Description
Zero-Point Energy Extraction Technology taps into the vacuum energy of space, providing an inexhaustible and clean energy source.
Benefits
Fuel output Empire-wide+3.08%
Power output Empire-wide+4.92%
Strategy notes
Zero-Point Energy Extraction develops the Fuel discipline within Resource Ascendancy. Turn superior surveying, extraction, refining, and energy conversion into strategic control of scarce materials. Its immediate value is +40% Power; +25% Fuel Production. The principal counterpressure is that extraction complexes are immobile, power hungry, and exposed to raiding or market isolation.
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 Fuel 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
9.6KRP
4.32KCredits
1.92KCommon
1.44KRare
1.08KStrategic
2.88KFuel