Research Costs

Research Costs is a Mission for the Korolev faction. It is unlocked after completing A Powerful Discovery Part 7. Research Costs has 9 mission parts.



Description
A lot of questions remain about how to stabilize Letium for safe and easy exploitation; with what's already been recovered and studied, Letium could be used not just to refine Veltecite, but trigger all sorts of other reactions in more common materials. Help Korolev with what they need and their discoveries might even surpass the brains at Osiris!

Parts
'Our researchers on the station have been analyzing the data you retrieved, and have requested a few items to speed things up. I suggest checking old Osiris labs, I'm sure they won't mind. '
 * -|Part 1=

Rewards
'It seems some creatures have higher concentrations of Letium than others... My people want some very specific samples now: head to the abandoned Dig Site mine in Bright Sands and hunt down what you can. '
 * -|Part 2=

Objectives

 * Visit Dig Site.
 * Kill 10 Creatures at Dig Site.

Rewards
'We haven't heard from our ground team in days... The Cycle is stronger in the wilds, their equipment may have malfunctioned. Take this Radio Equipment down to Bright Sands stashes; with luck we're right and they'll make contact!'
 * -|Part 3=

Objectives

 * Deposit 1 at the Swamp Skeleton Dead Drop.
 * Deposit 1 at the Main Office Dead Drop.
 * Deposit 1 at the Comms Tower Dead Drop.

Rewards
'We've contacted an Osiris scientist willing to switch to help with our Letium research, but they'll only take payment in Veltecite, off the books. Deliver some to this Dead Drop on Crescent Falls. '
 * -|Part 4=

Objectives

 * Visit Greens Prospect.
 * Deposit 3 at the Stockpile Dead Drop.
 * Deposit 1 at the Stockpile Dead Drop.

Rewards
'Our new scientist friend believes Osiris was already researching the presence of Letium in various creatures. Head to their main lab on Bright Sands and bring back whatever samples they were studying. '
 * -|Part 5=

Objectives

 * Visit Waterfall Labs.

Rewards
'Our team made it back home! It will be a while before they can get back to work... why not take some time and let everyone Korolev is still king of the hill?'
 * -|Part 6=

Objectives

 * Kill 30 Creatures or Prospectors with a weapon.

Rewards
'Our people have been able to extract stable Letium from biological samples, but they need more to test with. Hunt down some more creatures, for science. '
 * -|Part 7=

Rewards
'We've narrowed down the process that allows these creatures to absorb and stabilize Letium. Get us more samples, we're close to a breakthrough!'
 * -|Part 8=

Rewards
'Our research is nearly complete! Now we just need you to use the Uplink facilities on Crescent Falls; we should be able to use recent surface scans of the area to locate Letium vents. '
 * -|Part 9=

Objectives

 * Visit Skeleton Observation Site.