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It takes several days for your salvage teams to maneuver the crippled destroyer into your forward hanger. A RADIANT-class destroyer was near the upper limit of what an escort carrier could reasonably support, and the fact that the wreck was almost entirely unpowered made the docking process unusually difficult.
To your surprise, Sojourner-91 offers assistance by sending a brace of tug drones to augment your own salvage units. You accept, realizing that there was relatively little to lose, and connect their manager-captain to the ancillary leading your salvage operation.
As uneventful as the communication is, it allows some of the more sociable members of the salvage team - mostly the colonists - a chance to learn about their counterparts. From what little you gathered from their reports, Sojourner-91 was neither well-equipped or well-serviced. The primitive, radially-built salvage ship was slavishly dedicated to external racks containing thousands of skeletal salvage drones, with minimal concessions made for habitable space.
"In retrospect, it is unusual," mentions Hibiscus. "For a single raker sub-vessel to be assigned to a salvage operation of this size."
<Would you expect a more organized detachment?>
She nods. "A dustraker mothership indentures hundreds of salvage teams, if not thousands. It would typically dedicate at least several dozen sub-vessels to a debris field spanning an entire system, especially with a yield potential as high as this one.."
"Probably with more appropriate equipment too, judging from the amount of shielding I see our own salvage-teams wearing."
<Is this unusual enough to warrant suspicion?>
"...Perhaps. I would not ignore it."
>NOTHING.
>CONFRONT - DIRECT. Just ask. You have more than enough weaponry for your suspicions to be taken seriously.
>CONFRONT - INDIReCT. Perhaps you can ask Hibiscus and a few humans to attempt something more...diplomatic?
