Civic
Exploration Protocols
Protocoles exploratoires
Description
WARNING: Challenging Civic
The foundation of this Machine Intelligence's central programming is the drive to catalog exoplanetary life. In pursuit of this directive, it has dedicated much of its resources to crafting a small fleet of vessels capable of limited subspace travel.
Effects
Start with 2 Exploration Vessels and an Engineering Vessel equipped with Subspace Drives, making them incapable of Hyperlane travel but granting limited Jump Drive abilities.
Gain an increased chance to discover FTL Travel Technologies
Gain 50% more Insight progress from observing pre-FTL Civilizations.
Gain 
Unity every time you finish establishing first contact.
- Start at a technological and infrastructural disadvantage, and with 1K fewer 
Pops than normal
- +0.25
Legion Node Experience Gain - +20% First Contact Speed
- +3 Monthly Unity from Observation Outposts
Conditions
Only offered if
- Authority “Machine Intelligence”
Requirements
- Incompatible with civic “Determined Exterminator”, “Driven Assimilator”, “Hyperspace Calculations” and “Genesis Architects”