Irradiated Kopion Horn
Harvesting
- Category
- Animal
- Sub-type
- horn
- Source
- Kopion
Required by contracts(2)
- Rayari Inc · Contractorcollect 26
- Wikelocollect 5
AI Overview
Compiled by AI from community sources — may be incomplete or inaccurate; verify before relying on it.
A hand-harvested animal trophy — the radiation-mutated horn of a Kopion predator, prized as a bone-regeneration material and used as a barter ingredient at Wikelo's Emporium.
What it is
The Irradiated Kopion Horn is a Size 1 "harvestable trophy" carved from an Irradiated Kopion, a mutated strain of the Kopion predator. In-fiction the horn is made of a unique blend of bone and naturally-occurring carbon nanomaterials; once properly processed it aids bone regeneration far more reliably than lab-grown substitutes, which is what makes Kopion horns a sought-after commodity. As a physical item it is tiny: roughly 0.15 m on a side, occupying about 1,000 µSCU (0.001 SCU) and weighing on the order of 0.1 kg, so a player can carry a stack by hand. Its internal class name is `Harvestable_Trophy_1H_KopionHorn_Irradiated` and it is catalogued as 100% "Kopion Horn" commodity by composition. The "Irradiated" prefix marks it as the highest-value member of a family of horn variants that also includes the standard, Cave, Savannah, and Tundra Kopion Horns.
Gameplay use
The horn's main sink is Wikelo's Emporium, the alien barter vendor introduced in the Pyro era. Players hand-harvest the horn from creature corpses, then deposit it (along with other required materials) through an Emporium freight elevator to claim barter rewards such as ships, vehicles, and other goods. Several Wikelo contracts call for Irradiated Kopion Horn in fixed quantities (community trackers list requirements like "0/5" per contract). Because demand is driven by these turn-ins rather than a normal commodity buy/sell loop, the item also trades heavily on player marketplaces. It is not a medical/consumable item the player uses directly and (as of the current patch) has no in-game commodity kiosk buy/sell route.
Value & where to sell
There is no NPC commodity terminal that buys or sells the Irradiated Kopion Horn — UEX's commodity tracker shows zero offers/demand and no buy/sell terminals for it (data was still re-baselining after the 4.8.x patch at time of research). Its value is realized almost entirely on the player-to-player marketplace, where it is one of the more valuable harvestables. Listings on the UEX marketplace span roughly 6,000 to 200,000 UEC per unit, with the bulk clustering in the ~20K–60K range and a typical single listing around 25K/unit. Prices are volatile and depend on Wikelo demand cycles and on the item's quality grade (see Grades & variants).
Where to harvest
Irradiated Kopions are encountered in the Pyro system, notably around Pyro I and its research facilities and on the planet Bloom (Pyro III), including cave systems and areas near landmarks like the Golden Bridge. The "Irradiated" strain is tied to radiation-soaked locations such as the ASD/Lazarus-style research facilities, so a radiation suit is effectively required to hunt them safely. Players kill the Kopion, then harvest the horn from the corpse by hand. (The non-irradiated Tundra Kopion Horn, by contrast, comes from microTech's elevated grasslands and snow-adjacent tundra — useful for distinguishing the variants.)
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Source
The source creature is the Kopion — a fast, aggressive, pack-hunting carnivore roughly the size of a German Shepherd, with scaled hide along its back. Per the RSI Galactapedia it is indigenous to Ashana (Nul V), where it evolved to survive harsh, varied biomes; it breeds rapidly (litters of 5–10, about twice per Standard Earth Year) and frequently becomes invasive when introduced to gentler worlds — often deliberately, by people hoping to harvest its valuable horn. The Irradiated Kopion is the radiation-mutated variant found in Pyro.
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Grades & variants
Two layers of "grade" apply. First, there is a family of horn variants tied to the source biome/creature: standard Kopion Horn, Cave Kopion Horn, Savannah Kopion Horn, Tundra Kopion Horn, and the Irradiated Kopion Horn — the irradiated version being the rarest and highest-value of the set. Second, individual harvested horns carry a per-item Quality (Q) rating that strongly drives marketplace price. Player listings explicitly tier by quality, for example Low-Q (0–500Q) around 30K, High-Q (500–850Q) around 55K, and Ultra-High-Q (~900Q) up to ~120K UEC per unit. So a high-Q Irradiated horn can be worth several times a low-Q one of the same name.
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Lore
Kopion horn is described in lore as a biotech prize: its mix of bone and natural carbon nanomaterials supports bone regeneration better than synthetic lab alternatives, which is precisely why settlers have introduced the invasive Kopion to so many worlds. The Galactapedia frames the creature's spread as a cautionary tale — a hardy predator deliberately seeded across systems for profit, only to overrun ecosystems. The "Irradiated" strain extends that story into Pyro's hostile, radiation-blasted environments.
Trivia
- The horn was featured in community content around the "Irradiated Kopion Swarm" encounters introduced in the 4.2/4.3 Pyro updates. - Despite being a hand-carried trophy, it is classified internally as a "harvestable trophy" rather than a normal cargo commodity, which is why it never appears on NPC trade terminals and instead lives on the Wikelo/player-market economy.
Sources:youtube.comapi.star-citizen.wiki
Some data from starcitizen.tools (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).