Wikelo Favor
Harvesting
- Category
- Flora
- Sub-type
- Banu barter currency / contract reward token (not a plant or flora).
Required by contracts(16)
- Wikelocollect 1
- Wikelocollect 3
- Wikelocollect 3
- Wikelocollect 1
- Wikelocollect 1
- Wikelocollect 50
- Wikelocollect 10
- Wikelocollect 10
- Wikelocollect 40
- Wikelocollect 10–25
- Wikelocollect 6
- Wikelocollect 8
- Wikelocollect 50
- Wikelocollect 10
- Wikelocollect 5–30
- Wikelocollect 50
AI Overview
Compiled by AI from community sources — may be incomplete or inaccurate; verify before relying on it.
A physical Banu barter token, not a plant or organic harvestable: completing a collection contract for the Banu trader Wikelo grants Wikelo Favors, which are then spent at the Wikelo Emporium to unlock weapons, armor, ships, and components.
What it is
Wikelo Favor is a small carryable reward item (one-handed, stackable) representing a unit of Banu "favor" currency. In Banu Protectorate culture, favors are a form of currency that artisans and souli give out to acknowledge work that has been done for them in the past. In-game it is the proof-of-completion token you receive after fulfilling one of Wikelo's collection contracts; you then redeem it for his goods and services. Physically it is a tiny object (~0.135 m cube, 0 kg mass) with the class name `Carryable_1H_CY_banu_favour_Wikelo`. Despite the engine tagging the entity as a "Drink"/harvestable carryable, it is functionally a barter currency, not a consumable or an organic resource.
Sources:starcitizen.toolsapi.star-citizen.wikistarcitizen.tools
Gameplay use
Wikelo Favors are a barter/exchange currency, not a tradeable trove commodity sold to NPC kiosks. You earn them by completing Wikelo's collection contracts and spend them at any Wikelo Emporium to unlock rewards: weapons, armor, ship-related items / components, full vehicles (ships/ground vehicles), and special trade offers. Higher-tier rewards typically cost favors plus additional rare materials, medals, drives, or reputation access. Rewards are granted once per completed contract and appear in the local inventory of the turn-in Emporium.
Sources:expcarry.comstarcitizen.tools
How it is earned (where to "harvest")
You do not harvest Wikelo Favors from the world; you obtain them by turning in exact contract items at a Wikelo Emporium freight elevator. Reported contract conversions include: - 50x MG Scrip -> 1 Favor - 50x Council Scrip -> 1 Favor - 50x Carinite -> 1 Favor - 12x Irradiated Valakkar Pearl (Grade AA) -> 1 Favor The introductory "New to System" mission to unlock the favor/Scrip loop typically requires 1 Vestal Water and 3 Tundra Kopion Horn (both themselves harvestables/animal parts — good cross-links). Emporium turn-in stations are asteroid bases in the Stanton system: - Wikelo Emporium Dasi Station (near Hurston) - Wikelo Emporium Selo Station (near Yela / Crusader space) - Wikelo Emporium Kinga Station (near microTech)
Sources:expcarry.comstarcitizen.tools
Value & where to sell
Wikelo Favors cannot be sold to standard in-game commodity/NPC kiosks for aUEC; their "value" is the player-to-player grey market, where they are heavily traded because they unlock otherwise hard-to-get rewards. Prices are extremely volatile and listing-dependent. On the UEX marketplace, recent listings ranged roughly: buy (WTB) ~100k-250k UEC/unit; sell (WTS) ~350k-1M UEC/unit, with bulk packs (e.g. 40x for ~20M UEC, ~500k/unit). Some outlier and trade (WTT) listings quoted figures far higher (millions to "billions" UEC, and barter-for-item trades such as Vanduul plating/metal or a UEE 6th Platoon Medal). Treat all of these as speculative player pricing, not an official value.
Source
Issued by Wikelo, a Banu trader operating out of the Stanton system and notable as one of the first non-human (Banu) NPC vendors added to Star Citizen. The favor mechanic is described as a system brought over from the Banu Protectorate. It has no biological/creature source — it is not flora, fungus, or an animal body part.
Grades & variants
No A/AA/AAA-style grades exist for the Favor itself; one Favor is one Favor. The grading/tiering instead lives in (a) the input materials some contracts demand (e.g. Irradiated Valakkar Pearl Grade AA), and (b) the reward tiers at the Emporium, where premium rewards require more favors and/or extra rare items.
Lore / discovery
Wikelo is presented as the first Banu (and first non-human) trader NPC in Star Citizen, with his Emporium introduced as a barter-driven destination. The favor concept ties into Banu Protectorate social/economic custom: artisans and souli grant favors to recognize past work, making the token both a gameplay currency and a piece of Banu worldbuilding. The Emporium loop (Scrip -> Favors -> rewards) was expanded in the 4.x patch cycle.
Sources:starcitizen.toolsexpcarry.com
Trivia
- Engine metadata tags the item as "Drink" and "Stackable" (a generic carryable harvestable tag), which is why some databases list it as a harvestable even though it behaves as currency. - Volume ~2,200 µSCU; mass 0 kg; one-handed carryable. - Game version observed in the item API: 4.8.0-LIVE.
Sources:api.star-citizen.wiki
Some data from starcitizen.tools (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).