Vaults of Knowledge

Research Tree

Start small and dream big. This module completely overhauls the colony progression, by adding a brand new technology progression tree, expanded colony industry upgrade paths that need to be researched, and expands both up and down the technology level, allowing you to dream bigger than ever before.

From humble beginnings, you will no longer start on even footing with the other major factions of the sector, having access to only the most basic industries, inferior to those of the rest of the sector.

With time and dedication, however, and with enough resources, you can climb the new research tree, unlocking ever more powerful variants of industries, match your adversaries, reclaim what has been lost in the collapse, and re-kindle fire lost with the Collapse of the Domain.

New Industries

Along with the new research tree, you will find a lot of new added industries, that will give you more control over your colonies than ever before.

Starting with just the basics, as you progress through the tech tree - you will unlock new and upgraded versions of your industries, ranging from simple upgrades, to different and branching upgrades that massively change the industry functionality.

From the humblest early farming tracts, to sprawling mines, massive volatile extractors and colossal orbital industries, your worlds will see unprecedented levels of customization, specializations and, most importantly, profit.

New Resources

And as you reach ever higher, with more knowledge of the past restored - you will find yourself with a need, and eventually the ability to produce items to a quality known only to the Domain.

With time, the Sector will notice the sudden appearance of such quality items, introducing new markets where demand far exceeds supply — markets that only you can fulfill.

Demand that grow after 6 months being available on market

Synergies

The presence of two or more specific structures on the same world allows them to interact, granting additional — and sometimes unexpected — benefits.

Synergy efficiency can be enhanced in many ways, with one of the most impactful being the Maglev Central Hub — elevating both your colony’s productivity and its aesthetics.

Colony Development Plan

Before colonization of world you will be presented with choice, of how colony should develop further down the line. Follow the time-tested balanced colonization approach favored by the Domain for familiar, repeatable results. Centralize your people in a single city, or scatter them throughout the world in tiny outposts. Each and every one will give different bonuses and drawbacks, and make your worlds even more unique and interesting than before.

Custom Production

A massive rework has taken hold of the custom production tab too. Now, simply paying to produce ships and weapons that you need is no longer enough. Your empire will need to actually produce the underlying resources required, pushing you to expand your worlds and empire ever further.

Military Industrial Complex

Weapons and ships will now require you to have industries producing heavy arms and hulls respectively, and with some time and dedicated research - even colony items will become available for your own production too - allowing your ships and worlds to prosper beyond imagination.

Black Site Projects

The Persean Sector hides countless secrets, both ancient and disturbingly recent.

Black Site Projects let you undertake clandestine endeavors: rebuilding experimental vessels, forging unprecedented AI constructs, and uncovering truths that range from long-buried knowledge to discoveries verging on the heretical — or the inhuman.

Superweapons

Weapons of incredible potential are not an unseen sight in the sector, but rarely are they truly unique. With this module, however, you’ll be able to find and construct a few truly unique, one of kind weapons with abilities never before seen.

Abyssal Progression Overhaul

With recent encounters within The Orion-Perseus Abyss, you will be able to new type of matter, that your R&D team will be able to study it. Once gathered enough data, you might discover how to harness those "beings" and create new, powerful source of energy.

And with it, endless applications.

Exploration

Scattered among the ruins of the Domain’s reach, you will find ancient pre-collapse facilities. Forgotten bunkers and ruined cities, charted on maps long lost, hold riches and scraps of knowledge of the old. Their automated guards stand watchful vigil for all who try to take it.

Brace for fighting, for if you win - your reward will be ancient databanks, which you can use to learn the secrets of the Domain, and use them to build a better future for all worlds.

But sometimes, maybe you should not venture way too deep. For not all that peer behind the Veil may return unchanged…

Megastructures

But not all that has been left over by the Domain is as dormant as the facilities. As you scour the sector - you might find something bigger than before.

Awe inspiring structures, leftovers from the finest minds and forges of the Domain - yours for the taking.

With newly developed technologies and your growing industrial might, you may attempt to restore them — an undertaking of staggering resource demands, yet one that grants immense power to your colonies and marks the first true step toward reviving the lost glory of the Domain of Man.