Description
Autonomous Logistics coordinates freight, inventory, and maintenance schedules across a star system with minimal idle stock. Concentrate minerals, automation, and orbital capacity into unmatched construction throughput and system-scale works.
Benefits
Ship production Empire-wide+3%
Treaty trade Empire-wide+5%
Industrial workforce required Empire-wide-10%
Diplomatic Exchange Unlocks
Strategy notes
Autonomous Logistics develops the Robotics discipline within Industrial Megastructure Empire. Concentrate minerals, automation, and orbital capacity into unmatched construction throughput and system-scale works. Its immediate value is +3% ship production throughput; +5% treaty trade efficiency; -10% industrial workforce demand; Unlocks Diplomatic Exchange. The principal counterpressure is that its fixed yards, long supply chains, and visible projects are vulnerable to blockade and sabotage.
Player hints
This tier begins to define an empire. Compare its resource demand with the other technologies competing for your laboratories. Favor this technology when its Robotics 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
8KRP
6KCredits
3KCommon
800Rare
500Strategic
400Fuel