Marok
Details
- Diet
- Omnivorous
- Habitat
- Aquatic/wetland environments — rivers, lakes and seas; true origin world is Branaugh II.
Where to find
Where this creature spawns, sourced from game data and the Star Citizen wiki.
AI Overview
Compiled by AI from community sources — may be incomplete or inaccurate; verify before relying on it.
A large omnivorous bird native to Branaugh II that lives in and around water and dives to catch fish; its gizzard grows a conductive crystalline "Marok Gem" prized for computer chips, making the bird a valuable harvesting target.
Appearance
The marok is a large bird with a long, hooked beak suited to snatching fish. Genetically modified marok introduced to terraformed worlds have diverged into several artificial subspecies that are most easily told apart by their distinct color morphs and specialized traits.
Behavior & temperament
The marok is largely aquatic, spending most of its life in and around rivers, lakes, seas and other bodies of water. It is a diving hunter, plunging to catch fish with its hooked beak rather than acting as a land predator. In-game it appears as a flying, flock-forming bird associated with green, watery environments.
Where to find
Lore-wise the marok is indigenous to Branaugh II and has since been spread to United Empire of Earth worlds. In the live game the harvestable Marok Gem it produces can be found across the Stanton system planets and moons (community guides point to spots around Crusader, Hurston and microTech), and a "super spawn" condition has been reported that makes gems unusually plentiful in current patches. Spawn spots shift between patches, so cross-check a current 4.x location guide before a run.
Diet
Omnivorous overall, but it feeds heavily as a piscivore (fish-eater), hunting by diving. This refines our generic "omnivorous" note with its actual fishing behavior.
Variants & subspecies
Corporations deliberately introduce genetically modified marok to terraformed worlds to fill empty ecological niches. This engineering has produced multiple artificial subspecies distinguished by color morphs and specialized adaptations.
Sources:api.star-citizen.wiki
Loot & drops
The marok's body secretes a substance that hardens into a large crystalline stone held in its gizzard, where it helps grind food. This stone has unusual conductive properties and is sought after for computer chips. In-game it is harvested as the Marok Gem (commodity code MARG; internal name Harvestable_Trophy_1H_MarockPearl), an S1 hand-collectable harvestable. It is not bought from shops, only sold by players: UEX shows roughly a 54,000 aUEC/SCU 15-day average with terminal sells seen around 63,000 aUEC/SCU, and player-marketplace listings ask 80,000-100,000 aUEC per unit. There are around 15 sell terminals and no buy terminals.
Sources:api.star-citizen.wikiuexcorp.spacefinder.cstone.spaceuexcorp.space
Hunting & harvesting tips
The valuable payout is the Marok Gem, a physicalized harvestable you pick up by hand rather than something you mine. Because it is S1 and has no shop buy price, it is purely a gather-and-sell loop: collect gems at known spawn sites and sell at one of the demand terminals (MIC-L4 has been a reliable sell point). Watch for the reported super-spawn that temporarily floods spawn areas with gems, and carry enough inventory space since each unit can clear 50k-100k aUEC.
Lore & discovery
The marok concept was promoted alongside the kopion as a new explorable species during the Alpha 3.23 era, and its Galactapedia entry was published 7 June 2025 (CIG article id 0qa7v7Q99q). The narrative frames it as both a natural Branaugh II native and a tool of corporate terraforming, introduced to stabilize and fill ecosystems on engineered worlds.
Trivia
- The bird and its loot share a name but are tracked separately: the creature is the "Marok," the harvestable is the "Marok Gem" / "Marok stone." - Early community material spells the species "Maroc"; the Galactapedia standardized it to "Marok." - The gem's in-game tag (MarockPearl) treats it as a trophy/pearl-type harvestable rather than a mined ore.
Sources:api.star-citizen.wikifinder.cstone.spacerobertsspaceindustries.com
Some data from starcitizen.tools (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).