Description
Siege Payload Frames carries specialized penetrators and disruption packages against hardened installations. Project sustained long-range force through guided ordnance, heavy siege missiles, and protected fuel logistics.
Benefits
Ship production Empire-wide+3%
Ordnance Carrier Unlocks
Strategy notes
Siege Payload Frames develops the HeavyRockets discipline within Missile Siege Fleet. Project sustained long-range force through guided ordnance, heavy siege missiles, and protected fuel logistics. Its immediate value is +3% ship production throughput; unlocks Cruiser. The principal counterpressure is that point defense, fast interception, ammunition raids, and attacks on slow supply fleets can break the siege.
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 HeavyRockets 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
5KCredits
2.8KCommon
1.6KRare
2KStrategic
2.4KFuel