Description
Dark Energy Drives Technology utilizes dark energy to propel spacecraft, enabling rapid acceleration and efficient travel across the cosmos.
Benefits
Power output Empire-wide+1.41%
Fleet speed Empire-wide+6.59%
Strategy notes
Dark Energy Drives develops the Propulsion discipline within Fast Strike Fleet. Use propulsion, precise energy weapons, and tactical sensing to choose engagements and destroy priority targets quickly. Its immediate value is +15% Speed; +55% Speed; +15% Power. The principal counterpressure is that fuel interdiction, layered defenses, ambushes, and forced prolonged battles erode its speed advantage.
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 Propulsion 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
6.4KRP
4.48KCredits
1.12KCommon
1.76KRare
1.28KStrategic
1.6KFuel