Designation: Scavenger SV-4 Classification: Deep-System Salvage Crawler / Hazardous Environment Harvester Operator: SolFed Exo-Mining Corp (Decommissioned) Status: [DATA CORRUPTED] – Last known position: Outer Heliopause, Trajectory Anomalous Overview The Scavenger SV-4 was a fourth-generation autonomous salvage vessel designed for the retrieval of high-value alloys from the debris fields of the Kuiper Belt. Unlike its predecessors, the SV-4 featured a Wetware-Neural Interface (WNI) — a semi-organic navigation core cultured from the preserved cortical tissue of deceased deep-space pilots. This controversial design allowed the ship to "intuit" the locations of valuable wreckage, reacting to gravitational anomalies faster than any silicon-based AI.
On its final logged mission (Run #1,205), the SV-4 was dispatched to investigate an unidentified mass shadow at the edge of trans-Neptunian space. The object was dubbed . The Cinder-7 Incident Telemetry logs from the SolFed relay station Nyx show the SV-4 intercepting Cinder-7, which appeared as a non-reflective, geometrically impossible shard approximately 200 meters in length. Standard spectrography failed; the object absorbed all forms of radiation. scavenger sv-4 wiki
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At T+02:34:11, the SV-4’s grasper claws engaged. This was the last coherent transmission. On its final logged mission (Run #1,205), the