• Starts Salvage career gameplay in the main release sequence; retires separate career version assignments.
• Wreck and cargo-pod contracts now recover finite cargo at their marked site using SALVAGE and operations power.
• Recovery progresses gradually; salvage equipment modifiers increase recovery speed.
• Full holds pause recovery. Return after unloading to collect the remaining cargo within the active session.
• Debris pickups keep uncollected material and charter pay counts only cargo actually loaded.
• Salvage training now comes from recovered material rather than leaving an idle tractor switched on.
• Updates tutorial guidance and contract status text.

No live Sol reset is required. Existing active contracts keep their old behavior; new recovery jobs use the new rules. Contract persistence across reloads, shared persistent hulks, physical hull cutting, salvage rights and complete ARIA automation remain future work. Browser/device smoke and income-parity benchmarks are pending.

Living Galaxy — Ad Astrum. Newest first.

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