Photonic Metamaterials Reaction

Photonic Metamaterials Reaction Formula · Composite reactor · prices as of 2026-10-08 19:31 UTC

Tatara T2 ME / T2 TE rigs Ignoitton (lowsec) Cost index 10.14% Inputs: Jita 4-4 buy orders Outputs: Jita 4-4 sell orders Edit

Profit / slot / day: 2.54M
Profit: 231.59M
Margin: 33.6%
ROI: 54.7%
Total cost: 423.06M
Output value: 689.84M
Runs: 244
Time per run: 1h 22m 5s
Job duration: 6d 22h 53m
Slots: 13

Unrefined reactions replace the Thulium Hafnite reaction here, because that raises the chain's profit/slot/day: their product is reprocessed, and the other reprocessed materials replace purchases of later jobs or are sold. Compare with Full chain, which uses the regular reactions.

Material flow

Bought Reprocessing byproduct from last cycle Produced in the chain Final product Edge labels: quantity each job consumes.

Slot allocation

Optimal slots: 2 parallel lines sized so every job fits one 7-day cycle; the figures on this page are per steady cycle.

2 lines · 13 slots · 97.2% utilisation

Initial investment 1.22B

Slots per reaction
Reaction	Slots	Runs / slot	Duration / slot	First cycle
Photonic Metamaterials	2	122	6d 22h 53m	2
Crystallite Alloy	1	120	6d 20h 9m	1
Unrefined Thulium Hafnite	10	60 / 59	6d 20h 9m	1

Cycle 1: 11 slots (intermediates)
· Cycle 2+: 13 slots (steady state)

Start-up

One-time cycle before cycle 2, from which every cycle runs the production steps below.

Cycle 1, start-up

Runs Crystallite Alloy (1 × 120 runs), Unrefined Thulium Hafnite (10 × 60 / 59 runs).

Buy for cycle 1

Item	Quantity	Unit price	Total	Broker fee
Helium Fuel Block	586	17.64K	10.34M	155.06K
Cobalt	11,712	565	6.61M	99.17K
Cadmium	11,712	5.50K	64.37M	965.54K
Hydrogen Fuel Block	2,900	16.56K	48.02M	720.36K
Vanadium	57,978	2.42K	140.07M	2.10M
Hafnium	57,978	8.01K	464.46M	6.97M
Total			733.88M	11.01M

Multibuy list (6 items)

Helium Fuel Block	586
Cobalt	11712
Cadmium	11712
Hydrogen Fuel Block	2900
Vanadium	57978
Hafnium	57978

Job cost 52.12M · with purchases 797.00M

Production steps

Every cycle from cycle 2: 2 steps, every job in its own slots, side by side; a step's output feeds the next step in the following cycle.

Multibuy list (7 items)

Oxygen Fuel Block	1192
Helium Fuel Block	586
Cobalt	11712
Cadmium	11712
Hydrogen Fuel Block	2900
Vanadium	57978
Hafnium	1459

Step 1 of 2 · 2 intermediates in parallel

Reaction jobs of step 1
Job	Slots	Runs / slot	Per run	Duration / slot	Produced	Used	Surplus	Job cost
Crystallite Alloy	1	120	1h 22m 5s	6d 20h 9m	24,000	23,816	184	7.76M
Unrefined Thulium Hafnite	10	60 / 59	2h 44m 10s	6d 20h 9m	594	594		44.36M

Unrefined Thulium Hafnite replaces the Thulium Hafnite reaction: 594 units reprocessed at 55% yield give 56,519 Hafnium (56,519 replace purchases), 23,849 Thulium Hafnite (23,816 used, 33 surplus).

Uses 56,519 Hafnium from the previous cycle's reprocessing in step 1.

Buy for step 1

Item	Quantity	Unit price	Total	Broker fee
Helium Fuel Block	586	17.64K	10.34M	155.06K
Cobalt	11,712	565	6.61M	99.17K
Cadmium	11,712	5.50K	64.37M	965.54K
Hydrogen Fuel Block	2,900	16.56K	48.02M	720.36K
Vanadium	57,978	2.42K	140.07M	2.10M
Hafnium	1,459	8.01K	11.69M	175.32K
Total			281.10M	4.22M

Job cost 52.12M = system 34.91M (10.14%) + facility tax 3.44M (1.00%) + SCC 13.77M (4.00%)

Step subtotal 337.44M

Step 2 of 2 · final product

Reaction jobs of step 2
Job	Slots	Runs / slot	Per run	Duration / slot	Produced	Used	Job cost
Photonic Metamaterials	2	122	1h 22m 5s	6d 22h 53m	73,200	73,200	64.48M

Uses 23,816 Crystallite Alloy from step 1, 23,816 Thulium Hafnite from step 1.

Buy for step 2

Item	Quantity	Unit price	Total	Broker fee
Oxygen Fuel Block	1,192	17.47K	20.82M	312.36K
Total			20.82M	312.36K

Job cost 64.48M = system 43.19M (10.14%) + facility tax 4.26M (1.00%) + SCC 17.04M (4.00%)

Step subtotal 85.62M

Summary

Costs

Purchases: 301.93M
Broker fees: 4.53M
Job cost: 116.60M
Total cost: 423.06M

Sale

Output value: 689.84M
Sales tax & broker fees: 35.18M
Profit: 231.59M

Slot time

Jobs (2 steps): 13
Slot time (13 slots × 7 d): 91d
Profit / run (244 runs): 949.16K
Profit / slot / day: 2.54M

Outputs

Item	Quantity	Unit price	Total	Tax & fees	Volume m³
Photonic Metamaterials	73,200	9.42K	689.84M	35.18M	73,200.00
Total			689.84M	35.18M	73,200.00

Surplus intermediates (not counted as profit)

Item	Quantity	Unit price	Total	Volume m³
Crystallite Alloy	184	4.55K	837.38K	36.80
Thulium Hafnite	33	18.55K	612.15K	6.60
Total			1.45M	43.40

Price timing

Default 14 days (chain depth × cycle length). Input prices as of 2026-09-24.

Approximate (daily averages)

Profit, inputs bought 14 days ago: 241.69M
Profit at today's prices: 231.59M
Difference: +10.09M

Price and volume history

Profit / slot / day

Output value

Input cost

Traded per day, The Forge

90 of 90 days (≈ in the table) use the region's average daily trade price where no hub prices were collected, for buying and selling alike.

Data table (90 days)

Date	Profit / slot / day	Output value	Input cost	Traded
2026-07-10 ≈	3.44M	762.01M	288.74M	403,439
2026-07-11 ≈	2.96M	730.46M	302.79M	121,707
2026-07-12 ≈	2.87M	730.39M	310.92M	1,294,641
2026-07-13 ≈	2.81M	749.57M	333.79M	382,332
2026-07-14 ≈	2.99M	751.03M	319.30M	281,872
2026-07-15 ≈	3.04M	745.18M	309.33M	545,249
2026-07-16 ≈	3.06M	745.18M	307.31M	546,937
2026-07-17 ≈	2.76M	702.79M	294.35M	821,014
2026-07-18 ≈	2.84M	724.31M	307.46M	735,325
2026-07-19 ≈	2.89M	731.85M	310.57M	3,975,715
2026-07-20 ≈	3.12M	754.69M	311.37M	552,187
2026-07-21 ≈	3.35M	774.46M	308.92M	974,245
2026-07-22 ≈	3.57M	795.68M	309.35M	581,297
2026-07-23 ≈	3.47M	783.24M	305.91M	238,775
2026-07-24 ≈	3.28M	762.01M	303.94M	391,857
2026-07-25 ≈	2.86M	718.02M	299.84M	748,192
2026-07-26 ≈	3.14M	755.42M	309.55M	301,705
2026-07-27 ≈	3.23M	748.84M	295.99M	522,166
2026-07-28 ≈	2.92M	719.70M	296.30M	547,166
2026-07-29 ≈	3.13M	748.84M	304.29M	651,364
2026-07-30 ≈	2.81M	717.73M	304.47M	789,105
2026-07-31 ≈	2.73M	747.37M	339.36M	753,158
2026-08-01 ≈	2.79M	745.91M	332.81M	575,565
2026-08-02 ≈	2.92M	745.18M	320.43M	293,912
2026-08-03 ≈	3.01M	742.98M	309.71M	424,485
2026-08-04 ≈	3.10M	738.59M	297.44M	479,793
2026-08-05 ≈	2.92M	732.73M	308.05M	241,215
2026-08-06 ≈	2.88M	731.85M	311.02M	517,846
2026-08-07 ≈	3.01M	731.93M	299.19M	1,172,279
2026-08-08 ≈	3.16M	745.91M	299.49M	365,277
2026-08-09 ≈	3.06M	747.37M	309.93M	612,730
2026-08-10 ≈	3.10M	747.37M	305.55M	248,124
2026-08-11 ≈	3.35M	766.40M	301.66M	823,678
2026-08-12 ≈	3.63M	800.08M	307.62M	193,619
2026-08-13 ≈	3.52M	768.60M	287.81M	860,169
2026-08-14 ≈	3.20M	739.32M	289.48M	421,301
2026-08-15 ≈	3.03M	731.63M	297.17M	1,058,690
2026-08-16 ≈	3.04M	731.93M	297.19M	404,800
2026-08-17 ≈	3.57M	780.31M	294.89M	361,445
2026-08-18 ≈	2.68M	691.96M	291.53M	422,048
2026-08-19 ≈	3.42M	766.40M	295.33M	518,581
2026-08-20 ≈	2.70M	691.45M	289.74M	1,037,405
2026-08-21 ≈	3.26M	748.10M	292.42M	194,587
2026-08-22 ≈	3.17M	731.71M	284.64M	444,881
2026-08-23 ≈	3.15M	731.78M	287.05M	451,148
2026-08-24 ≈	3.24M	739.32M	286.20M	820,375
2026-08-25 ≈	3.27M	750.30M	293.57M	713,994
2026-08-26 ≈	3.42M	748.84M	278.42M	659,435
2026-08-27 ≈	3.38M	741.52M	275.22M	1,020,038
2026-08-28 ≈	3.17M	740.05M	292.67M	752,196
2026-08-29 ≈	3.50M	758.35M	280.73M	474,356
2026-08-30 ≈	3.53M	761.28M	280.23M	553,859
2026-08-31 ≈	3.81M	781.78M	274.51M	712,005
2026-09-01 ≈	3.89M	808.13M	291.56M	354,096
2026-09-02 ≈	4.04M	809.59M	279.91M	443,227
2026-09-03 ≈	3.92M	810.32M	291.05M	862,041
2026-09-04 ≈	4.07M	824.96M	291.88M	436,140
2026-09-05 ≈	3.91M	819.84M	301.37M	526,938
2026-09-06 ≈	4.02M	819.84M	291.20M	802,333
2026-09-07 ≈	4.03M	816.91M	287.90M	468,453
2026-09-08 ≈	3.82M	809.59M	299.28M	833,993
2026-09-09 ≈	3.72M	797.88M	297.79M	243,852
2026-09-10 ≈	3.75M	797.15M	293.85M	477,989
2026-09-11 ≈	3.55M	783.97M	299.46M	479,663
2026-09-12 ≈	3.50M	782.51M	303.31M	753,160
2026-09-13 ≈	3.20M	742.98M	293.12M	686,517
2026-09-14 ≈	3.27M	740.05M	283.78M	406,435
2026-09-15 ≈	3.05M	733.46M	297.15M	351,018
2026-09-16 ≈	3.08M	730.68M	291.88M	572,655
2026-09-17 ≈	3.12M	729.95M	287.77M	604,707
2026-09-18 ≈	3.14M	729.73M	286.16M	627,498
2026-09-19 ≈	3.07M	729.22M	291.92M	771,146
2026-09-20 ≈	3.14M	729.00M	284.90M	1,289,372
2026-09-21 ≈	3.15M	728.49M	284.10M	702,761
2026-09-22 ≈	3.02M	725.85M	292.84M	381,487
2026-09-23 ≈	2.98M	721.75M	292.65M	481,006
2026-09-24 ≈	2.98M	721.24M	291.99M	392,858
2026-09-25 ≈	3.06M	720.36M	284.58M	445,619
2026-09-26 ≈	2.83M	718.02M	302.74M	315,185
2026-09-27 ≈	2.37M	717.29M	343.29M	609,351
2026-09-28 ≈	2.59M	712.68M	319.26M	702,551
2026-09-29 ≈	2.67M	712.60M	312.40M	2,004,222
2026-09-30 ≈	2.69M	715.09M	312.77M	465,564
2026-10-01 ≈	2.85M	715.31M	298.56M	517,266
2026-10-02 ≈	2.69M	715.68M	312.90M	509,179
2026-10-03 ≈	2.61M	717.36M	322.00M	2,193,703
2026-10-04 ≈	2.75M	720.95M	312.97M	701,977
2026-10-05 ≈	2.66M	717.14M	317.42M	551,040
2026-10-06 ≈	2.47M	695.40M	313.58M	728,544
2026-10-07 ≈	2.52M	691.01M	305.04M	216,476