Introduction

Subspace capacitors are you ultimate universal energy storage. They exist in various storage capacity and transfer rate with upgrades.

History

Energy storage has always been a long struggle, even before space travel was invented. While many researchers looked into it, money was hard to come for financing the most ambitious ones and sometime, money isn't the right answer.

The real solution came from a small research team from Parsylonia IV while they were working on a lithium quartz based atomic clock. As they were low on budget, it was frequent for them to use dinnerware instead of test tube. That is until their team leader poured his favorite intense peppermint tea in a cup with remains of lithium quartz dust. A few seconds later, a Subspace drain was created from the unusual mixture and started sucking power from all nearby sources, whether it was chemical, electrical or mechanical. While it took a few minutes for the team to understand what happened, it was months before their could actually extract power from the drain, effectively making the first Subspace capacitor.

Upon publishing their results, many hobbyists wanted to reproduce the original experiment in their basement, causing Peppermint to reach the status of "Green gold" (or "Leprechaun gold" depending on who you ask, since it's fairly easy to produce).

While Green gold is no longer a thing these days, Subspace capacitors are still fairly common and Parsylonia still produces the most efficient ones around.

General principles

A Subspace capacitor is very efficient energy storage able to retain its full power over nearly infinite duration. However, they do have an efficient loss when converting power to/from subspace form. Each side of the capacitor can be configured using any tuning tool to either:

• input mode: consuming power in EU or RF form
• output mode: providing power in EU and RF form
• disabled mode: preventing any power transfer on that side

Tiers

Capacitors exist in 3 different tiers with increasing storage capacity and energy transfer rate.

• Basic Subspace capacitor store up to 800k EU (~1.2M RF), transferring 200 EU/t (~800 RF/t)
• Advanced Subspace capacitor store up to 4M EU (~16M RF), transferring 1000 EU/t (~4000 RF/t)
• Superior Subspace capacitor store up to 20M EU (~80M RF), transferring 5000 EU/t (~20000 RF/t)

Due to their inner nature, EU transfer rates are defined per capacitor while RF transfer rates are defined per face, hence it's usually much faster to use the latest.

Upgrades

While the original design was greatly improved over time, Subspace energy is still coming with power drop due to conversions. A typical capacitor is causing about 5 to 7% lost depending on energy type and transfer rates. Adding Superconductors to the conversion circuit will greatly reduce the lost down to 2%, or even 0% in some edge cases.

Zero Point Module

Years have passed and researchers are still dreaming of that ultimate Subspace capacitor capable of storing near infinite energy. They call it from an old mythology going back to great Egypt time: the Zero Point Module or ZPM in short. Those who've seen one are few as only the Creative ones are able to get it... so far...