The Star Citizen Gemini LMG blueprint added in Alpha 4.10.2 LIVE is obtained through Wikelo's Big Style LMG contract. Completing this exchange rewards the F55 "Shadowflux" LMG, 20 magazines and its crafting blueprint. To finish the contract, you must first unlock Wikelo's collection missions and deliver one standard F55 LMG, five Vanduul Metal items and 20 units of Jaclium (Ore). After receiving the blueprint, manufacturing another Shadowflux uses a completely different resource list: Lindinium, Hephaestanite and Iron. This distinction matters because gathering the fabrication materials alone will not unlock the weapon. The Shadowflux is a special variant of Gemini's existing F55 ballistic LMG rather than a completely new weapon class. This guide covers the complete LIVE unlock chain, material sources, reward collection, crafting requirements and common mistakes.
Short answer: Complete Wikelo Arrive to System, accept Big Style LMG and hand in 1× F55 LMG, 5× Vanduul Metal and 20× Jaclium (Ore). The exchange awards an F55 "Shadowflux" LMG, 20 magazines and its blueprint, which you can use at an Item Fabricator with 0.06 SCU Lindinium, 0.04 SCU Hephaestanite and 0.03 SCU Iron.
Which Gemini LMG Blueprint Was Added in Alpha 4.10.2?
Cloud Imperium Games confirmed new Wikelo recipes for the Gemini LMG and Grey Combat Armour in the official Alpha 4.10.2 patch notes. The LMG addition includes a new exchange mission called Big Style LMG. The reward associated with that contract is the F55 "Shadowflux" LMG, a distinct version of the familiar Gemini F55 light machine gun. It is available through the current LIVE mission data rather than being merely an unreleased PTU reference.
The terminology can be confusing because several F55 variants and crafting records exist. The ordinary F55 LMG is the weapon you must surrender to Wikelo. The F55 "Shadowflux" LMG is the special weapon you receive and subsequently learn to manufacture. Its blueprint is also different from the generic F55 recipe or older variant records, so searching only for "Gemini LMG" in a crafting database can lead to the wrong entry.
According to the current 4.10.2 mission record, Big Style LMG awards one Shadowflux weapon, 20 standard F55 LMG magazines holding 150 rounds each, and the Shadowflux blueprint. The same record lists a guaranteed blueprint reward from its designated pool. The reward belongs to the contract owner, not automatically to every player who helped collect the materials.
How to Unlock the Big Style LMG Contract
Big Style LMG is not available to a character who has never completed Wikelo's introduction. The mission requires the completion flag from Wikelo Arrive to System, the initial collection contract that grants access to his wider trading network. You do not need to reach the Very Good Customer or Very Best Customer reputation ranks for this particular exchange. If you already finished the introduction in an earlier session, you can proceed directly to the LMG offer.
Step 1: Complete Wikelo Arrive to System
Open the mobiGlas Contract Manager and locate the introductory Wikelo Arrive to System mission. Its current LIVE requirements are one Vestal Water and three Tundra Kopion Horns. Vestal Water is an ordinary drink obtainable through appropriate food and beverage vendors, while Tundra Kopion Horns are creature loot associated with Tundra Kopions. Follow the mission's destination instructions and deliver the required items to finish the introduction.
Completion unlocks Wikelo's broader selection of collection contracts, including Big Style LMG. The introductory mission is recorded as a once-only contract, so players who completed it previously should not expect to repeat it. If you cannot find the new weapon trade, verify that the introduction actually registered as complete rather than assuming that a higher reputation rank or a Wikelo Favor is required. The unlock condition is the introductory mission, not a Favor purchase.
Step 2: Travel to a Wikelo Emporium
Wikelo operates Emporium stations in the Stanton system. The established locations include Dasi Station near Hurston, Selo Station in the Crusader region near Yela, and Kinga Station near microTech. Choose a convenient station and travel there after completing the introduction. These are physical trading locations, not conventional weapon stores where the Shadowflux blueprint can simply be purchased for aUEC.
Inside the Emporium, inspect Wikelo's displayed offers and collection contracts for Big Style LMG. Accept the relevant offer and review its objectives in the Contract Manager before leaving to collect materials. The active mission should specify its delivery destination, which is important because taking valuable loot to an unrelated terminal or assuming every Emporium accepts the same active hand-in can waste a trip. For the wider ship and vehicle exchange system, the Star Citizen Wikelo ships guide covers other trades that have different requirements.
Step 3: Verify the Exact Mission and Reward
The contract name must be Big Style LMG, and the reward must identify the F55 "Shadowflux" LMG. An older database entry called F55 Look Better is marked as unreleased and has different requirements; it should not be used as the LIVE farming route for Shadowflux. The current Big Style LMG mission record identifies the appropriate exchange, its prerequisite and its rewards. Always compare the information with the mission displayed in your current game build before handing over rare items.
The mission is listed without a higher customer-rank requirement and is designed for one contract owner. It also has no combat objective of its own; the challenging part is gathering the requested equipment and resources from activities elsewhere in the Persistent Universe. A friend can help you obtain those materials, but only the owner receives the recorded mission rewards. Decide which character needs the blueprint before completing the hand-in.
Big Style LMG Required Items: The Complete Wikelo Exchange
Wikelo requires three separate types of items for this trade. The standard F55 LMG provides the base weapon, Vanduul Metal is rare mission loot, and Jaclium (Ore) is a mineable resource. All three requirements must be satisfied before completing the collection contract. None of these quantities should be confused with the materials needed later at the Item Fabricator.
| Required item | Quantity | Practical acquisition route |
|---|---|---|
| F55 LMG | 1 weapon | Recover a standard Gemini F55 from eligible NPC or weapon-container loot, or craft one if its separate blueprint is unlocked |
| Vanduul Metal | 5 items | Loot Vanduul pilot bodies associated with relevant Nyx encounters and Vanduul-tech smuggler activity |
| Jaclium (Ore) | 20 units | Mine and collect physical Jaclium ore, including from suitable Align & Mine resource caves |
Important: The contract lists 20 units of Jaclium (Ore), not a requirement for 20 SCU of a large cargo commodity. The item identity also matters: refined or differently named material is not automatically interchangeable with the requested physical ore. Similarly, Vanduul Plating is not Vanduul Metal, despite the two items appearing together in some loot sources. Check exact names and quantities in your mission inventory before starting the final delivery.
Where to Find the Standard Gemini F55 LMG
The base F55 is a ballistic light machine gun that uses 150-round magazines. Current item references list it as lootable and craftable, but do not confirm a regular in-game shop selling it directly. The practical route for a player without its blueprint is to search appropriate weapon containers and loot eligible NPCs during FPS missions. You need a standard F55 LMG for the Wikelo exchange, not another Shadowflux or an unrelated Gemini weapon.
If you have already unlocked the ordinary F55 crafting blueprint, manufacturing one is an alternative to relying on random loot. However, that is a separate blueprint unlock from the Shadowflux recipe, and one does not grant the other automatically. Keep the base weapon safely stored once you obtain it, because the collection contract consumes it. When comparing existing Star Citizen FPS weapon options, distinguish the weapon required as a barter ingredient from the variant you ultimately want to use.
How to Get Five Vanduul Metal Items
Vanduul Metal is associated with Vanduul pilot loot in Nyx. Current Star Citizen item references identify Vanduul tech smugglers as a relevant contract-loot source. Player-documented routes involve recovering equipment from Vanduul bodies at locations reached through these activities, including QV-related facilities. The specific number recovered per encounter is not guaranteed, so plan for more than one attempt if the first mission does not provide all five pieces.
Prepare for the combat conditions of the mission you select and make sure you can retrieve the loot without losing it during extraction. Once you have the required pieces, keep them separate from other Vanduul-related rewards. Vanduul Metal and Vanduul Plating are different items; collecting five pieces of Plating will not satisfy a request for five Metal items. This distinction is particularly important when organizing other rare Star Citizen mission items for several Wikelo exchanges at once.
How to Collect 20 Jaclium (Ore)
Jaclium (Ore) is a mineable resource, and Align & Mine activities are a documented way to reach deposits. In this activity, players restore and align the necessary facilities, activate the orbital laser and enter the resource cave revealed by the operation. The cave's recorded resource pool includes Jaclium alongside Carinite, Saldynium and several other materials. Community location references associate relevant operations with Daymar and Aberdeen, although actual resource availability and extraction conditions can vary.
Bring mining equipment appropriate to the node type and enough inventory capacity to recover the required physical ore units. Do not assume that merely finding a Jaclium deposit means it will provide all 20 units in a single visit. These locations can involve hostile creatures, other players and time-limited access after the cave opens. The goal is to leave with the exact Jaclium (Ore) objects accepted by the contract, not a different refined commodity or a numerical estimate based on SCU cargo capacity.
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How to Complete the Exchange and Receive the Blueprint
Once all three item requirements are collected, return to the Emporium specified by your active Big Style LMG contract. The exchange uses Wikelo's physical collection workflow: the requested items are submitted through the relevant freight elevator, and the mission processes the completed hand-in. This is different from crafting the weapon, which takes place afterward. The current LIVE mission record lists both finished equipment and a blueprint as rewards for the exchange.
- Check the contract. Confirm that Big Style LMG is active and lists 1× F55 LMG, 5× Vanduul Metal and 20× Jaclium (Ore).
- Prepare the complete delivery. Move the correct items into the inventory or freight-elevator workflow associated with the mission destination.
- Submit the required items. Use the designated Emporium freight elevator and complete the collection objective.
- Claim the physical reward. Check the reward delivery location and recover the F55 "Shadowflux" LMG and its magazines.
- Verify the blueprint unlock. Inspect your available recipes at an Item Fabricator and locate F55 "Shadowflux" LMG, rather than the base F55 recipe.
The recorded reward consists of one F55 "Shadowflux" LMG, 20 F55 magazines with 150-round capacity, and the Shadowflux crafting blueprint. The mission also lists a gain of 10 Wikelo Emporium reputation points. No Wikelo Favor appears among this contract's required items. The essential cost is the three-item collection list, which must be completed before you can claim the special weapon and recipe.
Do not confuse this weapon trade with Wikelo's crafting-based ship exchanges. In the ship workflow introduced with Alpha 4.10, some contracts provide a single-use blueprint for an intermediate component that must be fabricated and returned to Wikelo. The Big Style LMG weapon exchange instead awards the finished item and leaves the player with a blueprint for making additional copies; not every weapon or armor exchange includes a blueprint. The distinction between ship and weapon hand-ins is described in the official Alpha 4.10 patch notes.
How to Craft the F55 "Shadowflux" LMG
After unlocking the Shadowflux blueprint, you can manufacture another copy using an Item Fabricator. This recipe does not require another standard F55 LMG, Vanduul Metal or Jaclium. Those were the ingredients for Wikelo's original trade. The crafting system instead uses three mineral inputs assigned to the weapon's frame, stock and barrel, with the quality of each material influencing specific weapon characteristics.
| Blueprint slot | Material | Required amount | Stats influenced |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frame | Lindinium | 0.06 SCU | Recoil smoothness, recoil handling and recoil kick |
| Stock | Hephaestanite | 0.04 SCU | Recoil smoothness, recoil handling and recoil kick |
| Barrel | Iron | 0.03 SCU | Impact force and rate of fire |
| Total | Three resources | 0.13 SCU | Approximately four minutes of fabrication time |
The amounts are taken from the current F55 "Shadowflux" blueprint record, which identifies the recipe as BP_CRAFT_gmni_lmg_ballistic_01_collector02. The recorded recipe has no additional minimum-quality threshold above the basic material requirements. Higher-quality material can still matter because the frame, stock and barrel influence different properties. Before manufacturing, compare the quality of the resources available rather than selecting ingredients solely because their names and quantities match.
Step 1: Set Up an Item Fabricator
The Item Fabricator is the crafting station introduced in Alpha 4.7. CIG's official crafting release notes explain that these machines can be purchased from supported equipment vendors, stored through freight elevators and placed in a suitable hangar or ship cargo area. The machine must be correctly positioned and accessible before a crafting job can begin. If you plan to work aboard a ship, confirm that its cargo area can accommodate the fabricator.
Keep the manufacturing resources available to the fabricator's inventory system. The terminal should display unlocked blueprints and their material slots, including the option to assign resources manually or use available automatic filling controls. If the Shadowflux recipe is missing, confirm that the Big Style LMG reward was actually registered before collecting more minerals. Simply owning a finished Shadowflux weapon does not establish that the associated blueprint has appeared in your available crafting list.
Step 2: Select the Blueprint and Manufacture the Weapon
Open the fabricator terminal and locate F55 "Shadowflux" LMG. Select its recipe, check the three required material slots and assign Lindinium to the frame, Hephaestanite to the stock and Iron to the barrel. Make sure the quantities are available and that the preview shows the intended weapon variant. Once the recipe accepts the ingredients, begin fabrication and wait for the recorded four-minute manufacturing process to finish.
Collect the completed weapon from the fabricator after processing. The result is a physical item that must be equipped or stored like other FPS weapons; owning the blueprint does not make finished copies appear automatically. Additional copies require another full set of manufacturing materials. The benefit of the blueprint is that you can produce replacements without completing the original Wikelo collection exchange every time.
Step 3: Choose Material Quality for the Stats You Want
Material quality has a practical effect on the crafted Shadowflux. Lindinium and Hephaestanite influence recoil-related properties, while Iron affects impact force and firing rate. This means the best resource investment depends on whether you want more manageable sustained fire or improved offensive characteristics. A high-quality material in one slot will not automatically improve every statistic on the weapon.
The current blueprint references use a quality scale from 0 to 1,000, with 500 serving as the baseline for comparison. The fabricator's preview should be used to inspect the projected result of your actual materials. Do not assume that crafting with any three high-quality minerals gives a universal damage bonus, and do not mistake the Shadowflux's appearance for proof of superior base performance. Its finished stats depend on the crafting inputs and the current LIVE balance rules.
When preparing several future copies, it can help to organize the exact amounts of Star Citizen mining resources required by the blueprint. The three manufacturing minerals should be tracked separately from Jaclium and Vanduul Metal used for the original unlock. This prevents an unnecessary return to Wikelo when your actual shortage is a crafting ingredient. It also makes it easier to compare a basic replacement with a version made from better-quality materials.
Common Problems With the Gemini LMG Blueprint
Several different systems are involved in this unlock, so a failed attempt does not always mean the mission itself is broken. The most common issues are using the wrong F55 variant, confusing barter resources with fabrication materials, missing Wikelo's introductory requirement or checking the wrong item information after crafting. These problems can usually be narrowed down by comparing the active contract and the fabricator's recipe instead of gathering more unrelated loot.
- Big Style LMG does not appear: Verify that Wikelo Arrive to System was completed and that the relevant Emporium offer is available. The mission does not require a higher Wikelo customer rank.
- Wikelo will not accept the items: Confirm the exact standard F55 LMG, five Vanduul Metal items and 20 Jaclium (Ore) units. Vanduul Plating, another F55 variant or an incorrectly named mineral will not automatically satisfy the requirement.
- The blueprint is missing at the fabricator: Confirm that the exchange was completed and that you are looking for F55 "Shadowflux" LMG. The standard F55 LMG recipe and other F55 variants are separate records.
- The fabricator rejects the resources: Check Lindinium, Hephaestanite and Iron individually, including their amounts and whether the terminal can access the materials. The Wikelo exchange items are not substitutes for these three ingredients.
- The crafted weapon shows no improved stats: Equip the finished item before judging the result. A documented Alpha 4.10.2 display issue can hide crafted stat adjustments while the item is unequipped in inventory.
The stat-display issue is specifically listed in RSI's official Alpha 4.10.2 known issues. The stated workaround is to equip the crafted item and inspect its description again. A missing modifier in the inventory preview does not necessarily mean the materials were wasted or that the recipe failed. If the mission or fabricator itself does not register completion, collect the relevant details and report the problem through the Issue Council rather than repeatedly submitting rare items without confirmation.
Star Citizen Gemini LMG Blueprint FAQ
These answers clarify how the Shadowflux unlock differs from ordinary F55 loot, other Wikelo trades and the broader crafting system.
Do I need Wikelo Favors for the Shadowflux blueprint?
No. Big Style LMG requires one standard F55 LMG, five Vanduul Metal items and 20 units of Jaclium (Ore). You must complete Wikelo's introduction first, but the Shadowflux exchange does not list a Favor cost or a higher customer-rank requirement.
Does Big Style LMG give a weapon or only a recipe?
It gives both. The current LIVE mission record lists one finished F55 "Shadowflux" LMG, 20 F55 magazines and the Shadowflux blueprint. The blueprint is the part that lets you manufacture additional copies using the appropriate minerals.
Can I use the ordinary F55 blueprint to craft Shadowflux?
No. The standard F55 and Shadowflux have separate blueprint entries even though they use the same three mineral types and quantities. To manufacture the Shadowflux variant, unlock and select the specifically named Shadowflux recipe.
Will every party member receive the Shadowflux blueprint?
No. The mission data specifies that the rewards go to the contract owner. Other players can assist with gathering materials, but they should not assume that helping with the exchange unlocks the recipe on their own characters.
Final Gemini LMG Blueprint Checklist
The complete route is straightforward once the two resource lists are kept separate: finish Wikelo Arrive to System, unlock Big Style LMG, collect the standard F55, five Vanduul Metal and 20 Jaclium (Ore), then deliver them to the correct Emporium. The exchange grants a finished F55 "Shadowflux" LMG, 20 magazines and its blueprint. To make additional weapons, use an Item Fabricator with 0.06 SCU Lindinium, 0.04 SCU Hephaestanite and 0.03 SCU Iron. Check your available material quality and the resulting stats before crafting, and remember that the Shadowflux recipe is distinct from the ordinary F55 blueprint.
