Aquilo

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Space Age expansion exclusive feature.

Aquilo is a desolate, freezing ocean planet. Its surface consists solely of a vast ocean of liquid ammonia, with the occasional floating iceberg.

Progression wise, Aquilo is meant to be visited after establishing factories on all the previous planets. Planet discovery Aquilo (research) requires rocket turrets, Advanced asteroid processing (research), and heating towers from Gleba, Asteroid reprocessing (research) from Vulcanus, and Electromagnetic science pack (research) from Fulgora.

Planet discovery Aquilo (research) is required to travel to the planet.

Exclusive items

The following items are unlocked on Aquilo:

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  Cryogenic plant
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  Cryogenic science pack
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  Fusion generator
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  Fusion reactor
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  Railgun turret
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  Railgun
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  Captive biter spawner
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  Portable fusion reactor

Surface

Properties

Aquilo Surface Properties

Property	Value
Pollutant Type	None
Day Night Cycle	20 Minutes
Magnetic Field	10
Solar Power	01%
Pressure	300
Gravity	15

Natural resources

In terms of directly exploitable natural resources, Aquilo has:

• Ammoniacal solution (via offshore pump on the edge of the ammoniacal seas)
• Lithium brine (via pumpjack)
• Fluorine (via pumpjack)
• Crude oil (via pumpjack)

With crude oil being the only non-exclusive resource to Aquilo, excluding ice obtained from lithium ice formation.

Stone, iron and copper (and coal if desired) need to be imported from other planets as Aquilo lacks ways to obtain these from the environment.

Access to basic resources

• Water can be obtained via Ammoniacal solution separation and Ice melting
• Stone is not available and must be shipped in from other planets
• Iron ore is not available and must be shipped in from other planets
• Copper ore is not available and must be shipped in from other planets
• Coal is not available and must be shipped in from other planets
• Crude oil can be obtained using pumpjacks as normal

Mechanics

The starting area on Aquilo is a relatively small patch of snow and ice terrain. Snowy terrain can be built on, but buildings require concrete tiles (or derivatives) to be placed as insulation for the building. Beyond this small platform is the vast ammoniacal seas, which have small dots of icey terrain in them, usually around resource geysers.

On Aquilo, most terrain must be constructed. Ice platforms are created by first using Ammoniacal solution separation to make ice and ammonia, then combining those into a platform.

Freezing

Aquilo is brutally cold. Most entities will freeze and stop working unless heated by a heat pipe in an adjacent tile. Heat can be generated by the nuclear reactor or heating tower. Buildings also cannot be placed on the surface of the iceberg itself (except in a few particular locations); concrete (or its variants) must be placed underneath as an insulator. The harshly low temperature will also make construction robots and logistic robots much weaker, making them consume 5 times more power than normal.

Once a building is attached to an adjacent heat pipe, it will consume heat energy to maintain it's state, reducing the energy (and temperature) in the heat pipe. Note that underground belts and pipes are substantially larger heat drains than their above-ground versions.

Building	Kilowatts
	10
	50
	100
	150
	200
	40
	30
	1
	150
	30
	100
	20
	50
	50
	30
	50
	50
	100
	100
	100
	200
	300
	300
	300
	400

The following Entities are immune from freezing:

	Chests
	Burner Entities
	Electric Poles
	Rail Pieces
	Trains
	Vehicles
	Bots
	Lamps
	Circuit Network Inputs and Outputs
	Solar and Fusion Power Generation
	Heat Generators
	Heat Pipes
	Offshore Pumps
	Lightning collectors
	Space Cargo Hub and Bays
	Walls and Gates
	Flamethrower and Tesla Turrets

Solar

Aquilo is also far from the sun, and so solar panels only output at 1% of their rate on Nauvis, or 0.6 kW during the day.

Space routes

Aquilo is connected to 2 other planets, Gleba and Fulgora, along with the Solar system edge

Planet Distance

Planet	Distance (km)
Gleba	30,000
Fulgora	30,000
Solar system edge	100,000

Asteroid rate graphs:

Space route from Gleba to Aquilo

Space route from Fulgora to Aquilo

Space route from Aquilo to Solar system edge

Graph legend:

Asteroid type	Chunk	Medium	Big
Metallic	● Blue	● Red	● Cyan
Carbonic	● Orange	● Yellow	● Brown
Oxide	● Green	● Magenta	● Purple

Orbit

Properties

Property	Value
Solar Power	60%

Asteroid Spawning Types

Asteroid Type	Spawn Ratio
Metallic asteroid chunk	1
Carbonic asteroid chunk	2
Oxide asteroid chunk	20
Promethium asteroid chunk	0

Asteroid Spawning Sizes

Asteroid Size	Spawn %
Chunk	.10
Medium	0
Big	0.25
Huge	0

Note:

• Chunks spawn at Nauvis at 1.25%
• Huge Asteroids only spawn past Aquilo

Gallery

• 
  Example landscape of Aquilo.
• 
  Aquilo seen on the expansion's title screen.

Trivia

• In mythology, Aquilo is the Roman god of the north wind, storms, and winter.

History

• 2.0.7:
  • Introduced in Space Age expansion.

See also

• Fulgora
• Gleba
• Nauvis
• Vulcanus
• Space platform