The latest Star Citizen Live includes the first proper information about how Quantum Fuel is going to get mined.
They said that this is very fresh, only just approved by CR and will likely change once hey start implementing. No information about the Starfarer, but this is what they said:
They said that this is very fresh, only just approved by CR and will likely change once hey start implementing. No information about the Starfarer, but this is what they said:
DISCUSS!If I give a sneak preview [...]: There are these particles called transients, which [...] can affect space and mass around themselves and they were [...] this really cool discovery, but they were very fleeting and hard to find and then scientists slowly after discovering this [...] were able to detect them in [...] particle colliders [...] and eventually they were able to find that these would be stable and existing temporarily in trans isotopes where these transients would temporarily attach themselves onto atomic particles and exist. And that was the main way we started harvesting them. Certain elements are more prone to this thing as trans isotopes that you can then use to harvest the transients and that gets turned into quantum fuel. So you’ll be able to find those using scanning, like you’ll find a rock that’s Eridium and then, through scanning you’ll see that its five percent of these trans isotopes and you will have to harvest them quickly and if you put in too much energy they’ll devolve back into normal isotopes. So, there is a high risk and you have to be careful with harvesting and then transporting them to make sure you preserve the transients until it is refined.