Gemstones

Many Prospronauts collect the gemstones of Umbra. These have no value on the open market, but it's a favorite pastime of many miners, who are rewarded with research points and experience as they complete sections of their collection.

Gemstone Sizes
Gemstones come in eight sizes, with the smaller gems being fusible into the next largest size. Indeed, finding the larger sizes instact is extremely rare, and fusing is often the only way to get one. This can be done at a gem fusing droid, located by a Broker vendor. Each gemstone also comes in three levels of quality--tarnished, standard, and pristine. Tarnished will only fuse with and into tarnished, pristine into pristine, and standard into standard.

Synthetic Gemstones
Completely worthless, these "gemstones" are often palmed off by hucksters. They can only be found in treasure boxes, and very rarely in unrefined gems. Since these are not true gemstones, and are not fusible, they are tracked under Curious (under Miscellaneous) instead of Gems.

Each true gemstone is replicated in this collection three times: once as Poor quality, once as Reasonable, and once as Meritous.