Description
Decisive Contact Doctrine concentrates the fleet briefly, strikes a critical objective, and disperses before attrition sets in. Use propulsion, precise energy weapons, and tactical sensing to choose engagements and destroy priority targets quickly.
Benefits
Fleet speed Empire-wide+7%
Strategy notes
Decisive Contact Doctrine develops the Beams discipline within Fast Strike Fleet. Use propulsion, precise energy weapons, and tactical sensing to choose engagements and destroy priority targets quickly. Its immediate value is +7% fleet speed. The principal counterpressure is that fuel interdiction, layered defenses, ambushes, and forced prolonged battles erode its speed advantage.
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 Beams 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
420KCredits
105KCommon
165KRare
120KStrategic
150KFuel