Industrialization of Space

Research Cost: 15000

Summary

Setting up profitable and sustained space-based production and monetization lines.

Description

There is almost no prospect of exploring, let alone settling, the further-flung depths of our solar system until we can free ourselves from a dependence upon Earth-based supply lines. We must be able to produce all that we need for ships, colonies, and mining facilities locally - which is to say, in space rather than solely upon a planet's surface. There is an abundance of minerals beyond Earth's orbit, some of which we can currently mine, and some of which we cannot. We now have plans for effective micro- and zero-g factories that can function with a relatively minimal human presence, able to turn the raw materials of asteroids and moons into almost anything we might create on Earth (including more such factories), often at a fraction of the cost, but at many times the scale. Yet this is not only a matter of production, but also of trade and transport - laws and treaties that dictate what is shared with whom, for what cost, and via which approved shipping routes. Space is no longer some cosmic frontier town: it is time that it became a thriving and essential part of our economy.

Full List of Prerequisites.
Name	Type	Cost
Advanced Electromagnetism		1000
Orbital Shipbuilding		1000
Mission To Space		250
Space Mining and Refining		2500
Outpost Habs		1000
Mass Drivers		1000

Total

Research Cost (including itself)

2000

0

1000

0

15000

2750

Total

21750

Direct Prerequisite For

Techs

Projects

Space Commerce • Improved Shipbuilding Techniques

(100%)Salvage Bay • (100%)Advanced Prospecting Surveys • (80%)Devolved Space Command • (100%)Nanofactory • (100%)Hydra Direct Support Network • (100%)Shipyard • (100%)Construction Module • (80%)Improved Maintenance Procedures

Unlocks Orgs

Org Stars	Stats and Missions	Bonuses and Resource Incomes	Affinities and Requirements	Purchase Cost
Random SpaceMining11		1% 2% to 4% -2 to -1	Affinity: Industrialization of Space	500 to 750 10 to 20

Quote

"You'd be better off surrendering than sitting around on your backsides, waiting for supplies from home. If you don't know how to use what you find in the field, you've lost before you've even begun."
Colonel Hanse Castillo, Humanity First
Quoted in his official biography "Five Moves Ahead," (canceled before publication)

Notes

Data Sources

TITechTemplate_CSV • TIProjectTemplate_CSV • TIOrgTemplate_CSV • TITechTemplate_EN • TIProjectTemplate_EN • TIOrgTemplate_EN

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