Category:Technology

From SOTS

Research leads to advances in the available technologies.

Starting Technologies

All players in all games start with the following technologies already researched:

• Red Lasers
• Gauss Cannons
• FTL Communications
• Nuclear Warhead
• Fission

In A Murder of Crows, the new Morrigi race also starts the game with Stealth Armor researched.

Additionally each player will have already researched the initial star drive technology depending on race:

• Human - Node Drive
• Hiver - Teleport Gate
• Tarka - Hyperdrive
• Liir - StutterWarp
• Zuul - Rip Drive
• Morrigi - Void Cutter Drive

The following starting technologies are always available, but not researched:

• Gene Modification
• Waldo Units
• Cybernetic Interface (Only in A Murder of Crows)

Finally, each player will have a random chance of these technologies being available for research at the beginning of the game:

• Deflectors
• Disruptors
• Photonic Torpedo

Additional Technologies

Forum member Iztok did some research for starting games with additional technologies in A Murder of Crows and came up with the following:

If the tech is random and the player fails to roll for it, he gets next tech on the list. The first 15 "levels" on the list seem to be in a fixed order. Randomness starts after "level" 15 (i.e. Addict Morrigi for the Morrigi or Cybernetic interface for other races), but some techs seem to appear more often than others.

# of additional starting technologies	Technologies gained	Limits
1	Gene modification
2	FTL Broadband
3	Recombinant Fissionables	Random — skip to next if not available
4	Pulsed Fission drive	Liir and Morrigi skip to next
5	Waldo units
6	Green Lasers
7	Shaped Nuclear Warhead
8	VRF Technology
9	Nuclear Mine
10	Battle Computers
11	Hyperlink Communication	Tarka only — skip to next otherwise
11	Disruptor torpedo	Random — skip to next if not available
12	Mass Drivers
13	Plasma Cannon
14	DF Racks	Random — skip to next if not available
15	Addict Morrigi	Morrigi only — skip to next otherwise
15	Cybernetic interface
R	Deflectors	In no particular order from this point
R	Light Emitter
R	Sniper Cannon
R	Photonic Torpedo
R	Morrigi Temperance
R	Particle Beam
R	Expert Systems

Technology Tree

Argos Naval Yard Technology Tree Diagram with Tooltips.

A Murder of Crows Technology Tree Diagram with Tooltips.