You begin as T3-M4, a droid, on the bridge of the damaged and drifting Ebon Hawk spaceship. It's a brief mission that will be extremely easy for all, especially for those familiar with the first game. In any case, search every bin, footlocker, corpse and conceivable container for free items, as you can either break them down (new in KotOR II) at a workbench or lab station for useful components, or sell the ones you won't use and get rich quick. The walkthrough will attempt to give you all the locations of powerful items that are NOT random, however. One note I'd like to stress here at the beginning, even though I've mentioned in the FAQ already: since in this game, items are not as static as they were in KotOR, it will not be possible to list many of the locations for them, as they're random in most cases.