Salvage Pirates: Difference between revisions

* A version of this from ''[[The Thrawn Trilogy]]''. Luke messed up his X-Wing's systems while escaping a [[Tractor Beam]] and is stranded light-years from anything, unable to contact anyone. Within a few hours Talon Karrde, head of a smuggling/intelligence organization, arrives on the scene claiming coincidence, and offers not only to take Luke but also his ship, for a fee. Luke is wary, thinking of exactly this trope, but if he refuses he'll just be either blasted or left to hang in the void again. Soon, though, he finds that they found him using a Force-Sensitive woman who hates him, and Grand Admiral Thrawn has put out word that he's stranded in the area and could be worth something. Normally Karrde, being both a businessman and pretty decent, would be happy to save random drifters with or without a fee, but Luke complicates a lot of things, and he considers handing him over to Thrawn. {{spoiler|He doesn't.}}

* A non-illegal version is in [[Issac Asimov]]'s story ''The Martian Way''. Its a professional job where people salvage space junk and scraps of metal, rock, etc. and sell them later. They do consider stealing water, but only because a politican called [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Hilder]] litmits water trade, (water is scarce on Mars.)

 

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* ''[[Space Quest]] III: The Pirates of Pestulon'' begins with Roger Wilco's escape pod picked up by a salvage ship helmed by a robot; the robot is more interested in picking up space garbage than picking off Roger, but he'll do so if you get his attention. The ''rats'' present a more direct threat, stealing Roger's stuff and beating the crap out of him if he tries to make off with their loot.

 

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