Can't find a way to get T3 Research intel

[LoganDark]

All the other discussions are talking about T3 Refinery, but I already can make T3 Refinery intel and T3 Production intel too. My problem is that I can't seem to find any way to make T3 Research intel, and until I can do that, all the other T3 intel is completely useless (gated behind "Schematic advanced research"). I've never seen any T3 Research drillships underground and I've only seen up to T2 Research drillships above ground. I've tried looking in both the bottom left and top right corners of the map, but I can't look in the top left because I haven't been able to destroy the second laser thing yet.

The Volcanoids wiki is super scarce on info and has basic info about the items you need to craft stuff, but no practical advice on how to actually obtain anything. I've been stuck here for about 10 hours just trying to find a T3 Research drillship and having absolutely no luck. I have so, so much of every other T3 item, literally dozens of T3 refinery modules and T3 production modules, but I can't find even a single T3 research module, to the point where the HUB Research does not yet even show me the recipes for T3 Research intel.

How do I get T3 Research intel???

[Dante]

Originally posted by LoganDark:

I've never seen any T3 Research drillships underground and I've only seen up to T2 Research drillships above ground.

Then you aren't in area 3.
The process is the same as going from T1->T2.
Go to area 3 and you'll find T3 ships and loot around. Stay in area 2 and you'll at best only find T2 ships. (Yes, this means you have to destroy the 2nd laser device first. The same process you did to get to area 2.)

The only thing that can trip people up is the obtuse decision by the devs to make T3 recipes only craftable in the hubs, so even if you unlock the T3 refinery/science modules, you won't see them in stations and need to craft them from hubs.

Note: Tunnels are not areas. (It comes up often.) Areas are like pie slices of the island and there's a laser device in each one.

If you truly are in area 3, then ships will spawn in roughly two big groups: Once after the eruption, and then about half-way through it. Check all the landing spots after those spawn waves and there will be at least one research ship there.
The various spots on the travel maps where pickups spawn are almost guaranteed to contain destroyed T3 sci modules and analyzers somewhere, which you can turn into intel.

[LoganDark]

Originally posted by Dante:

Originally posted by LoganDark:

I've never seen any T3 Research drillships underground and I've only seen up to T2 Research drillships above ground.

Then you aren't in area 3.

I know. I already said I couldn't get past the laser thing. I managed to do it now and I instantly found the research...

By the way, I was getting T3 ships but never T3 Research ships.