@Friedman Ok i think i fixed it with #3. The research is just blank now without royalty and the research tree continues on. I just hope i didnt break anything else

Totally forgot - you could also add a <success>Always</success> to each operation which makes them not break the sequence even if they fail

The PatchOperationSequence all of the content is included in fails when Royalty is not present, making the entire mod do nothing.
This happens because a PatchOperationSequence fails and breaks when any of the operations inside of it fails.
Several of your patchoperations reference the "VanometricBasics" research, which is only added by the Royalty-dependant patch in your main Vanometric Cell Combining mod.
These operations fail and therefore cause the sequence to fail.

You can fix this in one of several ways:
1. just mark this as royalty-dependant
2. add conditionals that check for VanometricBasics before adding it as a prereq
3. add the vanometricbasics research to the vanilla patch or to this patch and make it do something