Analysis

The Confederacy's salvage safety board reviewed incident reports from wreck-site operations and concluded that most losses came from debris impacts and opportunistic attacks during recovery. The Analysis was redesigned accordingly: reinforced hull plating, a default armor package, and a pulse laser for self-defense. The armor drops speed, which the safety board accepted — a salvager that arrives slowly and survives is preferable to one that arrives quickly and doesn't. Every recovered component is still scanned, catalogued, and assessed for reuse potential. The Confederacy didn't remove the methodical part. They just armored it.