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Technology Name Planetary Bombardment
Short Description Allows our invasion transports to bombard planets from space - softening them up for our troops.
Technology Type Invasion
Research Cost 600
Prerequisites Planetary Invasion
Tech Leads to Space Marines, Tidal Disruption
Tech Provides Soldiering +5%, Mass Drivers
Long Description Sometimes you have to destroy the planet to save it. At least, that's the current thinking with this line of research. Here's the idea: We gain orbital control of the planet and then simply drop small asteroids onto it. The asteroids will destroy much of the planet's surface but it will make it easier to...well...conquer.