Cost: 3
Modifiers: +5% Output
These highly efficient processors increases the potential workload and endurance of all units.


Cost: 2
Modifiers: +20% Mineral Output
Outfit a robot with a battery of power drills, and everything looks like a mineral deposit.


Cost: 2
Modifiers: +20% Food Output
A suite of tools, from nutrient solution diagnostics and on-site balancing to per-stalk micro-threshing, enables robotic workers to increase produce yields.


Cost: 2
Modifiers: +20% Energy Output
The use of superconductive materials in units have cut energy transmission losses to zero percent.


Cost: -2
Modifiers: -50% Army Damage, -20% Worker and Simple Drone Output
In a strange reversal of the common patterns of technical progress, these machines were never intended to replace manual laborers and are ill-suited to the battlefield.


Cost: 2
Modifiers: +15% Alloy Output, +15% Consumer Goods Output, +15% Mote, Gas, and Crystal Output.
These units are equipped with cutting-edge tools for material synthesis.


Cost: 2
Modifiers: +15% Science Output
Efficiently navigating the increasingly complex frontiers of science requires new states, beyond the simple half-truths of ternary and quaternary logic.


Cost: 1
Modifiers: +25% Physics Output
By subdividing large tasks into sets of smaller components, each unit can more efficiently solve complex mathematical problems.


Cost: 1
Modifiers: +25% Society Output
A self-adapting network is particularly suited to time-dependent problems.


Cost: 1
Modifiers: +25% Engineering Output
These machines take a brute-force approach to optimization.


Cost: 1
Modifiers: +2 Leader Levels
All autonomous units are fitted with memory cells using a revolutionary, new technique for magnetic induction, improving their performance significantly.


Cost: -2
Modifiers: -2 Leader Levels, -50% Ruler Output, -20% Specialist and Complex Drone Output
The base design of these units allows little space for advanced processing tools, let alone the capacity for leadership.


Cost: 1
Modifiers: +25% Leader and Army Experience Gain
Sophisticated, self-learning algorithms that stimulate the rapid evolution of a unit's neural clusters.


Cost: -1
Modifiers: -25% Leader and Army Experience Gain
Designed to meet the very specific needs of their creators, this line of machines were never intended to have the capacity for higher reasoning, and retrofitting will only get them so far.


Cost: 2
Modifiers: +10% Happiness, +25% Governing Ethics Attraction
Loyalty as an ideal is a distinctly organic concept. Instead, imagine loyalty as a physiological need in even the remotest of terminals.


Cost: 2
Modifiers: +20% Amenities Output, Unemployed Pops take Servant Jobs
Specialized equipment and behavior protocols for all conceivable domestic needs. Full functionality guaranteed.


Cost: 1
Modifiers: +20% Amenities Output
Advanced pseudorealistic emotion emulators and complex social predictive models help these units to anticipate the needs of both organics and synthetics alike.


Cost: -1
Modifiers: -20% Amenities Output
Hardcoded software quirks prevent these units from anticipating future needs or expressing even the facade of sapience, rendering them deeply uncanny to most lifeforms.


Cost: 1
Modifiers: -10% Housing Use, -50% Resettlement Cost
Collapsible labor units with flexible joints that enable them to fold neatly into stacks during transportation, then self-assemble on site.


Cost: -1
Modifiers: +10% Housing Use, +50% Resettlement Cost
These highly advanced mega-machines were not designed to traverse the universe in a box.


Cost: 1
Modifiers: -10% Robot Upkeep, +25% Army Health
Protected by exoskeletons of chrome-plated titanium, these heavy-duty machines were designed to excel under harsh conditions and require less maintenance.


Cost: -1
Modifiers: +10% Robot Upkeep, -25% Army Health
Designed to meet the very specific needs of their creators, this line of machines were never intended to have the capacity for higher reasoning, and retrofitting will only get them so far.


Cost: 1
Modifiers: +15% Pop Assembly Speed
Streamlined production cycles and modular designs allow for unit mass-production at an unprecedented rate.


Cost: -1
Modifiers: -15% Pop Assembly Speed
Each new unit is crafted with unparalleled attention to detail. A marvel of engineering and art, but not very efficient.


Cost: 2
Modifiers: -50% Assembly Cost
Unit manufacturing has been optimized to be as cost-effective as possible, using recycled materials, and components inherited from previous generations.


Cost: -2
Modifiers: +50% Assembly Cost
Designed after the principle that you cannot put a price on quality, these first-rate units are costly, but shiny.


Cost: 1
Modifiers: +15% Unity Output
Units are constantly uplinked to a central stream of public service announcements and other useful information that they pass along via internal broadcasting systems.


Cost: 2
Modifiers: +30% Unity Output
These machines employ an unusually efficient system of communication.


Cost: -2
Modifiers: -30% Unity Output
Fearing for their survival, the creators of these units attempted to limit their ability to form large scale communication networks.


Cost: 3
Modifiers: +50% Army Damage, +25% Army Morale Damage, +50% Army Collateral Damage
Originally designed as advanced ground combat frames, these fearsome machines are counted amongst the deadliest fighters in the galaxy.


Cost: 1
Modifiers: +25% Army Damage, +50% Army Collateral Damage
These units' equipment and combat protocols are suited towards total war. They can draw no difference between military and non-strategic targets.