PsiTraveller
Cosmic Mongoose
Just a few questions and notes about the Belt mining chapter: And apologies in advance for a long post. Lots of questions.
Page 76 resource presence chart: Can the Radioactives line be removed from the Asteroid Composition/Resource chart? The chart is a copy from Beltstrike (pg 6), but the Scan Potential chart in Hg2e pg 75 does not have a radioactives entry on it anymore. The 'R' results were replaced with 'D's on line 2, 3 and 11. Radioactives were also removed from the descriptor at the bottom of the chart. Only an Exotics result can end up in radioactives, and the Composition chart has an Exotics line on it. Or do you roll for Exotics resulting in Radioactives on the Radioactives line and that is the reason the R was left on the chart?
Also: Could a paragraph or description be added to describe in some detail how an asteroid is mined and what is recovered in terms of ore worth money and slag worth nothing? here is my take on things and I want to know if I screwed up anywhere.
My confusion comes from this:
Step 1: Assume a Sensor check is made in the M Zone. The result is a 7 for Crystalline materials, including ice. (pg 74-75)
Step 2: Ref rolls in secret to see if the asteroid is Metal, Carbon Chondrite or Ice (pg 76)
Step 3: Lets assume a 7 is rolled again so it is a Carbonaceous Chondrite
Step 4: Cross referencing Carbon Chondrite with Crystalline an 8+ is needed for the resource to be there. Let's assume it is there (roll of 9 for example)
Step 5: The ref rolls twice on the size and then yield table on page 77. Assume a roll of 6 on 2D for size to make my math easy and you get an asteroid of 10 000 tons and has 4D% yield of Crystals. Assume another average roll and that is 14% yield in crystals
Result: 1400 Tons of Crystals inside a 10 000 Ton asteroid. So now we want to mine the asteroid to get the money from the material.
Question: Is all of the above correct?
Realising the Claim: Page 77
So the mining crew has a ship with 5 Mining Drones and a skilled operator. The Drones get 1D tons per day per drone, so 5D tons per day. Let's assume 20 tons a day to make my math easy.
Questions: What is extracted? At the end of the day there are 20 tons of what exactly in the hold?
Are there 20 tons of Crystals worth 20 000 Cr per ton as the chart on page 79 suggests?
20 tons of some sort of crystalline metal, 20 tons of common ore? uncommon ore?
20 tons of material 14 percent of which is valuable once it is smelted?
Looking at the chart on page 79 for commodity prices:
How do you find common ore using the Belt mining rules?
How do you find uncommon ore using the Belt Mining rules?
The Core book has a simple roll for finding Precious metals and other metals from the chart on page 147. How do find the same kind of results using Highguard. Is it all based off the Exotic result of a 12 on the Scan Potential?
The 8600 tons of material left in the asteroid. Is it all worth only 75 credits per ton, or could it be mined for metals, the kerogen and polymer and hydrocarbon/petrochemical material that is worth thousands of credits more per ton?
Page 76 resource presence chart: Can the Radioactives line be removed from the Asteroid Composition/Resource chart? The chart is a copy from Beltstrike (pg 6), but the Scan Potential chart in Hg2e pg 75 does not have a radioactives entry on it anymore. The 'R' results were replaced with 'D's on line 2, 3 and 11. Radioactives were also removed from the descriptor at the bottom of the chart. Only an Exotics result can end up in radioactives, and the Composition chart has an Exotics line on it. Or do you roll for Exotics resulting in Radioactives on the Radioactives line and that is the reason the R was left on the chart?
Also: Could a paragraph or description be added to describe in some detail how an asteroid is mined and what is recovered in terms of ore worth money and slag worth nothing? here is my take on things and I want to know if I screwed up anywhere.
My confusion comes from this:
Step 1: Assume a Sensor check is made in the M Zone. The result is a 7 for Crystalline materials, including ice. (pg 74-75)
Step 2: Ref rolls in secret to see if the asteroid is Metal, Carbon Chondrite or Ice (pg 76)
Step 3: Lets assume a 7 is rolled again so it is a Carbonaceous Chondrite
Step 4: Cross referencing Carbon Chondrite with Crystalline an 8+ is needed for the resource to be there. Let's assume it is there (roll of 9 for example)
Step 5: The ref rolls twice on the size and then yield table on page 77. Assume a roll of 6 on 2D for size to make my math easy and you get an asteroid of 10 000 tons and has 4D% yield of Crystals. Assume another average roll and that is 14% yield in crystals
Result: 1400 Tons of Crystals inside a 10 000 Ton asteroid. So now we want to mine the asteroid to get the money from the material.
Question: Is all of the above correct?
Realising the Claim: Page 77
So the mining crew has a ship with 5 Mining Drones and a skilled operator. The Drones get 1D tons per day per drone, so 5D tons per day. Let's assume 20 tons a day to make my math easy.
Questions: What is extracted? At the end of the day there are 20 tons of what exactly in the hold?
Are there 20 tons of Crystals worth 20 000 Cr per ton as the chart on page 79 suggests?
20 tons of some sort of crystalline metal, 20 tons of common ore? uncommon ore?
20 tons of material 14 percent of which is valuable once it is smelted?
Looking at the chart on page 79 for commodity prices:
How do you find common ore using the Belt mining rules?
How do you find uncommon ore using the Belt Mining rules?
The Core book has a simple roll for finding Precious metals and other metals from the chart on page 147. How do find the same kind of results using Highguard. Is it all based off the Exotic result of a 12 on the Scan Potential?
The 8600 tons of material left in the asteroid. Is it all worth only 75 credits per ton, or could it be mined for metals, the kerogen and polymer and hydrocarbon/petrochemical material that is worth thousands of credits more per ton?