Update #297 breaks out an all new Rare Trade Good, an all new 2400 Mass class ship with 6 officer slots and the long-requested option to gain more Hunna Contacts. Along with some key rebalances to improve Orbital Salvage, this one is full of exciting adds for your captain. Sell some Shards, buy a new ship, join the Hunna? Thanks to everyone posting feedback here on Steam and helping us continue to develop and improve this game.

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Steel Song Caliga: 6 Officers at 2400M

The Caliga Vindex is built for Steel Song bounty hunters and clan assassins – and rumored to have been designed in the first place for use by Faug Daen operatives. Architected for boarding, the Caliga has light weapons, solid defense and extreme speed. Appointments for six private cabins make it very attractive to Captains who prize officer space over all else. Coming in at a cool $1.8M, this is a small fast, ship that is touchy to configure by standout for its officer capacity.

New Rare Trade Good: Shards

This update has added a new Rare Trade Good, the Kraesline Shards. Know to be highly unstable and dangerous to transport, these goods can only be sold at Orbital Stations or Tradeways. However, they are in high demand to be used in new and developing industrial processes to refine both spice and duranium and are know to boost both the quality and profits of such processes.

Kraesline Shards are rare, expensive and highly illegal. In addition to their high profit margins, they an above average impact on a Contacts' Influence when they are sold.

Outside of purchasing Kraesline Shards from a Contact, this RTG can also be found in stashes recovered while Salvaging.

Kraesline Shards will only appear as Rare Trade Goods for a specific quadrant in newly generated maps. However, they will appear in recovered stashes from Salvage in any game regardless of when it was started.

Hunna Contacts!

While a little late for the Hunna Snakes challenge (if you haven't given it a try, its a ton of fun and never too late to join in!), we've updated all cards that can create Contacts during Salvage to have a chance to also reveal or create Hunna Contacts as well as making these cards overall more likely to appear.

Salvage Cards

With Update #297, we've increased the XP rewards from XP cards drawn during Salvage if you are crazy enough to salvage while under an Ion Storm or Radiation Storm Rumor. Also, in the cases when Jyeeta Debris Field cards can appear – during the Jyeeta Era, during certain Rumor events, and afterwards – we've increased the chance that these cards will appear to ensure their threatening presence is properly felt.

v3.2.45 - 6/15/2022

- Added all new Rare Trade Good: Kraesline Shards
- Added 'Kraesline Shards' to loot tables for recovered stashes
- Maps generated may now contain Quadrants that supply Kraesline Shards
- New Ship: Caliga Vindex (Steel Song, 2400M Officer-Focused Space Yacht)
- Salvage Cards that create Contacts can now create Hunna Contacts
- Greatly increased spawn rate for 'Contact Rescue' Salvage Card
- Increased XP bonus Cards for Salvaging during Radiation Storms
- Increased spawn rate on 'Jyeeta Debris Field' Salvage Card