Description
Terraforming Feedstock Exchange routes scarce catalysts and volatiles into century-scale planetary programs. It is an optional synthesis between Resource Ascendancy and Expansion and Terraforming, not a gate on either capstone.
Benefits
Strategic materials output Empire-wide+4%
Strategy notes
Terraforming Feedstock Exchange develops the Fuel discipline within Cross-Path Synthesis. This synthesis combines Resource Ascendancy with Expansion and Terraforming without replacing either core path. Its immediate value is +4% strategic material output. The principal counterpressure is that cross-path investment delays a focused capstone and exposes two different resource dependencies.
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 Fuel 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
60KRP
27KCredits
12KCommon
9KRare
6.75KStrategic
18KFuelLeads to
Terminal technology