Town Centre

In The Southeastern Dragon, the Town Centre replaces the Library as the main access point for technological research. Town Centres now differ from Libraries in that they also follow the 4 x 9 grid plan used by Civic Centres from Kings & Conquerors, and require Knowledge as a ramp cost (their base construction price remaining unchanged).
This new ramp cost can be quite costly, and in addition, Town Centres now produce a hefty bit of Knowledge when torn down. So it is of vital importance that you protect them from the enemy whereso possible, or to save town infrastructure wholesale when you take a city from the foe since Town Centres take a long time to erect in any settlement.
France have the benefit of cheaper Town Centres, so this allows them a faster means of escaping the Mediaeval Era and getting better units and a stronger economy.
==Trunk research==
Only one technology, Classical Age, is available and it is free and instantaneous. You will need to research at least 14 technologies from the Civic Centre before it can be accessed.
RESEARCH LEVEL	NAME 	GRANTS ACCESS TO 	PREREQTECHS 	
1 	Mediaeval Era 	Basic units and technologies	None; basic 	
2 	Gunpowder Era 	
*Intermediate units and technologies, including the following:
**	Must first research 1/3 of all 28 Trump Techs.	
3 	Enlightenment Era	 	Must first research 2/3 of all 28 Trump Techs.	
==Military research ==
The most important branchof resarch in the game, Military research raises your Population Limit and the number of new units you can access. A successful game will require you to raise your population cap as far as possible, and to upgrade and access new units whereso possible.
RESEARCH LEVEL	NAME 	GRANTS ACCESS TO	COST	UNLOCKS	
1 	Standing Army 	
“Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people."
:—2 Samuel (24:2)
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS	
*1,500
*1,500	
*Hovels	
2 	Mercenaries 	
"...they spent well-nigh all that they had, both in the sojourn that they had made there and in the great payments that they had made for the fleet."
:— Robert de Clery, On the Conquest of Constantinople (Cap 16)
*Transport of land units by sea
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS	
Resource cost:
*120
*50	
*Outpost
*Barracks	
3 	Rapid Dominance Doctrine	
"The storm is master."
:—Friedrich Schiller, 18th century German playwright, Wilhelm Tell
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS	 	
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*Stables
*Siege Workshop	
4 	Professional Corps 	
"An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep."
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS	 	
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5 	Impressment 	
As the scale and devastation of conflict increased, so too did the numbers of men committed by warring states, be it for greater glory or basic survival.
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS	 	
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6 	Signalatory Corps 	
"What guns, sir? where and what to do?"
:—George Bingham, Lord of Lucan, at Balaclava
*Greater Pop Cap.
*Unit upgrade cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%.	 	
*Elite heavy cavalry	
7 	Firepower and Calibre 	
"Gunpowder and the sword were always more persuasive than a witty tongue."
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS	 	
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*Castle	
==Administration research ==
Because of the absence of trunk technologies in Swords of the Prophets, Administration research often functions as the "Ages" of this mod. So, a lot of military buildings beyond the main vanilla ones just can't be accessed, unless corresponding buildings were also constructed too.
RESEARCH LEVEL	NAME 	GRANTS ACCESS TO	COST	UNLOCKS	
1 	Manorial System 	
"He made safe his castle that was upon a high hill, and he gathered in his flocks."
:—Ferdowsi, Shahnameh
*Replaced by Manorial System.
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS	
Resource cost:
*120
*50	 	
2 	Bureaucracy 	
"Kings are wont to create as many eyes, ears, arms and legs for themselves as they see fit."
:—Aristotle, Politics
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS
*Is a prerequisite to access the following buildings: Noble Residence	 	
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*Sawmill
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*Noble Residence	
3 	Law Enforcement 	
"A just city should favour justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just deserts."
:—
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Is a prerequisite to access the following buildings: Constabulary (upgrade for the Stable)	 	
*Foundry	
4 	Authority 	
"Look at me! I have 400 million people dependent on my judgment!"
:—Empress Dowager Cixi of China
*To be replaced by Bureaucracy.
*st cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Is a prerequisite for unlocking additional mercenaries, such as Dailamiyan for Arabs and Persians, or Turkic mercenaries for China	 	 	
5 	Political Theories	
"I am a lover of liberty. I will not and I cannot serve a party." —Erasmus
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS.
*Unlocks the Magistracy, functions like Town Watch in that it can spot hidden units.	 	 	
6 	Empire 	
"Take up the White Man's burden- Send forth the best ye breed— Go bind your sons to exileTo serve your captives' need."
:—Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden" 
*To be replaced by Bureaucracy.
*st cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Is a prerequisite for unlocking additional mercenaries, such as Dailamiyan for Arabs and Persians, or Turkic mercenaries for China	 	 	
7 	Colonial System 	
"The sun shall shine on no land that is not our own."
— Herodotus, classical Greek author, The Persian Wars
*Foundry
*Low-level crops and lumber upgrades in Granary and Sawmill.
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS	
*1,500
*1,500	 	
==Commerce research ==
RESEARCH LEVEL	NAME 	GRANTS ACCESS TO	COST	UNLOCKS	
1 	Guilds 	
"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart."
:—Rumi
*Increased Caravan limit
*Increased commerce cap for all resources	
Resource cost:
*120
*50	 	
2 	Pacioli System 	
“Some falsified printed accounts, artfully cooked up, on purpose to mislead and deceive'.”
:—Tobias Smollett, 18th century Scottish author
*Allows for resource trading at Market.
*Increased Caravan limit
*Increased commerce cap for all resources.	 	 	
3 	Land Development 	
"He had buildings set up on Swanness, and had another house there.." —Egil's Saga (cap 29)
*Can trade with allies.
*Increased Caravan limit
*Increased commerce cap for all resources.	 	
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*Granary
*Sawmill
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*Literacy	
4 	Mercantilism 	
"Better to be cheated by the price than by the merchandise." —Baltasar Gracián, 17th century Spanish priest and author
*Increased Caravan limit
*Increased commerce cap for all resources.	 	 	
5 	Banking and Finance	
"We are in need of money, and without money, nothing of what should be done, can be done.
:—Anna Comnena, Alexiad, Cap I
*Can trade with allies.
*Increased Caravan limit
*Increased commerce cap for all resources.	 	
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*Granary
*Sawmill
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*Literacy	
6 	Postage 	
"These are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed." 
:—Herodotus, classical Greek author
*Increased Caravan limit
*Increased commerce cap for all resources.	 	 	
7 	Economic Theory 	
"A penny saved is a penny to squander."
:—Ambrose Bierce, 20th century American satirist
*Increased Caravan limit
*Increased commerce cap for all resources.	 	
Pedagogics with Heroic Age	
==Scientific research ==
While seemingly innocuous, Scientific research shouldn't be sniffed at. It will go a long way to unlocking new building and war machine types, while increasing the economic yields of your civilisation whist reducing the cost of research and upgrading.
The most common units requiring Science research usually tend to be siege machines, but even then they require auxiliary research in order to be unlocked.
RESEARCH LEVEL	NAME 	GRANTS ACCESS TO	COST	UNLOCKS	
1 	Empiricism 	"He who perceives has knowledge thereby."
:—Anselm of Cantebury, 12th century bishop
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS	 	* 	
2 	Formal Education 	He who goes unpunished never learns. —Greek Proverb
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS	 	 	
3 	Chemistry 	"All substances are poisons; there is none which is not a poison."
:—Paracelsus, 16th century Swiss surgeon and scientific philosopher
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS.	 	Sawmill	
4 	Patronage of the Arts	"Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the rev­er­ence and delight which are their due.":—Winston Churchill
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS.
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS.	 	Sawmill	
5 	Optics 	"Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul? I cannot stop asking." —Rumi
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Increased LOS.	 	Sawmill	
6 	 Mechanical Energy 	"[N]ature is a principle of motion and mutation."
:—Aristotle, Physics
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%	 	
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7 	Calculus 	"I see nothing but scientific extravagance in all these calculations."
:—Frederick "Alte Fritz" II of Prussia, letter to Voltaire
*Research cost cheaper and research speed improved by 10%
*Replace with Natural Law	 	* 	
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