Description
Chrono Energy Technology harnesses energy from temporal phenomena, providing a unique and powerful energy source.
Benefits
Construction output Empire-wide+3.2%
Power output Empire-wide+12.8%
Strategy notes
Chrono Energy 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 +80% Power; +20% Production. The principal counterpressure is that extraction complexes are immobile, power hungry, and exposed to raiding or market isolation.
Player hints
This is a major commitment. Secure its required resources and protect the supporting infrastructure before assigning Critical priority. 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
128KRP
57.6KCredits
25.6KCommon
19.2KRare
14.4KStrategic
38.4KFuel