Description
Infrastructure Monitoring Grid detects abnormal access, power use, and material movement around critical sites. Protect strategic projects with layered verification, counter-surveillance, resilient automation, and rapid incident recovery.
Benefits
Credits cost Empire-wide-2%
Strategy notes
Infrastructure Monitoring Grid develops the Sensing discipline within Security State. Protect strategic projects with layered verification, counter-surveillance, resilient automation, and rapid incident recovery. Its immediate value is -2% construction credit cost. The principal counterpressure is that the system consumes money and attention, and rivals can force it to overreact while competing through conventional power.
Player hints
This is an inexpensive path entry. Research it early when you want to test this direction without sacrificing strategic flexibility. 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.
Research cost
1.5KRP
1.31KCredits
187Common
337Rare
262Strategic
112Fuel