Description
Cosmic Ray Fuel Utilization Technology captures and harnesses cosmic rays as a sustainable fuel source for spacecraft.
Benefits
Fuel output Empire-wide+7.33%
Power output Empire-wide+4.67%
Strategy notes
Cosmic Ray Fuel Utilization 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 +55% Fuel Production; +35% Power. The principal counterpressure is that extraction complexes are immobile, power hungry, and exposed to raiding or market isolation.
Player hints
This is a specialization milestone. Reaching it reveals stronger combinations, but broad tier-three investment will slow every capstone. 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
48KRP
21.6KCredits
9.6KCommon
7.2KRare
5.4KStrategic
14.4KFuel