Districts

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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.	Housing: +5  Agrarian Idyll: −1  Public Works Division: +1  Weather Control Systems: +1  Anti-Gravity Engineering: +1 Except if  Agrarian Idyll  Building Slot: +1	Clerk: +1  Trickle Up Economics: +1	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.	Housing: +6  Hive World: +6 Extended Hives: +1  Weather Control Systems: +1  Anti-Gravity Engineering: +1  Building Slot: +1	Maintenance Drone: +3  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.	Housing: +5 Optimized Nexus: +1  Weather Control Systems: +1  Anti-Gravity Engineering: +1  Building Slot: +1	Maintenance Drone: +3  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.	Housing: +2  Masterful Crafters: +1 for every 3 districts (+0.34 each) Industrial Maintenance edict:  Energy: −2	Metallurgist / Foundry Drone / Fabricator: +1  Artisan / Artisan Drone: +1  Masterful Crafters:  Artisans 🠚  Artificers  Catalytic Processing:  Metallurgists 🠚  Catalytic Technicians 1 🠚 +1 Forge World designation: 1 🠚 +1 Factory World designation: 1 🠚 +1 Industrial Maintenance edict:  Maintenance Drone: +1
Trade District A district of offices and factories where goods are manufactured and sold.	Housing: +2	Clerk: +1  Artisan: +1  Masterful Crafters:  Artisan 🠚  Artificer  Commercial Enterprise:  Merchant: +1	Only on  Shattered Ring World  Gestalt Consciousness Half upkeep, time, and cost to build (equal to resource districts)

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.	Housing: +2  Agrarian Idyll: +1  Machine Intelligence: +1	Technician / Tech-Drone: +2  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.	Housing: +2  Agrarian Idyll: +1  Machine Intelligence: +1  Subterranean:  Housing: +2 +1 for every 3 districts (+0.34 each)	Miner / Mining Drone: +2  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.	Housing: +2  Agrarian Idyll:  Housing: +1 +1 for every 4 districts (+0.25 each)  Agrarian Utopias: +1  Machine Intelligence: +1	Farmer / Agri-Drone: +2  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; four consistent districts and one dependent on the planetary orbital resource deposit where the habitat is built. Habitat districts are only limited by  max districts.

Upkeep	Time	Cost
−2	240	400

District	Produces	Jobs	Properties
Habitation District A habitat housing district provides comfortable, if compact residences for its population.	Housing: +8 Hydroponics Station Designation:  Housing: −2	Maintenance Drone: +2 Hydroponics Station Designation:  Farmer / Agri-Drone: +1
Industrial District (Habitat) Industrial machinery fills this habitat district, taking full advantage of the benefits of low gravity.	Housing: +3 Industrial Maintenance edict:  Energy: −2	Metallurgist / Foundry Drone / Fabricator: +1  Artisan / Artisan Drone: +1  Masterful Crafters:  Artisans 🠚  Artificers  Catalytic Processing:  Metallurgists 🠚  Catalytic Technicians 1 🠚 +1 Foundry Station designation: 1 🠚 +1 Factory Station designation: 1 🠚 +1 Industrial Maintenance edict:  Maintenance Drone: +1
Trade District (Habitat) A sprawling habitat trading district where merchants and clerks conduct business.	Housing: +3	Clerk: +3  Trickle Up Economics: +1  Commercial Enterprise:  Merchant: +1	Gestalt Consciousness
Reactor District Habitat-side energy production plant districts generate energy-credits, as well as provide power to the arcology on which they are built.	Housing: +3	Technician / Tech-Drone: +3  Hive Mind: +1	Either:  Gestalt Consciousness  Energy deposit on the planet
Leisure District Who needs the great outdoors, with hubs of habitat entertainment like these?	Housing: +3	Default:  Entertainer: +3  Warrior Culture:  Entertainers 🠚  Duelists  Rogue Servitor:  Maintenance Drone: +1  Bio-Trophy: +5	Either:  Gestalt Consciousness  Rogue Servitor Does not have: Order's Keep Order's Castle
Research District Centers of scientific discovery, these habitat districts employ researchers from myriad fields of study.	Housing: +3	Researcher /  Brain Drone /  Calculator: +3	Either:  Research deposit on the planet Special resource deposit on the planet
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.	Housing: +3	Miner / Mining-Drone: +3  Hive Mind: +1	Minerals or  Alloys deposit on the planet
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.	Housing: +4  +2.5% Habitability Dimensional Manipulation Device  Housing: +1  Building slots: +0.5 If has  Dark Matter deficit, instead:  Housing: −1	Squire: +3	Costs  500 minerals to build  Knights of the Toxic God Either: Has Order's Castle Is the  Knights of the Toxic God starting habitat

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.	Housing: +15  Public Works Division: +3  Weather Control Systems: +3  Anti-Gravity Engineering: +3 Except if  Agrarian Idyll	Clerk: +3  Trickle Up Economics: +3  Maintenance Drone: +9  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.	Housing: +10 Industrial Maintenance edict:  Energy: −2	Metallurgist / Foundry Drone / Fabricator: +6  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.	Housing: +10 Industrial Maintenance edict:  Energy: −2	Artisan / Artisan Drone: +6  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.	Housing: +10	Entertainer: +6  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.		Bio-Trophy: +15	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.	Housing: +10	Bureaucrat: +6  Corporate authority:  Bureaucrats 🠚  Managers	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.	Housing: +10	Priest: +6  Corporate unless  Corporate Death Cult: 3 🠚  Manager: +3  Death Cult: 6 🠚  Death Priest: +3  Mortal Initiate: +3  Corporate Death Cult: 6 🠚 +2 +2 +2	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.	Housing: +25  Agrarian Idyll: −5  Public Works Division: +5  Weather Control Systems: +5  Anti-Gravity Engineering: +5 Except if  Agrarian Idyll	Clerk: +3  Trickle Up Economics: +3  Enforcer: +2	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.	Housing: +30 Extended Hives: +5  Weather Control Systems: +5  Anti-Gravity Engineering: +5	Maintenance Drone: +15  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.	Housing: +25 Optimized Nexus: +5  Weather Control Systems: +5  Anti-Gravity Engineering: +5	Maintenance Drone: +10  Anti-Gravity Engineering: +5  Tech-Drone: +2	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.	Housing: +10 Industrial Maintenance edict:  Energy: −4	Artisan / Artisan Drone: +5  Metallurgist / Foundry Drone / Fabricator: +5  Masterful Crafters:  Artisans 🠚  Artificers  Catalytic Processing:  Metallurgists 🠚  Catalytic Technicians 🠚 +5  Rogue Servitor /  Catalytic Processing: 1 🠚 +1 Industrial Maintenance edict:  Maintenance Drone: +2	Strategic Resource:  Volatile Motes
Commercial Segment Civilian industry and infrastructure populate this Ring World segment dedicated to commerce.	Housing: +10	Clerk: +6  Merchant: +2  Commercial Enterprise: +2	Strategic Resource:  Rare Crystals  Gestalt Consciousness Fallen Empire
Generator Segment Reactors fill this Ring World section, focused on the generation of energy.	Housing: +10  Hive Mind: +5	Technician / Tech-Drone: +10  Hive Mind: +5	Strategic Resource:  Rare Crystals One must be true:  Gestalt Consciousness Fallen Empire
Research Segment Research facilities of all kinds fill this Ring World segment.	Housing: +10	Researcher /  Brain Drone /  Calculator: +10	Strategic Resource:  Exotic Gases
Agricultural Segment Endless seas of farmland stretch across this Ring World section, growing massive amounts of food.	Housing: +10  Agrarian Idyll: +5  Agrarian Utopias: +5  Hive Mind: +5	Farmer / Agri-Drone: +10  Hive Mind: +5	Strategic Resource:  Volatile Motes

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