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# Science
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Science, often called Research and Development, is a job made up of both generating research points to unlock new technologies as well as using said technologies to produce new items at lathes to help out the station.
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## Technologies
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="ComputerResearchAndDevelopment"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="ResearchAndDevelopmentServer"/>
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</Box>
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The most important thing inside your department is the R&D server, which stores unlocked technologies, and the R&D computer, which allows you to unlock technologies.
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Each technology costs [color=#a4885c]Research Points[/color] and unlocks recipes at lathes. Some technologies will also have prerequisites you have to unlock before you can research them.
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Information about the different technologies can be viewed [textlink="on the technology guidebook page" link="Technologies"].
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## Disciplines
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Technologies are spread over 5 different Disciplines:
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="Wrench" Caption="Industrial"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="Syringe" Caption="Biochemical"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="WeaponTetherGun" Caption="Experimental"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="ComputerTelevision" Caption="Civil Services"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="WeaponXrayCannon" Caption="Arsenal"/>
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</Box>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="ComputerResearchAndDevelopment"/> Use your nearest R&D console to take note of which kind of research is locked behind each Discipline tree.
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## Tiers
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Each Discipline tree has up to 3 tiers of technologies. At the start the only tier that is open and available for you is tier 1.
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In order to progress further, you have to research up to [color=brown]75%[/color] of the current tier to move to the next one. So in order to unlock T2 researches you need to research 75% of T1.
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Now [color=green]Tier 3[/color] is where it gets interesting. If you research a T3 tech, you [color=brown]lock out[/color] T3 techs from other Discipline trees. That is, unless... you find some other way around it, probably should ask your [color=purple]Research Director[/color].
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## Lathes
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="Protolathe"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="CircuitImprinter"/>
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</Box>
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<Box>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="ExosuitFabricator"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="MedicalTechFab"/>
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<GuideEntityEmbed Entity="SecurityTechFab"/>
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</Box>
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At a lathe, you can choose a server to allow it print whatever recipes you have unlocked. Recipes require various materials (steel, glass, plastic, gold, plasma) which can be acquired at Cargo or Salvage.
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</Document>
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