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Military Arkships

Tier 3 engineering technology · Voidcraft
EngineeringTier 3Voidcraft

Military Arkships is a tier 3 engineering technology (Voidcraft) in Stellaris 4.5.2. Its base cost is 4,000 research. It needs Arkship Construction. It unlocks Military Arkship I. Console: research_technology tech_military_arkship.

Military ArkshipsVoidcraft· tier 34,000
Base cost
4,000
Area
Engineering
Tier
3
Draw weight
65
Path from start
1 techs, 8,000 research
ID
tech_military_arkship

What Military Arkships does

Modifiers as the game prints them, from the technology's modifier block; then the unlock lines its research card shows.

  • Unlocks Arkship Class: Military
    Arkship (Military) Military Arkships are the armored core of a nomadic empire. Purpose-built for combat, they carry devastating firepower wherever the fleet travels.

What Military Arkships unlocks

Everything in the game files that lists this technology as a prerequisite; “condition” marks objects that check for it in their conditions instead.

Megastructure · 1
Ship size · 1
Starbase module · 1

How to get Military Arkships

Research in Stellaris is drawn: each area offers 3 cards at a time, weighted by each technology's draw weight (here 65) and its weight modifiers. Tier 3 opens after 6 tier 2 technologies of the same area.

Conditions (potential)
  • Nomadic empire

In the game

Military Arkships are the armored core of a nomadic empire. Purpose-built for combat, they carry devastating firepower wherever the fleet travels.

Console command

Typed in the game's console (the ~ key); achievements are off for that game.

research_technology tech_military_arkship
Draw weight script, as in common/technology/00_nomads_dlc_tech.txt
modifier = {
	factor = 5
	has_technology = tech_arkship_tier_2
}
modifier = {
	factor = 5
	has_technology = tech_arkship_tier_3
}
modifier = {
	factor = 1.25
	has_tradition = tr_expansion_adopt
}

Military Arkships: questions

How do I get Military Arkships in Stellaris?

Research Arkship Construction first; then Military Arkships can be drawn as one of the 3 engineering research options. It also has conditions (see Requirements on this page).

What does Military Arkships do?

It unlocks Arkship (Military) (megastructure), Military Arkship I (ship size) and Arkship Spinal Devastator Mount (starbase module).

What is the ID of Military Arkships?

The technology's ID is tech_military_arkship. To get it with the console: research_technology tech_military_arkship (Stellaris 4.5.2).

How much does Military Arkships cost?

4,000 engineering research before modifiers. In game the cost grows with empire size (+0.2% per point above the base, common/defines) and the galaxy's tech cost setting.

Source: common/technology/00_nomads_dlc_tech.txt and localisation/english, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776). Base numbers before empire-size and difficulty modifiers.

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