Polaris Bit
Harvesting
- Category
- Flora
- Sub-type
- Wikelo favor / contract reward token (not a plant or flora).
Required by contracts(2)
- Wikelocollect 20
- Wikelocollect 50
AI Overview
Compiled by AI from community sources — may be incomplete or inaccurate; verify before relying on it.
A small carryable Wikelo "favor" token — not a plant or organic harvestable — awarded for delivering Quantanium to the Banu merchant Wikelo, and collected toward unlocking a Polaris corvette.
What it is
The Polaris Bit is a small, one-handed carryable object classified internally as a Wikelo favor token (class name `Carryable_1H_CY_banu_favour_Wikelo_special`). It is a marker/voucher item rather than flora, fungus, or an animal body-part. In-game it is described as a unique marker indicating that a specified allocation of Quantanium has been successfully delivered to the Banu merchant Wikelo, and that these bits can be put toward the purchase of a Polaris. It is roughly 0.135 m on each side, size 1, with a very small cargo footprint (about 2,200 µSCU, ~0.0022 SCU). It appears in databases under the "harvestable" / souvenir-flair item bucket because it is a physical carryable token, but it is functionally a reward currency.
Sources:api.star-citizen.wikifinder.cstone.spacestarcitizen.tools
Gameplay use
Polaris Bits are a progress currency in Wikelo's contract system. Players earn them by completing a Wikelo collection contract (commonly listed as "Want Polaris? Need something special.") that requires delivering Quantanium to a designated Wikelo Emporium station. They are not consumables and have no medical or buff effect; their sole purpose is to be accumulated and spent (alongside many other items) on the multi-stage contract that grants a Polaris corvette ("Now make Polaris. Short Time Deal."). That final turn-in requires Polaris Bits plus a long list of other materials such as Wikelo Favors, Carinite, Valakkar-derived materials, helmets, medals, secure drives, and RCMBNT components. Reported requirement: roughly 15 Polaris Bits for the Polaris contract (some community sources reference larger totals; treat the live in-game contract as authoritative, as Wikelo requirements change between patches).
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Value & where to sell
Polaris Bits are not sold by any in-game vendor and have no fixed buy/sell price — they are reward-only items. On the player-to-player marketplace they command very high prices because of the enormous Quantanium effort behind each one: UEX player listings have shown roughly 1.2M aUEC (want-to-buy) up to ~1.5M aUEC (want-to-sell) per unit, with some box listings around 2M aUEC. These are volatile player-set prices, not official values, and shift with patches and supply.
Where to harvest
This item is not harvested from a biome, cave, plant, or creature. It is "earned" only through Wikelo's Quantanium-delivery contract. The reward is dispensed at one of the three Wikelo Emporium stations in the Stanton system — Dasi Station (near Hurston), Selo Station (near Crusader/Yela), and Kinga Station (near microTech). The contract specifies which station the Quantanium must be delivered to; players are warned to read the active contract's station before hauling cargo, since the three Emporiums are not interchangeable, and to check local inventory at the correct station after completion.
Sources:starcitizen.toolsstarcitizen.toolsstarcitizen.toolsstarcitizen.toolsexpcarry.com
Source
The Polaris Bit's "source" is the Wikelo contract economy, not a plant or animal. Each bit represents a confirmed delivery of Quantanium (community-tracked conversion: about 24 Quantanium per Polaris Bit) to the Banu merchant Wikelo. It is conceptually a sibling of Wikelo's Favors — a faction-style favor/voucher token tied to the Banu merchant.
Grades & variants
No grades or quality tiers are documented for the Polaris Bit. Unlike graded organic harvestables (e.g. pearls or fangs with Grade A/AA/AAA or Juvenile/Adult/Apex tiers), every Polaris Bit is identical — it is a single fixed token type with no variant distinction.
Lore / Trivia
The bit is part of the Banu merchant Wikelo's quirky barter-economy flavor, where players trade rare or grindy materials for "favors" and special tokens rather than standard currency. The internal class name (`...banu_favour_Wikelo_special`) confirms its lore framing as a special Wikelo favor. The name "Polaris Bit" directly ties it to the RSI Polaris corvette it ultimately helps unlock — effectively a layaway chit for one of the game's larger capital-adjacent ships. Because each bit demands a full high-risk Quantanium mining-and-hauling run, the item has become a community shorthand for the grind required to "build" a Polaris through Wikelo.
Some data from starcitizen.tools (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).