Description
Asteroid Claim Engineering turns irregular bodies into anchored, surveyed, and continuously worked extraction sites. Turn superior surveying, extraction, refining, and energy conversion into strategic control of scarce materials.
Benefits
Fuel upkeep Empire-wide-3%
Asteroid Mine Unlocks
Strategy notes
Asteroid Claim Engineering develops the Fuel discipline within Resource Ascendancy. Turn superior surveying, extraction, refining, and energy conversion into strategic control of scarce materials. Its immediate value is -3% fuel upkeep; unlocks Asteroid Mine. The principal counterpressure is that extraction complexes are immobile, power hungry, and exposed to raiding or market isolation.
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 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
8KRP
3.6KCredits
1.6KCommon
1.2KRare
900Strategic
2.4KFuel