Persona core

The persona core is a highly valuable component required to build a ship capable of leaving the planet.

Acquisition[edit]

Persona cores can be found in an item stash world quest. Once the Starflight basics research project has been completed, you may also purchase the location of one from allied factions for the price of 1500 silver at a comms console. You do not need to actually receive the Persona Core Offer event to do this. It can also be earned as a reward for completing randomly generated quests.

Alternatively, it's possible to go to the ship found in the journey offer, deconstruct its ship computer core, and bring it to a colony. There is a chance for the persona core to be lost when deconstructing.

Alternatively, deconstructing the destroyed cerebrex core provides a persona core.

Usage[edit]

Product	Ingredients	Type
Ship computer core	150 + 4 + 70 + 1	Building - Ship

Summary[edit]

A single persona core is used to build the ship computer core. It has no other purpose, but sells for a high price.

Analysis[edit]

As you need only one core to win the game, additional cores can be traded away without fear of setting yourself back. Alternatively, if another victory condition will be performed, or none will be, then they can also be sold without consequence.

Profit[edit]

Due to the natural trade disadvantage, the profit from continually farming persona cores isn't very high. At 20 Social skill in Strive to Survive, you would get 3120 from selling a persona core, a profit of 1620. At 10 Social, this drops to a profit of 1260. However, this does not consider the time cost of a caravan or the material costs of using a transport pod or passenger shuttle.

Usually, it is easier, safer, and more profitable to grow psychoid and cloth, drill for ore, take the mood penalty for organ harvesting, and so on. These methods do not require pawns to venture outside the colony (potentially leaving the base underdefended) or fight enemies, making them safer overall.

With a passenger shuttle, the travel time is almost nonexistent, the cost of travel is cheap, and if the main colony gets raided, any attacking pawns can come back quickly. However, farming persona cores still requires manual player interaction and presents some danger to the attacking party.

Version history[edit]

Beta 18 - AI persona cores can no longer be salvaged by destroying a psychic ship nor found for purchase from an exotic goods trader.
Beta 19 - you may now pay other allied factions a cost of 1500 silver for the location of one.
1.3.3066 - Texture updated.
? - Renamed from AI persona core to Persona core, sometime before 1.3.3117, possibly in 1.3.3066. At some point the description was changed from "A hyper-advanced computer core that houses a superhumanlike artificial intelligence. In its isolated state the core is dormant. Installed in a proper support structure, however, it can become a mind of frightening power." to "A hyper-advanced computer core that houses a peak-human-equivalent machine persona. In its isolated state, the core is dormant. Installed in a proper support structure, however, it can become a mind of great power." This was likely changed at the same time.