Description
Small Arms Enhancement Technology upgrades the standard issue firearms of your troops, increasing accuracy, range, and firepower, ensuring your forces remain dominant in skirmishes.
Benefits
Space attack Empire-wide+2%
Ground attack Empire-wide+4%
Strategy notes
Small Arms Enhancement develops the Troops discipline within Bio-Social Dominion. Build a large, resilient workforce and disciplined service culture through medicine, institutions, and population policy. Its immediate value is +10% Ground Attack; +5% Space Attack. The principal counterpressure is that high consumption and concentrated social systems are vulnerable to unrest, espionage, and supply disruption.
Player hints
This is an inexpensive path entry. Research it early when you want to test this direction without sacrificing strategic flexibility. Favor this technology when its Troops 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
1.8KRP
1.17KCredits
315Common
225Rare
67Strategic
180Fuel