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Vulture ships hunt down and dismantle derelict spacecraft
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Vulture ships hunt down and dismantle derelict spacecraft
Built by the Fiat-Mitsu Manufacturing Consortium, Scavengers are designed to locate and dismantle derelict spacecraft that have been abandoned or damaged beyond repair. While they have been adapted to a variety of jobs, one variant of these purpose-built ships has no human crew, instead they are guided by an advanced AI system, that processes the input from the sensors and determines the likeliest place for the harvesting of wreckage. These ships received the name Vultures. If there are no sources of scrap metal nearby, their secondary commands are to engage in low-impact asteroid mining. The Vultures AI controllers, while sufficiently advanced to do mining and scavenging work, have trouble dealing with anything more complicated.
The problem arises when the Vultures have exhausted their local work area of wreckage sources, and have difficulty locating any promising areas for mining. Then they begin to hunt down and take apart craft that are still in near working order, or craft that have broadcast even the most minor of error messages. This has caused serious problems in many systems, since over the last 300 years, this sector has seen a population explosion. Now passenger or cargo vessels breaking down in the midst of a run are a fairly common occurence here; enough so that the number of passengers reporting a sighting of, or worse an encounter with, these Vultures has skyrocketed. In other systems, when a vessel suffers a problem of any sort, they merely have to send a distress signal to the nearest port, and shortly thereafter they will be found by the ISG. Here in the former hinterlands though, space has become infested with the Vultures. If one or more happens to intercept a distress signal directed at a port, the Vultures will interpret it as a call to action and proceed at full speed to the location and begin dissassembling. When a Vulture is sighted, the passengers must rely on their own spacecrafts capabilities, and the skills of their pilots to escape with their lives, or they will be left adrift in a scrap metal debris field
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The print captures a haunting scene of vulture ships in action, as they mercilessly hunt down and dismantle derelict spacecraft. These formidable vessels, built by the Fiat-Mitsu Manufacturing Consortium, are known as Scavengers. Designed to locate and dismantle abandoned or irreparably damaged spacecraft, they have become an integral part of the interstellar salvage industry. One variant of these purpose-built ships operates without a human crew; instead, they rely on an advanced AI system to guide them through their tasks. Equipped with state-of-the-art sensors, this AI processes data to determine the most promising locations for harvesting wreckage. However, despite their impressive capabilities in mining and scavenging work, these AI controllers struggle when faced with more complex situations. A significant problem arises when the Vultures exhaust their local work areas and struggle to find new sources for mining. In such cases, they resort to hunting down craft that are still functional or even those that have transmitted minor error messages. This has caused havoc in systems experiencing population explosions over the past three centuries. In other regions of space, distressed vessels can simply send out a distress signal and wait for assistance from nearby ports or the Interstellar Salvage Guild (ISG). However, here in this once remote sector now infested with Vultures, passengers must rely on their own spacecrafts' capabilities and skilled pilots to escape encounters with these relentless machines. As sightings and encounters with Vultures continue to rise dramatically within this scrap metal debris field-filled region of space captured in the print by Brian Christensen from Stocktrek Images), it is clear that surviving amidst these ruthless scavengers requires both luck and expertise.
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