The Research lab allows only Research of technologies. Every level reduces the research time by a factor. Research times are not influenced by Micro-system accelerators . While it is possible to build research labs on several planets, nevertheless, you can research only in one planet at a time, making the other research labs pointless.
 

Requirements

 
Development centre Level 2
 

Construction costs

 

Level		Metal	Spice	Construction time	´Research time	Comments
1		800	300	00:11:07	-	allows Energy technology , Drive research
2		1.600	600	00:22:13	1/2	allows Mining technology (needs, in addition Energy technology Level 4 )
3		3.200	1.200	00:44:27	1/3	allows Espionage technology and Weapons technology
4		6.400	2.400	01:28:53	1/4	allows Shield technology (needs, in addition Energy technology Level 4 )
5		12.800	4.800	02:57:47	1/5	allows Defence systems allows Target systems (needs, in addition Energy technology Level 6 )
6		25.600	9.600	05:55:33	1/6	allows Particle analyser (needs, in additionh Shield technology Level 5 )
7		51.200	19.200	11:51:07	1/7
8		102.400	38.400	23:42:13	1/8	allows Warp drive (needs, in addition Drive research Level 8 )
9		204.800	76.800	1 D 23:24:27	1/9
10		409.600	153.600	3 D 22:48:53	1/10	allows Teleportation
11		819.200	307.200	7 D 21:37:47	1/11
12		1.638.400	614.400	?	1/12
13		3.276.800	1.228.800	31 D 14:31:07	1/13

 
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