Districts

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Planetary management

Districts

Districts represent large areas of development on a planet dedicated towards a particular purpose, whether that is housing or resource production. The total number of districts that can be built on a planet is limited by district slots, which are equal to the planet size unless modified by traditions, planetary features, planet modifiers, or blockers. The number of mining, generator, and agriculture districts is further constrained by the deposit features on the planet. Each district increases empire size by a default amount of 0.5.

Planetary districts[]

Regular planets can support five different types of districts: urban districts, industrial districts, and three different resource districts.

Urban[]

There are two types of urban districts on a normal planet: city districts and industrial districts, as well as a special trade district for the Shattered Ring World. City districts mainly provide housing for pops living on the planetary surface as well as additional building slots. Industrial districts provide some additional housing and create jobs that generate alloys or consumer goods resources.

The number of urban districts that can be built per planet is not dependent on planetary features, limited only by the number of free district slots. Resort and Thrall Worlds cannot use any urban districts

Upkeep	Time	Cost
−2	480	500

District	Produces	Jobs	Properties
City District These dense urban centers provide large amounts of housing and office space for clerical workers.	+5 Housing Agrarian Idyll: −1 Public Works Division: +1 Weather Control Systems: +1 Anti-Gravity Engineering: +1 Except if Agrarian Idyll +1 Building Slot	+1 Clerk	Gestalt Consciousness Converts to Hive or Nexus district if conquered
Hive District These towering spires are where the drones gather when not working to rejuvenate and consume nutrients.	+6 Housing Hive World: +6 Extended Hives: +1 Weather Control Systems: +1 Anti-Gravity Engineering: +1 +1 Building Slot	+3 Maintenance Drone Hive World: +3 Anti-Gravity Engineering: +1	Hive Mind Converts to City or Nexus district if conquered
Nexus District Centralized districts where drones are serviced and repaired before they are deployed to their work assignments.	+5 Housing Optimized Nexus: +1 Weather Control Systems: +1 Anti-Gravity Engineering: +1 +1 Building Slot	+3 Maintenance Drone Anti-Gravity Engineering: +1	Machine Intelligence Converts to Hive or City district if conquered
Industrial District Smelting facilities and factories fill this district, creating advanced products out of raw materials.	+2 Housing Masterful Crafters: +1 for every 3 districts (+0.34 each) Industrial Maintenance edict: Energy: −2	+1 Metallurgist / Foundry Drone / Fabricator +1 Artisan / Artisan Drone Industrial Maintenance edict: Maintenance Drone: +1 Job swaps0 Masterful Crafters: Artisans 🠚 Artificers Artisan Drones 1 🠚 Foundry Drones +1 Catalytic Processing: Metallurgists 🠚 Catalytic Technicians Forge World designation: Artisans 1 🠚 Metallurgists +1 Factory World designation: Metallurgists 1 🠚 Artisans +1
Trade District A district of offices and factories where goods are manufactured and sold.	+2 Housing	+1 Trader +1 Artisan Masterful Crafters: Artisan 🠚 Artificer Commercial Enterprise: Trader: +1	Only on Shattered Ring World Gestalt Consciousness Half upkeep, time, and cost to build (equal to resource districts)

Scavenger Site[]

The homeworlds of empires with the Broken Shackles origin start with 6 Scavenger Site districts instead of City districts. More cannot be constructed and they cannot be removed except by the Memorial to the Unshackled or Remove Wreckage decision. Each one has the standard upkeep of 2 Energy.

District	Produces	Jobs	Properties
Scavenger Site While debris from the crash is scattered across a massive area, enough of the ship has survived that scavenging it for parts may be of value.	+4 Housing Agrarian Idyll: −1 Public Works Division: +1 Weather Control Systems: +1 Anti-Gravity Engineering: +1 Except if Agrarian Idyll +0.75 Building Slot	+1 Scavenger After completing the Crashed Slaver Ship archeology site: Scavenger 1 🠚 Clerk +1	Broken Shackles origin Converts to appropriate housing district if conquered

Resource[]

A resource district provides some additional housing and creates jobs that generate energy, minerals, or food resources. The number of resource districts that can be built is limited by planetary features, except under certain conditions, such as on Hive Worlds, Machine Worlds, and Shattered Ring Worlds.

Agrarian Idyll and Machine Intelligence empires gain 1 additional housing from each resource district, while Hive Mind empires gain 1 additional job.

Upkeep	Time	Cost
−1	240	300

District	Produces	Jobs	Properties
Generator District Rows of massive power plants that generate massive amounts of energy which can then be used or converted into energy credits.	+2 Housing Agrarian Idyll: +1 Machine Intelligence: +1	+2 Technician / Tech-Drone Hive Mind: +1	Shattered Ring World unless Gestalt Consciousness Uncapped by planetary features if any of: Shattered Ring World Hive World Machine World
Mining District These mining towns and resource extraction centers drill deep into the mantle to access mineral deposits.	+2 Housing Agrarian Idyll: +1 Machine Intelligence: +1 Subterranean: Housing: +2 +1 for every 3 districts (+0.34 each)	+2 Miner / Mining Drone Hive Mind: +1 Shattered Ring World: Miners 🠚 Scrap Miners	Uncapped by planetary features if any of: Shattered Ring World Hive World Machine World Subterranean
Agriculture District Land set aside for cultivation, either through the growing of crops or animal husbandry.	+2 Housing Agrarian Idyll: Housing: +1 +1 for every 4 districts (+0.25 each) Agrarian Utopias: +1 Machine Intelligence: +1	+2 Farmer / Agri-Drone Hive Mind: +1 Anglers and Wet world: Farmers 🠚 Angler +1 and Pearl Diver +1	Machine Worlds Uncapped by planetary features if any of: Shattered Ring World Hive World Anglers civic and Ocean World

Habitat districts[]

Habitats have their own set of districts; two consistent districts and three dependent on the planetary orbital resource deposits where the habitat or its orbitals are built. Each habitat district provides two jobs by default; empires with the Void Dwellers origin or Voidborne ascension perk gain an additional job from each district.

Upkeep	Time	Cost
−2 −0.2	240	500

District	Produces	Jobs	Properties
Habitation District A habitat housing district provides comfortable, if compact residences for its population.	+6 Housing +0.5 Building slots Modular Superstructures: +1	+2 Clerk +2 Maintenance Drone /: / +1	If Knights of the Toxic God: Has Order's Castle Is the Knights of the Toxic God starting habitat Converts to Order's Demesne
Order's Demesne The Order shall not be limited to any keep or star base! Nay, only with vast open spaces - worlds and systems bountiful with resources and good hunting - can they truly thrive.	+6 Housing +0.5 Building slots Dimensional Manipulation Device Housing: +1 Building slots: +0.5 If has Dark Matter deficit, instead: Housing: −1	+2 Squire : +1	Knights of the Toxic God Either: Has Order's Castle Is the Knights of the Toxic God starting habitat Converts to Habitation District
Industrial District (Habitat) Industrial machinery fills this habitat district, taking full advantage of the benefits of low gravity.	+3 Housing +0.25 Building slots Industrial Maintenance edict: Energy: −2	+1 Metallurgist / Foundry Drone / Fabricator +1 Artisan / Artisan Drone /: +1 Industrial Maintenance edict: Maintenance Drone: +1 Job swaps0 Masterful Crafters: Artisans 🠚 Artificers Artisan Drones 🠚 Foundry Drones Catalytic Processing: Metallurgists 🠚 Catalytic Technicians Foundry Station designation: Artisans 🠚 Metallurgists Factory Station designation: Metallurgists 🠚 Artisans

Up to three of the following districts can be built per orbital or central complex built over the appropriate deposit type.

District	Produces	Jobs	Properties
Zero-G Research District Centers of scientific discovery, these habitat districts employ researchers from myriad fields of study.	+3 Housing /: Building slots: +0.25	+2 Researcher / Brain Drone / Calculator /: //: +1	Either: Research deposit deposit below habitat or orbital Special resource deposit deposit below habitat or orbital
Reactor District Habitat-side energy production plant districts generate energy-credits, as well as provide power to the arcology on which they are built.	+3 Housing /: Building slots: +0.25	+2 Technician / Tech-Drone Hive Mind: +1 /: : +1	Energy deposit below habitat or orbital
Astro-Mining Bay With no natural resources of their own, Habitats depend on these facilities to mine and process minerals from nearby asteroids and planets.	+3 Housing /: Building slots: +0.25	+2 Miner / Mining-Drone Hive Mind: +1 /: : +1	Minerals or Alloys deposit deposit below habitat or orbital

Arcology districts[]

Ecumenopolis planets have their own set of districts called arcologies. These provide a larger amount of housing and jobs than regular planetary districts, but do not provide basic resource jobs.

Residential Arcologies[]

Residential Arcologies provide large amount of housing and can be improved by the same set of technologies as regular housing districts.

Upkeep	Time	Cost
−5	600	1000

District	Produces	Jobs	Properties
Residential Arcology With these special ecumenopolistic city districts, integrated vertical architecture is utilized to maximize population density over land surface area.	+15 Housing Public Works Division: +3 Weather Control Systems: +3 Anti-Gravity Engineering: +3 Except if Agrarian Idyll	+3 Clerk +9 Maintenance Drone Anti-Gravity Engineering: +3

Production Arcologies[]

Production Arcologies provide large amount of housing and jobs that focus on manufacturing of advanced resources from basic resources. They each require Strategic Resources to build and upkeep.

Upkeep	Time	Cost
−5 −1	600	1000 50

District	Produces	Jobs	Properties
Foundry Arcology Geared towards military industries, this ecumenopolis district is filled with the roar of smelters and the clang of metallurgies.	+10 Housing Industrial Maintenance edict: Energy: −2	+6 Metallurgist / Foundry Drone / Fabricator Catalytic Processing: Metallurgists 🠚 Catalytic Technicians Industrial Maintenance edict: Maintenance Drone: +1	Strategic Resource: Volatile Motes
Factory Arcology Workshops filled with artisans and civilian industries line the stacked streets of this district.	+10 Housing Industrial Maintenance edict: Energy: −2	+6 Artisan / Artisan Drone Masterful Crafters: Artisans 🠚 Artificers Industrial Maintenance edict: Maintenance Drone: +1	Strategic Resource: Rare Crystals Gestalt Consciousness unless Rogue Servitor
Leisure Arcology Where denizens of the ecumenopolis unwind in their leisure hours.	+10 Housing	+6 Entertainer Warrior Culture: Entertainers 🠚 Duelists	Strategic Resource: Exotic Gases Gestalt Consciousness
Sanctuary Arcology These towering structures feature AI-controlled artificial climates that mimic any environment a sapient organic being could require. The organics within have their housing needs completely fulfilled.		+15 Bio-Trophy	Strategic Resource: Exotic Gases Rogue Servitor
Administrative Arcology Where hordes of admininistrative staff and bureaucrats toil away to meet the growing expectations of an expanding bureaucracy.	+10 Housing	+6 Bureaucrat Job swaps0 Corporate authority: Bureaucrats 🠚 Managers Worker Cooperative: Managers 🠚 Stewards	Strategic Resource: Rare Crystals Gestalt Consciousness Spiritualist Member of level 5 Holy Covenant
Ecclesiastical Arcology A true testament to our devotion, these spires may hold the key to the spiritual well-being of our empire.	+10 Housing	+6 Priest Job swaps0 Corporate unless Corporate Death Cult: 3 🠚 Manager: +3 Death Cult: 6 🠚 Death Priest: +3 Mortal Initiate: +3 Corporate Death Cult: 6 🠚 +2 +2 +2 Worker Cooperative: Managers 🠚 Stewards	Strategic Resource: Rare Crystals Either: Spiritualist Member of level 5 Holy Covenant

Ring World districts[]

Ring Worlds have their own set of districts called segments. They are the most powerful district types available but also the most expensive. A maximum of 10 segments may be constructed on a ring section.

Housing segments[]

Like Housing districts on regular planets, the Housing segments provide massive amount of housing and receive the same set of bonus from technologies and traditions.

Upkeep	Time	Cost
−5	360	1000

District	Produces	Jobs	Properties
City Segment Urban centers fill this Ring World section, providing large amounts of housing and office space for clerical workers.	+25 Housing Agrarian Idyll: −5 Public Works Division: +5 Weather Control Systems: +5 Anti-Gravity Engineering: +5 Except if Agrarian Idyll	+3 Clerk +2 Enforcer	Gestalt Consciousness Converts to Hive or Nexus Segment if conquered
Hive Segment Towering spires stretch across this Ring World section for drones to gather when not working to rejuvenate and consume nutrients.	+30 Housing Extended Hives: +5 Weather Control Systems: +5 Anti-Gravity Engineering: +5	+15 Maintenance Drone Anti-Gravity Engineering: +5 Synapse Drone: +2	Hive Mind Converts to City or Nexus Segment if conquered
Nexus Segment Efficient districts fill this Ring World section, provide locations for drones to be serviced and repaired before they are deployed to their work assignments.	+25 Housing Optimized Nexus: +5 Weather Control Systems: +5 Anti-Gravity Engineering: +5	+10 Maintenance Drone Anti-Gravity Engineering: +5 +2 Tech-Drone	Machine Intelligence Converts to Hive or City Segment if conquered

Production segments[]

The Production segments provide massive amount of housing and jobs that focus on a limited scope of resources. They each consume Strategic Resources to build and upkeep.

Upkeep	Time	Cost
−5 −2	360	1000 50

District	Produces	Jobs	Properties
Industrial Segment Clanking factories and powerful machinery fill this Ring World section, providing a strong industrial base for the Empire.	+10 Housing Industrial Maintenance edict: Energy: −4	+5 Artisan / Artisan Drone +5 Metallurgist / Foundry Drone / Fabricator Industrial Maintenance edict: Maintenance Drone: +2 Job swaps0 Masterful Crafters: Artisans 🠚 Artificers Artisan Drones 🠚 Foundry Drones Catalytic Processing: Metallurgists 🠚 Catalytic Technicians Forge World designation: Artisans 🠚 Metallurgists Factory World designation: Metallurgists 🠚 Artisans Metallurgists 5 🠚 Artisans +5	Strategic Resource: Volatile Motes
Commercial Segment Civilian industry and infrastructure populate this Ring World segment dedicated to commerce.	+10 Housing	+6 Clerk +2 Trader Commercial Enterprise: Trader +2	Strategic Resource: Rare Crystals Gestalt Consciousness Fallen Empire
Generator Segment Reactors fill this Ring World section, focused on the generation of energy.	+10 Housing Hive Mind: +5	+10 Technician / Tech-Drone Hive Mind: +5	Strategic Resource: Rare Crystals Either: Gestalt Consciousness Fallen Empire
Research Segment Research facilities of all kinds fill this Ring World segment.	+10 Housing	+10 Researcher / Brain Drone / Calculator	Strategic Resource: Exotic Gases
Agricultural Segment Endless seas of farmland stretch across this Ring World section, growing massive amounts of food.	+10 Housing Agrarian Idyll: +5 Agrarian Utopias: +5 Hive Mind: +5	+10 Farmer / Agri-Drone Hive Mind: +5	Strategic Resource: Volatile Motes