-1 if this has to be researched the way other formulas are research then this is worthless.

What would a Velox Thruster do?

Why?

because each discovery costs an additional 2k research and you only have a 1% chance of success when you attempt a discovery. to sacrifice several hundred thousand research points just to be able to compress 10 androids when you have over 20k cargo, seems rather unnecessary.

Heres your way around the CT discovery. Just have it as a side research project. Just like how the whole legion upgrades the base have it so that these side projects cost like 100 or 200k to research. These compressors could be one of them. Since dan caved to the big spenders and throttled back MSP drops this would let those that missed the MSP frenzy days have a chance of ever saving up enough arts to do some of these and still be able to save up the Kru or Aid required for mods. But the catch here would be that you can only use these compressed arts towards your CT creations. To make it simple for Dan and the others they could just add a button that requires you to use all compressed or none compressed.

Either way I would love to see some side research projects for the CT Lab. Throw some EM requirements in there why not.

Is why I said "easy". More often then not you don't get anything. Why not add something that would allow you to at least get something. Just because the new artifacts have a 1% chance it doesn't mean by adding things that have a higher percentage chance would dilute the chance to get the new artifacts.

Yes, it would, because once you found it your discovery costs would be 2000 research more. Having useless discoveries makes it more difficult to get good discoveries.