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Förslag

TILL: Baskommendören, PHALANX, Atlantic Operations Command

FRÅN: Kommendör Paul Navarre, Forskning och utveckling: Utvecklingsavdelningen, PHALANX, Atlantic Operations Command

DATUM: %02i %s %i

ÄMNE: Förslag: Antimateria

Baserad på de extremt inressanta fynden som vi gjorde under vår undersökning av spanings UFO't så skulle jag vilja få ditt tillstånd att erhålla tid i laboratioret för att mer noggrant kunna analysera rymdvarelsernas vidsträckta användning av antimateria och dess användningsmöjligheter i krig.

I synnerhet så skulle jag vilja se ifall vi kan komma på ett sätt att replikera antimatera för våra egna ändamål. Metria-antimateria reaktioner har häpnadsväckande potential som bränsle. ###In terms of energy generation, it has probably the best size-to-weight ratio of any material in the universe; the ability to use it like the aliens use it would catapult our technology base centuries into the future. We must research this at the earliest opportunity!

--Cdr. Navarre

Resultat

TILL: Base Commander, PHALANX, Atlantic Operations Command

FRÅN: Cdr. Paul Navarre, R&D: Engineering Division, PHALANX, Atlantic Operations Command

DATUM: %02i %s %i

ÄMNE: Sv: Antimateria

Our study on antimatter is complete, Commander, and we're ready to present our results. I'm afraid the news is mostly bad.

There are a lot of things the aliens know that we don't. Nowhere is this more clear in their widespread use of antimatter. It seems to be plentiful for them, at least plentiful enough to send out UFO after UFO to Earth, burning tanks full of antiprotons. Human experiments into antimatter, on the other hand . . .

The first artificially produced antimatter on Earth consisted of 9 atoms of anti-hydrogen created at the CERN particle physics laboratory, situated near Geneva on the border between France and Switzerland. Not long after, another lab produced approximately 100 atoms. We've come slowly forward over the years in tiny, tiny steps, but even though we can now produce antiprotons by the millions, it's easy to forget just how little that really is.

In fact, the biggest obstacle to our adaptation of the alien fuel is the availability of antiprotons. We've come a long way since 1995, but even with every particle physics laboratory in the world churning out as many antiprotons as possible, it would take eighty million years to produce 1 gramme's worth of antiprotons. By comparison, the amount contained in a Scout UFO's tank exceeds that of all the antimatter produced on Earth over the past hundred years.

(Extra: if UFO -- Harvester already researched) Another worrying point is that the aliens also seem to be using antimatter as part of their weapons systems. Antimatter-fuelled alien missiles are one thing; what if they begin using antimatter itself as an explosive? My staff has come up with more than one disconcerting idea along these lines. For myself, I think we should try to head the aliens off at the pass in this regard. A special program regarding antimatter-based weapons may be a highly interesting option to pursue -- it may be a more economical prospect than trying to adapt alien rockets to our interceptor craft. (End Extra)

Humanity is a long, long way off from being able to create antiprotons in the amounts necessary to fuel these matter-antimatter rockets. The bottom line is, we cannot duplicate this alien technology. We don't know how they create their antimatter or how they manage to generate enough electricity to do so. Unless and until we can get our hands on this equipment, our efforts will be fruitless. Our only major successes have come from studying how the aliens store their antimatter. We are confident we can employ the same magnetic storage techniques, creating special protective pallets that will fit in our Storage facilities without any further adaptations, and we've designed antimatter fuel tanks that will fit in our interceptors, given some major overhaul. Of course we'll need a full understanding of the alien engines before we can begin incorporating it.

For all intents and purposes, we are unable to replicate the alien fuel. If we use antimatter in our own technology we will be dependent upon recovering it from alien sources. This seems a dangerous course of action, but we may have no choice; we need to adapt this technology as soon as possible if we are to have any chance of truly stopping the invasion.

--Cdr. Navarre

Länkar

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Research Tree Data

(This information for reference only; do not translate or include in-game.)

Prerequisites:
 UFO -- Scout
 (Extra result if following already researched: UFO -- Harvester)

Opens:
 Allows player to store Antimatter
 Enables use of Antimatter in production
 Upgrade -- Antimatter Engines
 Antimatter Weaponry (if UFO -- Harvester already researched)