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%.