Description
Interstellar Reserve Network disperses strategic stockpiles and transfer capacity so regional losses cannot starve the empire. Turn superior surveying, extraction, refining, and energy conversion into strategic control of scarce materials. Extends every fleet's fuel support range by an additional 5%.
Benefits
Rare minerals output Empire-wide+7%
Fleet fuel range Empire-wide+5%
Strategy notes
Interstellar Reserve Network 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 +7% rare mineral output; +5% fleet fuel range. 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 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. Fuel-range bonuses add together: these six logistics technologies grant up to +30%, including tender-supported range. The purple map layer shows the same range used for fuel readiness.
Research cost
600KRP
270KCredits
120KCommon
90KRare
67.5KStrategic
180KFuel