Generalized Fleet Logistics

[ Technologies ]

By creating uniformity in the required supplies of your fleets the demands on supply lines are lessened. Together with increased efficiency in docking and shipment processing, this can be used to greatly enhance the supply infrastructure of the military.

This technology adds an alternate option to the Fleet Zone. Instead of acting as the home port of a Military fleet, the zone can act as the 'supply base' of a military fleet. A military fleet supported by a supply base uses the supply base's location as its home port for the purpose of calculating upkeep.

However, the supplies must still reach the military fleet. The military fleet's supplies must be shipped from the home port to the supply base, and then from the supply base to the fleet itself. This extended supply line can consist of two trade fleets, one for each leg of the journey, or one trade fleet routed from the home port to the supply base and from the supply base to the military fleet itself.

This technology can explicitly be used to operate the supply line of another faction. This requires both factions to have this technology. The faction controlling the supply base must provide the supply fleet from the supply base to the military fleet. Either faction can cancel the supply base's support at any turn by noting this in their turn report.

Switching between supply depots does not take a fleet action, but should be noted in the turn report.

This technology allows the construction of the Forward Supply Depot upgrade for Fleet Zones.