That sounds like a VERY useful thing to have!  I'm guessing that the current two ships we have don't have the spare space for that... but that the cruiser certainly would!<br/><br/>Problem being, of course, that without the salvage system we won't be able to salvage weapons for the cruiser anyway!  Dang it... catch 22.<br/><br/>I suppose it'd be workable... get the salvage system installed in the cruiser (plus ship's stores... why not?) and then escort it out to space hulks and do some salvaging... it can salvage weapons for itself!  So long as we can keep it intact until it does so enough to be a worthy fighting machine again.<br/><br/>Of course, if the only thing we could put a salvage system in would be the cruiser, then we have 6 months to worry about affording one.  (unless we could get a transport with a salvage system onboard already... which sounds REALLY expensive...)