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

1. 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
2. You require safety gear. A full radiation suit or radiation proof hard suit AND meson scanners.
3. 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!
4. Anything that bumps into the Supermatter is fundamentally annihilated. Don't touch it.

Box and Meta station setup

The supermatter engine on Box and Meta can be set up in many different ways and experienced engineers are encouraged to experiment. The less experienced engineers can refer to the safe guide below.

The safe beginner setup

This is an inefficient but very safe and simple setup for the engine. Stick to this until you feel that you understand the basics of this engine.

This guide uses a picture of the metastation engine, but the box one is functionally identical, only rotated by 90 degrees.

Step one: Safety

1. Put on an optical meson scanner. And a radiation suit / in case someone prematurely activates the supermatter crystal.

Step two: Prepare the gas loop

1. Your first step should be turning pipes on or off until they all match the pictured setup. Click a pipe to access the menu of it. Set them all to max pressure as well.

2. Make sure that the filter(green) on the left is set to "None" and the filters on the right to "O2", "Co2", "Plasma" and "None". Turn them all on and set them to max pressure as well.

3. Swipe your ID at the air alarm(blue) and take a look inside the chamber. Hover your mouse over the 3 vents and 3 scrubbers(orange) and note their names. Open the air alarm menu and set the noted vents to 5000 kPA pressure and the scrubbers to siphon and extended range. The scrubbers will show an animation if they are set up to siphon correctly.

With these all done, the nitrogen should be cycling through the system and getting nice and cool

Step three: Starting the radiation collectors

1. Open the secure storage. You will need someone with access (CE, Captain, or ask the AI) to press the button in the CE office. This gives you access to the plasma canister.

Alternative: Swipe an engineering ID on the APC to unlock it. Turn the APC off. Use a crowbar on the blast door to force it open. Return to the APC and turn turn it back on, then swipe your ID to lock it again.

2. Obtain six plasma tanks. One can be found by the radiation collectors, and up to ten more can be taken from the tank dispenser

3. Fill each plasma tank with the plasma canister. First, click the canister with a plasma tank in your active hand. Then open the canister menu and set the pressure to max. Double check to see if the tank was inserted correctly, then open the valve and close it after the tank has been filled. Eject the tank

4. Insert each plasma tank into a radiation collector , then turn each on by clicking it with an empty hand.

The engine is now ready to produce power.

Final step: Start the engine!

1. Double-check to ensure the cooling loop is active, you don't want to have an active supermatter with a pump still set to 101kPa or the vents/scrubbers inactive!

1. Head into the emitter chamber. It is toward the right in the picture above. Just click each emitter with an empty hand to turn them on. Don't stand in front of them unless you want some serious laser burns!

Congratulations! The supermatter engine is running!

Beyond the safety

Here are some pointers and hints on how to get more power out of this engine:

• Coordinate with other engineers. Don't just silently adjust gases and pumps or you might end up causing accidents or decreasing efficiency.
• Higher temperatures generate more energy.
• Higher amounts of oxygen moles result in more power.
• There is a can of freon for emergency cooling in secure storage. Consider opening it in the engine airlock if the engine is about to go critical. You can always scrub out the freon with a gas filter.
• You can pump gas from the atmos mixing loop directly into the engine by using the orange pipe.
• The supermatter crystal will glow in a distinct orange color if the gas composition and pressure levels in the chamber are ideal. This will reduce the impact of heat on the generation of power.
• Consider setting the first filter of the loop to plasma. The supermatter produces plasma, which can be collected and used to refill the radiation collectors if the round goes on for too long.

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

1. Put on your safety gear
2. In atmospherics turn on the N2 valve located at the south-east. Its the manual valve
3. Load the radiation collectors with plasma tanks and activate them. Close the radiation shutters with the button at the airlock entrance.
4. In the Supermatter area use the air alarm to max the vents inside the chamber and set the scrubbers to siphon.
5. Enter the core airlock antechamber and max both the pumps
6. Max and turn on the first filter Make sure its set to Nothing and then the pump to the space radiator.
7. Max the Primary Filter and make sure its set to N2.
8. Open the external N2 Line. The loop should pressurize. Don't clog the loop with gas! 300 should do.
9. Activate the emitters
10. 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!