Natural Resources
This is an attempt to develop an order to natural resources and how they may be encountered on planetary surveys. It is based upon this flawed & incomplete concept. All known and (Star Trek) fictional naturally-occurring elements will be categorized here.
Natural Resources table
| Resource | Type | Category | Deposits | Applications |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actinium | element | Radioactive | ||
| Aluminum | element | Base Metal | ||
| Ammonia | compound | Common | ||
| Amphibole | compound | Common | ||
| Antimony | element | Base Metal | ||
| Argon | element | Noble Gas | ||
| Arsenic | element | Common | ||
| Astatine | element | Radioactive | ||
| Barium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Beryllium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Biotite | compound | Common | ||
| Bismuth | element | Base Metal | ||
| Boron | element | Base Metal | ||
| Bromine | element | Corrosive | ||
| Cadmium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Calcium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Carbon | element | Common | ||
| Carbon dioxide | compound | Common | ||
| Carbon monoxide | compound | Common | ||
| Cerium | element | Rare Earth | ||
| Cesium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Chlorine | element | Corrosive | ||
| Chromium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Cobalt | element | Base Metal | ||
| Copper | element | Base Metal | ||
| Cyanoacetylene | compound | Common | ||
| Dysprosium | element | Rare Earth | ||
| Erbium | element | Rare Earth | ||
| Ethanol | compound | Common | ||
| Europium | element | Rare Earth | ||
| Feldspar | compound | Common | ||
| Fluorine | element | Corrosive | ||
| Formaldehyde | compound | Common | ||
| Formic acid | compound | Common | ||
| Francium | element | Radioactive | ||
| Gadolinium | element | Rare Earth | ||
| Gallium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Germanium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Gold | element | Precious | ||
| Hafnium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Helium | element | Common | ||
| Holmium | element | Rare Earth | ||
| Hydrocarbon | compound | Common | ||
| Hydrochloric acid | compound | Common | ||
| Hydrocyanic cyanide | compound | Common | ||
| Hydrogen | element | Common | ||
| Illite | compound | Common | ||
| Indium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Iodine | element | Corrosive | ||
| Iridium | element | Precious | ||
| Iron | element | Base Metal | ||
| Kaolinite | compound | Common | ||
| Krypton | element | Noble Gas | ||
| Lanthanum | element | Rare Earth | ||
| Lead | element | Base Metal | ||
| Lithium | element | Common | ||
| Lutetium | element | Rare Earth | ||
| Magnesium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Magnetic monopole | matter | Exotics | ||
| Manganese | element | Base Metal | ||
| Mercury | element | Base Metal | ||
| Methane | compound | Common | ||
| Methanol | compound | Common | ||
| Molybdenum | element | Base Metal | ||
| Muscovite | compound | Common | ||
| Neodymium | element | Rare Earth | ||
| Neon | element | Noble Gas | ||
| Neptunium | element | Radioactive | ||
| Neutronium | matter | Exotic | ||
| Nickel | element | Base Metal | ||
| Niobium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Nitric acid | compound | Common | ||
| Nitrogen | element | Common | ||
| Nitrous oxide | compound | Common | ||
| Olivine | compound | Common | ||
| Osmium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Oxygen | element | Corrosive | ||
| Ozone | compound | Common | ||
| Palladium | element | Precious | ||
| Phosphoric acid | compound | Common | ||
| Phosphorus | element | Common | ||
| Platinum | element | Precious | ||
| Plutonium | element | Radioactive | ||
| Polonium | element | Radioactive | ||
| Potassium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Praseodymium | element | Rare Earth | ||
| Promethium | element | Rare Earth | ||
| Protactinium | element | Radioactive | ||
| Pyroxene | compound | Common | ||
| Quartz | compound | Common | ||
| Radium | element | Radioactive | ||
| Radon | element | Noble Gas | ||
| Rhenium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Rhodium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Rubidium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Ruthenium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Samarium | element | Rare Earth | ||
| Scandium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Selenium | element | Common | ||
| Silicon | element | Common | ||
| Silicon monoxide | compound | Common | ||
| Silver | element | Precious | ||
| Smectite | compound | Common | ||
| Sodium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Strontium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Sulfur | element | Corrosive | ||
| Sulfuric acid | compound | Common | ||
| Super fluid | matter | Exotic | ||
| Tantalum | element | Base Metal | ||
| Technetium | element | Radioactive | ||
| Tellurium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Terbium | element | Rare Earth | ||
| Thallium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Thorium | element | Radioactive | ||
| Thulium | element | Rare Earth | ||
| Tin | element | Base Metal | ||
| Titanite | compound | Common | ||
| Titanium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Titanium oxide | compound | Common | ||
| Tungsten | element | Base Metal | ||
| Uranium | element | Radioactive | ||
| Vanadium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Water | compound | Common | ||
| Xenon | element | Noble Gas | ||
| Ytterbium | element | Rare Earth | ||
| Yttrium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Zinc | element | Base Metal | ||
| Zircon | compound | Common | ||
| Zirconium | element | Base Metal | ||
| Zirconium oxide | compound | Common | ||
Resource categories
| Roll | Resource | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aluminum | element |
| 2 | Antimony | element |
| 3 | Barium | element |
| 4 | Beryllium | element |
| 5 | Bismuth | element |
| 6 | Boron | element |
| 7 | Cadmium | element |
| 8 | Calcium | element |
| 9 | Cesium | element |
| 10 | Chromium | element |
| 11 | Cobalt | element |
| 12 | Copper | element |
| 13 | Gallium | element |
| 14 | Germanium | element |
| 15 | Hafnium | element |
| 16 | Indium | element |
| 17 | Iron | element |
| 18 | Lead | element |
| 19 | Magnesium | element |
| 20 | Manganese | element |
| 21 | Mercury | element |
| 22 | Molybdenum | element |
| 23 | Nickel | element |
| 24 | Niobium | element |
| 25 | Osmium | element |
| 26 | Potassium | element |
| 27 | Rhenium | element |
| 28 | Rhodium | element |
| 29 | Rubidium | element |
| 30 | Ruthenium | element |
| 31 | Scandium | element |
| 32 | Sodium | element |
| 33 | Strontium | element |
| 34 | Tantalum | element |
| 35 | Tellurium | element |
| 36 | Thallium | element |
| 37 | Tin | element |
| 38 | Titanium | element |
| 39 | Tungsten | element |
| 40 | Vanadium | element |
| 41 | Yttrium | element |
| 42 | Zinc | element |
| 43 | Zirconium | element |
Common
Corrosives
Noble Gases
Rare Earths
Precious
Radioactives
Exotics
Resource Subtables
Note: the Star Control planet names will be dropped after the completion of this section.
- Acid:
- 12x formic acid, hydrochloric acid, hydrocyanic acid, nitric acid, phosphoric acid, and sulfuric acids; one one other common
- 8x fourteen other commons
- Alkali:
- 12x alkali base metal (lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium, francium)
- 8x strontium, barium, calcium
- 8x one other alkali base metal
- 4x three other base metals
- Carbide:
- 12x carbon
- 8x two other commons
- Chlorine:
- 20x chlorine, hydrochloric acid
- 12x one other corrosive, one other common
- 8x zinc, gallium
- 4x four other base metals
- Cimmerian:
- 12x methane, ammonia, methanol, lithium
- 8x eight other commons
- Chondrite:
- 12x ethanol, one other common
- 8x four other commons
- Copper:
- 20x copper
- 12x one other base metals
- Cyanic:
- 20x cyanoacetylene
- 12x two other commons
- Crimson:
- 12x barium, boron, beryllium, bismuth, bromine
- 12x in a light base metal (aluminum, magnesium, titanium, beryllium, lithium, sodium, potassium)
- 8x five other base metals
- 8x one other light base metal
- 8x one other corrosive
- Dust:
- 12x in either a silicate oxide (quartz, feldspar, olivine, pyroxene, amphibole, biotite, muscovite, kaolinite, illite, smectite, titanite, zircon) or a metal oxide (aluminum oxide, antimony trioxide, antimony tetroxide, antimony pentoxide, arsenic trioxide, arsenic pentoxide, barium oxide, bismuth oxide, calcium oxide, cerium oxide, chromium oxide, cobalt oxide, copper oxide, iron oxide, lanthanum oxide, lead oxide, lithium oxide, magnesium oxide, manganese oxide, mercury oxide, nickel oxide, potassium oxide, rubidium oxide, silver oxide, sodium oxide, thallium oxide, thorium oxide, tin oxide, titanium oxide, uranium oxide, tungsten oxide, zinc oxide)
- 8x one other silicate or metal oxides
- 4x bismuth, aluminum, and potassium
- 1x three other base metals
- Fluorescent:
- 20x technetium, neon
- 12x one other radioactive
- 4x radon
- 1x one other noble gas
- Green:
- 12x praseodymium, neodymium
- 8x two other rare earths
- Halide:
- 16x bromine
- 8x fluorine, iodine, astatine
- (another) 8x in either fluorine, iodine, astatine
- 4x in two other corrosives
- 4x in one other radioactive
- Hydrocarbon:
- 20x hydrocarbon
- 12x two other commons
- 4x tantalum
- 1x bismuth, two other base metals
- Infrared:
- 20x mercury
- 12 one other base metal
- Iodine:
- 12x iodine
- 8x in a base metals
- 8x in a corrosive
- Lanthanide:
- 12x ytterbium, cerium, lanthanum
- 8x three other heavy rare earths (dysprosium, erbium, gadolinium, holmium, lutetium, terbium, thulium, yttrium)
- 4x six other rare earths
- Magma:
- 8x one base metal
- 4x two other base metals
- Magnetic:
- 12x nickel, niobium, one other ferromagnetic metal (cobalt, dysprosium, gandolinium, iron)
- 8x three other ferromagnetic metals
- 4x magnetic monopole
- 1x two other exotics
- Metallic:
- 12x one precious, one corrosive, one base metal
- 8x in two other precious, two other corrosives, two other base metals
- Noble:
- 12x one noble gas
- 8x two other noble gases
- 4x helium
- 1x two other commons
- Oolite:
- 8x one rare earth, one noble gas, one base metal
- 4x two other rare earths, two other noble gases, two other base metals
- Plutonic:
- 12x one base metal, one radioactive, one rare earth
- 8x two other base metals, two other radioactives, two other rare earths
- Primordial:
- 8x three commons, three base metals
- 4x six commons, six base metals
- Radioactive:
- 8x one radioactive
- 4x two other radioactives
- Redux:
- 12x one base metal, oxygen, chlorine, sulfur, one other corrosive (bromine, fluorine, iodine)
- 8x two other base metals
- 8x two remaining corrosives
- Selenic:
- 12x two of either aluminum, calcium, or selenium; one other base metal
- 8x six other base metals
- Super-dense:
- 12x lead, one other dense base metal (copper, iron, nickel, tin, zinc)
- 8x two other dense base metals
- 4x four other base metals
- Ultramarine:
- 12x one precious metal
- 8x one corrosive, one common
- 8x two other precious metals
- 4x two other corrosives. two other commons
- 1x one base metal
- Water:
- 12x one base metal
- 8x two other base metals
- 4x corrosives, radioactives
- 1x two other corrosives, seven other radioactives
- Yttric:
- 20x yttrium, ytterbium
- 8x one other base metal, one other rare earth
- 4x two other base metals, two other rare earths