Description
Hardened Planetary Garrisons sustains organized resistance after ports, networks, and central commands are attacked. Hold valuable systems through shields, layered orbital defense, disciplined ground forces, and coordinated production.
Benefits
Strategic materials output Empire-wide+3%
Strategy notes
Hardened Planetary Garrisons develops the GroundWarfare discipline within Fortress and Combined Arms. Hold valuable systems through shields, layered orbital defense, disciplined ground forces, and coordinated production. Its immediate value is +3% strategic material output. The principal counterpressure is that siege, blockade, espionage, and expansion around fortified systems can make static strength irrelevant.
Player hints
This tier begins to define an empire. Compare its resource demand with the other technologies competing for your laboratories. Favor this technology when its GroundWarfare benefits reinforce your current economy, fleets, or frontier. Pause the branch if its expected RP per tick is too diluted or its resource costs would stall higher-priority projects.
Research cost
8KRP
6KCredits
2.6KCommon
2KRare
2.4KStrategic
1KFuel