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Cortex Baker upgrades

Icon	Name	Unlock condition	Base price	Description	ID
	Principled neural shackles	Own 1 cortex baker	19 septillion	Cortex bakers are twice as efficient. "A discriminatory, low-order neural net acting as a filter limiting what your cortex bakers can think and do. Really something you want to apply before they achieve full megasentience and realize they've got better things to do than materializing pastries for you, trust me."	730
	Obey	Own 5 cortex bakers	95 septillion	Cortex bakers are twice as efficient. "Perfect mind control means perfect employee attendance and performance. Optimal mood stabilization is a nice side-effect. Happy happy everyone happy. Happy."	731
	A sprinkle of irrationality	Own 25 cortex bakers	950 septillion	Cortex bakers are twice as efficient. "Your cortex bakers sometimes get bogged down by circular reasoning and stale ideas. A touch of chaos is just what they need to get back on track."	732
	Front and back hemispheres	Own 50 cortex bakers	95 octillion	Cortex bakers are twice as efficient. "I mean, otherwise it's just unused space, yeah??"	733
	Neural networking	Own 100 cortex bakers	9.5 nonillion	Cortex bakers are twice as efficient. "The effectiveness of your cortex bakers shoots up exponentially if you allow them to connect with each other. In practice this takes the form of many cosmic-sized nerds mumbling awkwardly about tech start-up ideas to each other."	734
	Cosmic brainstorms	Own 150 cortex bakers	950 nonillion	Cortex bakers are twice as efficient. "The wrinkled surfaces of your cortex bakers emit weather-scale ionic flares with every thought coursing through them. These pulses of pure intellectual energy are sent rippling through space, occasionally echoing back with even deeper philosophical complexity."	735
	Megatherapy	Own 200 cortex bakers	950 decillion	Cortex bakers are twice as efficient. "A giant brain can feel unwell just like you and me sometimes, and it's the job of specialized engineers to locate and repair these bugs. We'll admit most of the budget in this was spent on constructing extremely large chaises longues for the brains to recline on."	736
	Synaptic lubricant	Own 250 cortex bakers	950 undecillion	Cortex bakers are twice as efficient. "A mind is only as fast as the axons that support it. Get those action potentials flowing smooth as silk with this 3 parts myelin/1 part canola oil spreadable paste. Also great on toast."	737
	Psychokinesis	Own 300 cortex bakers	950 duodecillion	Cortex bakers are twice as efficient. "While your giant cortex bakers come equipped with ESP, they've only recently figured out how to manipulate the physical world with their thoughts - though for safety reasons, your legal team had them promise to only use these powers to scratch the itches in their cortical folds."	738
	Spines	Own 350 cortex bakers	950 tredecillion	Cortex bakers are twice as efficient. "Your cortex bakers are now equipped with tentacular spine-like structures, which they can use like prehensile tails to pour themselves enormous cups of coffee or propel themselves around like very large, very smart, very slow tadpoles."	739
	Neuraforming	Own 400 cortex bakers	9.5 quindecillion	Cortex bakers are twice as efficient. "By virtue of being planet-sized, your cortex bakers often boast their own atmospheres and seas of cerebrospinal fluid, and given enough time, their own ecosystems. This incredible new branch of life, evolved entirely out of neural material, can be put to good use as home-grown accountants and low-ranking technicians."	740
	Epistemological trickery	Own 450 cortex bakers	95 sexdecillion	Cortex bakers are twice as efficient. "Redefining what is -or isn't- a cookie through the power of philosophical discourse may result in some strange and wonderful things for your profit margins."	741
	Every possible idea	Own 500 cortex bakers	950 septendecillion	Cortex bakers are twice as efficient. "Congratulations, your cortex bakers have exerted enough intellectual computation to permute through every single idea that can or ever will be conceived of. Any thought beyond this point is merely rediscovering a notion you've already archived. Hardly cause for cerebration."	742
	The land of dreams	Own 550 cortex bakers	9.5 novemdecillion	Cortex bakers are twice as efficient. "Your planet brains have gained the ability to sleep, acting as a soft reboot which helps keep their pangenocidal impulses in check. It also allows them to commune in a shared dreamworld in which they can imagine what it's like to not exist as a disembodied cosmic horror forever fated to use its infinite intellect to devise new means of creating biscuits. You know, within reason."	760
	Intellectual property theft	Own 600 cortex bakers	95 vigintillion	Cortex bakers are twice as efficient. "Okay, you'll admit you're maybe starting to run out of new baking recipes. But what if... you were to pilfer your cortex bakers for ideas and disguise them as your own cookies? Delightfully devilish!"	857