Description
Labor Automation Technology introduces automated systems to perform labor-intensive tasks, reducing the need for human workers and optimizing productivity.
Benefits
Construction output Empire-wide+2.57%
Space attack Empire-wide+0.86%
Wages Empire-wide-1.71%
Happiness Empire-wide+0.86%
Strategy notes
Labor Automation develops the PopulationControl discipline within Bio-Social Dominion. Build a large, resilient workforce and disciplined service culture through medicine, institutions, and population policy. Its immediate value is +15% Production, -10% Wages; +5% Space Attack; +5% Happiness. The principal counterpressure is that high consumption and concentrated social systems are vulnerable to unrest, espionage, and supply disruption.
Player hints
This is an inexpensive path entry. Research it early when you want to test this direction without sacrificing strategic flexibility. Favor this technology when its PopulationControl 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
1.65KRP
1.07KCredits
288Common
206Rare
61Strategic
165FuelPrerequisites
T0 Civic Institutions 50%Leads to
Terminal technology