Description
Stellar Energy Harvesting collects a controlled fraction of stellar output for heavy industry without destabilizing inhabited orbits. Turn superior surveying, extraction, refining, and energy conversion into strategic control of scarce materials.
Benefits
Fuel upkeep Empire-wide-7%
Power output Empire-wide+8%
Strategy notes
Stellar Energy Harvesting 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 -7% fuel upkeep. The principal counterpressure is that extraction complexes are immobile, power hungry, and exposed to raiding or market isolation.
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 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. +8% power output.
Research cost
600KRP
270KCredits
120KCommon
90KRare
67.5KStrategic
180KFuel