Building

Buildings are placed on squares in the Colony Screen and provide various bonuses and effects. Researching new technologies can unlock new buildings.

Building List

Food Buildings

Icon	Building name	Description	Cost	Maintenance	Effect
	Aeroponic Farm	Aeroponics is the use of a hydro-atomized spray to deliver nutrients to plants suspended in the air. This technique offers excellent plant growth and eliminates the need for soil while at the same time minimizing pathogen risks.	50	0.5 Credits per Turn	+1 Food Production on Planet
	Biospheres	Biospheres are special, highly adaptable living habitats. Biospheres may only be built on Inhabitable terrain; in doing so, the terrain becomes habitable. Economic buildings can thereafter be built underneath the biosphere.	50	0.1 Credits per Turn	+0.1 Max Population per Sphere; Enables building on this tile.
	Xeno Farm	Xeno farms are large complexes dedicated to be successful integration of our farming and husbandry techniques with alien soils and nutrients.	75	0.5 Credits per Turn	+0.5 Food per Turn per Assigned Colonist
	Vertical Farm	This mega-structure employs advanced agricultural techniques and robotics to create massive quantities of food.	200	1 Credit per Turn	+4 Food Production on Planet
	Cloning Center	Cloning Centers increase the population growth of a planet at a fixed rate.	75	2 Credits per Turn	+0.02 Population per Turn

Production Buildings

Icon	Building name	Description	Cost	Maintenance	Effect
	Rover Bay	Manned and automated rovers provide indispensable labor savings to fledgling colonies.	25	.5	+1 Production Bonus on Planet
	Warehouse	A simple building with a simple purpose, the warehouse provides an environmentally controlled facility where food and production can be stored.	10	NA	+100 extra Storage room for Food and Production
	Xeno Mine	Xeno mines are the first real step towards exploiting a planet's mineral deposits	75	0.5 Credits per Turn	+0.5 Production per Assigned  Colonist
	Deep Core Mine	Deep core mines are extremely effective at rapidly extracting minerals from deep within a planets core, but are environmentally disastrous.	100	2 Credits per Turn	+4 Production per Richness, -2 Fertility on Build

Research Buildings

Icon	Building name	Description	Cost	Maintenance	Effect
	Research Lab	A dedicated research lab allows colonists to begin in earnest the study of their new home.	75	1 Credits per Turn	+1 Research on Planet
	Genetics Lab	The output of the genetics research facility scales with the amount of colonists dedicated to the task.	125	0.5 Credits per Turn	+0.5 Research per Assigned Colonist

Money Buildings

Icon	Building name	Description	Cost	Maintenance	Effect
	Imperial Offices	Imperial offices allow for the direct taxation of the citizenry. (Not modified by tax rates or buildings that modify tax incomes)	50	NA	+0.25 Credits per Colonist per Turn
	Imperial Bank	The imperial bank building increases the efficiency of your planetary tax operations.	50	NA	+50% tax revenue from planet

Defense Buildings

Icon	Building name	Description	Cost	Maintenance	Effect	Combat Stats
	Military Outpost	This basic facility provides a barracks, armory, mess, firing range, and other facilities needed to train and equip infantry for ground combat.	25	NA	Able to Produce Ground Troops	Strength 20; Combat strength 15; Soft attack 30; Hard Attack 30
	Gun Emplacement	Gun emplacements fire standard flak rounds and provide significant defensive bonuses to a planet in two ways.	75	NA	Deals 1 guaranteed DMG to each landing troop; Acts as a defensive unit in ground invasions	Strength 15; Combat strength 15; Soft attack 20; Hard Attack 50
	Missile Silo	This missile silo fires long range guided anti-ship missiles for maximum planetary defense.	75	NA	Every 2 seconds fires a missile at enemy ship, orbiting planet. Missile range 6000, damage 750	Strength 5; Combat strength 5; Soft attack 20; Hard Attack 20
	Ion Cannon	The ion defense cannon is an extremely effective planetary defense weapon. It fires highly ionized EM pulse rounds that can both damage and disable targeted ships.	75	NA	Every 1.5 seconds fires a EMP projectile at enemy ship, orbiting planet. Canon range 4800; damage 125 (normal, EMP and power)	Strength 5; Combat strength 5; Soft attack 20; Hard Attack 20
	Colony Shielding	This building adds a small amount of defense versus orbital bombardments. It is also fortified in the event of a planetary assault.	50	0.5 Credits per Turn	50 Planetary Shielding	Strength 5; Combat strength 5
	Planetary Shield	This massive installation projects an incredibly large energy shield into the upper atmosphere of a planet and provides substantial protection against planetary bombardments.	150	3 Credits per Turn	500 Planetary Shielding	Strength 5; Combat strength 5

Special Buildings

Icon	Building name	Description	Cost	Maintenance	Effect
	Capital	The Capital City is a unique building that provides research while improving industrial and agricultural capacity. Capital Cities also provide excellent self defense and can withstand a sustained siege by determined opponents. Finally, Capital cities allow you to recruit basic infantry units.	NA	NA	0.5 Research per Assigned Colonist; added 200 storage; allows building infantry; is attack building; Combat strength 25, Attack 50, Defense 40
	Outpost	An Outpost building is the humble first step in a civilization's efforts to colonize a new world. Outposts provide for a base level of agricultural, industrial, and scientific capacity. When built on a barren planet, it is critical for an outpost to be supplemented with an aeroponic farm. Outposts are also capable of rudimentary self-defense in case of invasion.	50	NA	0.25 Research per Assigned Colonist; added 30 storage; is attack building; Combat strength 15, Soft attack 50, Hard attack 20; Defense 20
	Space Port	A space port connects to the orbital star base above and allows for the construction of ships here using materials produced on the planet	50	1 Credit per Turn	+50% tax revenues; allows ship construction
	Remnant Detection Array	Our scientists believe that this building will allow us to detect the origin of the signal that controls the Remnant drones in our galaxy.	750	2 Credits per Turn	Points to the origin of the Remnant signal
	Tracking Station	These massive subspace telescopes greatly increase a colony's default sensor range.	100	2 Credits per Turn	Doubles colony sensors range
	Terraformer	These machines , while expensive to maintain, will tirelessly transform barren hunks of rock into livable worlds with breathable atmospheres. (This building does not need to be built under a biosphere.)	75	2 Credits per Turn	Terraforming mechanics
	Station	Orbits construction planet boosting ship production	300	3.1 Credits per Turn	+0.25 Ship Production

Deep Space Buildings

In order to build a deep space station you have to place it on the galaxy screen - you could "Orbit" it (by placing it inside the blue circle with orange borders, that appears near every planet) or just anywhere in space. After you have placed it, the building itself will be ordered at the nearest colony with spaceport on it. Note that it is possible for a 1.500-production worth station to be ordered at the colony with 5 production. Currently there is no other way to do it, however.

After the platform/station was built, it will be delivered to the destination via transport ship (while the ordered station is being build you will see that the colony, in fact, is making a transport ship rather than specific station)

At the moment there is only one unique deep space building - subspace projector. You cannot change its design nor see it.

All other deep space buildings are just pre-made ones, like ships, so their efficiency varies on your research.

You always could make you own platforms and stations via ship constructor screen and then place them in space.

List of pre-made platform/station designs:

Icon	Building name	Description	Cost	Effect
	Forward Base	Space station, designed to act as forward base of operations: capable of defensing itself as well as provide supplies	967	Equipped with: 9 Flak turrets, 6 Vulcan PD, 5 Fabricators, 9 Ordnance Supply bays, 1 Small Marine Barracks
	Laser Defense Platform	Small battle platform, designed to provide minimal defense	64	Equipped with: 3 Laser Turrets, 3 Laser PD canons
	Listening Post	Small platform, equipped with sensors, designed to provide intel on its surroundings	14	Equipped with: subspace sensors. Provide map coverage in its radius (25.000 basic, improves via research)
	Resupply Station	Space station, designed to provide supplies for nearby ships, as well as healing for stationed troops	1063	Equipped with: 8 Ordnance supply bays, 3 Fabricators, 8 Small Marine Barracks, 2 Assault Shuttle bays, 1 Sickbay
	Subspace Projector	Small platform, which acts as a "space highway"	30	Ships inside your influence does not spend energy while warping. (research could improve FTL-speed of ships, inside your influence area)