Travellers Needed! High Guard Updates
- Thread starter paltrysum
- Start date
Terry Mixon
Emperor Mongoose
Once you use it for a bit, it becomes pretty easy to figure out.
mavikfelna
Cosmic Mongoose
I started building ships with it back in April or so and I'm totally addicted to it now.
Terry Mixon
Emperor Mongoose
Roughly 2% of asteroidal material is made up of organics. Not truly organic material, but something that likely could be fed into an agricultural manufacturing plant. In the refining section, that should be added to help account for it. It could come from Common Ores percentage.
Additionally, radioactives are not covered in this at all and they are as common as on Earth in the asteroids, I believe. That should be a fraction of a percent (0.1%? Less? 0.01%) and come out of Precious Metals. They're sourced in asteroid belt systems, so they need to be included in the mix.
Additionally, radioactives are not covered in this at all and they are as common as on Earth in the asteroids, I believe. That should be a fraction of a percent (0.1%? Less? 0.01%) and come out of Precious Metals. They're sourced in asteroid belt systems, so they need to be included in the mix.
Condottiere
Emperor Mongoose
Rare earths.
CordwainerFish
Emperor Mongoose
If I recall, radioactive - or at least uranium - is enriched in the crust and mantle of the Earth because uranium atoms don't like to be incorporated into structure of solid iron, so as the inner core cooled it underwent a sort of zone refinement.
Lots of ores familiar to terrestrial miners, in fact, were deposited by geological processes not commonly available to asteroids, involving weathering and water.
(Anyone read Alexis Gilliland's Rosinante books? His belters captured a metallic asteroid and used a solar furnace to zone refinement the whole damn thing. At the end when they get fed up with Earth trying to govern them, they roll up with a few kilotons of gold and threaten to sell it.)
Terry Mixon
Emperor Mongoose
There is debate on that.
Can We Find the Heaviest Elements in Asteroids?
Uranium is the heaviest element found in large amounts on Earth, with an atomic number of 92. Although heavier elements were formed in supernovae and particle accelerators, they decay into lighter elements. Physicists have long hoped for an island of stability where heavier elements could be...
Regardless, Traveller has radioactives as a product of trade with significant positive DMs from systems with planetoid belts, so that should be reflected in space refining.
