Editing Relay Research

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'''Relay Research''' unlocks permanent improvements for your whole [[Relay Network]]. A Research node applies to every Bay you own, unlike [[Bay Upgrades]], which improve one Bay.

Each node costs [[Salvage]] plus a basket of items. Many nodes need other nodes first; the Research screen shows the tree, prerequisites and exact costs. Nodes that change numbers can be switched off again later. Nodes that unlock a feature stay on.

== Research and Bay Upgrades ==

Some Research nodes do nothing by themselves except make a Bay Upgrade available to buy. For example, '''Work Coupling''' unlocks the Mint's Work Amplifier and [[Work Cooldown Destroyer]] upgrades, and '''Capacity Foundations''' unlocks the buffer size upgrades. Check both steps and both costs before saving up.

== Branches ==

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! Branch
! Notable nodes
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| Thermal
| Thermal Reserve, Passive Dissipation, Thermal Buffer (less heat while Overclocked), Thermal Routing (weight [[Cooling]] toward chosen Bays)
|-
| Economy
| Mint Baseline Trickle, Raw, Crafted and Consumable Efficiency for the [[Refinery]], Capacity Foundations, Refinery Output Scaling, Work Coupling, Mint Fuel Efficiency, Grid Resonance, Vault Routing (send [[Mint]] BC to a Vault), Overdrive
|-
| Operations
| Bay Telemetry (exact numbers on screen), Batch Operations (bulk claim, pause and level), Overflow Cutoff (stop wasting items when the Refinery buffer is full), Auto-Deposit
|-
| Recovery
| Recovery Targeting, Recovery Fuel Efficiency, Quest Banking, Quest Bank Control, Quest Bank Auto-focus, Cross-System Recovery. See [[Recovery]]
|-
| Transmutation
| Transmutation, Transmutation Queue. See [[Transmutation]]
|}

Good early choices: '''Bay Telemetry''', '''Overflow Cutoff''' and '''Batch Operations'''.

== Apex titles ==

Finishing a branch unlocks a title for it: Thermal Master, Economic Engineer, Status Watchdog, Relay Architect and Auxiliary Overseer. Beyond those:
* '''Network Sovereign''' needs all five titles, every Bay family and every upgrade at maximum.
* '''Stellar Ascendant''' needs Network Sovereign plus every Bay full and maxed.
Both grant exclusive profile cosmetics.

== Changelog ==
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