X3:Reunion Manual - Steam

Basic materials:High tech commodities:Weaponry and shields:BoronHeavy government regulation with a risk-averse culture.Average: Solar Power Plant and mine costs.Average: with some specialities.Capital-class: Argon are not very good at producing the lowertechnology weaponry, instead preferring the construction ofthe larger, more involved, capital-class weapons.Boron have a low price variation in bio and food, therefore tech factories will have tightermargins on profit and performance. Trading profit, though safer, is lower in Boron space. Thisprovides a steady and low-risk market. The Boron are not good diggers so their mines tendto be expensive, but they have great energy technology.Factory PricesBasic materials:High tech commodities:Weaponry and shields:Excellent defensive and non-combat technology.Average: Cheap Solar Power Plants but expensive MinesExcellent: Boron specialise in non-aggressive higher techitems like crystals, microchips and computer components.Shield mastery: Boron excel at shield technology (and theion disruptors to neutralise them). They also pioneered thetechnology for the defensive Flak Artillery Array weapons butare poor at most other offensive weaponry and rockets.ParanidSlight regulation by the Priest Emperor but a generally well-run economy.Average price variation in bio and food. Tech factories will have average margins on profitand performance.Factory PricesBasic materials:High tech commodities:Paranid excel in what they can keep to themselves.Poor: Above average price Solar Power Plants and Mines(Paranid prefer lesser beings to handle trivial commodities)Average: Paranid are not very good at some of the morecommon items (excepting the warheads to go into theirmissile complexes), but they excel at some of the technologythat others do not produce, like Advanced Satellites.Weaponry and shields:Secretive: Technologies that were developed by the Paranid,like PACs, PSGs, and many rockets, are very cheap for theParanid, and very expensive for other races, due to the lackof free-flowing information.SplitLittle government intervention in the economy.Average price variation in bio and food. Tech factories will have average margins on profitand performance.47Factory PricesBasic materials:High tech commodities:Weaponry and shields:TeladiThe ultimate trader’s marketplace, where anything goes.Research feeds the war machine.Fair: Expensive Solar Power Plants, but cheaper Mines, dueto the use of forced labor.Low: Split do not use much non-combat technology.Excellent: The Split are generally poor at missileconstruction, preferring to get up close and personal. Theyare above average in shield construction, but however excelat producing most forms of lasers.Extremely high price variation in bio and food. Tech factories will have a very wide range onmargins and profitability. It’s extremely easy to make money in Teladi sectors, but just as