Description
Planetary Strip Mining: Unlocks owner-selected bulk mode on Ground, Core and Asteroid Mines: 1.15x common and 0.90x rare output, with 2 extra fuel and 2 extra power per fully operating mine-hour. Existing crews remain required. Normal, precision and bulk are mutually exclusive; this introduces no deposit depletion or environmental damage.
Benefits
Common minerals output Empire-wide+7.5%
Rare minerals output Empire-wide+4.5%-
Bulk: 1.15x common, 0.90x rare; +0 credits, +2 fuel, +2 power per fully operating Ground/Core/Asteroid Mine-hour; existing crews Local mining mode
Strategy notes
Unlocks owner-selected bulk mode on Ground, Core and Asteroid Mines: 1.15x common and 0.90x rare output, with 2 extra fuel and 2 extra power per fully operating mine-hour. Existing crews remain required. Normal, precision and bulk are mutually exclusive; this introduces no deposit depletion or environmental damage. Raw effect deltas: +7.5% common mineral output, +4.5% rare mineral output. Existing consumers and combined-effect bounds apply. Fixed extraction infrastructure remains exposed to raiding and supply shortages.
Player hints
Complete every prerequisite before adding research progress. Unlocks owner-selected bulk mode on Ground, Core and Asteroid Mines: 1.15x common and 0.90x rare output, with 2 extra fuel and 2 extra power per fully operating mine-hour. Existing crews remain required. Normal, precision and bulk are mutually exclusive; this introduces no deposit depletion or environmental damage. Passive modifiers retain their existing global scope; local mining modes affect only Ground, Core and Asteroid Mines.
Research cost
40KRP
18KCredits
8KCommon
6KRare
4.5KStrategic
12KFuel