Salvage Card: "Major Setback" very confused?

[John Robinson]

Salvage card in my hand;

"Major setback 30-50 Influence lost.  Construction delayed, involved contacts suffer losses"

A.) Is there anyway to know which of my contacts will take the influence hit?  This is a very serious threat.
But if I knew it would hit my sworn enemy Thulun, and another card was a Xeno.  Then I'd get rid of the Xeno card.

Are there any conditions this card can be safely ignored.

B.)  Later in the game;  I purchased a rumor.
"New orbital construction over Monticore Q7.  A major engineering project to rebuild parts of the Orbital is 
underway.  The space around the station is busy with faction ships, and star traders looking for opportunities."

Seems to me the "setback" card would come into play in this situation.  But still leaves me wondering which faction, or
contacts influence I'm putting at risk?

Thanks

[fallen]

You are risking the Influence of the Contacts of the Faction that owns the planet. If you're at a Thulun orbital, then its Thulun.

[fallen]

I have updated the card to now read: "Construction delayed, Thulun Contacts suffer losses" so it is always clear.

[John Robinson]

Mar 8, 2019 13:15:20 GMT -5 fallen said:

I have updated the card to now read: "Construction delayed, Thulun Contacts suffer losses" so it is always clear.

Thanks that's very helpful     Is it just one of my Thulun contacts that takes the loss or does the influence loss spread
across several randomly selected Thulun contacts? 

Salvage is a very dangerous profession.  Came across an abandoned Medical orbital.  Drew three, -5 danger Xenos
and a loss influence card.  Very eerie.  Like those movies of being in a haunted lunatic asylum, or trying
to recover something important in the alien move.

Very cool part of STF (natural addition to new quad), it's not for the timid but I'm sticking with it. 
 

[fallen]

Salvage is intended to be very high risk, very high reward.

Just one Contact gets completely nuked