Description
Cosmic Source Harvesting Technology extracts energy from cosmic phenomena such as quasars and pulsars, tapping into their vast energy reserves.
Benefits
Fuel output Empire-wide+7.83%
Power output Empire-wide+4.17%
Strategy notes
Cosmic Source Harvesting 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 +75% Fuel Production; +40% 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 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
40KRP
18KCredits
8KCommon
6KRare
4.5KStrategic
12KFuel