Quantum

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A cold station at L2: cool the traps, hold qubits, make exotic matter, and build a drive for the stars.

Opens: the ⁜ L2 station site is open.

By hand: Fill a dewar gives 1 cryogen, free.

Building	What it is	First one costs	Each one does	Opens when	Notes
⎊ Cryo plant	Chills the gas from melted ice until it runs as a liquid, colder than space: the cryogen every quantum machine sits in.	60 🝛 alloy, 100 ♂︎ metal, 40 ❆ ice	turns 0.5 ❆ ice/s into 1 ⍥ cryogen/s, only as far as its inputs allow, uses 2W	with the tab	on/off
⩏ Physicist quarters	Bunks, a kitchen and a whiteboard on every wall: rooms for three workers. It breathes oxygen; with none, it stands empty.	1 ⬓ habitat modules, 60 🝛 alloy, 30 ⍥ cryogen	+3 workers (housing), upkeep 0.05 ⚬ oxygen/s	200 𓏛 knowledge	on/off
⌗ Qubit array	Rows of tiny circuits in a bath of cryogen, each holding a qubit for as long as it stays cold.	120 ♂︎ metal, 4 ⛭ parts, 40 ⍥ cryogen	turns 0.5 ⍥ cryogen/s into 0.5 ⟩ qubits/s + 0.25 ⚝ data/s, only as far as its inputs allow, uses 4W	Ψ Quantum mechanics researched	on/off
⧆ Containment vault	Magnetic traps in a cold vault: room for cryogen, qubits, exotic matter, entangled pairs and the parts made from them.	100 🝛 alloy, 10 ▱ plates, 60 ⍥ cryogen	+300 ⍥ cryogen storage, +200 ⟩ qubits storage, +50 ⦰ exotic matter storage, +200 ⚯ entangled pairs storage, +10 ⧮ qubit cores storage, +5 ⦻ exotic matter cells storage, +5 ⎉ drive cores storage, uses 2W	200 𓏛 knowledge and Ψ Quantum mechanics researched	on/off
⌽ Accelerator ring	A ring of magnets around the station. Once in a long while a collision leaves a speck of exotic matter behind.	150 ♂︎ metal, 12 ▱ plates, 6 ⛭ parts	+0.1 ⦰ exotic matter/s, +0.5 ⚝ data/s, uses 8W	∇ Field theory researched	on/off
⨷ Fusion reactor	Helium-3 burned in a ring of plasma: more power than anything before it, for the hungry machines.	100 🝛 alloy, 6 ⛭ parts, 10 ⚛︎ helium-3	turns 0.1 ⚛︎ helium-3/s into 15W, only as far as its inputs allow	200 𓏛 knowledge and ∇ Field theory researched	on/off
⟗ Entanglement relay	Keeps one half of each entangled pair here and sends the other out with the ships. Reports from far away come home in half the time.	100 🝛 alloy, 5 ⛭ parts, 30 ⚯ entangled pairs	upkeep 0.1 ⚯ entangled pairs/s, uses 3W	175 𓏛 knowledge and ⚭ Entanglement researched	on/off
⍯ Quantum computer	Qubit cores wired together into one machine that tries every answer at once. It entangles pairs and works out what nobody could.	100 🝛 alloy, 6 ⛭ parts, 2 ⧮ qubit cores	turns 0.4 ⟩ qubits/s into 0.3 ⚯ entangled pairs/s + 0.5 𓏛 knowledge/s + 1 ⚝ data/s, only as far as its inputs allow, uses 6W	⚭ Entanglement researched	on/off

Each further copy costs 15% more than the last. Selling a building gives back half of what the last one cost.