Applied Sciences Technology Tree

Tier	Research Cost	Applied Sciences
1	40	Isolation Shields N-Way Fusion Plants
2	130	PEV-Scale Accelerators Neural Robotics Core Mining
3	300	Photon Distortion High-Energy Magnetics *Augmented Virtualization (Sophons)
4	680	Nonbaryonic Particles Extreme Metallurgy
5	1800	Rudimentary Telepathics Advanced Simulations *Artificial Atmosphere (Horatio) *Dark Matter Condensing (Sophons version of T7 tech) *Persistent Bodies (Sowers version of T8 tech)
6	4000	Wave Function Control Tectonic Engineering Atomic Substrates
7	7500	Solar Mining Infinite variable computing Inorganic Biology *Stasis Containment (Automatons) *Adoptive Society (Sophons) *Exploitive Algorithms (UE)
8	14000	Pervasive Etching Self Replicating Structures Quantum Substrates Persistent Bodies *Defcon Incubators (Vaulters version of T8 tech)
9	25000	Quantum Devices Quantum Processing Black Hole Mining *Sub-quantum Calorimeters (Vaulters version of T9 tech)
10	36000	Persistent Construction Quantum Robotics Resilient Infrastructures *Privatized Research (Sheredyn)
11	60000	Dust Virtualization
12	1212000	Pan-Galactic Society