Salvager Drone Rank 350-1050 Rare NPC

Salvage Drones collect the remenants of old planets processing them and recycling them into minerals.
Boss 3 People
Drops:
*Cargo Expander: Expands cargo by 20
*Mineral Salvage: Random bundle of minerals. 100 Pawlcite(35%), 40 Dysilion(20%), 20 Kurinite(10%), 70 Dieterion(25%), 10 Aidonuim(10%)

Perhaps instead of a set amount of minerals it can drop between 500-5000 mineral points? and for the cargo expander, it seems like a rather low reward for an NPC from a faction of such high level ships. perhapse it can expand the cargo by 50-100? most players are already overloaded with cargo by then anyway.

lol i like the idea of the massive cargo transport, but the description and difficulty level makes me think it would drop closer to 1000 cargo, instead of 100... consider this, a graxis is a 15 person drop. that is a rank 160 npc. if this fit with a higher level faction (like rank 350 like joshball suggested) then it would be approximately 36000 damage to lock in. 36000x20 would be 720000 health for this npc. if all it dropped was 100 cargo, i doubt many players would actively pursue it... the planetary bonus is good, but i think it might need another drop that would make it worth our while... not sure what tho.

****Containment Sphere
Junk Collectors

Spheres released long ago to collect the waste dispelled by interplanetary traffic. Recyclable resources are compressed into electronic data, and nonrecyclable resources are incinerated. Space ports have been known to contact these Spheres in times of reconstruction or expansion, and these spheres will dock and provide the stations with all the resources they need.

5 person Elite, Extremely Rare (octafari leviathan rare)

Drops:
*Containment Cages x 10
*Containment Core: An artifact that increases the resource production capacity permanently by 100. (This would affect all resources, and it would not be a planet building, but rather function as a one time use artifact, like the parts vault.)
*Electronic Compression Grid: Module, Size 15, Reduces the amount of decks used by modules by 2%. Up to 5 can be installed, and bonuses would not be multiplied, but rather added for a maximum 10% reduction in deck space. (This module would go under the devices category, because the 'devices' category implies that it is the miscellaneous module category.) This bonus would stack with the Sillix racial ability.

Salvage Drone
Common
Sent to scour planets for abandoned colonies for salvageable pieces of technology
Drops: Drone Pods - Module size 8 increases scan by 65

i figured the rogue tech collector could be their common. since its matched it dosnt really need any other commons. thats at least how most other factions function...

(Since when did most commons give drops? Aside from crimson amps.)

Dark Smugglers Guild Commons:
Dark Runner (matched)
Dark Velocitor (etc. etc.)

Sha'din Commons:
Sha'din Charger
Shadin Corsair

Crimson Blades:
Razor Scout etc.
Blade Scout etc.
Hawk/Flamehawk.

To name but a few.

Some interesting ideas in here so far, but let me point out a couple things....

• If this is to be a higher rank Faction (which is needed BTW), none of them should be dropping anything that gives more cargo space. High ranks just don't need it.
• Octafari Leviathan rare?? I'd be maxed out inside one week even at a 90/10 rate getting the containment cages.
• The only Uncommon/Rare NPCs that drop ship modules or planet structures are mission spawned. Uncommon/Rares drop planet boosts (purifiers, optimizers, TF/QSE, etc) or ship buffs (crim amps, implants, etc.) or specialized items/one-time weapons (flux, bio-vapes, krio torp, etc.)

A Common dropping a ship mod?? Can we say tech part cash cow? I could see a temporary scan booster, but we've already got 4 of those.