Processor

OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS Construct in habitat room compartment. Select a desired process (such as titanium ingots from titanium), then load the input hopper and wait for the processor run to complete. Collect output from output tray. CAUTION: the processor's power draw increases sharply during a run.

BACKGROUND The processor is a reverse fabricator, reducing complex inputs like salvage or biomass into simple raw materials. While standard fabricators can break down salvage, the processor is required to generate large pure outputs. The processor brings an arsenal of flash smelters, centrifuges, chemical washes, fractionators and magma electrolytic oxide cells to bear.

Refugee users may fondly recall political propaganda comparing Alterra to the sinister, controlling fabricator and the Mongolian Independent States to the robust, honest processor.

"The Alterra bulk processor. Creative destruction."