Fountain & Delve · net of alliance rent · 25 August 2026

Delve is where
the money is.

Same rent formula, same two ways to work a moon. But Delve is 97% unclaimed against Fountain’s 82%, and it still holds every R64 moon in the dataset. The best moon in Delve is worth roughly four of the best in Fountain.

Rent
((Goo−Min)×40%−Op)×65%
Rent floor
100M / 30d
Magmatic gas
2,150 · P95 buy
Athanor refine
87.62%
Valuation
Jita buy
Unclaimed moons
5,641
of 6,506 surveyed, both regions
Best moon, Athanor
8.67B
Q-02UL IV - Moon 1 · per 30 days
Unclaimed R64
8
all of them in Delve
Metenox-viable
66
of 5,641 · all in Delve

Still run an Athanor — but Delve finally makes a Metenox defensible

Adding Delve puts 66 moons in Metenox-positive territory, where Fountain had none. Every one of them is in Delve, and every one is still worth more on an Athanor — Q-02UL IV - Moon 1 pays 1.80B a month automated against 8.67B mined by hand, on the same 3.34B rent. The Metenox case is convenience, not income: no mining fleet, no 21.6 million m³ to clear each cycle.

The top is entirely Delve

Delve takes 24 of the top 25 unclaimed moons. It has 8 unclaimed R64 and 21 unclaimed R32; Fountain has none of either.

The bottom is identical

Best unclaimed R4 moon is 2.08B in Fountain and 2.08B in Delve. If you only want bulk R4, region does not matter — take whatever you can hold.

Three rows are wrong

Flagged in orange. T-M0FA III - Moon 13 lists Otavite at 92.70%, summing to 153% — impossible, and it ranks 5th because of it.

#MoonSystemRegionTierComposition Rent / 30d Metenox profit / 30d Athanor profit / 30d m³ per extraction · 30d
R4 R8 R16 R32 R64 Empty volume — moons carry no filler ore