Packet Physics

Other Primary Traits

Choosing Lesser Traits.

More Stars! Dialogs

Starting Advantages

♦        Tech 4 in Energy

♦        Two shielded scouts

♦        One colony ship

♦        Two starting planets in non-tiny universes

Exclusive Components

♦        Mass Driver 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13

♦        Mineral packets with built-in penetrating scanners, with a range equal the square of their warp speed

Exclusive Abilities

♦        Mineral packets are smaller and cheaper to build

♦        Sense all players' mineral packets in flight, regardless of location

♦        Learn the exact design of any enemy starbase that uses a mass accelerator to receive a packet you fling

♦        Planets receiving mass packets have a 50% chance of a 1% improvement (terraforming) in an environmental attribute. For every 100kT of a mineral not caught, there is also a 0.1% chance of the overall planet value improving by 1%.