Fuel scooping allows a ship within proximity to O, B, A, F, G, K and M type stars to harvest fuel around stars and use it for ship's systems, primarily the frame shift drive. Fuel scooping is very useful to save a fuel credits and in longer voyages can be the difference between life and death. Additionally, fuel scooping can be used in the cone of neutron stars and certain white dwarf stars to boost the range on the frame shift drive at the expense of damaging the frame shift drive slightly.
