Sorium Harvester

Component Information

Type	Core
Class	Commercial
Tech Branch	Construction / Production
Specifications
Size (HS)	50
Size (Tons)	2500
Production Cost
Build Cost	30
Duranium	10
Boronide	20
Other Information
Crew	10

The Sorium Harvester is a ship-mounted component used to harvest Sorium from gas giants and refine it into fuel, functioning similarly to an Asteroid Miner.

Fuel harvesting

A fuel harvester needs at least one sorium harvesting module. Once stationed at a pre-surveyed Gas Giant or Super Jovian with Sorium, it will automatically start harvesting at base rate of 20,000 litres/year per module, upgradable via research. Each harvester modules consume 1 ton of Sorium per 2000 liters refined. This conversion rate does not change with additional research.

The refined fuel cannot be transported via Mass Driver, so you will either need to manually assign a Tanker to the taskgroup and continually shift the fuel over to the tanker and then back to your colony, or send the Sorium Harvesters with only fraction of their normal fuel (say, 10%) with a conditional order to unload the fuel when they reach maximum capacity.

Caution

If you have a group of harvesters in orbit around a gas giant, don't send new ships to join that task group. You must send ships to the gas giant first, then tell them to join the task group, otherwise their production rate won't be added to the total. The same applies to asteroid miiners, terraformers, orbital habitats and maintenance vessels.