There are a total of 25 Planetary Resources in SuperNova. These resources can be extracted from a Planet using Installations if they are listed on the Planet's Geological Survey (GEO), or converted from Raw Resources on any Planet using a Stripmining Complex.
Planetary Resources are categorized under Technology, but are also listed here as a separate index.
Caldaran Crystals
These are translucent crystals with a blue-white tinge. They are found in underground caverns in small, naturally-formed deposits. The perfectly shaped crystals are crucial for the production of a number of advanced pieces of technology. Unfortunately, they are quite rare and the slightest crack will ruin the crystal and render it valueless.
Coal
Coal is a resource that is most often used by primitive societies as a power source. The poor efficiency of coal compared to more advanced resources generally discourages its use once power production facilities such as Fission or Fusion power plants can be con
Crystals
Natural crystalline growths or quasiperiodic solids valued primarily for their industrial applications but also used in the production of luxury goods. Quartz, glass, amethyst and cryptocrystalline substances such as chert and chalcedony are excellent examples of this type of tradegood.
Fibers
Fibers are often derived from forest or farm products such as flax, bark, hemp or the roots and leaves of a number of plants. Fabrics such as cloth, linen, silk, embroidered tapestries and woolen textiles made by weaving or knitting together natural fibers as a material base are the result of Fibers usage.
Fruits & Vegetables
Edible fruits and vegetables such as apples, bananas, peaches, pears, tomatoes, corn, lettuce and tubers of all sorts.
Gaseous Elements
Helium, neon, argon, hydrogen compounds, ammonia, flourine, methane, phosphine, xenon, chlorine, carbon dioxide and a variety of methane and nitrogen compounds fall into this category. All are valued for industrial applications and as energy sources.
Garoxx Jewels
Garoxx Jewels are tiny green crystalline rocks in rough form, becoming a translucent light green crystal of incredible beauty once refined and polished. The base crystal is usually found in underground caverns in small, naturally-formed deposits. The perfect jewels are required as a focusing device in the production of a variety of advanced pieces of technology having to do with ESP. The slightest trace of impurities will ruin the jewel's use as a focusing lens, rendering it useless. Garoxx Jewel deposits are incredibly rare, but as it happens, 1 ton can be created by purifying 10 tons of Raw Resources.
Gemstones
Valuable gems prized for their beauty or industrial applications, such as diamonds, emeralds, rubies and sapphires.
Ghuran Demonblood
This is a vile, oily blue-black liquid that is found most often in pure form in underground ice caverns where it collects in small pools. Ghuran Demonblood remains a liquid even at temperatures that come close to absolute zero. The liquid is highly corrosive and can be safely handled only when it is kept extremely cold. As the liquid warms it becomes unstable and a deadly vapor is produced. Synthetic production of the stuff is exceedingly dangerous. The liquid is collected and used in units of approximately one quart at a time, is extremely rare, and is used only for special applications.
Grains
Grains such as wheat, rice and corn, along with fruits, vegetables, flour and many types of grasses.
Industrial Chemicals
Any of a variety of chemicals, compounds and byproducts used to increase industrial productivity.
Iron
Common ferrous metal ores valued for their industrial applications include iron, nickel, tungsten and molybdenum.
Jinn Crystals
Jinn Crystals are dull blue crystalline rocks in rough form, becoming a translucent bluish crystal of incredible beauty once refined and polished. The crystal is usually found in underground caverns in small, naturally-formed deposits. The perfect crystals are required as a focusing device in the production of a variety of advanced pieces of technology of Telepathic nature. The slightest trace of impurities will ruin the crystal's use as a focusing lens, rendering it useless. Jinn Crystal deposits are incredibly rare, but fortunately 1 ton can be created by purifying 10 tons of Raw Resources.
Light Metals
Common non-ferrous metal ores valued for their industrial applications. This tradegood category includes such metals as copper, tin, lead, mercury and zinc.
Lumber
Raw timber and other wood products. Often used in the production of construction materials.
Meat
Meats, animal fats, dairy products such as milks and cheeses, eggs, furs and leather.
Mineral Fertilizers
Phosphates, nitrates, pyrites and potash. Valued for some industrial applications but most often used in agriculture.
Petrochemicals
Chemicals, such as butane, derived from petroleum or natural gas. Petrochemicals are valued in many industrial uses and can be used as an energy source.
Precious Metals
Rare metals prized for their industrial applications or used for coinage. Gold, silver and platinum are the most commonly sought-after Precious Metals.
Radioactive Elements
The entire series of group IIIb elements (the actinide series), including actinium, thorium, protactinium, uranium, neptunium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium, californium, einsteinium, fermium, mendelevium, nobelium and lawrencium. Uranium through lawrencium are grouped together to form the transuranium elements. This tradegood category is valued for all manner of industrial applications and as an energy source.
Rare Elements
Unusual minerals such as bastnasite, cerite, euxenite, gadolinite, and all elements of the lanthanide series (Lanthanum, Cerium, Praseodymium and so forth through Lutium). Often used in such applications as the making of ceramic glazes, glassmaking, glass-polishing abrasives, catalysts for petroleum refining, projection-tube phosphors and laser construction among other things.
Rare Herbs & Spices
Uncommon herbs, spices, pungent or aromatic plant substances and poisonous plants. Valued for medicinal and recreational purposes.
Raw Resources
Raw Resources represent generic resources available on all planets. Raw Resources can be converted into any other basic Resource type, but conversion is inefficient (10 Raw Resources create 1 of any other basic Resource) and valuable industrial output is tied up in the process. Still, if you need Steel, which requires Iron to be produced, and you don’t have enough operating Iron Mines, conversion of 10 Raw Resources into each ton of Iron that you need is often the only solution available.
Shenn Stones
Shenn Stones are dull red crystalline rocks in rough form, becoming a translucent reddish crystal of incredible beauty once refined and polished. The crystal is usually found in underground caverns in small, naturally-formed deposits. The perfect crystals are required as a focusing device in the production of a variety of advanced pieces of technology. The slightest trace of impurities will ruin the crystal's use as a focusing lens, rendering it useless.
Water
Primarily H20, but also including many other gases in liquid or solid form. Most often valued for industrial and agricultural applications. Typically transported in solid form (ice).