Description
Living Planetary Infrastructure uses engineered organisms alongside machines to maintain soil, water, and atmosphere. Open marginal systems early, then turn fragile settlements into durable and populous worlds.
Benefits
Construction output Empire-wide+7%
Habitat Restoration Terraforming project
Climate Conditioning Terraforming project
Atmospheric Thickening Terraforming project
Orbital Mirror Deployment Terraforming project
Tectonic Stabilization Terraforming project
Resource Enrichment Terraforming project
Strategy notes
Living Planetary Infrastructure develops the Terraforming discipline within Expansion and Terraforming. Open marginal systems early, then turn fragile settlements into durable and populous worlds. Its immediate value is +7% construction throughput. The principal counterpressure is that planetary programs mature slowly and expose expensive frontier infrastructure before it can defend itself.
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 Terraforming 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
600KRP
360KCredits
150KCommon
75KRare
30KStrategic
120KFuel