[Brian Swartz]

Research Director's Briefing: Dr. David Corperial

** Deep Sinkhole Removal(New Worlds, 17 mo.) -- Deep Sinkholes seem to only be a problem on the drier planet types. Until we enslaved the Shantari they were not at all a concern, but most of the unusable provinces on Micaw are of this type -- six of them.
** Neural Implants(Statecraft, 29 mo.) -- Unlocks the ability to recruit Slave Armies, and also the Slave Processing Facility. A major two-year construction, this increases the food and mineral production of all slaves on a planet by 15%.
** Doctrine: Space Combat(Military Theory, 12 mo.) -- Increases naval capacity by 10%. At present, we are using 24/70, so we are nowhere near our maximum but that may change with the expanding navy.
** Amoeba Breeding Program(Biology, 85 mo., 26% completed) -- Unlocks Amoeba Flagella. With this, we would be able to imprint flagella, bred in captivity, to respond to subtle shifts in the magnetization of our ships. This would allow them to use our enemies for our own purposes, as strike craft. However, at present we have no ships or installations capable of 'launching' them.
** Regenerative Hull Tissue(Materials, 158 mo., 74% completed) -- Our continued studies of battle debris from combat with the denizens of space have brought this to near completion.
** Xenobiology(Biology, 25 mo., 50% completed) -- Unlocks Biolab II, which naturally are an upgraded version of our current Biolabs allowing for more effective research in the Society fields.

Dr. David Corperial, you are on the clock.