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part 3

Chapter 10: Faction Profiles
Chapter 11: Base Facilities
Chapter 12: Unit Statistics
Chapter 13: Technology Advances
Chapter 14: Secret Project

Chapter 13: Technology Advances

Ecological Engineering

An important junction for the resource gatherer, head to environmental economics to gain the benefit of the tree farm, particularly if you are forest-rich.

* Type: Explore 4
* Comes from: Centauri ecology, gene splicing
* Leads to: Centauri meditation, environmental economics

Alpha Centauri Tech Tree Path: Super Former
Gaining the ability to speed terraforming rate can significantly increase growth and production. Though the ability can be garnered from the weather paradigm, others may have to resort to constructing units. Here's a simple path to obtaining super formers:

1. Centauri ecology
2. Ecological engineering
3. Environmental economics
4. Advanced ecological engineering

Environmental Economics
Moving on to planetary economics and combining the tree farm with the hybrid forest can have significant resource effects if you terraform an ample amount of forest squares.

* Type: Build 5
* Base facilities: Tree farm
* Comes from: Industrial economics, ecological engineering
* Leads to: Planetary economics, advanced ecological engineering

Ethical Calculus
An important early advance, ethical calculus provides the children's creche, a facility vital to the growth and efficiency of early base development.

* Type: Explore 2
* Base facilities: Children's creche
* Socio-economic model: Democratic
* Comes from: Social psych
* Leads to: Intellectual integrity, gene splicing

Eudaimonia
With a late-game social model and a drone-crushing secret project, eudaimonia rests only two steps away from the final advance.

* Type: Explore 12
* Defenses: Psi defense (psi)
* Secret projects: The Telepathic Matrix
* Socio-economic model: Eudaimonic
* Comes from: Sentient econometrics, the Will to Power
* Leads to: Temporal mechanics

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