Technology

Technology in Endless Space is divided into four categories: Galactic Warfare, Applied Sciences,Exploration & Expansion, and Diplomacy & Trading. Certain technologies are specific to a faction. Discovering technologies using unlocks various types of Unlocks that advance the capabilities of youir empire.

Something that should be noted is that all technologies with an orange colouration on their thumbnail are technologies that are 'unique' to the player's faction, whether in position, description or in what it gives. This does include all Ship-providing technologies.

Galactic Warfare

Standard Galactic Warfare technologies

As expected, these technologies focus on waging war - various weapons and defences, plus other modules for your ships, and defensive improvements for systems.

Applied Sciences

Standard Applied Science technologies

The Applied Sciences technologies allow an empire to discover and exploit Strategic Resources and improve your Industry and Research economies through improvements. It also provides a number of battle actions. 

Exploration & Expansion

Standard Exploration & Expansion technologies

Technologies in this area provide access to new types of ship hulls, the ability to colonize and/or improve different types of planets, travel further or faster (i.e., through warpholes), etc.

Diplomacy & Trading

Standard Diplomacy & Trading technologies

Diplomacy and Trading technologies deal with agriculture or production,  improving the dust economy, negotiating options with other empires, trade routes, manage your citizenry, and increase the limits of a fleet's command points and the size of the hero academy.

List of Universal Technologies

The number after the "/" in Research Cost is the cost for Galactic Warfare technologies in that row.

Research Cost	Applied Sciences	Exploration & Expansion	Diplomacy & Trading	Galactic Warfare
40 / 30	Isolation Shields N-Way Fusion Plants	Xenobotany Arid Epigenetics	Xenology Soil Xenobiology	HE Batteries Unstable Isotope Manipulation
130 / 100	PEV-Scale Accelerators Neural Robotics Core Mining	Efficient Shielding Compact Fusion Reactors Sustainability	Relativistic Economics Particle Scanning	Specialized Isotopes
300 / 225	Photon Distortion High-Energy Magnetics	Applied Casmir Effect Improved Thermodynamics	Relativistic Markets Improved Fleet Management Botanical Scanning	Autonomous Construction Basic G2A Systems
680 / 510	Nonbaryonic Particles Extreme Metallurgy	Containment Fields Baryonic Shielding Adaptive Colonies	Xenominerology Planetary Landscaping	Focused Plasma Depleted Isotopes Isotope Fabrication Dust to Dust Alternative Armors Advanced Fusion Power
1800 / 1350	Rudimentary Telepathics Advanced Simulations	Atmospheric Engineering Atmospheric Filtration Graviton Manipulation	Quantum Communications Optimized Logistics Nanoscale Thermodynamics	Plasma Cage Flawless Machining Mobile Gauss Platforms Active Defenses
4000 / 3000	Wave Function Control Tectonic Engineering Atomic Substrates	Applied Atmospherics Deuyivan Construction Advanced Warp Gravitics	Alien Barter Theory Inter-Species HR	Localized Stasis Hypermagnetics Large-Scale Neurals
7500 / 5625	Solar Mining Inorganic Biology Infinite Variable Computing	Low-Temp Hydration Non-Baryonic Shielding Soil Revivification	Futuristic Game Theory Advanced Scholastics Vocation-Oriented Society Advanced Biologics	Directed Plasma Personal Shielding Evolved Construction
14000 / 10500	Pervasive Etching Self Replicating Structures Quantum Substrates Persistent Bodies	Exotic Thermodynamics Personal Fields Mass Particle Displacement	Neural Net Society Maximized Exploitation High-Consumption Society	Condensed Plasma High Albedo Alloys Hypermagnetic Shielding Advanced Countermeasures Stasis Fields
25000 / 18750	Quantum Devices Black Hole Mining Quantum Processing	Negative Mass Mechanics Complex Regulated Systems Dark Matter Shielding	Directed AI Computing Long-Term Xeno Funds Perfect Forecasting Accelerated Evolution	Lepton Manipulation Entangled Systems Positron Containment
36000 / 27000	Persistent Construction Quantum Robotics Resilient Infrastructures	Mass Hydration Dark Energy Effects	Perfect Negotiations Automated Wealth Galactic Trade Center Permanent Advantage	Plasmic Ablatives Ultradense Extrusion Advanced Reactives Seamless Construction
60000 / 45000	Dust Virtualization	Sustainable Supercities Endless Empire	Extreme Consumption	Quantum Inert Alloys Portable Nonbaryonics Dark Energy Shield High Quantum Stability Quark Effect Weapons Low-Entropy Materials Anti-Graviton Fields
1212000	Pan-Galactic Society

N.B. The above table will differ somewhat from the Cravers and the Harmony technology trees. The Cravers have several unique technologies that replace existing universal technologies, and due to the Harmony's inability to use dust or heroes, their Diplomacy & Trading tree, in particular, is very different.

List of Faction-Specific Technologies

Amoeba

Research Cost	Applied Sciences	Exploration & Expansion	Diplomacy & Trading	Galactic Warfare
130			Xenosociology
1800			Exotic Resource Logistics
4000			Galactic Brotherhood
7500			Advanced Scholastics
14000		Condensate Systems	Neural Net Society Perfect Negotiations Automated Wealth

Automaton

Research Cost	Applied Sciences	Exploration & Expansion	Diplomacy & Trading	Galactic Warfare
130			Dense Orbitals
1800		Short-Range Entanglement
4000		Deep Space Habitats	Symbiotic Satellites
7500 / 5625	Infinite Variable Computing Stasis Containment	Low-Temp Hydration		Personal Shielding
25000		Deuyivan Construction

Cravers

Research Cost	Applied Sciences	Exploration & Expansion	Diplomacy & Trading	Galactic Warfare
130			Relativistic Economics Radiation Hardiness
680			Accelerated Yields
1800			Quantum Swarming Groupthink
4000			Distributed Hives
25000		Extreme Extraction
45000				Anti-Graviton Fields

Harmony

Research Cost	Applied Sciences	Exploration & Expansion	Diplomacy & Trading	Galactic Warfare
40			Soil Xenobiology
85		Resource Leverage
300		Applied Casimir Effect
680 / 510			Relativistic Markets	Metal Memory
4000		Applied Atmospherics	Inter-Species HR
7500 / 5625				Personal Shielding
9000			Harmonize Planets
14000		Personal Fields
36000 / 27000		Dark Energy Effects	Perfect Negotiations	Systemic Unity

Technically, every technology in the Harmony Diplomacy and Trading tree (except for Extreme Consumption) is specific to them. However, these mostly entail either:

• having a different position in the tree (and thus a different research cost and/or prerequisites); or
• the absence of an improvement which only enhances Dust production or augments a hero (neither of which is useful to the Harmony)

Specifically listed in the table are those technologies which are unique to the Harmony or differ for reasons other than those given above.

Hissho

Research Cost	Applied Sciences	Exploration & Expansion	Diplomacy & Trading	Galactic Warfare
100				LMI Systems Applied Holography
1800			Way of the Warrior
3000				Large-Scale Neurals
27000				Entangled Production

Horatio

Research Cost	Applied Sciences	Exploration & Expansion	Diplomacy & Trading	Galactic Warfare
130			Galactic Nutrition
680			Futuristic Game Theory
1800	Artificial Atmosphere		Advanced Biologics Dust Cosmetics
14000		Shared Fields
25000 / 18750			Perfect Forecasting	Glassteel

Pilgrims

Research Cost	Applied Sciences	Exploration & Expansion	Diplomacy & Trading	Galactic Warfare
130			Hoarding Systems
300		Atmospheric Filtration	Consensus Systems
680			Maximized Exploitation
1800		Deuyivan Construction Factory Missions
4000		Null-G Fields Endless Leverage	Inter-Species HR

Sheredyn

Research Cost	Applied Sciences	Exploration & Expansion	Diplomacy & Trading	Galactic Warfare
40			Xenology
130			Dust Retrieval
510				Dust to Dust
1800			Invasive Infrastructures
3000				Localized Stasis
5625				Personal Shielding
25000	Quantum Processing		Tunneled Comms
36000	Privatized Research

Sophon

Research Cost	Applied Sciences	Exploration & Expansion	Diplomacy & Trading	Galactic Warfare
300	Augmented Virtualization
680			Self-Organizing Data
1800	Dark Matter Condensing
4000	Wave Function Control
7500	Adoptive Society		Imaginary Game Theory
14000		Adaptive Ecologies
25000			Dust Stimulation

Sowers

Research Cost	Applied Sciences	Exploration & Expansion	Diplomacy & Trading	Galactic Warfare
300		Sociologics
680	Artificial Biologics		Planetary Landscaping
1800	Persistent Bodies	Exotic Thermodynamics	Concurrent Logistics
7500		Tundra Geomorphology

The Sowers also have unique versions of all of the colonization Empire Improvements in the Exploration and Expansion technology tree.

United Empire

Research Cost	Applied Sciences	Exploration & Expansion	Diplomacy & Trading	Galactic Warfare
130			Wealth Systems
1800			Consumption Psychology Industrial Hegemony
7500	Exploitive Algorithms
27000				Seamless Construction Secret Projects
45000				Dark Energy Shield

Vaulters

Research Cost	Applied Sciences	Exploration & Expansion	Diplomacy & Trading	Galactic Warfare
100				Military-Artisanal Complex "Pocket" Portal Tech
510				Neuro-Coupled Data
3000				Stealth Satellites
4000		Natural Apertures
14000	Defcon Incubators
25000	Sub-Quantum Calorimeters