Overview

The original OreTek MK I pickaxe was specifically designed to ease mineral and crystal extraction in a lunar environment. The early model featured inertial compensators designed to prevent the wielder from losing their balance when making powerful swings. With the activation of the graviton generator and subsequent change to a more earth-like gravity and atmosphere, the pickaxe was redesigned into the MK II.

Similarly to the MK I, the MK II head unit is fully sealed against dust, protecting the electronic components, but instead of stabilizers it is fitted with accelerators designed to increase the momentum moments before contact, increasing the force of the blows. As a result, it can quickly shatter rocks that a normal pickaxe would take much longer to break apart.

While powerful, the MK II is unsuited for combat other than as a weapon of last resort, as the weighting of the pickaxe head makes for a slow recovery from each swing, and there is a high risk of the pick becoming stuck in the target.

Resources

The OreTek MK II Pickaxe is primarily used to obtain two key crystal resources: Hemecite and Technicite.

Name: Hemecite
Base Price: 40 DFCC

Description: Consisting mostly of silica complexes, these red crystals contain a range of common elements that are used in everything from batteries to alloy doping.

Refined Into: Cleaned hemecite crystals
Used In Crafting: Shard-bound nanolinks,  Li-ion battery, Solid state battery, Vulcanised rubber pads, Trace Minerals,  Silica,  Solid state battery

Name: Technicite
Base Price: 30 DFCC

‍Description: With a high concentration of lanthanide metals and other useful compounds, this blue crystal is essential to the production of advanced electronics.

Refined Into: Flawless technicite crystals, Lanthanides
Used In Crafting: Solid laser gain medium, Plasma condenser, Shielded plasma condenser,  Near-fusion plasma condenser, Electromagnetic aligner, Boltzmann repeater, Standard beam emitter, Relativistic Pump, Plasma Containment, Contact magnets, Predictive processors,  Solid state battery, Boltzmann repeater, Electromagnetic aligner