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A Guide To Booster Manufacturing

Boosters are made through processing chemicals extracted from special gas clouds which can be found in certain deadspace areas in many regions. Some constellations however are rumored to have massive clouds of a scale not seen anywhere else, for example E-8CSQ, 09-4XV, 9HXQ-G, OK-FEM, Pegasus, Assilot, I-3ODK and 760-9C. Finding these clouds requires the ability to conduct long range scanning, for example via scan probes. Finding them however is not always an easy task, it sometimes requires quite a bit of exploration before one is found.

The downside of searching for these clouds is the fact they are mostly located in dangerous pirate infested space. Few if any of these clouds exist in civilized space, having been depleted long ago by the human mega-corporations. Hence searching for them can be quite risky and not recommended except for an experienced combat pilot.

To extract the chemicals from the gas clouds, you need a gas cloud harvester module. You also need to find the correct type of gas cloud. Not all clouds have chemicals that the gas cloud harvester can extract, and therefore you might have to go through some trial and error to begin with before you get the hang of gas cloud harvesting.

Today most boosters are very much illegal in civilized space, due to the horrible side effects experienced by users during the Great Booster Craze many decades ago. Therefore manufacturing them must be done in lawless space, outside the sphere of power of the major civilized factions. Also anyone caught smuggling illegal boosters into civilized space can face very steep penalties.

Manufacturing boosters is set into a few phases. Phase 1 is extracting the material from the gas cloud. Phase 2 is using a starbase with the appropriate structure to process the chemicals and create reactions. Phase 3 is using a station that allows booster manufacturing, stations known as Outposts would work, to process the reaction and create the booster. This will result in the creation of a fairly common booster. With additional work, and the right blueprint and combination of low quality boosters, one can create higher quality versions in the Outpost or starbase laboratory.

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