Antimatter Mass Production

Antimatter Mass Production
Research Cost: 125000
Summary
Antimatter, nature's ultimate battery, requires huge amounts of energy to produce in mass quantities.
Description
A frustrating paradox: matter/antimatter-based reactors could solve our every power need, both on Earth and in space, but the creation of sufficient antiparticles in the first place requires vast amounts of energy, not to mention vast and costly machines. It is not, for instance, even remotely practical to install a 30m antiproton decelerator of the sort housed at CERN within every starship. Yet more problematic is that even our most advanced particle accelerators achieve only 0.01% efficiency in terms of converting electricity to antimatter, with the remainder becoming heat - as problematic as it is wasteful. The proposed solution is vast arrays of solar panels in space, powering antimatter factories whose output is then magnetically trapped, ready for transport to spacecraft and terrestrial reactors. In consequence, we have truly achieved the power source of tomorrow.
Full List of Prerequisites. Name Type Cost Augmented Reality 1500 Mission to the Moon 1000 Arrival Law 5000 Outpost Habs 1000 Mass Drivers 1000 Space Mining and Refining 2500 Photonic Computing 1500 Advanced Superconductors 3500 We Are Not Alone 500 Directed Space Research 5000 Advanced Hydrogen Containment 20000 Antimatter Containment 10000 Our Space Future 30000 Advanced Neural Networks 5000 Industrialization of Space 15000 Space Commerce 20000 Arrival Economics 2500 Quantum Computing 15000 High-Energy Lasers 1000 Magnetic Force Manipulation 2500 Principles of Space Warfare 1000 Vacuum Electrostatic Principles 1000 Arrival Domestic Politics 2000 Space Research 2500 Particle Beams 5000 Superalloys 5000 Superconducting Magnets 10000 Advanced Atomic Manipulation 10000 Advanced Carbon Manipulation 1000 Advanced Heat Management Concepts 2500 Mission To Space 250 Deep Space Propulsion Concepts 1000 Space Navies 10000 Orbital Shipbuilding 1000 Advanced Electromagnetism 1000 Ad Astra 5000 Militarization of Space 5000 Nuclear Fission In Space 2500
Total Research Cost (including itself)
	146500		23000
	1000		50500
	16000		87500
	9750	Total	334250
Direct Prerequisite For
Techs		Projects
Antimatter Propulsion		(100%)Antimatter Plasma Core Reactor I • (100%)Atomsmasher
Quote
"We squat upon a dying world, sucking it dry long past the point when it can still sustain us. And yet an entire galaxy of possibility beckons. Why are we so short-sighted? When will we see that there is nothing left for us here? #projectexodus" Director Khalid Al-Ashgar, Project Exodus His first and only Tweet
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