Prospecting

Prospecting is the extraction of resources using a specially designed Tractor beam that comes from Capella. These beams may be used on Stars, Planets, and Moons. Certain commodities will only spawn on certain types of solar bodies.

While Prospecting you may find: Tin, Copper, Laconia, Metals, Nuclear Waste, Silicon, Umbra, Bindomite, Silver, Adamantium, Petroleum, Alien Bacteria, Bacta, Eridium (Super Rare), Jelly Beans, Dark Matter, Energon, Rubicite, Warpwnium, Promethium Crystals,Frozen Blob,Ablution Crystals And Shrinkonium. You may also find helpful Nanites as well as types of Radiation for Subspace builds.

Effective extraction speed will vary from that listed - Extraction Power increases extraction speed above that listed (such that higher Extraction Power Tractors function relatively more quickly than their listed extraction speed would indicate). This is separate and independent of the ramp up in speed experienced when a given commodity has been extracted for a given period of time.

Prospecting Tractors

Prospecting Tractors	TL	Size	Extract Rate	Extract Power	Range	Strength	Rest Length	Constant Energy/s	Vis	Weight	Source	Description	Comment
Panning Beam	0	10	1 every 5 seconds	1.0	400	39	4	20	1,500	2,000	Capella - 20,000	Much like older prospecting methods, this is not the most efficient way to go about it.
Digging Beam	5	15	1 every 5 seconds	5.0	400	39	4	20	1,500	2,000	Capella - 200,000	Slightly better than panning but still not that great.
Drilling Beam	10	20	1 every 5 seconds	10.0	400	39	4	20	1,500	2,000	Capella - 2 million	A standard prospecting beam.
Deep Core Drilling Beam	11	20	2 every 7 seconds	11.0	400	39	4	20	1,500	2,000	Deep Core Drilling Beam Blueprint	Dig a little deeper.
Sensitive Drilling Beam	15	25	1 every 5 seconds	15.0	400	39	4	20	1,500	2,000	Capella - 20 million	A lot more precise than your run of the mill drill.
Deeper Core Drilling Beam	16	25	3 every 9 seconds	16.0	400	39	4	20	1,500	2,000	Deeper Core Drilling Beam Blueprint	Dig even deeper.
Precision Drilling Beam	20	30	1 every 5 seconds	20.0	400	39	4	20	1,500	2,000	Capella - 200 million	A drilling beam of the utmost precision capable of locating and extracting even the most minute traces of ore.
Deepest Core Drilling Beam	20	30	4 every 11 seconds	20.0	400	39	4	20	1,500	2,000	Deepest Core Drilling Beam Blueprint	Dig extremely deep.
Akara Sarga	20	30	5 every 10 seconds	20.0	500	49	4	20	1,500	2,000	Subspace drop	A strange alien beam used to extract resources from asteroids.