Planets
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In Black Eye Galaxy, planets serve as one of our primary gameplay elements, or as NFTs. Planets can be acquired by participating in auctions that are currently hosted by Babylon's auctions, these auctions are posted via our social media and players can participate by using the native BYG token.
Planets serve a variety of purposes in the galaxy, primarily providing galactic services to all players such as repair services, salvage trading and soon a refining station. These services are provided through planet add-ons that can be purchased by planet owners, built and then can earn the native BYG token when players use their services.
Each planet type has a specified amount of natural resources or BYG tokens, this information be found below detailed in the planet classification system.
Planets also have unique underlining details that separate one from another. These details include the planet's class, natural resources, mass, sidereal rotation period, local year length, surface area, and earth similarity index. Planets can also be distinguished by their cosmic address in which each and every planet holds their own unique location in the galaxy which forms an address. Planet owners, for a small BYG fee, can add further uniqueness to their planet by choosing their own planet name, which can will visible on the once applied.
Below, you will find a number of cinematic planet overviews that will provide you with more information regarding the range of planet classifications available in-game.
Planet rarity as follows: D, H, I, T, Y, N, K, M.
Legendary: K, M Epic: N, Y, T Rare: I Uncommon: H Common: D
Class D planets, otherwise known as planetoids or moons, range from 6–13-billion-year-old. They were formed in the early stages in the birth of the galaxy with some being spawn of some of the largest habitable planets in the galaxy, as such they are commonly discovered orbiting or in close proximity of larger planets. Planetoids are relatively small, being around 500 to 1000 km 1000 km in diameter. The planet's surface is incredibly rocky and cratered due to the damage that has been inflicted over thousands of years – this makes the construction of structures and buildings difficult but possible. This is because planetoids are not protected by an atmosphere, therefore asteroids are not burned up during collision. These planets have little to no atmosphere and the extraction of resources yields little benefit. Due to the small size of the object, the construction of surface stations is particularly difficult, however, the construction of space stations is a reasonable option for planet owners. These planets offer an average of 4,500 BYG for planet owners, which is relatively reasonable for a planet that facilitates the construction of all surface structures and space stations. Planet owners will have to wait an average of 100 days to mine all resources available on a Class D planet, this process can be sped up by building mining stations.
In the Irisian standard system of planetary classification, the class H planet is regarded as one of the most common type of planet found in the black eye galaxy alongside Class D planets. These planets range from 3.5 to 10 billion years old and can found in many star systems. Class H planets are characterised for their uninhabitable conditions but reasonably flat surface, which benefits the construction of planet buildings such as mining stations and factories. In some parts of these planets, extremely rocky and uneven terrains are common, which can make it impossible to build planet bases for humanoid life forms. The extraction of resources on the other hand is particularly popular with this classification of planet. The class H planet offers a reasonable average of 9,000 BYG in resources and allows planet owners to build a limited number of surface structures and space stations and depots that orbit its atmosphere. Class H planets can have a range of poor and very rich in valuable and rare materials.
The Class I planet also referred to as the Ice Planet, is a type of planet that can be found in moderate quantities across the black eye galaxy. Class I planets were formed between 3-10 billion years ago, with many more remaining undiscovered. This type of planet commonly ranges between 10,000 to 1,5000 kilometers in diameter. Despite the extremely low temperatures, which make standard conditions normally uninhabitable. Class I planets have an atmosphere that contains nitrogen and oxygen, which increases its chances at sustaining colonial life. A honeycomb of ice covers a small majority of the planet's surface, with larger areas being mostly flat. Although the freezing conditions make it impossible for human life to easily integrate, you can expect a range of life forms, mostly beneath the icy surface, with reports of some unknown animal lifeforms that survive above the planet's honeycombed ice covered surface. The planet's atmosphere and general historical formation offer a future for colonisation allowing it the chance to become a beacon in the galaxy compared to other planets. Players can start mining by building a mining station, where building up to three stations increases your mining speed. Class I planets offer owners an average of 9,000 BYG of natural resources to mine and also supports natural resource refill through planet additions. Despite its freezing surface, a range of buildings can be constructed, some to even sustain life. Currently, players can build surface buildings including planet factories and mining stations and also the repair space station and salvage depot, which both orbit the planet when built. Despite this, they can be a basis for smaller bases or colonies, offering more exclusive surface buildings and add-ons compared to other planets such as the class H or class D planetoids. Players will need to construct a mining station to begin this extraction of resources. Building up to 3 mining stations increases this speed of extraction. Overall, the Class I planet is a very unique and mysterious planet in black eye galaxy. While little is known about the lifeform population, the planet's ability to host colonial life through special planetary surface bases makes it a beacon in the galaxy compared to other planets.
There is very little known about Class K planets apart from that they have an irregular pressure which but are otherwise inhabitable with the help of pressure domes. Class K planets are particularly special due to how they can be terraformed into Class M planets with some time. Class K diameters range in size from 5000 to 8000 km. Very little is known about the resources contained on Class K planets and the resources they might offer. Class K planet atmospheres have trances of oxygen and small amounts of nitrogen and other potentially dangerous elements that can be dangerous for life in the long term. Class K planets thrive with aquatic plant and animal life, with small amounts of land mass that can be transformed to suit humanoid life through the terraforming process.
Class M planets are Earth like planets with atmospheres containing large amounts of oxygenic particles. These types of planets range in age from 3-6 billion years old. They have large diameters ranging in size from 10,000 to 15,000 km. There are very small amounts of class M planets across the galaxy and those that do exist bream with organic life. Their surfaces comprise of primarily thin tectonic layers that float on a molten rock mantle, usually with several volcanic activities. Class M planets are rich in water that is necessary for life to exist. Their atmospheres contain oxygen and nitrogen with other traces of light gases. Life forms are almost always present with a flourishing plant and animal life. Sentient races exist on most Class M planets with most remaining unknown to the galaxy. These types of planets are around 60% water and their ability to house extensive organic life make them extremely valuable. Class M planets are largely habitable for humanoid life forms. Very little is known about the resources contained on Class M planets and the resources they might offer.
Class N planets have an incredibly dense toxic atmosphere where in the depths of the lower layers of the atmosphere there are persistent hurricanes that have been raging for thousands of years. As the name describes, the Class N planets are generally composed of more toxic and tenuous gas concentrations with also having a solid subsurface that is extremely difficult to build on, but it is possible. Most Class N planets contain significant amounts of methane which takes up much of the planet's atmosphere. Class N planets emit significant amounts of energy and heat, but they are not too dangerous to extract valuable gases. These types of toxic planets are more than 14,000 km in size. Although the extraction of resources is difficult it is entirely possible and thus many planet owners have been extracting useable gases from the planet’s atmosphere in recent years. Class N planets have an average of 9,000 BYG. The construction of buildings on the planets surface is difficult but possible and space stations are commonly built to support this challenging process
Class T planets are gas giants. They are around 8 billion years old and are more than 12,000 km in size. Class T planets have an average of 9,000 BYG in resources. They are composed of mainly hydrogen and helium which is why they are a popular class of planets for those interested in extracting and farming valuable gases which are necessary to sustain life forms across the galaxy. Class T planets have incredibly high pressure and temperature in the lower atmospheres. The extraction of natural resources, although difficult, can be extracted in the higher atmosphere. Class T planets have a larger percentage of hydrogen at 60% which make them a very attractive planet to own for the future of life of across the galaxy. This type of planet emits low numbers of heat and energy making operations to extract natural resources reasonable simple.
Class Y planets are extremely old planets, more than 10-billion-year-old in fact. Their diameters range in size from 4,000 to 10,000 km. Class Y planets are 70% covered in molten lava and are indefinitely inhabitable. These are commonly known as volcanic planets due to their persistent number of volcanic eruptions that occur. Surface temperatures are incredibly high and although this prevents humanoid life from prospering, the extraction of resources over 30% of its rocky terrain is exploited by many planet owners. Class Y planets are known very much to the galaxy’s life forms and thus the resources have been found to offer an average 9,000 BYG. The partially molten surfaces and active volcanoes and high surface temperatures make the construction of surface buildings difficult but possible. Space stations are commonly utilised to aid this process.
As of the start of January 2022 planet owners will receive 30% of their natural resources back. This only applies to planets that have been fully mined. Once a planet has been completely mined it will be placed in a queue for the 30% refill. This refill is currently ongoing due to it being a manual process and will take some time for all planets to receive this. The cut off date for receiving this 30% refill is when we implement the new refill mechanics.
The reason the team have decided to refill mined planets with the 30% refill is to keep the game fair and APR consistent as to what planet are meant to be. Providing this 30% refill to mined planets is our way of rewarding early investors who bought planets. This way we can give planet owners on 0 natural resources some rewards until we are ready with the planet refill.
Planets owners will pay a 25% cargo transportation fee on EACH individual claim made to planet mining rewards that is distributed to all Hermes Cargo Spaceship owners. This cargo transportation fee is immediately sent to owners addresses that currently lease their cargo hauling services.
Remember that the 25% cargo transportation fee is rewarded/sent to players not the game/team.
Planet owners will pay a 1% tax fee on EACH individual claim made to planet mining rewards that will go to the treasury.
By building a mining station, players can reduce the time to mine their planets:
0 mining stations = no mining
1 mining station = 255 days
2 mining stations = 127.5 days
3 mining stations = 85 days
Refining Station: (coming soon)
Players can also build planet addons in the form of buildings and space stations and depots. More information can be found on the .
