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part 3

Chapter 10: Faction Profiles
    Gaia's Stepdaughters
    The Human Hive
    Morgan Industries
    Peacekeeping Forces
    Spartan Federation
    The Lord's Believers
    University of Planet
Chapter 11: Base Facilities
Chapter 12: Unit Statistics
Chapter 13: Technology Advances
Chapter 14: Secret Project

Chapter 10: Faction Profiles

The Human Hive (cont)

Technology Advances
The Human Hive's initial technology, Doctrine Loyalty, lets the Hive immediately switch its government to its desired police state. However, the path set by Doctrine Loyalty features few immediate rewards. For instance, the next step up - intellectual integrity - offers a secret project (the Citizens' Defense Force) that is a useless acquisition to the perimeter defense-laden Hive.

TIP
The Hive possesses some intriguing facilities and projects up their technology path. Once it is researched, switch to knowledge values if you plan to try and research these higher advances quickly.

Though the initial rewards are less than stellar, if the Hive continues down the Doctrine Loyalty path, the ability to produce quantum reactors and weapons is only a few steps away with the discovery of planetary economics and then quantum power.

Secret Projects
First, don't worry about building the Citizens' Defense Force, the secret project that provides a free perimeter defense at every base - the Hive comes equipped with that ability. Not far up the Hive tech tree, however, rests the Planetary Datalinks. Because the Hive has a tougher time expanding its knowledge due to an early restrictive tech tree, this project, which gives you any technology discovered by three factions, is essential in expanding discovery and knowledge.

TIP
A smart way to eliminate Hive inefficiency concerns without hindering research (if you move to knowledge values) or support (if you move to police state) is to select green economics.

One more notch up the tree, following cyberethics through presentient algorithms, the Hive will gain the ability to construct the Hunter-Seeker Algorithm, a project that protects each base and unit from probe infiltration. Although, with the Hive's slow research timetables, most other factions may decide that probing the Hive isn't worth the effort - although your valuable units will still be protected.