[Spaceships] Antimatter Factory

[AlexanderHowl]

An automated orbital platform orbiting Sol at 0.1 AU would receive around 100 PP per Solar Panel Array, translating to 30 GW per Solar Panel Array for an SM+10 spacecraft. If an SM+10 spacecraft possessed 10 Solar Panel Arrays and 5 Antimatter Production Facilities, it could produce 10 milligrams of antimatter per hour at TL9. Of course, it would also suffer 100x as much radiation from solar storms and would have problems storing that much antimatter. Even with that level of production, the price would not drop quickly because of the enormous maintenance cost (you would likely be capturing only 1% of the antimatter produced, meaning that the remaining 99% is turning the facility to Swiss cheese), which would likely be 1% of the facility cost every eight hours.