Titanic Spacecraft

Titanic Spacecraft
Research Cost: 60000
Summary
Engineers develop designs for massive warships and interstellar-capable craft.
Description
The Sol system is humanity's to explore and lay claim to, but truly doing so will require more personnel, and perhaps more might, than ever before. It perhaps might sound crude, but the best solution is the most obvious one: larger ships, able to carry more crew, more supplies, more weapons, and denser armor. What was once an engineering absurdity - for to cast so titanic a craft between worlds would have taken decades at best - is now entirely possible, thanks to our incredibly powerful reactor and propulsion technologies. Mass is, as ever, the foremost obstacle, compounded by the need to carry sufficient fuel and propellant to maintain a high Delta-V for weeks at a time. And, for any potential attempt to leave this system for another, even years. So it is that we now have workable designs for enormous craft built around the "torchship" principle, possessing both high thrust and high specific impulse, in a state of near-constant acceleration, and so nakedly powerful that the mass of their vast hulls is barely a factor.
Full List of Prerequisites. Name Type Cost Augmented Reality 1500 Mission to the Moon 1000 Arrival Law 5000 Outpost Habs 1000 Improved Shipbuilding Techniques 20000 Integrated Earth-Space Economy 40000 Ad Astra 5000 Space Mining and Refining 2500 Photonic Computing 1500 Deep Space Propulsion Concepts 1000 We Are Not Alone 500 Directed Space Research 5000 Carbon Nanotubes 3500 Militarization of Space 5000 Advanced Neural Networks 5000 Arrival International Development 5000 Industrialization of Space 15000 Space Commerce 20000 Mission To Space 250 Quantum Computing 15000 Next-Generation Aerospace 5000 Advanced Electromagnetism 1000 Advanced Carbon Manipulation 1000 Diamondoids 15000 Arrival Domestic Politics 2000 Space Research 2500 Molecular Assemblers 25000 Superalloys 5000 Arrival Economics 2500 Advanced Atomic Manipulation 10000 Space Navies 10000 Advanced Heat Management Concepts 2500 Principles of Space Warfare 1000 Arrival International Relations 5000 Our Space Future 30000 Orbital Shipbuilding 1000 Advanced Chemical Rocketry 1000 Mass Drivers 1000 Fleet Logistics 45000 Nuclear Fission In Space 2500
Total Research Cost (including itself)
	2000		23000
	1000		146500
	16000		182500
	9750	Total	380750
Direct Prerequisite For
Techs		Projects
		(100%)Interstellar Launch Facility • (100%)Titans
Quote
"I don't want to die on some miserable poison world. I want to die countless light years from Earth, with a smile on my face as I bask next to a perfect ocean, under a perfect sky." Director Khalid Al-Ashgar, Project Exodus From his irregular online newsletter, "Preparing For Tomorrow."
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