Description
Deep-Space Aperture Arrays coordinates widely separated sensors into instruments larger than any single station. Win information asymmetry through persistent observation, covert access, and fleets that act on fresh intelligence.
Benefits
Credits cost Empire-wide-4%
Spy Station Unlocks
Precision Fleet strategy
Strategy notes
Deep-Space Aperture Arrays develops the Sensing discipline within Reconnaissance and Espionage. Win information asymmetry through persistent observation, covert access, and fleets that act on fresh intelligence. Its immediate value is -4% construction credit cost. The principal counterpressure is that counterintelligence, deception, compartmentalization, and cheap decoys can waste its expensive collection network.
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 Sensing 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. Unlocks Precision strategy (+30% sensing, +10% firepower, -10% shields).
Research cost
40KRP
32KCredits
3KCommon
8KRare
6KStrategic
3KFuel