Toxic World

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A Toxic World
A Toxic World with a visible atmosphere
Carbon and sulphur dioxide gases dominate the atmosphere of this world, making it toxic to all known life. In addition, the gases create a runaway greenhouse effect that increases surface temperature and atmospheric pressure to extremely high levels.

–In-Game Description

A Toxic World is a Planet type that can be found with the Persean sector.

They can be found at any distance within a system.

Resources

Toxic worlds are guaranteed to have ore deposits, sometimes have rare ore deposits, and on rare occasions, organics deposits and volatiles reserves.

These planets typically have:


Varying degree of Ruins can also be rarely found.

Market conditions

Atmosphere toxic.png Toxic Atmosphere (+50% hazard rating) will always be an attribute of Toxic worlds.


Other market conditions that can appear are:

It can also have:

Colony

Toxic worlds primarily serves as a host to the Mining Industry, and by extension Refining too.

Planets with at least both Abundant ore deposits & Abundant rare ore deposits can achieve self-sufficiency in Refining demands with the aid of an Administrator with Industrial Planning.

A Commerce can also be used to capitalized on the income from Mining & Refining.

Special items

An Autonomous Mantle Bore is of great use on a Mining Industry, especially if there are organics reserves.

And as with all non-habitable worlds, a Heavy Industry/Orbital Works with a Corrupted Nanoforge/Pristine Nanoforge can work well too if the hazard rating is low enough or if needed.

Trivia

  • Toxic worlds can have different degrees of atmosphere visibility/density.
  • The Core Worlds has a Toxic colony on Salamanca in the Yma system.
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