Chapter 397: Recovery

"An eighteen percent success rate doesn't sound so bad." Carlos remarked from behind. "How much does it cost to grow one of these crystals?"

Ves quickly estimated the costs. "A couple of million credits due to all of the exotics. This specific composition is meant to be cheaper than the original substance."

"Can we recycle the failed products?"

They quickly investigated the failures and it turned out that salvagers could recover much of the value. It required special processes only available to professionals, so the LMC would lose a fair bit of money in the exchange.

However, at least they wouldn't lose tens of millions of credits on this entire endeavor.

To Ves, that was good enough. "I don't have the time to perfect the synthesizer. We'll just have to make due with what we have."