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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

High Energy Chemistry

Morgan Industries begins only one step away from this advance. Build better defensive units with plasma steel armor and consider the future use of nerve gas pods only if you can withstand economic sanctions.

* Type: Conquer 2
* Defenses: Plasma steel armor (3)
* Abilities: Nerve gas pods
* Comes from: Industrial base, applied physics
* Leads to: Advanced subatomic theory, synthetic fossil fuels

Homo Superior
The nanohospital can be used in conjunction with a research hospital to provide a serious boom to research and development. Acquire the Universal Translator secret project if you possess several alien artifacts and don't have any network nodes.

* Type: Explore 8
* Base facilities: Nanohospital
* Secret projects: The Universal Translator
* Comes from: Biomachinery, Doctrine Loyalty
* Leads to: The Will to Power

Alpha Centauri Tech Tree Path: Supply Crawler
Using supply crawlers can improve commerce rate, in turn improving income and energy reserves. Certainly helpful to the economic-minded Morganites, the supply crawler assists any faction with money concerns. Check out this fast path to building supply crawlers:

1. Information networks
2. Planetary networks
3. Industrial automation

Because the Morgan player might find supply crawlers the most useful, below is the path from his starting technology to the commerce-boosting unit.

1. Industrial base
2. Industrial economics
3. Planetary networks
4. Industrial automation

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