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==Salvage==
When you salvage a wreck you may get materials, research information and components. The rule of thumb is that the bigger the ship and more advanced the race, the better the yield.

You may get research information, either directly at the point of salvage or by [[disassemble|disassembling]] any components you recover. If you gain research information directly from a wreck, your salvage ship will download it to any [[colony]] with a research facility. If there is no such colony in the current system, the salvage ship will retain the data until it enters a system with a research facility. You can control this by selecting the "Retain Tech Data" checkbox on the Miscellaneous tab of the individual ship details screen.

If you find components, some of these may be of a much higher technology level than your current tech. These will be marked in green, and they can be used to gain research points through [[disassemble|reverse engineering]], or just scraped for minerals otherwise. If you disassemble components, that research information will be allocated to the colony at which the component is disassembled. Therefore it is a good idea to disassemble components at a colony with research facilities, or a specific one if the research is already underway.

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