Colony Habs

Colony Habs
Research Cost: 35000
Summary
Scientists explore methods of building and managing surface bases that will house significant populations.
Description
Now that we are able to safely settle significant numbers of personnel on other worlds, the push towards full colonization can begin. In time, our neighboring planets can become true homes to humanity, rather than mere outposts. As terraforming remains an impossible dream, we cannot hope to bestow a breathable atmosphere upon other worlds - as such, our colonies remain restricted to pressurized domes and underground tunnels. It is the latter that will house the population, in order to protect them from the radiation of cosmic rays and solar proton storms. The limitation until now has been providing sufficient openness to support a growing population, as well as the need for massive shipments of construction materials from Earth. Thanks to developments in space mining and orbital construction, we are at last able to build, transport, and install enormous, modular subterranean chambers that - unlike the cramped corridors of yore - provide both individuals and families with sufficient space and privacy. Meanwhile, heated surface domes grow crops, and vast man-made ice fields provide water at scale. This is an undertaking like never before, and all who choose to join these colonies must learn to live without many of the comforts of humanity's homeworld, but our engineers and architects all agree: large-scale, multi-generational planetary colonies are finally possible. From these, we can eventually expand to the outer planets - and beyond.
Full List of Prerequisites. Name Type Cost Augmented Reality 1500 Settlement Habs 5000 Arrival Psychology 5000 Mission to the Moon 1000 Arrival Law 5000 Outpost Habs 1000 Mass Drivers 1000 Space Mining and Refining 2500 Photonic Computing 1500 Deep Space Propulsion Concepts 1000 Space Agriculture 2500 We Are Not Alone 500 Directed Space Research 5000 Militarization of Space 5000 Advanced Neural Networks 5000 Industrialization of Space 15000 Space Commerce 20000 Arrival Economics 2500 Quantum Computing 15000 Space Medicine 2500 Principles of Space Warfare 1000 In Situ Resource Utilization 5000 Arrival Domestic Politics 2000 Space Research 2500 Biotechnology 1500 Advanced Atomic Manipulation 10000 Extended Space Survival 10000 Advanced Heat Management Concepts 2500 Ad Astra 5000 Advanced Electromagnetism 1000 Advanced Carbon Manipulation 1000 Orbital Shipbuilding 1000 Mission To Space 250 Space Navies 10000 Our Space Future 30000 Nuclear Fission In Space 2500
Total Research Cost (including itself)
	2000		23000
	62500		12000
	16000		87500
	14750	Total	217750
Direct Prerequisite For
Techs		Projects
Interplanetary Polities		(100%)Colony Core
Quote
"Even the air in these is a product of labor and machines and energy, so I think setting up a subscription package would be in order." Chairman Soren Van Wyk, The Initiative Chairing a Western Armories board meeting
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