Mission 9 questions

[Matthew Daly]

I've won the slugpod level, but don't want to go on to the siren level until I really start grokking some of what's going on here.

- I've seen slugs stop in the hallway, shake a little, and generate litter. Is that turdite? It doesn't seem to me to be anything other than normal trash. My entertainment deck has such things as a roulesse wheel, an Oroflex, a Palace Galactica, and a Curiosity Shop, but no Slugpartments yet.

- When visitors are paying for things (like love nests or sick bays, probably other things too), there are usually two numbers generated. I can tell that one of them is the cost of the service, but then another is sort of like a 38% tax. What's up with that?

- What would comprise a sensible sick bay? I still haven't seen my z-ray scanner get used, and the operating table only very rarely. Waste of space??

- My lab is 4x4, with an analyzer (oh, sorry, "analyser") and two microscopes. They won't let me replace the microscopes with replicators, though. Is there a better lab footprint?

- How much of my tech tree is carried over to the next level? Do autopsies do anything useful for me?

- Do I want a temple on my station? Seems like there are much easier ways of raising 5000e.

- Is there a way to create my own ore? I've researched it, but it doesn't show up in my factory list.