Balthalzite crystals


 * tradeables

Balthalzite crystals are fairly rare in most worlds in the universe but are easily found in over abundance on desert planets. They are extremely important in the area of information holding and information management thus they are very important to crystal technology based races. These crystals are also excellent deflectors of radiation so they are used in bulkhead radiation shields. Even though they are easy to found they are exceptionally expensive to mine as they resist most forms of mining including energy mining. They must be extracted by primitive shaft mining then carefully removed from useless or useful ore by hand.