As you all know, there are currently 18 possible discoveries to be made in the Collective Theory Lab. All of the items that be created are useful in their own way, but the CTL still leaves a lot to be desired. For example, there is currently only one easy way to remove planets from your star charts, and that method takes quite a long time. (I have even seen threads that were made to complain about this, so it must be an issue to at least a few people.)
And that leads me to my first idea for a new CTL artifact. The Star Chart Mega-Purger. (It would look the normal Star Chart Purger, only blue instead of pink.)

Artifact costs:
Star Chart purger x10
Shield Amplifier x10
Ancient Crystal Foci x10

Energy: 40

Effect: Removes up to 25 planets from your scanners.

Scrap value: 10-15 CTP

Planets that you wish to remove can be selected by clicking a check box that will appear next to your planets after you use the artifact. The number of uses the artifact has left will be displayed across from the line of text that says "Showing 1 to 10 of X planets (filtered from Y total planets)" and will disappear once you have purged the maximum number of planets.

This is just one possible idea for an expansion of the CT lab. Post any ideas that you have.
Also, note that any discoveries made after the original 18 will have the same research cost as the 18th discovery.

nice idea but 10 purgers to get rid of 50 planets is a tad too many gotten rid of... I would suggest something more like 20/25

agreed. 50 is too much, 20-25 is a better amount.

What's the point of making an item that would make scanning easier? Especially high rank players who can easily get those purgers from the unlimited mission, and artifact pull. -1 from me.

No way. Not only is this way op nothing like this is needed.
Not purging fast enough? You've got two options already. You can either make purgers through the mission, or even better work on your arti production.

I'm indifferent to this arti suggestion, but I think we could use some more CT stuff. I think most of the higher legions have researched/found all the possible things, and I'm sure some people want to find some more stuff to discover.

We would like more things to find, but they have to be reasonable for any legion because many of the suggestions for new blueprints would be a hindrance to those without all the items as it would make it harder to find the more useful ones. maybe if there were some you could only get after unlocking all the current ones. Still a no to this though.

+1 if 20-25 planets