Create a new subrule of “University Resources [Alpha]” called “Research Material [Alpha]” as follows:

One commodity is crucial to a Scientist’s research: Orthomatter. Each Scientist has a positive integer amount of Orthomatter, which defaults to 0 and is tracked on the Scientists Alpha page of the wiki.

Orthomatter has a purchase price which is tracked on the Scientists Alpha page of the wiki. An Alpha-Oriented Scientist with a Polarity that is greater than the purchase price of Orthomatter may treat that purchase price as if it is halved, rounding down, though the purchase price may never be treated as if it is less than 1.

At any time, an Alpha-oriented Scientist who controls a Self in the Alpha Universe may buy Orthomatter (decrease their Budget by its purchase price and increase their amount of Orthomatter by one) or sacrifice Orthomatter if they have more than zero Orthomatter (decrease their amount of Orthomatter by one and reduce the Crisis in the Alpha Universe by one).

Set the purchase price of Orthomatter to 5.