Resources

Factions must manage several key resources on Earth and, as the campaign progresses, in space.

Earth resources are generated from a variety of sources, but space resources (water, volatiles, metals, noble metals and fissiles) can only come from developing technology to mine space bodies other than Earth and using electromagnetic catapults to launch them to where they are needed.

For readibility, Terra Invicta will occasionally use alphabetic suffixes with very large or small numbers, such as "10K".


 * Money is used to build components on Earth for our space program, acquire many councilor orgs, conduct certain financially oriented missions, and support our space assets. It is gained from national funding, the spoils priority, orgs, councilor traits, hab modules, and the sale of space resources on Earth.
 * Influence represents political capital and the ability to sway institutions and people to pursuing your goals. It is gained from favorable global public opinion about your faction's ideology, orgs, councilor traits, and hab modules. It is also spent on maintaining your control points each month.
 * Ops, or Operations, is our ability to conduct small-scale combat and espionage operations. It is primary gained from orgs, but also can come from councilor traits and certain hab modules in an Earth interface orbit.
 * Boost represents the capability to move ten metric tons of material from Earth's surface to Low Earth Orbit via rocket launches and other conveyances. Boost can also deliver items to more distant destinations at a significant penalty. It is primarily generated from nations with a space program, but also can come from orgs.
 * Mission Control accounts for all the staff and technical apparatus required to support our operations in space. Insufficient Mission Control makes it much easier for other factions to seize our space assets and makes accidents far more likely. We may not build or acquire new habs or ships if we do not have any mission control available. Excess mission control is coverted to research and money.
 * Research represents the efforts of our scientists and engineers. Unlike other resources, it is not accumulated but immediately distributed according to our research priorities, which are divided between global investigations into new principles and technologies and private engineering projects that only benefit our faction.
 * Control Points Cap: Exceeding this cap will reduce our Influence income and make enemy missions targeting our control points much more likely to succeed. We may abandon control points to reduce this cost or increase our cap through research or increasing out councilors' Administraction, Command and Persuasion attributes.
 * Water is vital for life support and the production of hydrogen, which is used in propellant in many advanced space propulsion systems. It is rare in the inner Solar System but increasingly abundant beyond the Asteroid Belt. It is also a source of deuterium, which is used in nuclear applications.
 * Volatiles are highly reactive substances like carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, sulfur, chlorine, phosphorous and many compounds that include hydrogen. These are critical for life support and self-sustaining space habitats. Carbon may also be fashioned into high-tech armors.
 * Base Metals include common materials such as iron, nickel, lead, zinc, copper, aluminum and tin. They are important for construction. Alkali metals like lithium and metalloids like silicon and boron also fall in this category.
 * Noble Metals include precious metals such as silver, gold, and platinum, as well as corrosion-resistant metals such as titanium and tungsten. They are used in construction and also may be sold on Earth for profit.
 * Fissiles include isotopes of uranium, thorium and (once processed) plutonium that are used to create nuclear fission reactions. These are used in nuclear propulsion systems and weapons.