System colours (Atlas)

The subject of this article is from the Atlas Rises update.
The information from this article is up-to-date as of 23 July, 2018.

This article is about the Atlas Rises version of System colours. For the current version, see System colours.

System colours classify star systems based on colour.

Summary

The colour of a star provides many clues as to what forms of life, resources, and other items appear on its planets.

Yellow Systems

• Warp Reactor Required: Hyperdrive
• Best chance for lush planets, no chance of exotic.
• Unique Resource: Emeril, Gold, and/or Aluminium.
  • Note: these resources don't pertain to yellow stars only, they can be found in deposit form only in yellow stars.
• Sparse rare materials
• 0-1 Exotic materials per planet

Red Systems

• Warp Reactor Required: Sigma
• Highest chance for exotic planets, average chance for lush planets
• Unique Resource: Rubeum
• Uncommon rare materials
• 0-1 Exotic materials per planet, usually 0

Green Systems

• Warp Reactor Required: Tau
• Average chance for lush planets, average chance for exotic planets
• Unique Resource: Viridium, Emeril
• Common rare materials
• 0-1 Exotic materials per planet

Blue Systems

• Warp Reactor Required: Theta
• Average chance for lush planets, above average chance for exotic planets
• Unique Resource: Cymatygen
• Abundant rare materials
• 1-2 Exotic materials per planet

Release information

A star's colour is indicated by the first letter of the star's Spectral class. Much of the above information is courtesy of LoneSeeker777's post on Reddit. Note that these are general results, and there may be exceptions.

Exception: this indicator was not present during the Atlas Rises updates 1.30 through 1.37