Terry Mixon
Emperor Mongoose
I was reading the article on the Krungha Processing Ark in JTAS #7 and it mentioned getting feedstock used to sustain the ark’s biospheres, supplementing recycled biomass to provide food to the ark’s population. The Ark also has 1,200 tons of Agricultural Manufacturing Plants. That seems to imply that the agricultural manufacturing plants can be supplied by asteroid mining. Is that correct?
High Guard has the mineral refinery output as 50% Common Ore, 30% Uncommon Ore, 15% Crystals and Gems and 5% Precious Metals. I house rule that one tenth of one percent off the precious metals is radioactives, but that's just me. A smelter allows Common Ores to be processed into Common Raw Materials and Uncommon Ores into Uncommon Raw Materials.
Does it also produce something that can become feedstock for the agricultural manufacturing plants? What percentage comes out of the refining? What's the output? Curious minds want to know.
I suspect the answer is that Type-C asteroids provide this, and they would likely only provide this, so the question becomes what percentage of a Type-C asteroid is converted and the ratio of the output. As this isn't covered in the rules, I'm hoping for some ideas on that from you fine folk.
High Guard has the mineral refinery output as 50% Common Ore, 30% Uncommon Ore, 15% Crystals and Gems and 5% Precious Metals. I house rule that one tenth of one percent off the precious metals is radioactives, but that's just me. A smelter allows Common Ores to be processed into Common Raw Materials and Uncommon Ores into Uncommon Raw Materials.
Does it also produce something that can become feedstock for the agricultural manufacturing plants? What percentage comes out of the refining? What's the output? Curious minds want to know.
I suspect the answer is that Type-C asteroids provide this, and they would likely only provide this, so the question becomes what percentage of a Type-C asteroid is converted and the ratio of the output. As this isn't covered in the rules, I'm hoping for some ideas on that from you fine folk.