Description
Compartmented Research Sites limits how much one breach can reveal about strategic projects. Protect strategic projects with layered verification, counter-surveillance, resilient automation, and rapid incident recovery.
Benefits
Research output Empire-wide+3%
Strategy notes
Compartmented Research Sites develops the CounterSpying discipline within Security State. Protect strategic projects with layered verification, counter-surveillance, resilient automation, and rapid incident recovery. Its immediate value is +3% research output. 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 tier begins to define an empire. Compare its resource demand with the other technologies competing for your laboratories. Favor this technology when its CounterSpying 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
8KRP
7KCredits
1KCommon
1.8KRare
1.4KStrategic
600Fuel