Репликатор колоний

Colony Replicator Turns spare colonies of a strain into copies of your best one. Breeding a strong colony takes a long chain of mutations, and every mutation changes the strain. The Replicator lets you breed a colony up once and then make more of it from cheap colonies of the same strain, such as fresh grafts. Replicate Template (top left): your best colony. It must be analyzed. It is copied and never used up. Fodder (middle): any colony of the template's strain, whatever its stats. It is broken down into biomass as soon as it goes in. A colony of another strain stays in the slot and the machine waits. Fodder items (above the fodder colony): the item the template's strain makes, or that item's storage block. Each one is broken down into biomass, so a reactor's own output can pay for copies. Output (right): the new colony. Each new colony uses 20,000 biomass. A fodder colony gives its size: ten colonies of 2,000 work as well as one of 20,000. A fodder item gives 100 divided by the strain's Strain Yield, and a storage block nine times that, so rare items are worth more: Item Biomass Fo…