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[Embercloud]

What is the point of survey missions from the buyers perspective?
I can understand ship scanning but when it comes to stuff like equipment caches why would anyone pay 100 000 credits for me to go out into the fringe and scan it, only for me to steal all the contents afterwards?
Are they trying to verify it's still there in case one of their own fleets run low on a trip? Because I'm going to take that stuff with me and/or scrap any ship I've come across.
It just feels like a giant waste of money from the buyers perspective imo

[Deshara]

gathering info on bounties

[Maybe]

If you just need an excuse, it could be evidence in an arms smuggling case, or proof of war-crimes in a distant sector. The only thing we really know is that the value of these surveys have nothing to do with these things "actual" material worth.

[cerberusti]

You might be scanning it to verify the loss for an insurance claim, that would explain all the repeat business as well.

[Techhead]

My assumption was that the device was either pulling specific bits of intel out of the ship's databanks, or purposefully deleting them before their opposition does the former.

I like the insurance claim one, though.