The Class G Start Paid off with a weird double whammy

So one of the first gold coloured outcrops had some Yttrium in it and as I picked it up it registered as a new material and - what a weird coincidence - exactly that point I gained my Pilot's Federation Trailblazer wings!

Result! Now I just need some Niobium & Polonium and I will have PREMIUM FSD boost. Oh and of course I need a place I can regularly find this stuff so my Corvette is any use at all as a trader since its jump range is fairly lame otherwise (I still won't trade it in!).

A point to note was that the Mesosiderites in this system had some good levels of Vanadium and some Molybdenum.

Stop off at a Class F Star With Major reserves called Quariti

En-route to the class G star  I was heading to which has pristine reserves of materials I stopped off at Quariti which has major reserves and is a class F star. It has a metal rich body around it which I thought might a a promising source of materials.

So far I've found the usual Iron & Nickel and Manganese plus:
Chromium (Quite a lot) & Ruthenium

I found some Germanium in a Mesosiderite but I'm not sure this counts since it could have been on any planet as opposed to the outcrops. It obviously does correlate to the F type star.  Now I'm off to try the Class G I was originally heading to called Delkar.

Moving on to a Class G Star

Having found a little Cadmium, plenty of Vanadium a tiny amount of Mercury in the Major reserves of the rocky body around a Class M star I've decided tea head back into Winters space and try a Class G star with Pristine reserves. So after a little salvage from the skeleton of a forlorn SRV I left this dusty world for the Delkar system.

Materials are elusive!

Well I've been searching the Major reserves found just outside Winters' control on a world called Putana 1 in the Putana system. Listed as an M class Red star I thought Putana might have some good planets to prospect on and indeed Putana 1 was listed as a metal rich body where mining is easy.

So around it I drove and found a lot of Bronze Chondrites with not much more than Iron, Nickel and a little Vanadium.

There were some useful Outcrops though and these have had more useful materials like Mercury.

Still none on my hit list thought!

Outcrops like this yielded some mercury and more Manganese.
The Mesosiderites were often good too.

A view of a large crater! I'm heading in there next to see if outcrops are different when you get further into the crust.

The Hunt begins for rare materials

So I have found the FSD boost (basic) extremely useful for turning my Corvette into a useful trader. Unfortunately I want to turn it into a good trader and would like to stock up on

Arsenic
Niobium
Yttrium
Polonium

Now Arsenic I have some of but the other three I can't find anywhere on the surface worlds.

So I've spend some some browsing the Universal Cartographics database.

I'm going to try a metal rich world like the one below orbiting Dulos.

I need to find somewhere less Imperial though!

Gathering Materials & a Visit to a Fed Military Outpost in Neritus

Material gathering.

Outcrops seem to have useful stuff in sometimes but generally just Iron, Carbon & Nickel. Metallic Meteorites seem to be the best so far. Still never found any Polonium.

 Cleaning up the area...

 Flying with some defense force buddies...

Making an RV as Weinbaum Arsenal ( they owed me 190k for a multi part cargo mission )

I tend to take a little drive around

Back to SOL - A few holiday snapshots.

When celebrating the ancient Christmas festival at the end of each year I normally stay at home with family and friends. This time however I decided to take a friend ShadowGuy22, Arran and Pete on a little tourist trip back home to the origins of Christmas in the Sol system.

First we stopped by Mercury because I wanted to pick up some material for my FSD Boost. While we were there I showed them an ancient constellation associated called Ursa Major. Can you spot it in this image?

 Next we stopped over at Earth at M. Gorbachev station. I always love visiting these Sol stations - they keep them so clean and I love the palm trees - very festive! Pete logged some images below of the interior in all its cleanliness.

 Next stop Jupiter & Saturn to see those gas giants of old. Here is a shot of Saturn which Pete took from the bridge of Midnight Sun.

 And some lovely shots of one of the moons.

Before stopping over on one of Jupiter's Icy Moons called Europa - apparently named after a Land Mass on old Earth. Here is the approach flying down...

...through an icy canyon...

 ...to Land and collect materials.