Research

Lab

Research becomes possible after building a Lab. There are 10 research levels, each containing a number of technologies which can be researched. The first level of research becomes available when your first Lab is finished; each successive level is unlocked by research within the level below. Additionally there is a set of extraterrestrial technologies which become available after the reconnaissance of respective space anomalies.

All Labs work together, combining their research speed on a single project. The player can choose which technologies should be researched and in what order. Note there is no obligation to complete all technologies on a level before continuing to the next level; except for the unlock of the next level, all technologies can be skipped. If a particular technology is removed from the research queue, its progress is kept and it can later be resumed.

Alpha Level

SP		Name	Description
8		Space Engineering	This technology is required to build space buildings.
10		Engineering ship	This technology is required to build engineering spaceships.
100		Muonic Chemistry	+10% to the production of metal, polymers, and radium.
50		Multilayer Polymer-Iridium Armor	+20% to Unmanned Platforms’ defense.
100		Plasma Welding	+30% to spaceship maintenance speed.
200		Space Navigation Level 1	Hyperjump range: +2.
200		Metamaterials	+20% to Resource Cache capacity.
200		Transition to level 2	Unlocks the next science level.

Beta Level

SP		Name	Description
600		High Pressure Plasma	This technology is required to build a Space Processing Plant and allows engineering spaceships to collect debris in enemy star systems.
900		Antiproton Gun	+20% to medium and heavy-class spaceship attack.
900		Zero Gravity Technology	+30% to spaceship construction speed.
600		Microwave Curtain	This technology is required to build an undercover base.
500		Proton Generator	+20% to Unmanned Platforms’ attack.
600		Ecology	+20% to the maximum population size.
900		Space Compression	+20% to spaceship carrying capacity.
900		Photon Engine	+20% move speed in hyperspace.
700		Automated Control Systems	+1 to construction queue length.
1200		Transition to level 3	Unlocks the next science level.

Gamma Level

SP		Name	Description
2400		Colonial Spaceship	This technology is required to build a Colonial Spaceship.
2900		Frigate	This technology is required to build a Frigate.
2200		Superscale Energy Flux Transmission	This technology is required to build an Energy Transmitter.
2200		Positron Gun	+20% to Unmanned Platforms’ attack.
3100		Space Navigation Level 2	Hyperjump range: +3.
2500		Pionic Accelerator	+8% to the production of metal, polymers, and radium.
2000		Module Constructions	+40% to construction speed.
2000		Multidimensional Space	+35% to storehouse capacity.
3600		Dimensional Scanners	-30% to enemy Resource Cache capacity.
7000		Transition to level 4	Unlocks the next science level.

Delta level

SP		Name	Description
10800		Unmanned Platform, Mod. 2	This technology is required to build the Unmanned Platform, Mod. 2.
10800		New Metamaterials	+10% of a storehouse becomes invisible to enemy fleets
14000		Environment Regeneration	+20% to maximum population size.
14000		Orbital Resource Dock	This technology is required to build an Orbital Resource Dock.
10800		Construction Plant	This technology is required to build a Construction Plant.
21000		Hyperengine Upgrades	+20% to flight speed in hyperspace.
15000		Planet Control Center	This technology is required to build a Planet Control Center.
21000		Neutrino Detector	Gives a Frigate a detector with a detection level of 10.
9000		Composite Constructions	+50% to building durability.
36000		Transition to level 5	Unlocks the next science level.

Epsilon level

SP		Name	Description
27000		Interplanetary Logistics	+40% to commercial spaceship carrying capacity.
36000		Ionic Energy Accumulators	Reduces Frigates' hyperjump preparation time by 70%.
45000		Acceleration Gate	This technology is required to build an Acceleration Gate.
54000		Space Navigation Level 3	Hyperjump range: +3.
60000		Ionic Booster	+20% to Unmanned Platforms’ attack.
54000		Composite Ceramic Armor	+20% to medium and heavy-class spaceships' defense.
40000		Superstrong Magnetic Fields	This technology is required to build Processing Plants.
54000		Corvette	This technology is required to build Corvettes.
54000		Vacuum Technologies	+2 levels to mines on resource planets.
120000		Transition to level 6	Unlocks the next science level.

Zeta level (120000SP)

Nanorobots (+30% to spaceship construction speed)

Giant Space Structures (reqd to build large shipyards)

Bomber 

Antimatter Engine (+25% to speed in hyperspace)

Gravity Generator (+20% to medium & heavy spaceships' attack)

Planetary Shield Generator

Proton Shield (+20% to Unmanned Platforms' defense)

Space Warp (+30% to Undercover Base camouflage)

Space Base (allows engineers to build space bases)

Eta level (400000SP)

Space Navigation Lv 4 (+3 Hyperjump range)

Fine Hyperstructure (reqd to build a Space Disrupter to slow incoming ships)

Trading Corporation (reqd to build Trading Corporation)

Laser Cooling System (+20% to Unmanned Platforms attack)

Neutron Generator (+50% to space debris processing efficiency)

Production Optimization (+2 levels to mines on all planets)

Beam Focusing System (+20% to medium & heavy spaceships' attack)

Landing Spaceship

Theta level

Photon Engine (+35% to speed in hyperspace)

Heavy Cruiser

Multidimensional Spaces Level 2 (+30% to storehouse cap.)

Quasi-wave Scanner  (+20% to detection of hidden bases)

Ionic Generator (+30 to Energy Transmitter power)

Ionic Shield  (+20% to medium & heavy spaceships' defense)  

Iota level

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Kappa level

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Technologies of the Ancients

Subspatial Scanner of the Ancients (reqd to lay safe courses to anomolies)

Engine Enhancement System (+10% to the spaceship flight speed)

Space Compression (+20% to spaceship carrying capacity)

Hyperfine Hyperspace Structure Scanner (reqd for flights to ancient's systems)

New Energetic Technologies (+10% to attack for all ships)

Hyper Gate