Description
Reactor Heat Cascades reuses high-grade waste heat through progressively cooler industrial processes. Turn superior surveying, extraction, refining, and energy conversion into strategic control of scarce materials.
Benefits
Common minerals output Empire-wide+3%
Building power demand Empire-wide-3%
Strategy notes
Reactor Heat Cascades develops the Energy discipline within Resource Ascendancy. Turn superior surveying, extraction, refining, and energy conversion into strategic control of scarce materials. Its immediate value is +3% common mineral output. 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 Energy 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. Complete every prerequisite before adding research progress. Generation is finite, local, staffed, and funded; this research does not transmit power between worlds. -3% building power demand.
Research cost
8KRP
3.6KCredits
1.6KCommon
1.2KRare
900Strategic
2.4KFuel