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If it's pirating, you can treat the Salvager like a Pirate ID'd Starflier for all I care, it makes no practical difference. Nobody who is using a ship to attack others (and piracy is a form of attack) is exempt from the pvp rules. If a transport is trading, comes upon a pirate and attacks the pirate, and the transport gets killed, the transport cannot come back and attack the pirate again 5 minutes later.
Transports that are only attempting to trade can come back through the system, because that benefits piracy and keeps the economy going.
If you use any ship for pvp or piracy, then it has to follow all of the pvp rules. If you use a transport or freighter for trading and fire only in self-defense against pirates or terrorists, then you can keep trading and defending yourself. The moment any transport or freighter goes on offense to hunt and attack pirates, it loses its special exemption.
So like I said, there is really no change here.
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