1874e Petros Rifle
1874e Petros Rifle is worth keeping when you want careful 11x54 mm shots or a base rifle for the later Petros upgrade path; panic fights punish it fast.
Crystal is a noteworthy valuable worth 300 Crowns at the pawn shop, so it earns cargo space when that payout beats one more stack of routine supplies.
Crystal stops feeling skippable once the run is already stable. A 300-Crown payout is good enough that you usually keep it when ammo, healing, fuel, and repairs are already sorted. If the Trampler is still one bad fight away from dying on the way out, those survival slots still win. Once the exit looks real, Crystal is the kind of mid-value loot you keep instead of tossing it for random filler.
You can loot Crystal directly, or craft it at Utility Workbench T1 from 1 Raw Aurogen Crystal in 5 seconds.
1874e Petros Rifle is worth keeping when you want careful 11x54 mm shots or a base rifle for the later Petros upgrade path; panic fights punish it fast.
1874s Petros Sniper Rifle is worth the slot when the run really gives you range and enough 11x54 mm ammo to cash in on it; cramped fights expose the risk fast.
866/9 Rifle feels like the sensible early rifle when the run expects medium-range fights and already has 9x42mm ammo behind it.
Anti-Reactor Rifle feels worth the slot in runs that actually want to pressure Trampler systems before boarding starts.
AV1 Rocket Launcher feels worth packing when you already have Rockets and expect targets that are worth burning them on.
Black Box only starts to matter once you have already won the reactor fight and still have enough left to get home.
Blitz 10R Pistol feels like the middle-ground Blitz: enough magazine to be usable, not enough to pretend it solves every close fight.
Blitz 15R Pistol feels like the Blitz version you keep when you want the family at its most forgiving.
Crystal feels best in runs that already solved survival, because 300 Crowns is enough to matter without eating the space of a huge valuable.
It still loses the slot to survival supplies when the run is shaky. A dead Trampler never cashes out the 300-Crown value.
Yes, when extraction basics are already covered and you want its 300-Crown payout or its Raw Aurogen Crystal upgrade path.
It loses priority when fuel, healing, repairs, matching ammo, or larger payout items are competing for the same slot.