Advanced colony ship

The advanced colony ship is a variant of the colony ship. A colony founded by deploying an advanced ship will start with automated factory, colony base, hydroponic farm, and research laboratory, as long as you already have access to these structures, helping it to become productive immediately.

The research laboratory and colony base are guaranteed as the techs unlocking them (government and deep space exploration) are necessary steps on the path to research advanced government (TL 7) and obtain the advanced colony ship. The other two structures require researching biology for the hydroponic farm and physics for the automated factory.

Description
Advanced Colony Ships deploy the standard planetary colonization module along with a team of automated construction units, rapidly building a few basic structures as the colony is being settled.

Evaluation
An advanced colony ship is much more expensive than the original version. All three additional structures have a production cost of 40, representing an added cost of 120. However, the advanced colony ship represents over the regular colony ship a cost increase of 400. However, this should still manageable for a well-developed planet, and the automatic deployment of these structures mean that the fledgling colony will be able to develop even on a harsh world.

Recognition chart
The advanced colony ship uses the same model as the regular colony ship, the recognition chart is therefore identical.