Description
Universal Surveillance Technology establishes an all-encompassing surveillance network to monitor every aspect of life, ensuring total control.
Benefits
Sensor strength Empire-wide+0.55%-
Espionage output Empire-wide+5.45%
Strategy notes
Universal Surveillance 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 +10% Espionage, +1% Sensing. 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
1.5KRP
975Credits
262Common
187Rare
56Strategic
150Fuel