Survey Assignments and Survey Data

A few of the assignments you get will simply be busywork; they task you with tracking down writings, medallions, or metals. It doesn't appear that there's much of a bonus for actually completing these missions; you get a set amount of XP and cash when you find each individual component of them, and when you find the last item, you get the same rewards as you did for all the others and the mission is complete. Most of the missions will be completable if you simply scour the entire galaxy top to bottom and be sure to check every planet and every signal on planets that you land on.

The five survey quests that we found were Valuable Minerals, Locate Signs of Battle, Turian Insignias, Asari Writings, and Prothean Data Discs. In most cases, there'll be more of the items than you need to find scattered about, so there'll be a little buffer for you to rely on. In any case, if you don't feel like you want to survey every single planet and anomaly that you run across, feel free not to! The rewards are decent for collecting objects, but not to the point where you're going to miss out on anything if you don't complete these missions.

Anyway, here's our rough notes on where you can find certain stuff. We'll try to clean up this list in a future version of this guide. There's a chance all this stuff could be randomized, but we doubt it. Also keep in mind that some systems will be off-limits to you until you unlock them by completing missions and side-quests.

You can expect to be doing a lot of surveying if you hope to complete these missions.

Some planets have multiple listings; this indicates that you'll need to land to find everything. Some items that you can find don't appear on the game's radar when you land on a planet. You can cover the entire planet looking for crap, if you like; usually we just went from landmark to landmark on our own and made detours to check out whatever popped up on our radar.

Artemis Tau Cluster

Sparta System
Ontamalca: Hydrogen
Alsages: Rare Element (Plutonium)
Asteroid Cluster: Prothean Data Disc
Edolus: Light Metal (Lithium)
Knossos System
Archanes: Nitrogen
Athens System
Proteus: Oxygen
Circe: Helium-3
Pharos: Turian Insignia
Macedon System
Porolan: Matriarch's Writings
Fargeluse: Xenon Gas

Attican Beta

Hercules System
Syided: League of One medallion
Zatorus: Heavy Metal (Gold)
Eletania: Heavy Metal (Gold)
Eletania: Heavy Metal (Palladium)
Feros System
Quana: Cobalt
Sharring: Prothean Data Disc

Maroon Sea Cluster

Matano System
Rocky Asteroid: Prothean Data Disc
Supay: Light Metal (Magnesium)
Chasca: Prothean Data Disc
Chasca: Light Metal (Beryllium)
Caspian System
Clotanca: Heavy Metal (Iridium)
Farnuri: Heavy Metal (Gold)
Antida: Turian Insignia
Vostuk System
Metallic Asteroid: Heavy Metal (Palladium)
Pataiton: Matriarch's Writings
Nodacrux: Heavy Metal (Gold)
Nodacrux: Turian Insignia

Voyager Cluster

Amazon System
Sonedma: Rare Element (Polonium)
Sybin: Turian Insignia
Tremar: Gas Deposit (Nitrogen)
Agebinium: Rare Element (Samarium)
Agebinium: Turian Insignia

Horse Head Cluster

Strennus System Yunthori: League of One Medallion
Antitarra: Gas Deposit (Helium-3)
Xawin: Heavy Metal (Iridium). You need to land on the planet as a result of the Mission Person assignment that you can find on Noveria.
Insignia (Turian?)
Light Metal (Cobalt)
Heavy Metal (Palladium)
Pax System
Veles: Matriarch's Writings
Fortuna System
Maganlis: Turian Insignia
Therumlon: Rare Element (Plutonium)
Amaranthine: Heavy Metal (Iridium)
Amaranthine: Turian Insignia

Armstrong Nebula

Gagarin System
Junthor: Matriarch's Writings
Antirumgon: Light Metal (Cobalt)
Rayringri: Rare Element (Thorium, must land)
League of One Medallion (must land)
Rare Element (Polonium, must land)
Tereshkova System
Patamalrus: Heavy Metal (Iridium)
Thegeuse: Heavy Metal (Mercury)
Carbonaceous Asteroid: League of One Medallion (look for the bright light in the asteroid field)
Antibaar: Prothean Data Disc (must land)
Antibaar: Light Metal (Magnesium)
Hong System
Matar: Matriarch's Writings
Treagir: Light Metal
Casbin: ID Tag
Casbin: Heavy Metal (Gold)
Casbin: Rare Element (Uranium)
Vamshi System
Pregel: Turian Insignia
Maji: Rare Element (Thorium)
Maji: Turian Insignia
Maji: Light Metal (Beryllium)
Maji: Light Metal (Magnesium)
Grissom System
Rocky Asteroid: Rare Element (Polonium)
Benda: League of One Medallion
Zaherux: Light Metal (Beryllium)
Solcrum: Matriarch's Writings

Hawking Eta Cluster

Century System
Metallic Asteroid: Heavy Metal (Palladium)
Canctra: Light Metal (Cobalt)
Tharopto: League of One Medallion
Presrop: Turian Insignia
Presrop: Heavy Metal (Gold)

Styx Theta

Erebus System
Quaji: Heavy Metal (Platinum)
Wermani: Prothean Data Disc
Nepmos: Rare Element (Uranium)
Nepmos: League of One Medallion
Nepmos: Light Metal (Titanium)
Nepmos: Heavy Metal (Palladium)
Archeron System
Carbonaceous Asteroid: Turian Insignia
Grosalgen: Light Metal (Magnesium)
Altahe: Rare Element (Samarium)
Altahe: Heavy Metal (Gold)
Altahe: Matriarch's Writings

Argus Rho Cluster

Hydra System
Canrum: Turian Insignia
Syba: Gas Deposit (Helium-3)
Metgos: Turian Insignia
Metgos: Rare Element (Thorium)
Phoenix System
Carbonaceous Asteroid: Prothean Data Disc
Patashi: Rare Element (Samarium)
Vebinok: Light Metal (Cobalt)
Tuntau: Matriarch's Writings
Tuntau: Heavy Metal (Mercury)
Gorgon System

Hades Gamma Cluster

Antaeus System
Edmos: Gas Deposit (Hydrogen)
Ploba: Matriarch's Writings
Vemal: Rare Element (Uranium)
Trebin: Turian Insignia
Plutus System
Mingito: Rare Element (Uranium)
Clocrolis: Rare Element (Samarium)
Nonuel: Matriarch's Writings
Nonuel: Leage of One Medallion (mercenary corpse)
Nonuel: Rare Element (Samarium)
Dis System
Nearrum: Light Metal (Titanium)
Metallic Asteroid: Light Metal (Lithium)
Raysha: Turian Insignia
Klensal: Platinum
Klensal: League of One Medallion
Cacus System
Zayarter: Heavy Metal (Mercury)
Faringor: Rare Element (Polonium)
Chohe: Matriarch's Writings (three of them in crates/safe at the Anomaly)
Chohe: Heavy Metal (Mercury)
Farinata System
Rocky Asteroid: Light Metal (Magnesium)
Juntauma: Prothean Data Disc
Nepneu: Rare Element (Thorium)

Kepler Verge

Herschel System
Newton
Klencory: Matriarch's Writings
Juncro: Gas Deposit (Hydrogen)
Ontarom: Turian Insignia
Ontarom: Heavy Metal (Palladium)

Gemini Sigma

Ming System
Parag: Light Metal (Titanium)
Altanorch: League of One Medallion
Han System
Paravin: Matriarch's Writings
Patatanlis: Light Metal (Beryllium)
Mavigon: Heavy Metal (Gold)
Mavigon: ID Tag

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