Space · Machine
Lightning probe
A winch and a brass probe: aboard a ship in Jupiter's orbit, it turns copper ingots into storm jovite.
In the game
How to get it
Craft it: three copper wires / titanium ingot, circuit board, titanium ingot / titanium ingot, coil, titanium ingot. Place it aboard your ship and fly the ship into orbit round Jupiter. Put copper ingots in it.
What it is for
A storm jovite every 45 s, one copper ingot each: two make a jovite ingot.
Why it exists
Nobody lands on Jupiter: its metal is caught from orbit, in its lightning.
The same text the game shows in its progress tree and on the item's sheet (I).
Recipe
| copper wire | copper wire | copper wire |
| titanium ingot | circuit board | titanium ingot |
| titanium ingot | coil | titanium ingot |
How it works
It only works aboard a ship in orbit round Jupiter. Each copper ingot is the rod of one dive: the probe sinks on its cable into the storms, flashes, and comes back with a storm jovite, every 45 s. Anywhere else it waits and says why.