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
|