Description
Resource Futures Authority improves treaty trade through coordinated resource contracts and market forecasting.
Benefits
Rare minerals output Empire-wide+5%
Treaty trade Empire-wide+10%-
Treaty trade Empire-wide+3%
Strategy notes
Resource Futures Authority 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 +5% rare mineral output; +10% treaty trade efficiency. The principal counterpressure is that extraction complexes are immobile, power hungry, and exposed to raiding or market isolation. Adds a further +3% raw treaty trade benefit; Cryogenic Fuel Reserves retains the mission asset grant.
Player hints
This is a major commitment. Secure its required resources and protect the supporting infrastructure before assigning Critical priority. 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% treaty trade.
Research cost
160KRP
72KCredits
32KCommon
24KRare
18KStrategic
48KFuel