In order to manufacture rigs, you need to have certain materials which can only be obtained through salvaging. This guide will try to cover the basics of how salvaging works, aiding all players, old and new, who are starting out in the salvaging profession. 

Wrecks
Wrecks can be found almost anywhere. You may be on a mission for your agent, going belt to belt, going against your enemy in war-times: any time a ship has been destroyed, a Wreck will be left behind. Wrecks come in different sizes, depending on the type of ship, and have different amounts of materials in them. The rule of thumb is that the bigger the ship, the more materials you will be able to Salvage.

Salvage Materials
The materials vary from race to race and are consistent with their specialty. Thus, a Guristas ship will drop shield and missile materials, while Sansha will drop laser and armor components. All factions and races will drop circuits.

Skill Requirements
You want to get  Eve Isk into the action, but before you can do that, you need the skills. Let us first check what skills you have and what you need. You need to use a module called Salvager;, the basic skill requirement is to have Salvaging at Level 1. In order to train that skill, you need the following skills:

Mechanic Level 3
Survey Level 3
Electronics Level 1
If you meet the requirements, you can train the skill and use the module. The skill will increase the chance of successfully Salvaging from a Wreck.

Fitting the Module
The fitting requirements are not that high, so you should be able to fit the module on any ship you possess. It needs a high slot, 20 CPU and 1 MW, and consumes 20 capacitor points for every 10 second cycle.

Usage
Once you have obtained the module and fitted it on your ship, you can start locating a Wreck. The easiest way is to head into an asteroid belt and shoot an NPC. It will leave a Wreck behind, indicated in the overview as a triangle pointing down with a line on the top. You will either see a filled triangle or an empty one. If the triangle is filled, this means there is loot to be found in the Wreck. This is important, as you can not activate the Salvager on a wreck that contains items and will need to empty the Wreck before proceeding. Once the Wreck is empty (empty triangle icon), you must target  Eve Isk the wreck and be within 5000 meters before the module will scan the wreck for useful salvage.