PsiTraveller
Cosmic Mongoose
It's been discussed on the board before, but I was wondering if anything new has been released regarding how mining and processing of asteroid material works?
I am looking at what is produced by mining drones, common ore, uncommon ore, precious metals etc, there is a chart on pg 147 of the Core book, but is it superseded by anything? high Guard has a completely different system.
Yield of an asteroid High Guard pg 77
Assuming a 1 million ton asteroid (a roll of 7 on the chart, average roll), there is a potential yield of 4D% ore, which given average rolls is 14% ore. So there are 140,000 tons of ore inside the asteroid.
So when mining drones are operating, are they extracting just ore or only 14% yield? and what do you do with the other 86 percent of material. (because you have fusion power, I think you should be able to make/extract something of value with all the energy you have available.
And then we come to the refinery and smelter entries in the space station section (high guard pg 61 and 62) the refinery takes in 100 tons of material and produces 50 tons of common ore, 30 tons of uncommon ore, 15 tons of Crystals and gems and 5 tons of precious metal. Which seems to have no connection to the yield of the asteroid from pg 77.
Can anyone spell out how the system works?
Thank you
I am looking at what is produced by mining drones, common ore, uncommon ore, precious metals etc, there is a chart on pg 147 of the Core book, but is it superseded by anything? high Guard has a completely different system.
Yield of an asteroid High Guard pg 77
Assuming a 1 million ton asteroid (a roll of 7 on the chart, average roll), there is a potential yield of 4D% ore, which given average rolls is 14% ore. So there are 140,000 tons of ore inside the asteroid.
So when mining drones are operating, are they extracting just ore or only 14% yield? and what do you do with the other 86 percent of material. (because you have fusion power, I think you should be able to make/extract something of value with all the energy you have available.
And then we come to the refinery and smelter entries in the space station section (high guard pg 61 and 62) the refinery takes in 100 tons of material and produces 50 tons of common ore, 30 tons of uncommon ore, 15 tons of Crystals and gems and 5 tons of precious metal. Which seems to have no connection to the yield of the asteroid from pg 77.
Can anyone spell out how the system works?
Thank you