Every planet produces because something stands on it that produces. This is what turns into what, what each process consumes to do it, and what else comes out.
Cargo and industry
Cargo comes in tiers. Raw materials feed refineries, refined goods feed manufacturing, and a developed planet starts demanding its own inputs — so developing a place manufactures a route to it.
Raw
- Ore — Mining
- Ice — Ice harvesting
- Helium-3 — Gas extraction
- Silicates — Quarrying
- Biomass — Biomass harvesting
- Rare earths — Rare-earth mining
Refined
- Metals — Smelting from 2× Ore
- Water — Water works from 2× Ice
- Fuel — Fuel refining from Helium-3, Ice
- Glass — Glassworks from 2× Silicates
- Polymers — Polymer plant from 2× Biomass
- Fertilizer — Fertiliser plant from Biomass, Water
- Alloys — Alloy works from 2× Metals, Rare earths · also makes Hazardous waste
- Food — Farming from 2× Biomass, Fertilizer
Manufactured
- Machinery — Machine works from 2× Alloys, Polymers · also makes Hazardous waste
- Electronics — Electronics plant from Rare earths, Glass, Polymers · also makes Hazardous waste
- Medicine — Pharmaceuticals from 2× Polymers, Water · also makes Hazardous waste
- Ship parts — Shipyard from 2× Alloys, Machinery, Electronics
- Luxuries — Luxury goods from Electronics, 2× Glass
Special
- Passengers — Hospitality
- Colonists — Settlement programme
- Mail and data — Postal service
- Hazardous waste — Waste management