Academy

Your academy is the main source of scientific research, and can be built when you reach player level 4. There are five branches of scientific research available to you: mechanics, tesla, genetics, occult, and gauss. Discovering new technology is a two-step process. First, you must research research items, in order to obtain research points of the desired type. (Gauss research points are instead obtained in the Labyrinth special event.) Then, you can spend those research points (along with ionites) in order to obtain the new technology. (Note that the academy can work on researching a research item and a new technology at the same time.) The academy is where you can also use doctrines that you have obtained.

The gallery below shows the academy at all different levels.

For more details on how the research items work, see research.

For the specific technology upgrades available in each branch, see:
 * Mechanics research
 * Tesla research
 * Genetics research
 * Occultism research
 * Gauss research

Once you join a faction, you can also conduct specific faction research. These use all four types of research points.
 * Red Monarchy faction research
 * Forgotten Legion faction research
 * New Order faction research

Clans can also do research at the scientists board; see clan research for details.

Upgrading the academy is necessary to be able to research higher level technologies (in all cases, the highest level technology available is equal to the academy level). The costs are as follows:

Your journal has this to say about your academy: ''"Knowledge is a dangerous tool that can give great strength, but also destroy you. The history won't let you lie: The Iron Empire believed that an army of walking machines would protect them from any enemy and eventually lost the war to the Dominion which received the unprecedented power of the occult knowledge at the cost of turning the inhabitants into the cold-hearted possessed people. Today we have one chance to win and we have no right to make mistakes of our predecessors. Building of the Academy and the conduct of scientific research in the fields of Genetics, Mechanics, Occultism and Tesla Energy will enable us to create a powerful army capable of destroying any enemy". I have nothing to add to this scientists' note, commander. That's why they are scientists, so that they could express their thoughts clearly and understandable.''