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With the spurring of your vow at their heels, your people get to work. Intellectualism and technology is focused on. The Hegemony has always banned anti-technology and progress movements; the recent Alavis disaster brought some of it back. However, advancement is inevitable and desirable. Todays issues with technology are trivial compared to what benefits tomorrows technology will bring- and there is no way to unlearn what has already been learned- so you must <span class="mu-i">advance</span>!
Your current <span class="mu-s">HCDFV</span> class starships are general workhorse ships- similar to the original Skiff 1.0s used back in the ancient days of Vantix Garastra. Not well suited to combat, these ships rely on tiny hangars to hold fighters or convert that space to cargo holds for transportation- not well suited to either task. Hyperdrives are getting better and better, and you can finally create a more suitable ship. Alavis also says your targetting systems and shields are improved, further increasing your combat potential.
Your general sciences include technology related to infrastructure and the managing of your empire. Due to the very negative connotation that the MkII drones had, associated with murderous robot rampages under Alavis, they are being replaced- and were long overdue anyway. These are MkIII drones. Each is constructed with a Azurium shell- making them capable of acting in extreme environments and much more durable. They are also equipped with quantum communication capability, as well as telescopic multitool functions. Each one is also more agile and compact then your old ones, making it much easier to ship them to new systems.
Another advancement is in the medical technologies. It is a prototype of a <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-i">life extension treatment</span></span>.
The current cause of death for over 90% of Jaaxtians is death by GPCS, due to your unnatural longevity from alien technology causing the oldest tissues in your body, which will always be your non regenerating neurons, to unravel. All Jaaxtians will suffer from this eventually if they live long enough, and currently the average will be about 100 years of age. This treatment extends that by an estimated <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-i">25 years per dose</span></span>; forcing the neurons to partially regenerate. However, there is a reason it isn't being rushed out to the masses as the next big thing. The first is that it is prohibitively expensive, costing around 50 million Danbomarks to produce one dose. While a drop in the bucket for a Supreme Ruler or high ranking member of the Hegemony, there is no possible way you could inoculate a significant portion of your population with this drug. The second reason? There is a yet unexplained <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-i">one in ten chance of instant death</span></span> upon injection.
