On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 5:19 PM, <tmr0195@comcast.net> wrote:
A Tigress-class cost is MCr362,721 so that would give the recovery team MCr36,272.1 to split.

That's the new cost and a base reward of 10%. If the TU follows the real world model, salvage value is current actual value as determined by the salvage court, with the percentage of value awarded to the salvagers based on the amount of effort needed to effect the salvage and the degree of risk involved (both of which would likely be very low with an intact, living crew to help and the "calm sea" of deep space as the rescue environment).

Still, even 10% of 10% (e.g. scrap value) is ~3.6 billion credits and that sounds like a nice profit . . . unless you had to seed MASSIVE volumes of space with an endless horde of sensor drones in order to conduct the search.

-- 
Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident."  Robert A. Heinlein
"I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as Muhammed." Alexis de Tocqueville (1843)
"We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous." Dean Winchester
"It has been my experience that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger." Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey), to a scoffing Confederate tax collector facing the weapons held by Knight's young children and wife.