Description
Stellar Harvesting and Lifting Technology extracts energy directly from stars, providing a virtually limitless energy source.
Benefits
Common minerals cost Empire-wide-0.76%
Fuel cost Empire-wide-0.87%-
Fuel output Empire-wide+7.09%
Ship production Empire-wide+3.27%
Strategy notes
Stellar Harvesting and Lifting develops the Energy discipline within Resource Ascendancy. Turn superior surveying, extraction, refining, and energy conversion into strategic control of scarce materials. Its immediate value is +65% Fuel Production; +30% Space Production; -8% Fuel Cost, -7% Common Minerals Cost. 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 Energy 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. Complete every prerequisite before adding research progress. Generation is finite, local, staffed, and funded; this research does not transmit power between worlds.
Research cost
44KRP
19.8KCredits
8.8KCommon
6.6KRare
4.95KStrategic
13.2KFuel