# Operation Overview of The Core's Celestial Universe

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**District Minting and Setup:**

* Celestial maps represented by NFT contracts containing multiple Districts.
* Each District's details (Type, Base resource, Capacity) stored on IPFS.
* Users can mint Districts via their blockchain accounts.
* Initial minting is free for each unique user per map.
* Subsequent minting has a dynamic pricing mechanism, increasing over time.
* Users are restricted to minting one free District before claiming others.
* District transfers and sales facilitated via platforms like OpenSea.
* Revenue distribution from mints includes Federation Reserve, Science Pool, Operations, and potential referrals.
* District ownership is exclusive; once minted, others cannot claim or modify.

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**Colony Bonus:**

* Districts beside each other under the same user gain additional resource capacity.
* Bonus only applied to newly claimed Districts, not previously owned ones.
* Transfer of a District does not alter its Colony bonus.

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**Upgrade Mechanism:**

* Users can view and initiate District upgrades by burning specific resources.
* Upgrades, predefined on-chain, enhance a District's resource capacity.
* Only District owners can initiate upgrades.
* Upgrades are permanent and can't be reversed.
* Transfer of a District does not change its upgrade status.

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**Interstellar Infrastructure:**

* Infrastructure elements (IE) built by users in exchange for burning resources.
* Each IE represented by NFTs with multiple parts to be minted.
* Global Yield ratios predefined for each IE, stored on-chain.
* Each IE part has parameters: Name, ID, Resource cost, and Cosmic Yield.
* Total Cosmic Yield for each IE must sum up to 100%.
* Users can initiate IE minting via their blockchain accounts.
* Parts of the IE are transferable between users.

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**Resource Generation and Distribution:**

* Distinct resources represented by unique ERC20 tokens.
* Users initiate on-chain resource calculations and minting.
* Resource calculations based on base capacity, colony bonuses, upgrade bonuses, halving ratios, and infrastructure yields.
* Resources distributed among users based on calculation, initiated by backend operations.
* Minting process secured and validated using SNARK proofs.


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