Guide to the High Energy Lab
If your dream method of conducting science is to repeatedly destroy objects with high energy laser bolts in the vain hope of learning something new? If so, your local stations High Energy Lab is the place for you!
Machines of the High Energy Lab
The R&D Laser Projector
The R&D Laser Projector is your workhorse in the high energy lab. The R&D laser projector can be used to fire specialised high energy laser projectiles, which upon colliding with any item held within a research item plinth, will scatter with varying energy and velocity. The scattered laser bolts can be collected via H.I.E.C.A panels, providing invaluable data towards research nodes. The projector has two modes: Visual and Live.
While in visual mode, pressing the power button will project the visual path of the laser to be shot, including the paths of any scattered bolts if the path intercepts a research item plinth. While in live mode, the visual path will not be visible and pressing the power button will instead fire a high energy laser projectile.
Once a laser bolt intercepts a H.I.E.C.A panel, the research data will be automatically transferred to the projector, this data can be viewed in the "Current Research Data" section of the UI. Research data is in the form of progress towards an unresearched Techweb node. Once enough research data for a specific Techweb node is completed, the Techweb node will be researched. Operators of the laser projector have no control as to what nodes are researched. If need be, players can sacrifice research data and upload it to the Techweb as RP to be redistributed towards any research node, however, uploading this data as RP is only 75% efficient and RP loss will occur.