Description

Artifacts are very rare items used as materials and which can be sold for a decent amount of credits each. They are normally found in areas that have ore fields. Currently, there are 3 Artifacts, but more could be added. They randomly spawn and only take 0.5 Cargo Hold each. Artifacts are currently used as part of ship building materials for special ships such as the Obliterator or Prototype X-1. Ships such as the X-7849 and X-4756 also used to spawn and drop artifacts as loot, but these ships' spawns are currently disabled.

Previously, the Ascension Crystal was used in a quest given by the Monogram in Aqueous II's asteroid belt. The Data Archive was used in a quest found on Myriad III's moon. They were also used to make special ships called "Artifact Ships," now known as "Advanced Ships" After an exploit for creating these ships came out, they were subsequently disabled and eventually re-added, but this time without the cost of Artifacts. Instead, their prices rose dramatically. However, recently, they were readded to the Mega Base's Terminal D's sales floor on a 3 ships per rotation basis. More information here.

Artifacts

Antimatter shards - Blue, glowing/sparkling shards of pure antimatter used in construction of advanced ships and quests.

Data archives - Black HDD or optical drives used in construction of advanced ships, prototypes, and quests.

Ascension crystals - Red, glowing/sparkling crystals used in construction of advanced ships and quests.