News The Elite: Dangerous Rare Goods Competition

[Alex Merion-Turner]

Ceremonial Spiky Spoons of Mike

Name of Rare Good: Ceremonial Spiky Spoons of Mike

Short Description: These martial fighting spoons are the ancient ceremonial weapon of choice amongst the original colonists of the Mike system. Over a meter long and traditionally hand carved from vacuum compressed biowaste, each spoon is festooned with many spikes - deadly sharp and sometimes toxic. No longer used in actual warfare, these spiky spoons are now sold as tourist mementos, every good home and office should have one.

System & Starport: Nilson Port, Mike System

Means to Create: Deliver 10,000 tonnes of Biowaste to Nilson Port.

 

[Maff]

Name of Rare Good: Diet Steakette

Short Description: The last shipment of genuine Diet Steakette was thought lost during the collapse of GalCop but it seems that recently packages have been sold on the black market in the systems around Cegreeth. The nefarious yet surprisingly enterprising scientists of Volta Orbital have been acquiring these originals and have recently made a breakthrough which means this old favourite is back on the shelf! No-one knows whether the Slaves are ingredients or labour and there are accusations that they may be just relabeling the originals but one thing is clear - the Synthetic Paleo Diet is all the rage in the Empire again.

System & Starport: Cegreeth, Volta Orbital

Means to Create: Deliver Ancient Artefacts and Exploration Data to an anarchy system within 50ly of Cegreeth. Deliver the following to the Volta Orbital in appropriate quantities: Biowaste, Bioreducing Lichen, Slaves (not Imperial), HE Suits (make the number required about 10% of the Slaves...)

 

[Igor[Rock]]

On behalf of the EDC Guardians Facebook group, I would like to present the new rare item Eta Draconis Gold Vision Company was able to find on Eta Draconis A 4.



Name of Rare Good:
Eta Draconis Dragon's Eye

Short Description:
The Eta Draconis "Dragon's Eye" is a rare, crystal like blue gem which has an ellipsoid golden inclusion, which affects the surrounding crystal in a way that after some time it somewhat resembles a pupil (the effect is ongoing, which means you can tell the age - and as such the worth, with old ones being much more pricey than young ones - of the gem by it's look). It can only be found below the hot surface of Eta Draconis A 4 and is considered to be one of the most expensive gems in the known galaxy.

System & Starport:
Eta Draconis, Alvares Terminal

Means to Create:
Since the extraction process is quite complicated and involves a lot of manual work, the following materials are needed to start a successful extraction business: 5,000 tons of H.E. Suits and 5,000 tons of Mineral Extractors

(Please note that the quick mock-up image I added was done by using an image from the internet. I don't have the copyright for it, so please don't use it for anything else - I only added this to make sure people understood what I am talking about since English is not my first language. The original image of the jewellery I used for this can be found here: Suffer For Your Art Clothing).

 

[Zoy]

• Umbrigua Quantum Decryption Flasks
  
• Created by renegade scientists at Ballard Orbital these flasks contain exotic Turing Plasma and are impossible to dismantle without destroying the contents and anything else in the vicinity. Any encrypted transmissions within 50 metres of an unshielded flask cause spontaneous oscillation of the plasma at frequencies that can be decoded as a plain text stream by Discovery Scanners. When sold and in transit to the station's storage bay, embargoed items in the Station's Customs Facilty are briefly unlocked and become available as commodities for purchase.
  
• Umbrigua/Ballard Orbital
  
• To ramp up production so these can be more widely distributed we will need 1000t of H E Suits, 4000t of Cobalt, 3000t of Superconductors

 

[Cula-Ta]

Name of Rare Good: K-nig-hts Shrubbery
Short Description: The guardians of the K-nig-hts shrubbery, CODE, jealously watched over their prize possession for a millennia. Sadly the number of would be thieves prepared to run their blockades in order to steal a cutting increased to a point where they were forced to relocate. Now under the protection of Archon Delaine, the CODE have decided to offer limited quantities of K-nig-hts shrubbery to help fund their expansion plans.
System and Starport: Asoorajara, Gabriel Enterprise
Means to Create: 50,000 tonnes of gold and palladium.
The palm needs greasing after all.

 

[robinlayfield]

Achenar Antikythera Machines

Name of Rare Good: Achenar Antikythera Machines

Short Description: A working micro model of the inhabited universe, contructed entirely from brass cogs and powered by clockwork. An ancient blueprint and some archeological fragments have recently been discovered under the waters of New World, Achenar. It is possible to mass-produce a small quantity of these devices from the blueprints.

System & Starport: Bell Terminal in the Achenar System

Means to Create: Deliver 10 Ancient Artifacts 10,000 Copper & 2,000 Aluminium to Bell Terminal, Achenar

 

[Pond Scum]

Name of Rare Good: Samarium Hexaboride Shield

Short Description: The Samarium Hexaboride Shield, or SHS for short, is a rare material engineered to act as both a defensive and offensive shield. In its resting state, it absorbs thermal energy which triggers a powerful magnetic pulse through the material. This pulse creates an excited state which then releases the absorbed thermal energy in a single burst back in the direction of its origin. SHS material can be engineered into large structural shielding, but due to its scarcity, is more commonly found in personal armor. The material also goes by its more common name, "Corbomite".

System & Starport: Tauri - Samokutyayev Orbital, possibly named after Colonel Vasili Samarsky-Bykhovets, the first person to have a chemical element (samarium) named after them.

Means to Create: Superconductors, Semiconductors, Beryllium, Bauxite (unless you want to add Samarium and Boron to the list of mined minerals). I'll leave it to the Frontier ED economists and mathematicians to determine the appropriate quantities and price of this rare substance.

-- CMDR Pond Scum (How far we have come since then!)

 

[Brett C]

Off-topic replies removed. Please keep this thread to submissions only, thank you.

 

[VormHat]

Name of the rare good
Aisling´s Guide to the Galaxy (Maybe just "Empire´s Guide to the Galaxy" to keep it more neutral)

Description of the Rare Good
"You spent half of your life in a cargo hatch? Have you never left your owner´s planet? Are you suddenly free but you don´t know what to do now?? Than this is what you need:
"Aisling´s Guide to the Galaxy"
A comprehensive, interactive guide for the newly free man, woman or alien! Inside you will find a detailed map with Aisling´s approved and updated list of colonizable planets and a detailed step-to-step, hands free collection of the top 100 tips to go from hauled to hauler!!"

Manifest:
The quick expansion of Aisling´s ideals are roaring trough the galaxy. The people´s Princess they call her, and blue, the color of the oppressed. A lot have been done in the name of freedom, but we all know that freeing a slave isn´t enough to feed him. We need new land, we need to look again to the stars. Commanders go out in the black, seek for Terraformable or earthlike planets. Fight for freedom, prepare for the future.

Explanation of the Community Goal:
It would be about getting the exploration data to Chona, or Cubeo, why? Becase i like those two systems

And it would be cool if it could be focused on earthlike, seaworld and terraformable planets...but maybe it´s not possible with the current system of the CG.

 

[simulacrae]

NAME: Daesi Pleasure Bots


DESCRIPTION: AI designed to provide all the love and attention you need. With programmable personalities and customizeable parts to make him/her your very own. Crafted with precision and care by Treadwell Industries.


SYSTEM / STARPORT: Daesi / Cherry Station


MEANS TO CREATE: Treadwell Industries needs help in completing its initial public offering and is paying top credits for additional shipments of parts needed, namely: Robotics, Polymers, Synthetic Meat, Tantalum, and Fish

 

[{SAS}Stalker]

The name of your suggested Rare Good: Eotiensian Mountain Vole Semen

A short description of the Rare Good : The Eotiensian Mountain Vole is a rare nocturnal creature who's semen is thought, by moisturising women throughout the galaxy to possess the essence of eternal youth. For centuries the pets of rich Eotiensian families have included at least one of these lovable mountain rodents yet scientists are yet to establish the veracity of the claims, nor is much effort put into doing do, as to not disturb the high demand by the social elite.

The system and starport where the Rare Good is located : Eotienses - Adams Market

Means to create : The farmers of Eotienses would like to ensure the future of this little lovable creature and breed them on an industrial scale, the semen is extracted humanely without harm to the animal before being processed for use in the cosmetic industry. To undertake this project the following commodoties need to be taken to Adams Market - Beer, Atmospheric processors, performance enhancers, progenitor cells and Agri Medicine.

 

[Brodie]

• Name of Rare Good: Lensloks
• Short Description: After their rediscovery a number of years ago this archaic form of data security has undergone somewhat of a resurgence with many high ranking security agencies. Once considered only merely difficult to use in conjunction with physical display units, their application against today's holographic displays makes them virtually impossible to all but those who have undergone the rigorous Lenslok training and the pharmaceutical conditioning required to allow them to be able to hold the Lenslok steady enough at the right distance from the display in order to reveal the hidden data.
• System and Starport: CD-70 1960, Brodie's Pride.
• Means to Create: 14,000 Polymers, 2,000 Auto Fabricators, 2,000 Performance Enhancers

 

[Goliat]

Name of Rare Good: Cemiess Absinthe

Short Description: Little is known of the origins of this beverage, only that it was consumed over millenia ago on Earth. Thanks to the anonymous commander, who found recipe on the abandoned ancient spacecraft, the absinthe was recreated in the Bent Laser cantina, which is now very popular among the Cemiess society. Absinthe is highly alcoholic spirit made from various herbs and drinking it is more of a ritual than a way to get drunk. Rumors say that if you'll drink enough absinthe, Thargoids will communicate with you, but those "visions" are caused by the chemical compound thujone, which in high doses is psychoactive and hallucinogenic. Strange is, that those who claimed to see Thargoids, are now missing...


System & Starport: Cemiess / Meech Dock

Means to Create: In order to spread the production of Cemiess Absinthe across the Milky Way, commanders need to deliver 100 000 tonnes of Liquor and 100 000 tonnes of Auto-Fabricators to Meech Dock.

 

[CrazedHatter]

Name of Rare Good: Vision Virtual Assistant

Short Description: The Empire Consulate of Sak Manka, in an effort to boost efficiency amongst its employees, has brought in top talent to design and build revolutionary new virtual assistant devices to better organize the workload amongst its staff stationed at Impey Vision. After seeing the effectiveness of this homebuilt solution, they saw a money making opportunity and sought to turn it into a trade opportunity to fatten Impey Visions income and standing. The device itself is small and can interface with all standardized computer systems, and like many products of the day are capable of being interacted with using nothing but voice and gesture.

System and Starport: Sak Manka - Impey Vision

Means to Create: In order to produce the volume of these devices needed for a profitable trade, Impey Vision will require:

Polymers - 1,000,000 tons
Computer Components - 1,000,000 tons
Semiconductors - 500,000 tons
Superconductors - 500,000 tons
Auto Fabricators - 100,000 tons
Robotics - 100,000 tons

 

[Secretgeek]

Name of Rare Good: Ankhmore Pork
Short Description: Originally a staple of the system's prisons and late-night eateries, this vaguely meat-like paste has become a firm favourite of extreme sports enthusiasts and gamblers due to its unpredictable and occasionally spectacular effects on the human digestive system.
System & Starport: HIP 74290 Pratchett's Disc
Means to Create: 10,000 Synthetic Meat + 20,000 Biowaste

 

[Chri5topher]

VALDA SPIDER ROPE

Planet: Valda B1. Clairaut Dock.

Short Description: An arachnid infested planet, an arachnaphobic's worst nightmare. This low gravity planet is home to trillions of large, hairy, meat eating spiders whose webs are harvested and their exceptionally strong spider silk is spun into strands and then plaited to make rope. This is then covered in Graphene for additional strength and protection. This rope, weight for weight, is the strongest in the galaxy.

Means to create: ANIMAL MEAT to feed the spiders and COPPER to make foil to grow the Graphene.

 

[Swiss]

Name of Rare Good: Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster

Short Description : The Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is an alcoholic beverage invented by ex-President of the Universe Zaphod Beeblebrox, considered by the Guide to be the "Best Drink in Existence"[1]. Its effects are similar to "having your brains smashed in by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick".

System and Starport: Alison City, Arcturus System

Means to Create:

• Take the juice from one bottle of Eranin Pearl Whiskey.
• Pour into it one measure of water from Shinrarta!
• Allow three cubes of Centauri Mega-gin to melt into the mixture (it must be properly iced or the benzene is lost).
• Allow four litres of Burnham Bile Distillate to bubble through it
• Over the back of a silver spoon float a measure of Yaso Kondi Leaf
• Drop in a Cherbones Blood Crystal. Watch it dissolve, spreading the fires of the Cherbones Sun deep into the heart of the drink.
• Sprinkle Tarach Spice.
• Drink... but... very carefully..

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[Grumtastic]

Name of Rare Good: Space Turtle
Short Description: A Large turtle bred to live in zero-G environments as a pack animal. Its flippers ideal for propelling it through space stations.
System & Starport: Any Terry Pratchett station.
Means to Create: Turtle eggs delivered to a hatchery patrolled by 4 large elephants...

 

[Mr_Zeno]

Name of Rare Good: Chelys Galactica
Short Description: Originally developed as a pet for families on the move. The Chelys Galactica or Space Turtle, not only takes very little looking after it is also extremely confortable in the vacuum of space; using the energy from solar winds, high energy particles and passing debris as sustinence. The slow growth rate of the Chelys Galactica and apparent longevity has people wondering just how big they will grow?

System & Starport: HIP 74290 - Pratchett's Disc

Means to Create: Progenitor Cells, Performance Enhancers

 

[Bearcat]

Name of Rare Good: RHO Diamonds
Short Description: Mined from the "Diamond Planet" first detected by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in the year 2012, RHO Diamonds are 1 ton cubes cut from the largest and purest planetary diamond in the known universe.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...-planet-space-solar-system-astronomy-science/
System & Starport: RHO CANCRI, DEKKER BASE
Means to Create: Transport 50000 tons of mining equipment to Dekker Base

A great reward for the top 5% would be a prototype armor module sporting a graphene plate-diamond laminate canopy, much tougher than the standard canopy.