Description
Load-Bearing Citadel Frames keeps command, power, and life support protected inside a surviving structural core. Survive damage, repair away from home, and win campaigns that exhaust lighter fleets and fragile logistics.
Benefits
Credits upkeep Empire-wide-3%
Strategy notes
Load-Bearing Citadel Frames develops the Hulls discipline within Armored Attrition Fleet. Survive damage, repair away from home, and win campaigns that exhaust lighter fleets and fragile logistics. Its immediate value is -3% credit upkeep; unlocks Frigate. The principal counterpressure is that armor-piercing weapons, mobility, blockade, and economic warfare can avoid or outprice a prolonged slugging match.
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 Hulls 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
4.4KCredits
3.6KCommon
2.2KRare
1.4KStrategic
1.2KFuel