Gas Cloud Harvesting

A Guide To Booster Manufacturing

Boosters are made through processing chemicals extracted from special gas clouds which can be found in certain deadspace areas in many regions. Some constellations however are rumored to have massive clouds of a scale not seen anywhere else. Finding these clouds requires the ability to conduct long range scanning, for example via scan probes. Finding them however is not always an easy task, it sometimes requires quite a bit of exploration before one is found.

The downside of searching for these clouds is the fact they are mostly located in dangerous pirate infested space. Few if any of these clouds exist in civilized space, having been depleted long ago by the human mega-corporations. Hence searching for them can be quite risky and not recommended except for an experienced combat pilot.

To extract the chemicals from the gas clouds, you need a gas cloud harvester module. You also need to find the correct type of gas cloud. Not all clouds have chemicals that the gas cloud harvester can extract, and therefore you might have to go through some trial and error to begin with before you get the hang of gas cloud harvesting.

Today most boosters are very much illegal in civilized space, due to the horrible side effects experienced by users during the Great Booster Craze many decades ago. Therefore manufacturing them must be done in lawless space, outside the sphere of power of the major civilized factions. Also anyone caught smuggling illegal boosters into civilized space can face very steep penalties.

Manufacturing boosters is set into a few phases. Phase 1 is extracting the material from the gas cloud. Phase 2 is using a starbase with the appropriate structure to process the chemicals and create reactions. Phase 3 is using a station that allows booster manufacturing, stations known as Outposts would work, to process the reaction and create the booster. This will result in the creation of a fairly common booster. With additional work, and the right blueprint and combination of low quality boosters, one can create higher quality versions in the Outpost or starbase laboratory.

Phase 1 Detail: Gas Harvesting

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Phase 2 Detail: Gas Processing

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Drug Lab
A laboratory to produce performance enhancing drugs
This starbase module works identically to a refining array, only with gas not ore.
Capacity: 100K m3
Online Delay: 180 sec
CPU: 150 TF
Powergrid: 50K MW
Shield: 20K
Armor: 20K

Phase 3 Detail: Booster Creation

Boosters are created in 0.0 outposts, as the empires will not allow the illegal activity. You will need the appropriate reaction plan (like a blueprint.)

Standard [A] Booster Reaction

20 [B] Cytoserocin + 100 Water --> pure Standard [A] Booster + 95 Water

Improved [A] Booster Reaction

15 pure Standard [A] Booster + 15 pure Standard [C] Booster + 100 [D] --> 12 pure Improved [A] Booster + 95 [D]

Quick Reference:

Azure + Vernillion = Sooth Sayer or X-Instinct

Malachite + Lime = Mindflood or Frentix

Amber + Golden = Blue Pill or Crash

Celadon + Viridian = Exile or Drop

Strong [A] Booster Reaction

12 pure Improved [A] Booster + pure Standard [E] Booster + 100 Hydrochloric Acid --> 12 pure Strong [A] Booster + 95 Hydrochloric Acid

Quick Reference:

Azure + Celadon + Vernillion + Viridian = X-Instinct

Azure + Celadon + Vernillion + Viridian = Exile

Azure + Celadon + Vernillion + Viridian = Sooth Sayer

Azure + Celadon + Vernillion + Viridian = Drop

Amber + Golden + Lime + Malachite = Crash

Amber + Golden + Lime + Malachite = Blue Pill

Amber + Golden + Lime + Malachite = Frentix

Amber + Golden + Lime + Malachite = Mindflood

Booster Details

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Gas Cloud Locations

Constellation: 09-4XW

Region: Tenal
Owned By: RAZOR Alliance

• 1QH-0K
• I1-BE8
• W8O-19
• ZH3-BS
• ZJ-QOO
• ZXA-V6

Constellation: 9HXQ-G

Region: Catch
Owned By: Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate

• 3GD6-8
• 3-OKDA
• 4M-HGL
• AX-DOT
• GE-8JV
• MY-W1V
• YHN-3K

Constellation: E-8CSQ

Region: Vale of the Silent
Owned By: PURE

• 8-TFDX
• B-E3KQ
• BR-6XP
• G5ED-Y
• O-LR1H
• UL-4ZW
• Y5J-EU

Constellation: 760-9C

Region: Wicked Creek
Owned By: Tau Ceti Federation

• 07-SLO
• DUO-51
• GPD5-0
• GRHS-B
• J-RXYN
• Z-A8FS

Constellation: Assilot

Region: Cloud Ring
Owned By: YouWhat

• 00TY-J
• 5S-KNL
• 6RCQ-V
• PPG-XC
• QA1-BT
• XG-D1L

Constellation: OK-FEM

Region: Delve
Owned By: Band of Brothers

• 1-2J4P
• 9GNS-2
• C3N-3S
• CX8-6K
• LWX-93
• M0O-JG
• YAW-7M

Constellation: I-3ODK

Region: Feythabolis
Owned By: Band of Brothers

• 3L-Y9M
• BJD4-E
• BLC-X0
• DUU1-K
• K-X5AX
• O9V-R7
• TSG-NO

Constellation: Pegasus

Region: Fountain
Owned By: Band of Brothers

• 3WE-KY
• 4-EP12
• 9-VO0Q
• A8-XBW
• IR-WT1
• XF-TQL
• YZS5-4