The Saturn Station
Saturn is a harsh world. Even with its beautiful rings, its winds roar over 1 800 km/h and its clouds hover at –140 °C. The north-pole storm forms a perfect hexagon 30 000 km across—just like our six-sided districts.
We’re firing up Elements: deploying our toughest station ever in orbit and sending out our strongest harvesters yet. Saturn’s districts offer fewer resource types, but each one delivers more than anywhere else—so our harvesters will gently skim ammonia-methane skies, gather what we need, then recall before conditions wear them down.
We’ll work with Saturn’s rhythm, not against it—respecting this world even as we expand THE CORE. 🚀
Saturn Districts
Saturn is divided into five distinct atmospheric districts, each offering unique harvesting opportunities and challenges:
Golden Hexagon: A massive six-sided storm swirling at the north pole, its golden-hued clouds concentrate helium-3 in powerful updrafts. It’s the most fuel-rich district—but its ferocious winds demand our toughest skimmers.
Topaz Bands: Broad, amber-colored belts with alternating light and dark layers. Here, steady hydrogen streams flow under surprisingly calm conditions, making this district ideal for high-efficiency gas collection.
Pearlescent Belt: A luminous, milky-white band of ammonia frost and water-ice clouds. Its gentle breezes and hidden pockets of argon allow precision harvesters to operate with minimal risk.
Ring-Shadow: Cloaked in the shadow of Saturn’s rings, this slate-gray region is rich in hydrogen yet roiled by fine ring-dust eddies. Specialized filters are needed to keep our equipment clear while we gather resources.
Roseate Twilight: A subtle pink haze in the upper troposphere, produced by photochemical reactions. Though thin and diffuse, it contains valuable trace argon and provides an idyllic backdrop for our most delicate skimming operations.
Together, these five districts span the full spectrum of Saturn’s atmosphere—from the storm-tossed pole to the tranquil high hazes.
Harvesters
Each of Saturn’s five districts produces a modest Base Capacity of its signature gas—but by deploying our purpose-built harvesters, we triple those outputs, making these zones the richest resource fields in the Solar System so far. Built from titanium, crystalline and carbon-nanotube composites, these machines endure Saturn’s storms and abrasive ring dust.
Golden Hexagon
Helium-3
8
Hexagon Harvester
16
Titanium
400,000
Carbon Nanotubes
220,000
Topaz Bands
Hydrogen
10
Topaz Harvester
20
Crystalline
180,000
Carbon Nanotubes
160,000
Pearlescent Belt
Argon
8
Pearl Harvester
16
Titanium
320,000
Carbon Nanotubes
220,000
Ring-Shadow
Hydrogen
10
Shadow Harvester
20
Rare Earth Elements
340,000
Carbon Nanotubes
180,000
Roseate Twilight
Argon
8
Twilight Harvester
16
Crystalline
180,000
Carbon Nanotubes
200,000
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