Space Elevator

> *Without question, the most dangerous and expensive part of interplanetary travel is landing on and launching from a planet's surface. The creation of a space elevator, with an orbital station tethered to the planet's surface by a long traversable cable at the equator, will not only stimulate an explosion of safe and affordable immigration, but will also be a massive boost to the local economy.*
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## Supply

### Effects

Once the Cable is complete. the settlement no longer requires rockets to land on the planet to deliver goods. Boosts the revenue from Contracts and reduce the cost of importing Settlers.

## Construction & Maintenance

### Consumption

-50 oxygen/min
-600 power/min

### Cost

180 steel
30 copper wires
10,000 credits
1 hour

## Introduction

The Space Elevator is a megastructure required for victory in The Sword of Mars (Pavonis Mons). Once completed, it provides a lot of great benefits: thwarting terrorist attacks (Although terrorist attack was cause by Space Elevator's research completed.), faster and cheaper rocket launches, recruit settlers for free, and more frequent and profitable export contracts.

## Strategy

With no doubts, Space Elevator requires lots of effort to build and operate. Also most of expansion parts are having minor effect. In order to efficiently bring it operational, the main objective should be the cable and offices.

Starting from the base, make sure to have at least 1 active mining depot, 2 active ore refineries or more, and a prepared building space. Before starting, fill up steel and copper wire storage, so there will be spare gears for other tasks (e.g. research). When Terminal 1 is completed, continue to construct other 5 terminals one at a time. Repeating the same preparation plan. (Rushing by any means may not the best option, as an event of shortage could occur.)

Continue from terminal construction phase. When all 6 terminals constructed, the tower part of the elevator will become available for construction, from cable, 6 support columns, to lower tower. The next part should be (or must be) the cable because it is a key part that unlocks half of the potential power of the elevator. At this point, it is recommended to make a half break for storage expansion. The rest of the elevator will require at least 4 active mining depots. Once reach 500+ steel storage, it is ready for the second half of the plan.

The tower part is highly expensive, starting from support columns is a good idea. Recommend building the column 1,3,4,6 as these columns are the base for offices that make the elevator operate at full potential. Lastly, when a cable and all offices are operational, the rest is yours. And remember to save gears as mentioned earlier.

## Research

**Space Elevator Research**
Name
Tier
Research Unlocked: Advanced Elevator Construction
 Advanced Elevator Construction
Unlocks the construction of the support and offices of the Space Elevator

## Expansions

If you see \* in the effects, it means the addition did not have any effects listed in game

**Total costs of Space Elevator Construction and Maintenance**
-6000 power/min

## Gallery

A Space Elevator (full construct) located at the edge of the scene, By minh chen.