Accelerando

Accelerando
Research Cost: 150000
Summary
We consider our prospects in a galaxy apparently teeming with aggressive life.
Description
We have passed the point where we can consider changes to the human experience to be merely incremental - from this point on, they will be revolutionary, unprecedented, and even unknowable. Our changes will accelerate, as we cease to be a species making hesitant forays away from its homeworld and instead become one whose remote colonies become the forefront of its civilization. We should plan for this time of sweeping change as best we can. This begins with understanding that it is in our orbital habitats and planetary settlements where we will make the greatest leaps in science, technology and spacecraft manufacturing, and that those once-humble places are fated to become great nations themselves. Beyond our system lie countless worlds, any of which might well be home to life, whose intentions we cannot know. Thus, we must empower Earth's every off-shoot to not only to reach those distant worlds, but also to defend humanity against them, should it be required.
Full List of Prerequisites. Name Type Cost Augmented Reality 1500 Mind and Machine 35000 Arrival Psychology 5000 Mission to the Moon 1000 Arrival Law 5000 Outpost Habs 1000 Integrated Earth-Space Economy 40000 Ad Astra 5000 Space Mining and Refining 2500 Photonic Computing 1500 Applied Artificial Intelligence 25000 Deep Space Propulsion Concepts 1000 Biotechnology 1500 We Are Not Alone 500 Directed Space Research 5000 Carbon Nanotubes 3500 Our Space Future 30000 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 Space Medicine 2500 Advanced Electromagnetism 1000 Terrestrial Military Science 3000 Arrival International Relations 5000 Mass Drivers 1000 Arrival Security 10000 Arrival Sociology 2500 Arrival Domestic Politics 2000 Space Research 2500 Arrival Governance 35000 Space Navies 10000 Militarization of Space 5000 Advanced Atomic Manipulation 10000 Advanced Chemical Rocketry 1000 Advanced Heat Management Concepts 2500 Principles of Space Warfare 1000 Arrival Culture 20000 Arrival Mass Communications 5000 Orbital Shipbuilding 1000 Cybernetics 5000 Arrival Economics 2500 Advanced Carbon Manipulation 1000 Nuclear Fission In Space 2500
Total Research Cost (including itself)
	2000		53000
	45000		21500
	29000		350000
	9750	Total	510250
Direct Prerequisite For
Techs		Projects
		(100%)Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor VII • (100%)Supercollider • (100%)The Protectorate Authority • (100%)Induced Inflection Points • (100%)Global Empire
Effects
The Economy priority increases per capita GDP in a nation by an additional 2%
Quote
"Don't ever make the mistake of thinking a problem is solved. Defeating any enemy is like plucking your eyebrows - for every hair you remove, twelve more will show up to the funeral." Commander Fiona Ayouade, The Resistance Email to SIS regarding the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq
Notes
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