Speaking of Creation via Alchemiter... do you think there's anything besides the Sburb (and by extension, Sgrub) discs that can't be made because it doesn't have a captcha code? The initial thing that sparked this question: is the Matriorb one of those things? Ghost images of things exist; was the only way to get it using Roxy's void powers?

You can actually make anything INCLUDING the SBURB Discs, you just need an Intellibeam Laserstation to read the code. Not only do we know the Matriorb has a Code, we know it can be mad through Alchemy, because it’s one of the component routes to create a Hat.

However, this route also informs us- Knowing a Potted Plan and a Charles Dutton Book aren’t exactly expensive items, that the Matriorb costs an obscene amount of Grist. This is no ordinary Grist, either…

Two incredibly powerful, almost surely Nuclear-Powered weapons shown in the comic use One single unit of this Grist. A recipe using the Matriorb requires 100 Trillion Units of this Grist. Mind you, this is not like Build Grist either, I don’t think we’ve seen Rainbow Diamond Grist drop from any enemy, but Rainbow Droplet Grist did drop from a Lich Queen- A High-level Underling sent to stop John from activating the Scratch. If this Grist drops only from special Underlings, and in little amounts, it’s possible that its supply is even limited within a Session, to whatever number of Special Underlings there are, assuming it couldn’t be farmed out of LOHACSE.

Creating it? Is Possible, but having a Rogue of Void makes things so much easier than having to Farm Forever, it’s not a matter of impossibility, rather, it’s the futility of spending so long trying to grind enough Grist.

And this is a recipe USING the Matriorb- It’s possible the Matriorb’s Actual Grist Cost could be higher than that, since I would say a Hat is a very big downgrade from The Egg To Make A Mother Grub Hatch.