John Crewe · Vehicle Pipeline Director

Yeah, so the Vulture really just crunches it, sticks it in a box, ready to sell. If it was in the game today, what you'd be able to do with it would be take it to the various outposts and sell it for various prices. Mid to long term, you'll be taking it to manufacturing plants. So they're obviously going to be in the universe. They need raw materials to create things. So you'll be able to go there and do trading. We want to look at, like I said, different options for onboard refining, sort of like how the Starfarer can refine fuel into different grades. This would be the same, whether the Vulture can do that or not. At a bare minimum, it will be chopping it up and presenting it for sale. But whether we let you smelt it down or leave that to the refineries is, again, a Tony thing. But it's the supply and demand. A system of manufacturers and refineries need these raw elements. You're the ones to get it for the price. You sell it to them. If you're able to refine things, you can probably go straight to the manufacturing plant. If not, you need to go to the refinery. You've got that onboard cargo capacity, so you could go to the other end of the refinery, pick up the same amount of refined ore or refined metal, and take it to the manufacturing plant. So you don't just have to do the scrapyard-to-refinery loop over and over again. You can be that intermediate person. You could even go to the manufacturing one at the other side of that, take out what they've manufactured, and take that somewhere to sell.