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• Cargo Hold: Limpets need space to be stored in, so you need a cargo hold with enough storage space (1t per limpet).  It's recommended that a minimum of 8 limpets are carried.  Most Rats carry 12-16 limpets.  Remember that too many limpets will lower your jump range.
• Fuel Scoop: Our clients often end up in inhabited space, and every limpet you give to the client takes 1T of fuel out of your tank.  Without a fuel scoop … you will soon find yourself in serious trouble.
• Limpets: All nice and well, yet without limpets, all your shiny ship would be very, very useless. Don’t forget to resupply your stock through [ADVANCED MAINTENANCE → RESTOCK] at a station’s menu. You should carry at least 8 limpets, better are even more, but not too many. T9 vessels, for example, can be very fuel hungry – ten limpets might just be enough to get such a client to the next station.
• Fuel Transfer Limpet Controller: This is what programs, launches and guides the limpets on their way to the client.
• Extra fuel tanks are optional and depend mainly on the class of your Ratship. Note that increased fuel capacity reduces plottable jump range.
• Weapons are not required. You are free to take them with you, of course, yet they reduce your jump range, and Rats usually like to run rather than stand and fight, and thus invest in stronger defensive mechanisms or speed anyway. We usually do not run into trouble from other CMDRs through rescues, but it does happen (very, very seldom). It's more likely that you'll run into an NPC attempting to take cargo or claim a bounty.
  
  
• Discovery scanner (either basic or advanced). If you can afford/have room for one, this can be a very handy tool, you may encounter rescues where it can be helpful you can see all the bodies in the system. You can do without but it's helpful.
  
  

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