
They unlock some reverse-engineered traitor items to help the station.Įasy to get items. Getting these levels up often needs illegal items. The study of technologies that violate Nanotrasen regulations. Used for circuit boards and many artificial intelligence items. The development of new computer and artificial intelligence and data storage systems. Get it higher for some fun electric toys. Many items related to electricity and magnets need this technology. Research into the electromagnetic spectrum. All kinds of weapons can improve this technology. The development of offensive and defensive systems.Īs the name suggests, unlocks various weapons. Needed for items and machines related to medicine or biological items, such as cybernetic implants. Research into the deeper mysteries of life and organic substances. Unlocks both hi-tech components and teleportation technology. Research into the sub-reality known as "blue-space". There are many items such as batteries that can make this higher. Helping with things related to power such as recharging, storing power or items that use power. The various technologies behind the storage and generation of electicity. Mostly obtainable from items related to plasma. Required for chemistry related and hi-tech items. The main reason for the entire research station. Research into the mysterious substance colloqually known as plasma. Genetics, being bio-engineering, can help with this. Needed to produce some complex machines for the station. Deconstructing new materials can make this level higher.ĭevelopment of new and improved engineering techniques. Used commonly and needed especially in mining items. Upgrading it will increase the amount recovered.ĭevelopment of new and improved materials. The Destructive Analyzer will recover a portion of the materials contained inside scanned items and transfer it to a connected protolathe. It is possible to eject items from the Destructive Analyzer. Items with higher tech level will raise the tech level of that category to that level. Items of same level in a category will raise the tech level of that category by 1. The computer will will show you tech levels of the item. Sync the Destructive Analyzer to the research computer if it's not synced.If you don't want to figure it out by yourself, though, you can follow this guide or this other one.ĭeconstruction is done through the Destructive Analyzer: Note that this guide is just mostly about what type of technology different items are. Essentially this means that a scientist in this modern world doesn't actually have to know any of the concepts he's working with it's all about melting things down and playing with the resulting toys! Ain't life grand?.The R&D console will allow you to then use the technology from deconstructed objects to build more advanced and efficient versions of the original object, and even new tools such as laser cannons!

R&D (not to be confused with the RD) consists of scientists experimenting on individual objects found around the station by putting them in the Destructive Analyzer, which reverse-engineers and disintegrates the object.
