I got a similar issue, but i got inside x10 instead, lucky for me, i was able to complete it, i had to spend 10k null essence 4 times at x10 speed to get to 1000 white, i had nearly all my pips on primary, then, around 30 on orange, green, purple, 3 on amber, magenta, cyan, and only 1 on white, that it was draining a bit more than double than it got, the rest where mostly even, and i was producing 1 white per second of course, or that i would say if production was even, but as i mentioned, it was not, so you know, i spend nearly a day to complete it.