I recently started doing the the talthterian chain, and got to the one where you get a couple of planets. I was thinking we can make an item in the ctl that does the same thing. A set stats on the planet, with some passive abilities.

Recipe:
200 Void Shells
100 warp gates
300 cloning pods
200 energy
(scanning arts might be an acceptable substitute for one of more of the items)


planet stats:

Mining MR
Artifact 2xMR
Research 1xMR

Passive
500 att/def/cloak

Size VL

Stats and recipe are not set stone obviously, but this can help out with later levels when it comes to scanning for new ones.

It can be a new planet type drannik or some other race.
thoughts?

as a planet location revealer? doesn't make sense as where would the arti get the scan data from?
I think it would be better as a planet upgrader.

So your problem is that there is no background story to provide the information for the scanner? That can easily be made up.

The reason I didn't say an upgrade is that at this point all the common planets have upgrades (barren has two) and the uncommons have ones from missions as well. Terra is the only rare that has an upgrade, but the metallic and oceanic have so many special artifacts that affect them only, not to mention the dyson project. What I mean is that planet upgrader is over done.

Whereas revealer only has a few, and it allows for those who have gotten so many planets on theirs scans that they have to wait a month to save up enough purgers just to do a run. It bypasses the need for more scanning modules which most people are against any way since that would start to reveal their 17k cloak planets.