Description
Quantum-Safe State Channels protects long-lived secrets against future advances in computation. Protect strategic projects with layered verification, counter-surveillance, resilient automation, and rapid incident recovery.
Benefits
Credits upkeep Empire-wide-7%
Strategy notes
Quantum-Safe State Channels 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 -7% credit upkeep. 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 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 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
600KRP
525KCredits
75KCommon
135KRare
105KStrategic
45KFuel