Technologies

Laboratories generate the Research data that research runs on. Technologies are listed in the order of the research tree, and each entry says what the technology gives. They are the same texts the game shows.

• Basic science

  The root of the tree. More Research data per hour across the empire.

• Astronomy

  Unlocks the Probe, the Observatory and the path to Hyperlight jump.

• Biosciences

  Higher maximum population on all your planets.

• Colonial technology

  Lets you colonise ever more hostile worlds.

• Colonial administration

  Each level lets you hold one more planet.

• Industrial engineering

  Shortens the time of every construction.

• Metallurgy

  More Metals per hour on all your planets.

• Crystallography

  More Silicates per hour on all your planets.

• Fusion power

  Reactors yield more from every gram of Helium-3.

• Cryogenic extraction

  More Helium-3 per hour on all your planets.

• Naval engineering

  Better hulls: shortens the build time of ships and emplacements.

• Logistics

  Bigger stores.

• Orbital construction

  Unlocks the buildings raised in orbit.

• Megaengineering

  Unlocks the largest ships.

• Chemical drives

  The first engine. Faster ships and the first hull classes.

• Fusion drives

  The workhorse engine of half the fleet, and the way to jumping.

• Ion drives

  More speed and less Helium-3 burned in flight.

• Gravitic drive

  The engine of the Dreadnought, the Titan and the Portal ship.

• Hyperlight jump

  Shorter transits, more range, and jump charts.

• Portal stabilisation

  Unlocks the Jump gate, and each level cools it down sooner.

• Kinetic weapons

  More projectile damage: the first weapon and the first defence.

• Lasers

  More laser damage. Good against armour, poor against shields.

• Missiles

  More missile and torpedo damage, and unlocks the Missile base.

• Plasma

  More plasma damage: it cuts through shields and armour.

• Gravitic weapons

  The ultimate weapon: it all but ignores shields and armour.

• Armour

  More structure and more armour on ships and defences.

• Shields

  More shielding on ships and defences.

• Countermeasures

  Your ships take less damage from missiles and torpedoes.

• Point defence

  More damage from the point-defence guns on your ships.

• Missile defence

  Intercepts enemy missiles before they reach the planet.

• Sensor networks

  You see hostile fleets coming sooner, and your espionage is more precise.

• Automation

  Deeper queues for buildings and the shipyard.

• Tactical AI

  Your ships hit more often.

• Electronic warfare

  The enemy hits less often, and probes spying on you are detected sooner.

• Research network

  Laboratories in your other colonies research too.

• Predictive processing

  You research faster.

• Xenoarchaeology

  From level 2, anomalies yield Axiom fragments a little more often.

• Alien technology

  A little more damage and structure across the whole fleet.

• Axiom resonance

  Everything that costs Axiom fragments costs less.

• Portal engineering

  Unlocks the Portal ship.

• Wormholes

  Your fleets go through a wormhole to another galaxy and attack there. Spying is no use: the signal does not make it through the tunnel.