Working the tech skills in earlier in the volturnus campaign

The lack of opportunity to use tech skills early in the volturnus campaign has always been a vallid criticism of the modules IMO.<br /><br />I just found this picture at deviantart.com and it just inspired me:<br />http://samuelcroes.deviantart.com/art/Old-Starship-80081000<br /><br />Why not let the PCs find and explore the stripped and burnt out wreck of the first survey expedition's ship in the desert?<br /><br />EDIT: THE ship in the desert, as all Red Devil ships will have nose art similar to this:<br />http://www.clipartof.com/images/clipart/thumbnail2/14879_sexy_brunette_…