Ideas for a goonstation research system

[BBEG]

people wanted to be able to break apart useless artifacts and use the bits to try to make artifacts with actually desirable effects for a while now, so replicating desired artifact effects could be a good thing to start with. artlab will remain relevant for figuring out what a new artifact you found does and whether you want to break it for parts or make more of it.

it can also of course be home to making whatever oddball ass cartoon super science inventions people come up with like the magnet suits that helped spark this thread

if youre worried about having enough room to work in im pretty sure we can arrange to have the walls moved out a bit, we're in space, we can make more room

i do enjoy the thought of scientists making goofy physics defying super items/weapons out of artifacts though to keep it from being over powered we should make it so that if you fuck up the process it would do something horrible like for example eldritch artifacts would summon Cthulhu or martian artifact trigger an alien invasion and so on.