Quirium Fuel

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"Quirium Fuel": A commodity found on the F8 markets screen (if you have installed Fuel Tweaks OXZ).

Can only be purchased if specialised fuel storage containers have been fitted to a ship.

Usable fuel, Quirium, stored in the Cargo Hold for trade (or for refuelling).

Terminological Confusion

In the Classic Elite game fuel is just fuel! But in the game Manual it became Quirium H-fuel (page 6) and Andy Redman incorporated quirium into his Imprint novel. When Drew Wagar starting writing Oofiction, the science of quirium featured prominently in his Oolite saga as one of his heroes is a scientist working with it. So in the early days the terms Fuel and Quirium were used interchangeably.

Then people started writing OXPs. Commander Frame's Fuel Collector OXP in 2008 led to Phkb's Fuel Tweaks OXP which affected the fuel and the OXP'd version was called Quirium Fuel, a commodity which could be bought and sold. Other people also played around with the concept (Holy Fuel, Quirium Crystals etc).

Hence the peculiar specificity of this page which only deals with the fuel as a commodity.

Refuelling with Quirium

Links

OXPs

This list deals with quirium fuel as a commodity - for oxps dealing with fuel (fuel tanks etc, see Quirium)