The Alpha-5 Laboratory is the largest part of Sector A, connecting to all other sectors and housing the Hadron Collider, a 50-mile-long particle accelerator ring, holding title for the biggest Hadron Collider ever made at the time. The Alpha-5 Laboratory also houses the site director's office, the communications department, the manager of Human Resources office, a research board conference room, and the Science Director's office. The Alpha-5 Laboratory shares a similar color palette to parts of the Tartarus Zone, and also shares much the same purpose apart from the Hadron Collider, holding various offices of both executives and corporate members alike. As well as this, the Alpha-5 Laboratory also contains the Curie Park, a large underground park cavern in honour of Marie Curie, a pioneer in research into radiation and cancer treatment.
The Hadron Collider is an advanced piece of scientific equipment that speeds up particles to insane speeds to collide them and make dark matter for DMR fuel cells. To make a fuel cell, first press the red button on the right control panel. After this, the collider will begin starting up. Once the screens stop displaying "Startup sequence initiated" and the alarms stop going off, the collider is active. At this stage the fuel cell is beginning to fill up. Progress of the fuel cells can be monitored via the screens above both the startup and dispenser button. To speed up the process of fuel cell production, the speed of the hadron collider can be increased. However, if speed is raised above 60%, the thermal capacity will begin increasing. Once thermal capacity is above 50%, the overload alarm will sound, and if the accelerator's thermal capacity reaches 100%, it will overheat and shut down. When this happens, a system cooldown begins, preventing the Hadron Collider from being used for two minutes before it returns to the idle state.
Once a fuel cell capacity reaches 100%, the thermal capacity will stop rising and a message stating that the fuel cell is ready to dispense will briefly display on all screens. To dispense the fuel cell, shut down the collider and press the dispense fuel cell button when it is fully offline. Once the fuel cell is finished being dispensed, it will pop up in the dispenser receptacle, on the left side of the controls. Once a fuel cell is used in the DMR and removed during maintenance mode, it can be taken back to the Hadron Collider control room and inserted into the depleted fuel collection receptacle, allowing for the fuel cell capsule to be reused. Upon doing this, the Good Samaritan quest is completed and a pay out of 25 electrons initially and 50 upon repeat is given.
It has been found that the best way of producing a fuel cell is to raise the speed to 60% until the fuel level is at 60%, then increase the speed to 100%. If the overheat alarms go off, the procedure has been done incorrectly.