Description
Cryogenic Fuel Reserves stores strategic propellant for years with controlled boil-off and rapid fleet transfer. Turn superior surveying, extraction, refining, and energy conversion into strategic control of scarce materials.
Benefits
Fuel output Empire-wide+4%
Interstellar Trade Mission Unlocks
Strategy notes
Cryogenic Fuel Reserves 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 +4% fuel output. The principal counterpressure is that extraction complexes are immobile, power hungry, and exposed to raiding or market isolation.
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
40KRP
18KCredits
8KCommon
6KRare
4.5KStrategic
12KFuel