Editing Guide to the Supermatter (section)

== Box- and MetaStation Setup ==
The supermatter engine on Box and Meta can be set up in many different ways and experienced engineers are encouraged to experiment. The less experienced engineers can refer to the safe guide below.

=== The safe setup ===
This is a simple setup, easy to maintain, will almost always last the entire round, and almost always generates enough power for the entire station.

There is a video setup guide [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avec0T2-Xhk here.]

==== Step one: Safety ====
# Put on an optical meson scanner [[File:MGlasses.png]] (Engineering scanner goggles [[File:EngiScanners.png]] work too, if changed to meson mode) and a radiation suit [[File:RadiationSuit.png]][[File:RadiationSuitHood.png]] in case someone prematurely activates the supermatter crystal.
#:'''Why:''' Meson Scanners protect from hallucinations, while the suit protect from radiation. Once the engine starts, it will start emitting both.
[[File:Supermatterboxnew.png|right]]
[[File:MetaSMUpdated.png|right]]

==== Step two: Prepare the gas loop ====
# Your first step should be wrenching the N2 canisters in place. Then start turning pipes on or off according to the picture on the right. Red circled pumps should be set on and to max pressure. Turn the ones without a circle in the image off, including the one that is circled blue.
#:'''Why:''' When the crystal is generating power it produces plasma and oxygen and heats up the air surrounding it immensely, thus it needs to be properly ventilated. We start by making the gas loop push N2 counter-clockwise around the loop, cooling it on the left side with the coldness of space before re-entering the engine room again from the right side.
# Make sure that the top filter (green circle) is set on, with max pressure. Set the bottom filters to filter (from left to right) "Nitrogen", "Nitrous Oxide", "None", "None". Turn them all on and set them to max pressure as well.
#:'''Why:'''  The bottom filters separate the gases produced by the supermatter crystal to keep the gasmix constant.
# Proceed to the air alarm [[File:AirAlarm.png]] next to the crystal room and take a look inside the chamber. Open the air alarm menu (on most maps it will start unlocked) and <s>set the vents to external 5000 (External will tell the air alarm to check the air outside of the vents and stop pumping if it exceeds this amount, too much gas can damage the crystal and nullify the effects of beneficial gases, regardless of temperature)</s> actually set the vents to Internal 0. This will make sure the vents can actually cool down the crystal when things go wrong (they will). Internal 0 means "make the inside of the pipe have zero pressure" so the vent will blast out all gas it has trying to empty. This means that if your crystal is getting messed up by a lot of heat and pressure the vent won't shut down and will instead continue to pump space-cooled air, reducing the pressure and temperature in the room. Set the scrubbers to '''siphon''' and Expanded Range. You don't need to change any of the settings besides the mode, on siphon, everything gets pulled in at the same rate. The scrubbers will show an animation if they are set up to siphon correctly. Do NOT set operating mode to "panic siphon" as that's not the same thing as the scrubber option "siphon". 
#:'''Why:''' The air alarm controls the chamber's vents (which puts gas in on the right) and scrubbers (which take gas away on the left). This step makes sure they're active and gases are moving in the chamber as fast as possible.

With these all done, the nitrogen should be cycling through the system and getting nice and cool.

==== Step three: Starting the radiation collectors ====

# Obtain six plasma tanks.[[File:Plasma tank.png]] One can be found by the radiation collectors, and up to ten more can be taken from the tank dispenser. [[File:Tank Dispenser.png]]
# Insert each plasma tank into a radiation collector [[File:Radiation Collector.gif]], then turn each on by clicking it with an empty hand. Lock them with your ID card when you are done.
# It's worth pointing out that you also used to have to fill the plasma tanks with extra plasma from a canister. This is not currently the case, but many people still do this out of habit or misinformation.
The engine is now ready to produce power.

==== Final step: Start the engine! ====
# '''Double-check to ensure the cooling loop is active, you don't want to have an active supermatter with a pump still set to 101kPa or the vents/scrubbers inactive!'''
# Align the reflectors so that the emitter beams are deflected towards the supermatter crystal
# Head into the emitter chamber. It is on the right side of the picture above. Just click each emitter [[File:Emitter On.gif]] with an empty hand to turn them on. '''Don't stand in front of them unless you want some serious laser burns!'''

Congratulations! The supermatter engine is set! You can now continue to set up the SMES so the power is provided to the rest of the station.

==== Beyond the safety ====
Here are some pointers and hints on how to get more power out of this engine:
* Coordinate with other engineers. Don't just silently adjust gases and pumps or you might end up causing accidents or decreasing efficiency.
* Higher temperatures generate more energy.
* Higher amounts of oxygen moles result in more power.
* You can pump gas from the atmos mixing loop directly into the engine by using the orange pipe.
* The supermatter crystal will glow in a distinct orange color if the gas composition and pressure levels in the chamber are ideal. This will reduce the impact of heat on the generation of power.
* Consider setting the first filter of the loop to plasma. The supermatter produces plasma, which can be collected and used to refill the radiation collectors if the round goes on for too long.
* The gas loop isn't that efficient at roundstart! Consider tuning it to run better by replacing some of the pumps with volume pumps or adding better cooling.
* Gasses leaving the SM go straight to the heat exchangers then to the filters, this means you cool all your gasses and then remove gasses. If you filter first you can get improved cooling (since you don't waste energy cooling unused gas) allowing for more dangerous gasses to be used easier.
* Plasma is terrible inside of the SM, potentially worse than Carbon Dioxide. Despite being terrible inside the chamber, you can use it on the outside as a coolant.
* Producing loads of power sounds great, but as soon as you go over 5000 MeV/cm³ anomalies will start forming rapidly and the SM will likely delaminate.
* You can place 2 heat exchange pipes on one tile as long as one is horizontal and one is vertical, double the cooling power!

==== But I don't want to experiment! ====

# Grab N2O canisters from atmospherics
# Input the N2O into the cooling loop
# ???
# Profit
 
OR 

# Add more reflectors
# Add more emitters
# ???
# Profit