Guide to the Supermatter
The Supermatter is a secondary power source found on some stations or ordered from Cargo. Its primary features are emitting tons of radiation, making everyone who could theoretically see it hallucinate, releasing hot oxygen and plasma' heating the air around, and exploding if the you screw up. It begins inert but being hit by an object or projectile will activate it.
The Basics
- The Supermatter is VERY DANGEROUS. Activating the Supermatter should be the last step in setting up any form of Supermatter based power! If you ordered it from cargo the crate should stay LOCKED AND SECURED
- You require safety gear. A full radiation suit or radiation proof hard suit AND meson scanners.
- You need to cool the Supermatter down, or at the very least dump the hot gas into space. Note that the Supermatter itself heats up!
- Anything that bumps into the Supermatter is fundamentally annihilated. Don't touch it.
Delta station setup
The standard power-gen with initially available equipment is a cooled radiation collector array. The Delta station setup is the only production model on NT stations and thus will be the focus of this guide. The engine room is centered around the Supermatter chamber and is divided into two halves. On the West side of the chamber are the extraction siphons. These lead into a capture filter and then to the cooling system. By default the system uses a space radiator setup; however a heater/cooler system is available. The gas loops north and passes over the chamber to the east side which is the primary filter and waste gas removal system. it then heads south to the gas injection system. This system can take gas from canisters(not provided) or from a gas lint that leads (by default) to the primary N2 tank.
Located above the chamber and gas loop is a complex array of mirrors and emitters that fire pulses to stimulate the Supermatter. To the south of the injection area is the SMES room and to the south of the cooling area is the turbine room.
How to setup
- Put on your safety gear
- In atmospherics turn on the N2 valve located at the south-east. Its the manual valve
- Load the radiation collectors with plasma tanks and activate them. Close the radiation shutters with the button at the airlock entrance.
- In the Supermatter area use the air alarm to max the vents inside the chamber and set the scrubbers to siphon.
- Enter the core airlock antechamber and max both the pumps
- Max and turn on the first filter Make sure its set to Nothing and then the pump to the space radiator.
- Max the Primary Filter and make sure its set to N2.
- Open the external N2 Line. The loop should pressurize. Don't clog the loop with gas! 300 should do.
- Activate the emitters
- Program the SMES system
Side projects
- Use it as a heat and gas source for a turbine.
- Experiment with other gas mixtures.
- Work on the crappy pipe job.
- Add more collectors and SMES
- Replace the crusher!
