Research Facility Guide

The research facility is the science heart of every outpost: it is the structure your crew uses to study the X'Lehari system, its worlds and the Tetryon Rift. Official copy frames the whole game around it — you "construct complex research facilities across strange new worlds" and the mission of every outpost is to expand what Starfleet knows, not just what it owns. Expect research output to depend on the crew you assign, the power and water inputs the building receives, and the exotic resources each world exposes.

Because research is the win condition of every deployment, the facility is the building everything else feeds. Production buildings supply its resource inputs, storage buffers the deliveries, and power and water keep it running. A practical layout places the research facility close to storage and utilities so its supply lines stay short, with crew housing and a mess hall within walking distance so the scientists assigned to it stay rested and fed.

The demo shows the research loop on Daegus, but the full technology tree and how research projects chain across multiple outposts has not been published in detail. This page expands with the launch build — the full tech tree, project lists and cross-outpost science strategy are on our launch-week backfill list.