Massive +50% happiness of Securan allows for extremely high tax rate at homeworld (i am currently running 90%) while still maintaining very happy population everywhere (my empire's average approval is 123.8, despite being in rapid expansion phase: 43 colonies in 39 systems, total). No doubt Quameno and Kiadan both can do yet a bit higher research for their racial intellect and innately big science bonus, but not any massively higher because Securans compensante much with being bigger empire / population, which increases empire research potential significantly. That's with all research wonders, Way of Ancients, research stations for all 3 branches placed on good 26% or higher locations with scientists in each for further bonuses and some other boosts like having Humans in my empire (+6% research total).

In my current playthrough, i am now done with year 2121 (so 21 years into the game), and currently i'm doing total empire research potential = 996k, actual output (including bonuses) = 3558k, and doing crash research in all 3 branches, which means practical research total speed is 3558k x3 = 10674k. Much of those profits can then be spent to do 'crash research' programs, which is +200% to research - which dwarfs Quameno's innate bonuses for sure. they have nice extra bonuses to recruiting spies, abmassadors and 10% extra tourism profits, which all add small extra profits to empire's economy.Īll together, those features allow Securan empires to grow extremely very fast, which in turn generates higher research capacity, and times higher profits than other empires at the time. their native planet type is 'Desert', which adds one more freely available type early game: continental and marsh are cheap to research, but Desert is not cheap to research they are humanoids, thus naturally leaning towards alliances with all the 'tech' humanoid races like Quameno, Kiadian and of course humans they are slightly intelligent, which is much better than 'quite stupid' Gizurean (fast-breeding insects) and 'extremely stupid' Atuuk (fast-breeding rodents) they are natural optimists, so +50% happiness at all times it's one of the two best-growing races in the game, with default 26% growth being high and best growth cycle of 1 in 3 years on top

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