Quantum Fuel Mining coming sooner than expected?

Black Sunder

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Take this with a grain of salt. Supposedly this was datamined from the 3.8.1G PTU patch:

New Mining rock and material

New Q-Type asteroid coming along soon alongside "Quantanium" being a mineable material. Before you ask, yes CIG named their Quantum fuel "Quantanium".
hud_mining_asteroid_name_4=Asteroid (Q-Type)
hud_mining_rock_name_9=Quantanium Deposit
We can see it is an asteroid. It will probably require the Mole with a special mining head. Unoriginal name though.
 

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Will it be a solid or gas is my question. They've said you can put it inside a Starfarer to refine, maybe a liquid?

Hoping we get Starfarer functionality soon to go along with this. Maybe be able to create boxes of the stuff to manually refill our ships if we run low on jumps.
 

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Will it be a solid or gas is my question. They've said you can put it inside a Starfarer to refine, maybe a liquid?

Hoping we get Starfarer functionality soon to go along with this. Maybe be able to create boxes of the stuff to manually refill our ships if we run low on jumps.
If you mine it in asteroids, then I would wager that it will be in the form of an ice crystal of that material, than then can be melted down inside the Starfarers to create the Quantum fuel. If so, that would definitely justify how much cargo capacity the Starfarers have. They'll be needing to store the crystalline fuel shards in the hold while they refine it into the tanks. Which would add in another mechanic for players or NPC's to perform onboard.
 
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Does an Argo fit on the Starfarer? I'm wondering because we may need a way to transport between mining ship and Starfarer so no need for mining ships to land.
 

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Does an Argo fit on the Starfarer? I'm wondering because we may need a way to transport between mining ship and Starfarer so no need for mining ships to land.
Ignore this I don't think what I was thinking will work anyway after looking at ship pages. We might need someone with the Argo SRV to tractor the stuff between ships.
 

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Ignore this I don't think what I was thinking will work anyway after looking at ship pages. We might need someone with the Argo SRV to tractor the stuff between ships.
315p is supposed to have a tractor beam with it. But I think if you're that concerned with transferring ore bags immediately, you may want to come out with something like an Endeavor with Hangar to bring the ships and hold. But you're going to want multiple Moles then. Or just an Orion since it's all asteroid mining.
 
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