Megastructure
Matter Decompressor
Décompresseur de matière
Description
The Matter Decompressor lenses a black hole's gravity, forming a drill of gravitational forces to retrieve 
Minerals from the singularity.
Where to build it
Must be built in a system with a black hole and no habitable planets.
- Cannot build outside Empire borders.
- Cannot build in systems that have not been surveyed.
- Cannot build in systems with habitable planets.
- Requires a Black Hole in the system.
- Cannot build more than one Matter Decompressor.
- Cannot build more than two Matter Decompressors.
- Cannot build due to existing Megastructure.
Required technologies
Construction stages
1. Matter Decompressor Site
The construction site station serves as the base for the future construction of a Matter Decompressor: Anchor.
- Cost
- 5,000 Alloys, 5,000 Unity
- Upkeep
- 5 Energy Credits
1,800 days to build
2. Matter Decompressor: Anchor
An advanced gravity redirection engine holds the facility base on the edge of the black hole's event horizon.
- Cost
- 12,500 Alloys, 5,000 Unity
- Upkeep
- 25 Energy Credits
- Output
- 500 Minerals
3,600 days to build
3. Matter Decompressor: Lensing
The gravity lensing facility redirects a portion of the black hole's gravitational force, concentrating it even more strongly in a selected area.
- Cost
- 5,000 Unity
- Upkeep
- 50 Energy Credits
- Output
- 1,000 Minerals
3,600 days to build
4. Matter Decompressor: Boring
The ultimate refinement of the gravity redirection system forms a focused area of twisted gravity, creating a vast drill whose bore is made of redirected and concentrated gravitational force.
- Cost
- 5,000 Unity
- Upkeep
- 75 Energy Credits
- Output
- 1,500 Minerals
3,600 days to build
5. Matter Decompressor
With a bore of twisted gravity tunneling into the singularity and a series of automated matter decompressors, processors, and smelters in orbit, we are able to extract minerals from a black hole.
- Cost
- 5,000 Unity
- Upkeep
- 100 Energy Credits
- Output
- 2,000 Minerals
3,600 days to build