[quote=@Lone Wanderer]
Is protective clothing such as body armour or environmental suits something we will be able to purchase from the catalogue? 
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You mean something like power armor or an exosuit? Absolutely. Unfortunately, they're too expensive for anyone to purchase yet.

[quote=@DeadbeatWalking]
[color=7E7E7E][u][b]Start-up Capital[/b][/u][/color]
Awaiting Roll
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GeluCo starts with 4,260 credits.

[quote=@Ascendant]
How about marksman/sniper rifles? For "reasons."
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I don't see why not. Will add one to the catalog shortly.

[quote=@DeadbeatWalking]
Before Googer gets back, I'd also like to request some kind of heating unit to stress about failing and a wind generator to siphon that sweet, sweet, alien blizzard energy. Also, can I have an MST3K robot buddy or two to keep Chris company in the fortress of solitude until trade relations happen? 
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I'll add a heating unit to the catalog, and I'm fine with a robot companion.

[quote=@Empress]
Drones of various flavours would be good, I concur :) . Also, do we know what it takes to refine baltuskite to annie plant fuel?
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Baltuskite is basically something to shoot with high energy particles in order to produce positrons. IRL, positrons (antimatter), are produced by placing a very dense material such as a block of lead at the end of a particle accelerator. When these high-energy particles smack into this dense object at relativistic speed, you get a handful (more like a single atomic radius-full) of positrons. In the future, this process has been refined somewhat, but it is still highly energy inefficient. It takes a lot of fusion reactor energy (powered by tritium) to produce a single gram of positrons. Starships use lots of antimatter as a powerful fuel; by mating bits of matter with bits of antimatter, both the matter and antimatter are destroyed and enormous quantities of energy are created in a process called annihilation. Using matter/antimatter annihilation, you can make a starship go really fast.

Baltuskite makes antimatter production far more efficient. Baltuskite, for reasons that are not yet well-understood, yields 5-12 times more positrons when hit with energized particles. More baltuskite means more antimatter, and more antimatter means more starship fuel. More starship fuel means cheaper space travel. In order to use baltuskite to make antimatter, you need a pure block of this stuff to shoot a beam of energy at in a particle accelerator. Therefore you must,

1. Extract baltuskite-bearing rock from the environment.
2. Purify the baltuskite. The best way of doing this is to grind the ore as fine as possible and separate the pure baltuskite from all the other crap it's mixed with. The most time-efficient means of doing this is to run the ground ore through a trommel separator. But if you are strapped for cash, you could also sift the dense baltuskite out with water like a gold panner. This is more laborious and product purity (and therefore market price) will be decreased somewhat.
3. Compress into ingots (optional). While buyers will purchase ground baltuskite as-is, the market value can be increased if the baltuskite is already compressed into a solid block, ready to be loaded into a particle accelerator and used to make antimatter. This can be done by heating ground baltuskite [u]close[/u] to its melting point and pressing it into a solid ingot. Take care not to completely melt the ore down, as this will rearrange the mineral's all-important crystalline matrix and turn that hard-earned baltuskite into a paperweight.