Description
Megastructure Test Range provides instrumented space where unprecedented structures can fail safely before full deployment. Concentrate minerals, automation, and orbital capacity into unmatched construction throughput and system-scale works. +5% construction output.
Benefits
Credits upkeep Empire-wide-7%
Construction output Empire-wide+5%
Strategy notes
Megastructure Test Range develops the Construction discipline within Industrial Megastructure Empire. Concentrate minerals, automation, and orbital capacity into unmatched construction throughput and system-scale works. Its immediate value is -7% credit upkeep. The principal counterpressure is that its fixed yards, long supply chains, and visible projects are vulnerable to blockade and sabotage. This milestone deliberately joins completed material, industrial, or colony infrastructure research.
Player hints
This is late-path research. Treat it as a strategic objective measured in weeks or months, and expect rivals to react to the capability. Favor this technology when its Construction 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. Every Construction prerequisite must be completed before research can begin. +5% construction output.
Research cost
600KRP
450KCredits
225KCommon
60KRare
37.5KStrategic
30KFuel