would it be possible to break ctlab artifacts into their component parts ?

No as most require items that can't be sent.

what does that have to do with it ?

If this is a question then no , if a suggest : +1 ( I don't understand the way you're saying things )

sorry i meant it as a suggestion

did you mean as cancel a artefact after making it in the lab by mistake (so some form of confirmation button listing details of the components [30 space elevator chassis etc] )


or break it down after extracting it from a recently invaded planet (ie invading a planet and extracting a astrobiology ward) ?

If the second option then -1 as it would be abused

lol i just thought it would be nice to break down some of the 100 spy probe governance artifacts i have back into the ortginal parts

it would allow for the trading of space elevators, phase cutters, all the other chassis', data disks, msps,.and tesseracts.

He simply means scrapping the artifacts made in the CTlab and get back the original artifacts.

If the amount of artifacts returned would be ~80% or lower of the original "recipe" and can't be used on vaults this would be a +1

We all know what he means, but if it can be extracted it can be traded.

the number of lower ranks who are going to be extracting enough artis to abuse anything, probably aren't going to be that many, honestly, how many extractors did you find before rank 150? think about it.
how many of EVERY arti is someone who's in an arti legion going to get in that same time period with 50K+ arti a day from the base shipment.. I dont see anything thats going to unbalance anything. its not like they're going to be able to scrap an Anubix and gain decks.