Color Pigment

Introduction
A Pigment is a type of resource which appears as a small tetrahedron (three-sided pyramid) dropped by specific enemies. Pigments are required for researching Polychrome Colors for the interior of a Clan Dojo.

Polychrome Colors can be researched (and pigments can be turned in) at a Clan Dojo's Tenno Research Lab at a separate terminal by the wall on the right. Each project will have a base cost of and 5 to 550 pigment which is impacted by the Clan Tier Multiplier.

Once fully funded, research for a color takes 36 hours. Only one color may be researched at a time, regardless of the number of Tenno Labs that are present in the Dojo. Research on one color may be paused to start research on another, but any pigment in clan member inventories that has not been donated to the research project will be deleted.

Each Polychrome Color has an associated enemy. Pigments will only drop if a color is being researched, in which case killing the associated enemy will guarantee a pigment drop. One pigment will drop for each player in the squad who is researching that color. For example, a Crewman will drop two Glacial Blue pigments if there are two players present who are researching that color. This is not impacted by clan affiliation.

Resource Boosters
Resource Boosters and Resource Drop Chance Boosters increase the amount of pigments that drop from enemies. Specifically, the Resource Booster doubles the amount of pigments dropped, and the Resource Drop Chance Booster doubles the drop rate. Since the drop rate for pigments is 100%, the drop chance is doubled to 200%, resulting in twice as much of the item being dropped. This effectively results in a 2x quantity multiplier when only one of either booster is active, and a 4x quantity multiplier when both are active.

Tips
Corpses can be Desecrated to drop a second batch of pigments, and it is possible to dismember corpses further to drop few more batches.
 * For this purpose, the Braton Prime, AkJagara and Grakata have a unique property of dismembering corpses in pieces when shot, similar to melee. These weapons are by far the quickest and most efficient weapons to be used -- up to five separate pieces can be cut from a single corpse, yielding five batches at most.

Polychrome Colors
The table below contains a list of all researchable Polychrome colors, the enemy that drops the pigment, and the base pigment cost. Note that these requirements scale with the Clan Tier Multiplier.