¶ Ilus
Ilus IV, simply referred to as Ilus, also known as New Terra by the United Nations, is a large Earth-like planet, with slightly over one gravity and a thirty-hour day. Ilus can be accessed through a ring gate. The official name of the planet is Bering Survey Four, after the probe that first discovered its existence.
The planet's surface is one of the few no-PvP-Zones found on SDX.
¶ Lore
Ilus is the first planet outside the Sol system colonized by humans. The first settlers were Belter refugees from Ganymede, reaching the planet in a commandeered Mao-Kwikowski freighter, called the Barbapiccola. The settlers formed the settlement First Landing, claiming the planet and naming it "Ilus". This took place one year after fleeing from Ganymede and shortly after Bering Survey 4 returned results.
However, the United Nations planned to facilitate a controlled expansion into the new extrasolar systems, beginning with scientific missions prior to colonization of the new planets. With the planet colonized, the United Nations moved quickly to send a mission to Ilus, giving an exploration charter to the private, Earth-based corporation Royal Charter Energy (RCE). This was met with heavy resistance by the Belters trying to establish Ilus as a free colony, and after the early settlement and rights conflicts were resolved, the UN and Royal Charter Energy withdrew from the system.
¶ A safe haven
PvP on the planets surface is both disabled and forbidden. The Ilus Trade Zone PvE zone extends 85 km from the center of the planet which stops drilling, all damage and locking landing gears from hostile factions. Handguns are turned off on Ilus and damage can't happen between players. Therefore, it is safe to build large surface installations here.
Weapons are not disabled like in other, smaller safezones on the server. You may get shot by hostile weapons if you get too close, but all damage to a grid is prevented server side. It's all desync and an !entities refresh (do not sit in a grid!) or !fixship will resync you with the server. To avoid issues, we recommend staying clear of enemy bases anyway.
Player characters can and will die if they catch a bullet from a block weapon. Tread carefully!
Recommendation: Do not build within 3 km of another player/faction's grid unless explicitly told otherwise by the grid owner/faction.
Check the Ilus specific rules before coming over!
¶ Resources
Ilus is the only place where you'll find Lithium Ore desposits. It is used to craft Lithium Cells, which are in turn used in (compared to vanilla) greatly improved Tycho Batteries. Sell the ore to the Refinery Barge near Medina in the ringspace to have it made into Lithium Cells that you can buy back from the barge after a short while.
You can choose to sell the ore to the Barbapiccola or export it to Vesta Station. Please note that it will not be converted to Lithium Cells at these locations.
Additionally, Ilus has desposits of most of the other, more commonly found ores.
Lithium Ore is very heavy. It is recommended to build a dedicated ship for lifting the ore up into space.
As with all planets and moons on SDX (except Jannah), voxel deformation is disabled and Static Drills need to be deployed to extract ores from deposits.
¶ Trade Stations
¶ Belter Colony
The Colony on the surface of Ilus buys all types of packages for a very good price, making both in-system production and import from Sol a lucrative source of income.
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¶ Barbapiccola
The Barb in orbit around Ilus buys Lithium Ore, but you'll have to lift the very heavy ore up from the surface. Please note that the Barb does not convert the ore into cells.
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¶ Edward Israel
The old UN survey- and colony ship was left abandoned by RCE and is still sitting in a slowly declining orbit around Ilus. It offers no services and may fall into the gravity well in a few decades.
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