Antimatter Propulsion

Antimatter Propulsion
Research Cost: 100000
Summary
Engineers innovate methods of directing the violent energy of antimatter reactions into spaceflight.
Description
Now that we are able to generate antimatter on an industrial scale, we can at last investigate how to convert the incredible energies generated by matter/antimatter collision to high-speed space travel. Containment, rather than propulsion itself, has been the most pressing issue to address, for even the smallest unintended meeting between opposing particles could rip a ship apart. On both fronts, electromagnetic fields are once again our closest ally here, both containing and directing these destructive forces wherever we see fit. A further complication is that proton-antiproton collisions also generate gamma rays - deadly radiation, in other words. However, our prior breakthroughs in atomic manipulation enable us to create ultra-lightweight nano-materials to act as radiation shielding, both throughout the ship and within its crews' clothing. All of this means employing a near-preposterous degree of health and safety measures in addition to bleeding-edge technology, but the destination very much justifies the arduous journey - we will have the capability to travel, and harness, the distant stars like never before.
Full List of Prerequisites. Name Type Cost Augmented Reality 1500 Magnetic Plasma Confinement 35000 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 High-Temperature Superconductors 40000 Magnetic Nozzles 50000 Particle Beams 5000 Militarization of Space 5000 Arrival Domestic Politics 2000 Space Research 2500 Ad Astra 5000 Superalloys 5000 Superconducting Magnets 10000 Vacuum Electrostatic Principles 1000 Advanced Electromagnetism 1000 Advanced Heat Management Concepts 2500 Antimatter Mass Production 125000 Deep Space Propulsion Concepts 1000 Space Navies 10000 Orbital Shipbuilding 1000 Mission To Space 250 Advanced Carbon Manipulation 1000 Advanced Atomic Manipulation 10000 Nuclear Fission In Space 2500
Total Research Cost (including itself)
	231500		23000
	1000		90500
	16000		87500
	109750	Total	559250
Direct Prerequisite For
Techs		Projects
		(100%)Antimatter Pulsed Plasma Core Lantern • (50%)Advanced Antimatter Plasma Core Torch • (100%)Interstellar Launch Facility • (100%)Pion Torch • (75%)Antimatter Plasma Core Torch
Quote
"Space is just, like, an endless, cosmic oil field, waiting to be drained by whoever's smart enough and rich enough to get there first. Black gold is back, baby, back!" Chairman Soren Van Wyk, The Initiative Impromptu comments made to paparazzi in the early morning hours outside a Long Street nightclub in Cape Town
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