"Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science." —Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
Trunk technologies
Powerful, yet slow and costly, Trunk technologies represent fundamental changes to your faction's society, granting new units, buildings and abilities — for instance, researching Mechanisation unlocks more powerful aircraft and tanks, while the penultimate Trunk tech, Atomic Power, grants access to nuclear bombs.
Industrial Era"I would stay out, and work hard as long as possible, then return home at night jaded and tired, go to bed and fall asleep." — Rabindranath Tagore
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Mass Manufacturing"Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black." — Henry Ford |
Mechanisation"We live in a world of things, and our only connection with them is that we know how to manipulate or to consume them." — Erich Fromm |
Electronics"We will bring out for them a creature made of Earthly material which will tell them that the people have been uncertain regarding Our revelations." — The Qur'an (27:82) |
Synthetics"He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing and jazz — everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime." — Evelyn Waugh |
Atomic Power"Now you are death, the Destroyer of Worlds!" — Bhagavad Gita |
Science research
Unlike Rise of Nations, Science research needs oil in order to operate. AND a lot of it too. Although the first 2 or 3 tiers will cost knowledge not oil, other tiers will soon require much oil in addtion to be successfully researched.
RESEARCH LEVEL | NAME | COST | GRANTS ACCESS TO | |
Relativity |
: 100 |
"What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?" —Albert Einstein
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Ecology |
"We all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little."
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Statistics |
"How do you decide a battle is lost? Numbers, strategic advantage, positioning? It's all worth a sparrow's fart."
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Microbiology |
"What is the good of a newborn baby?" —Benjamin Franklin, American statesman
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Jet
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“I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.” —Charles Lindbergh, American aviator
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Computational Systems |
"Suppose now that technology were no mere means, how would it stand with the will to master it?" —Martin Heidegger, German philosopher
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Nuclear Physics |
"E=mc2"
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Commerce research
Timber is no longer required. Rather, food will be required to complete commerce research.
RESEARCH LEVEL | NAME | COST | GRANTS ACCESS TO | |
Scientific Management |
: 100 |
"The workman who is best suited to handling pig iron is unable to understand the real science of doing his work. "
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Radio Broadcast |
"Our English radio broadcasts are being taken with deadly seriousness in England. Lord Haw-Haw's name is on everybody lips." —Josef Goebbels
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Fiscal Reserves |
"Every penny gives the right vote."
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Stock Exchange |
"Finance enchains with golden bonds states and peoples: the economy becomes nomadic, [and] life uprooted." —Alfred Rosenberg
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Mass Communication |
“The public are swine; advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill-bucket.” — George Orwell
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Financial Regulation |
"The conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."— Adam Smith
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National Infrastructure |
"Make straight in the desert a highway for our God." — Isaiah 40:3
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Civics research
Civics research increases the number of cities you can build and also unlocks various buildings, units and upgrades in conjunction with other tech tracks, but the most common use for it is expanding your effective control of the land through your cities.
Note
Previously, Food was required, but its place has been taken over mainly by Wealth.
RESEARCH LEVEL | NAME | COST | GRANTS ACCESS TO | |
Realpolitik |
: 100 |
"I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses."
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Grassroots Movements |
"You may not be interested in the dialectic, but the dialectic is interested in you."
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Separation of Powers |
"The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they sleep in the night."
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Intergovernmental Initiative |
"We are not Duke Xiang of Song; we have no use for his idiotic virtue and morality." —Mao Zedong
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New Deal |
"More than machinery we need humanity."
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Pacts and Alliances |
'"I believe it is peace in our time." —Neville Chamberlain, on the Munich Agreement
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Superpower |
"I cannot understand it, after all I am only a very ordinary sort of fellow."
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Military research
In addition to effects explained in exhaustive detail elsewhere, Military research is now required to unlock various armoured vehicles.