Overview
Here’s some information on the research system.
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Research
Maia’s research system is currently being worked on.
Here’s some information on the current research system.
To progress your colonies research you will need to build a Research Lab and Computer. Building a Tape Storage Drive will enable you to store research.
At the moment, the research tiers are random.
Types of Reseach
Research is split into several fields.
- Technological
- Local Ecology
- Material
- Energy
Colonist as they work and interact with the world gain each of these as Raw data, once they have a good amount they will input the data into a near by Computer Terminal. Once enough data is imputed the computer will process the information and produce a new Tech that could be used around the base, these Techs are automatically applied.
Setting up an Reseach Lab
Required:
- 1 Computer Terminal – Lets colonists store knowledge they have gained and then is processed into new Tech.
Additional:
- Tape Storage Drives – Allows for additional Research to be stored, these are required if you want to Research more than two Techs.
Gain research from:
- Selecting Trees
- Selecting Meteorites
- Seismic Stations
- Weather Stations
- Necropsies (Selecting dead Megs)
- Fossils
- Dead solonists
- Native Flora Sample Containers
- Allowing colonists to sleep
Ecology Research Perks
Ecology
Research Name
Description
Effects
“Special Stuff”
On earth they say there are two things you should never see being made: laws and sausages. On Maia, you might not want to ask too many questions about where the rations come from. Be glad the colony is self-sufficient.
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2,4-D Production
Accidentally discovered during chemical weapons research, 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid is a synthetic plant hormone that causes rapid overgrowth. Plants that absorb this substance literally grow themselves to death.
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Oxygen-Lipid Microparticle Injector
Oxygen-filled cells can be injected directly into the body, oxygenating the bloodstream without the need for respiration, allowing a colonist to remain conscious for a short time in the absence of breathable air. Just long enough to panic.
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Weighted Hollow-Points
In a bullet, a small notch can make a very big difference, causing these rounds to expand dramatically upon penetration. To put it less clinically, these bullets are capable of causing horrific injuries and will triple the damage done by firearms and turrets.
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Organic Cyanocrylate
A natural, medical adhesive made from locally-occurring organic compounds that has a tendency to stick to everything, a property that can be surprisingly helpful during a medical emergency and which will halve recovery times.
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Lithium Heavy Groundwater
Following a similar principle to fluoridation, adding trace elements of lithium to the water supply seems to stabilise or even improve the mood of colonists. However, increasing the dosage only causes renal failure and repeated, inconvenient convulsions.
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Material Research Perks
Research Name
Description
Effects
Nanoscale Ink Jet
The creation of many of the more complex tools and materials that colonists require demands a molecular level of precision. Such atomically anal attention to detail is only possible with 3D printers that pair traditional inkjet systems with laser lithography.
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Nanofoam Radiation Shielding
Lightweight, porous alloys with low densities and high surface areas have proven themselves effective barriers against alpha, beta and gamma radiation, allowing field deployment of fission reactors. Most pores are less than 50nm in diameter.
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Superconducting Magnets
Electromagnets cooled to temperatures below 120K can conduct greater currents, produce more stable fields and lose considerably less energy from heat dissipation. They are an essential fundamental of any high-energy device, including fusion reactors.
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Mesopourus Graphene
Carbon precisely arranged into a lattice of hexagons one atom thick and with a radius of just 5nm afford excellent electron mobility. As well as applications in integrated circuits, this graphene forms the conductive plates of supercapacitors.
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Para-aramid Fibres
Synthetic fibres with extraordinary heat resistance and considerable tensile strength are the perfect material for protective clothing. Equally effective whether worn by humans or androids, this opens up the exciting possibility for fireproof IMPS.
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Advanced Reinforced Carbon-Carbon
An improvement upon the same carbon fibre composites that prevent space vehicles from burning up upon atmospheric entry, the remarkable heat resistance and dissipation properties of ARC/C makes it ideal for, say… lava-proof bulkheads?
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Palladium Hydride Vents
As well as a long history of use in catalytic converters, where it has detoxified unpleasant exhaust gases, palladium can also be used to absorb and safely store hydrogen. This eliminates the risk of hydrogen explosions from grumpy atmosphere generators.
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Barium Ferrite Tape
At 20nm in width, barium ferrite particles are half the size of those previously applied to magnetic tapes and, as might be expected, their introduction means that the storage capacity of all magnetic tape can now be doubled.
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Technology Research Perks
Research Name
Description
Effects
Photocatalytic Oxidation
The combination of an ultraviolet light with a titanium oxide filter proves to be a particularly effective way of oxidizing bacteria and other unwanted organic matter.
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Shockproof Electrodynamic Bearings
Electrodynamic suspension of key components means they can function in a contactless and thus frictionless state. This vastly improves the reliability of wind turbines, atmosphere generators and allows for the building of hyperefficient flywheel energy storage.
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Cryogenic Rebreather
The problem with storing oxygen as a gas is the space that it occupies. Cooling it to a liquid state is far more practical and providing apparatus that can perform this function doubles the air supply available to surface suits.
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Stillsuit
Science fiction has a long history of becoming science fact and yet again this is the case. This full-body suit captures, filters and recycles all of a colonist’s bodily fluids, providing comprehensive and wholly unappealing solution to all their hydration needs.
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Abletive Armour
While the traditional concept of armour might be of something that deflects or absorbs blows, this particular plating gradually disintegrates as it absorbs a blow, dissipating the energy of the strike as it does so and making surface suits twice as strong.
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CIWS
A Close-In Weapon System provides accurate and concentrated fire alongside rapid reaction times, intelligent target acquisition, precise ammunition management and a customisable GUI featuring three exciting desktop themes.
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Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals
A display of polarized crystals manipulated by an electric field to produce images in a similar fashion to an LCD. However, ferroelectric crystals offer better refresh rates and extremely high resolutions, a necessary requirement for first-person IMP control.
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Energy Research Perks
Research Name
Description
Effects
Fission
Split the atom for energy. Carefully control and sustain this process to obtain nuclear power, a thrillingly dangerous source of energy since 1942. Fission reactors have come far since then and are now much smaller and even marginally safer.
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Fusion
Why split atoms when you can fuse them instead? Once the holy grail of energy research, nuclear fusion is cleaner, safer and much more powerful than nuclear fission, though the required plasma confinement is quite the art.
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Electromagnetic Resonance Transmission
The wireless transmission of power, energy passed on through nothing more than the generation of sympathetic frequencies. The ultimate in good vibrations reduces the power requirements of all devices by five per cent.
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Room Temperature Superconductors
Superconductors demand extremely low temperatures to reduce electrical resistance. Eliminate this requirement and the energy requirements of all devices can be reduced by a quarter. Everyone can feel a little warmer, too.
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