Bio Hunting Question

[idahosurge]

I am out in the black looking for Bio to scan and was wondering if there are certain types of suns to avoid if specifically hunting for Bio to scan.

 

[varonica]

I am out in the black looking for Bio to scan and was wondering if there are certain types of suns to avoid if specifically hunting for Bio to scan.

As far as I am aware all star types have bio, but there are star types that are more likely to have the common bio, however you will miss out on rare bio if you filter like that. For instance Aleoida Arcus Grey is only found around Wolf-Rayet stars, Aleoida Arcus Indigo only around White Dwarfs, so it depends if you are just after a lot of bio or want to hunt down all the bio in a region. So there are none really avoid to avoid as such, but some will give more bio than others, also some atmospheres give more bio, planets with water atmospheres have lots of bio.

I just do everything and take what I hit, don't filter, take your chances!

 

[idahosurge]

As far as I am aware all star types have bio, but there are star types that are more likely to have the common bio, however you will miss out on rare bio if you filter like that. For instance Aleoida Arcus Grey is only found around Wolf-Rayet stars, Aleoida Arcus Indigo only around White Dwarfs, so it depends if you are just after a lot of bio or want to hunt down all the bio in a region. So there are none really avoid to avoid as such, but some will give more bio than others, also some atmospheres give more bio, planets with water atmospheres have lots of bio.

I just do everything and take what I hit, don't filter, take your chances!

Thanks for the thoughts and response!

 

[varonica]

Just to add, two tools that I find greatly aid in bio hunting is Elite Observatory with MattG's Bioinsights plugin and MattG's Codex Companion which has all the requirements for different types of bio.

 

[Eahlstan]

As far as I am aware all star types have bio, but there are star types that are more likely to have the common bio, however you will miss out on rare bio if you filter like that. For instance Aleoida Arcus Grey is only found around Wolf-Rayet stars, Aleoida Arcus Indigo only around White Dwarfs, so it depends if you are just after a lot of bio or want to hunt down all the bio in a region. So there are none really avoid to avoid as such, but some will give more bio than others, also some atmospheres give more bio, planets with water atmospheres have lots of bio.

I just do everything and take what I hit, don't filter, take your chances!

To be precise: There are some star types that don't have type specific life. Carbon stars (S, MS, C, CN, CJ) and black holes come to my mind. There can still be surface material specific life found on bodies orbiting them, but you won't miss (if they aren't extremely rare and were just not found until now) variants if you skip those stars.

 

[Faded Glory]

I'd also recommend marx's spreadsheet from this thread. It tells you the planet type and most importantly the atmosphere required for the different types of exobiology and their value. It's what I've used to determine when I'll land to scan things which is quite rarely now.