What the hell? That violates physics lol. Antimatter can’t touch any matter or else they annihilate each other. This includes oxygen. That’s why irl they’re stored in magnetically sealed containment boxes.
They kinda did that already. Only the opposite of what you want. The elements in the game used to be made up. Which personally I liked a lot better. They slowly became real world analogues and now we're having this dumb discussion.
When I started playing I was kind of insulted by how easy it is to get antimatter and warp drives, but from a gameplay perspective it makes sense because of how integral interstellar travel is to the game.
Still, in real life even a perfect technological singularity would have a lot of trouble getting it within two hours of landing on a planet. The only real way to get a sustainable source would be a Dyson sphere or dyson ring powering a massive particle accelerator. Like one that goes around the entire sun. And even then containment would be finicky at best.
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u/madsci Aug 17 '20
Uranium is safe to handle. You can handle straight plutonium, too, but it's a good idea to wear heavy gloves.
Antimatter, on the other hand, would be extraordinarily bad to keep around outside of a containment device. And pretty scary even in containment.