Research
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Wars are fought with technology, and technology is discovered through research. All research is done at your Research Lab, where you can improve your existing technologies, and discover new ones. Technologies do different things, such as improve units or unlock new technologies and ships.
Base Costs and Requirements
| Tech | Lab Level |
Tech Requirements | Ore | Crystal | Hydrogen |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advanced Communications Research Network |
10 | FTL 7 AI 8 |
150,000 | 200,000 | 80,000 |
| AI | 1 | none | 0 | 400 | 600 |
| Armor | 2 | none | 1,000 | 0 | 0 |
| Energy | 1 | none | 0 | 800 | 400 |
| Espionage | 3 | none | 200 | 1,000 | 200 |
| Expedition | 3 | Espionage 4 | 4,000 | 8,000 | 1,000 |
| FTL | 7 | Energy 5 Shield 5 |
0 | 4,000 | 2,000 |
| Jet Drive | 1 | Energy 1 | 400 | 0 | 600 |
| Laser | 1 | Energy 2 | 200 | 100 | 0 |
| Particle | 4 | Laser 5 Energy 4 |
1,000 | 300 | 100 |
| Plasma | 4 | Energy 8 Laser 10 Particle 5 |
2,000 | 4,000 | 1000 |
| Pulse Drive | 2 | Energy 1 | 2,000 | 4,000 | 600 |
| Shield | 6 | Energy 3 | 200 | 600 | 0 |
| Warp Drive | 7 | FTL 3 | 10,000 | 20,000 | 6,000 |
| Weapons | 4 | none | 800 | 200 | 0 |
Refer to the description of each individual technology for more specific information.
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