recovery. My next practice task: ____________________________________________________________ Review contact: ____________________________________________________________ ———————————————————————————————————————————————— COMPARE AFTER ANSWERING 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. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— SOURCE AND EDITION Case IO–4: the incomplete delivery /academy/archives/cargo-case 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. 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. Course text revised 8 October 2026; fictional teaching edition 2956.3. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES 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. Cedefop · observable learning outcomes https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/publications/4209 FAA · crew resource management (2004 reference) https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/AC_120-51E.pdf RSI · verify release notes before live delivery https://robertsspaceindustries.com/patch-notes ———————————————————————————————————————————————— INSTRUCTOR CHECK Try the exercise with the ship and equipment you will use. Brief station assignments, callsigns, channel and recovery point. Explain the command “Stop exercise” before starting. If a bug prevents completion, repeat the affected task when it works. Ask before recording the session; use player handles in your notes. Review rules: /academy/archives/academy-ordinance Teaching basis: /academy/framework#research