I'd be happy with derilicts being entirely scrap with no loot as long as they were really cool. Pull a blueprint/design off the scrap version and then build your own.
that sounds really good actually, and to make it FAR more potent, I suggest that starmade SERVERS upload ships after 1 week that are NOT set to PRIVATE, ADMIN, or faction...
at the same time, it downloads the latest catalogue... hence, we get a MASSIVE burst of new "direlicts"...
a config option turns this feature ON, a second config option sets MIN mass, and a third MAX mass...
a fourth sets the amount of data these direlicts can take up (e.g DOWNLOAD LIMIT)
this way, you go forth, "claim" the ship, which "marks" the vessel for towing, a AI comes forth with a tractor, drags the ship husk to a shipyard, and saves the blueprint in it's current state...
"claiming" the same ship again causes the blueprint's to merge, filling in gaps...
this is ENTIRELY random however, you may come across two ships and have perfection, or you may need twelve...
luck of the draw.