Science

Science

Science, often called Research and Development, is a job consisting of generating research points to unlock new technologies and using said technologies to produce new items at lathes to help out the station.

Personnel

Science's staff is made up of Research Assistants and Scientists. Science is run by the Research Director.

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Technologies

ComputerResearchAndDevelopmentResearchAndDevelopmentServer

The most important thing inside your department is the R&D server, which stores unlocked technologies, and the R&D computer, which allows you to unlock technologies.

Each technology costs Research Points and unlocks recipes at lathes. Some technologies will also have prerequisites you have to unlock before you can research them.

Click here to see a list of technologies..

Disciplines

Technologies are spread over 4 different Disciplines:

IndustrialIndustrialExperimentalExperimentalCivil ServicesCivil ServicesArsenalArsenal
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ComputerResearchAndDevelopment

Use your nearest R&D console to take note of which kind of research is locked behind each Discipline tree.

Tiers

Each Discipline tree has up to 3 tiers of technologies. At the start the only tier that is open and available for you is tier 1.

In order to progress further, you have to research up to 75% of the current tier to move to the next one. So in order to unlock T2 researches you need to research 75% of T1.

Now Tier 3 is where it gets interesting. If you research a T3 tech, you lock out T3 techs from other Discipline trees. That is, unless you can find some other way around it... you should probably ask your Research Director.

Lathes

Protolathe
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CircuitImprinter
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ExosuitFabricator
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lube capacity250u
MedicalTechFab
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SecurityTechFab
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At a lathe, you can choose a server to allow it print whatever recipes you have unlocked. Recipes require various materials (steel, glass, plastic, gold, plasma) which can be acquired at Cargo or Salvage.