News The Elite: Dangerous Rare Goods Competition

[CMDR DoubleSkulls]

Name of Rare Good: Faustian GGelly Fish
Short Description: Faustian GGelly Fish are the ultimate for those who love pet fish. The GGelly fish from the Faust 68 4 Gas Giant is a rare ammonia based life form. The gas giant jelly fish (or ggelly fish) is renown throughout the galaxy as the most spectacular naturally occurring light show. This was described as a "fireworks display every night" is the must have feature in every billionaire's home and it is rumoured to be a particular favourite of the people's princess.
System and Starport: Faust 68,Slipher Hub
Means to Create: Marine Equipment, Atmospheric processors, power generators

 

[Mobius]

The name of your suggested Rare Good: Mobius Infinity Timepiece,

A short description of the Rare Good: the Mobius infinity Timepiece is a clock that measures the constant subspace quantum fluctuation that our cosmos gives off and as such is the most accurate clock in the known galaxy, this time piece is so accurate that that the clock would never need adjusting and never need batteries as it is powered by the subspace fluctuation.

Star System: Azrael
Starport: Rafferty's Mobius

Means to create: Metal TANTAULM,
when the metal TANTAULM is eradiated with the radiation given off by Azrael's sun, the properties within the TANTAULM metal change to allow a unique component to be created for the Mobius infinity time piece, for every 20,000 tons of TANTAULM eradiated 1lb of material is created for the manufacture of the Mobius infinity Timepiece

 

[Darth Ender]

Name of Rare Good : Neutranite (and Refined Neutranite)

Short Description : Neutranite is a semi-stable unique compound of elements made of anti-particles and normal particles and is highly sought after for use in hyperspace experiments where it's unique properties allow scientists to accurately detect hyperspace perturbations and anomalies. Once refined it is extremely dangerous in the wrong hands and due to a short useful halflife, it is very rare and valuable in that timeframe.

Star System and Star Port: Asteroids orbiting closely around neutron star (can cause some ships serious damage attempting to reach viable roids due to proximity). Refined in only 3 high tech stations, one empire, one federation and one independent.

Means to create: Neutranite is created in the the unique environment of neutron star radiation interacting with Osmium and a very particular selection of other radioactive metals in asteroid fields. Over millions of years the radiation interacts with the Osmium and other elements to produce tiny pockets of raw Neutranite within an asteroid. The anti-matter is caged in a crystal lattice of normal matter, magnetically isolating the anti-matter from the normal matter surrounding it. This allows it to be mined somewhat safely. Only 3 high tech stations can fully refine Neutranite, a mission will always be available to purchase your Neutranite and for a fee (since it's a highly controlled material) a portion of the refined Neutranite will be "misplaced" into your cargo hold at a ratio of about 1/10th the raw amount. Refined Neutranite is illegal _everywhere_ even anarchy systems and detection results in a lethal response if detected (like if you had a bounty).

Neutranite's value as a raw ore is fixed and pretty high, similar to Painite but higher and rarer. Once refined, it's value increases as the distance from the closest of the 3 high tech production facilities increase. Once produced, the refined material must be sold at a black market within 30 minutes to be of value to the buyer. Sufficiently far away could net a smuggler a million credits / ton or more. After 30 minutes the refined goods must be sold either at a loss or jettisoned. Roughly 30 minutes after refinement, the refined Neutranite will begin breaking down and the anti-matter will begin annihilating itself with matter at a slow but steadily increasing rate. The heat will build up in the ship and it could eventually destroy it, regardless of the quantity of Neutranite.

 

[insanephoton]

Name of Rare Good: Amberfire Gemstones
Short Description: Amberfire is a rare polychromatic mineral similar in appearance to opal but much brighter and more durable. The only known sources of Amberfire are located in the Amber system. The beautiful gemstones are highly prized.
Star System: Amber
Starport: Smith Landing
Means to create: 10000 H.E. Suits, 10000 Mineral Extractors and 5000 Resonating Separators

 

[drkaii]

Name of Rare Good: Jovian Jitters
Short Description: Jovian Jitters is a recently discovered amphetamine substance that is released by ammonia-based life forms found in HR 8792 AB1. When crystallised, it becomes a powerful stimulant that enhances reactions, concentration and wakefulness. Non-addictive and quickly broken down by the body, which makes it almost impossible to detect, it is popular among Elite bounty hunters. It does give the user acute tremors if used over extended periods, hence the name.
Star System: HR 8792
Starport: Plucker Terminal
Means to create: To create Jovian Jitters, specialised collection drones must be sent into the troposphere of HR 8792 AB1, where conditions are harsh. The success rate is 0.02%. Thus, to make the product available on-mass, a drive has been put forward by Revolutionary HR 8792 Liberals to collect Robotics and Titanium - both important materials in drone production.
Collect 10,000 Robotics and 10,000 Titanium and this will enable them to set up permanent production.


Edit: I got this in 3 minutes late, but please still count it, wasn't my fault! The servers were acting up and I had to log into the game to get the names of the system and station etc...couldn't log in for like half an hour

 

[Pul Myfinger]

Rare good: Korian Bobble Head

Name of Rare Good: Korian Bobble Head


Short Description: The Korian Bobble Head is prized amongst collectors and 'alternative philosophies'. Also considered as a good luck charm by combat pilots and Traders. Pilots often keep one Bobble Head to install on their starships dashboard. Manufacturing of the Korian Bobble Head is in a precarious situation. It is made by the Koria Major Corp and is considered distasteful, if not evil by the Koria Spiritual Mission which is the ruling Theocratic goverment.

Acquiring this Rare good requires dedication. The Pilot must pass through the Haydes Sector and there is the possibility that the Theocratic goverment has banned this Rare valuable. The goverment has, so far, cast a blind eye on the activity around the Bobble Head as the credits gained are critical for the Terraforming economy.


System & Starport: KORIA / Green Prospect


Means to Create: Delivery of ...
- polymers, 5,000 tons
- semiconductors 2,000 tons
- synthetic fabrics 3,000 tons



Note: its Sunday ~ 6:30pm PDT here in California. I hope that meets the deadline.
Note: I just found this thread and dashed this off. Please edit and polish as needed.

 

[Futuristic Kung Fu]

-Name of rare good: Sothis brain implants

-Short description: A shady order of monks recently created these biological brain implants to keep a deceased loved one's consciousness inside your one head. Originally a small experiment, these implants quickly became hugely popular, however they have been banned in several jurisdictions as they have been known to cause an immediate and painful death for the user.

-System & station: Sothis Mining in Sothis. This is an outpost because after all the monks are "shady", however there is a bigger station in the same system for larger ships.

-Means to create: Community goal sourcing Progenitor cells to build the biological implant.
The rewards for the community goal could be like this: in tier 1 the global rewards could be start of production, top 100 percent would get 1 free ton, top 70 10 free tons, and so on until you get to the top ten percent which would get 50. These numbers would go up in the higher tiers, and the global rewards could be higher max limit per commander