Projects are the permanent buildings that turn a commissioned Settlement into regional infrastructure. A Project is bought outright from cargo already lying in that Settlement's Reserve: starting it spends the Reserve and finishes the building in the same moment. There is no build time, so the whole decision is made before the first crate is flown.

Three separate things decide what a Settlement can hold.

1. The Settlement level hands out build slots. The level itself occupies none.
2. A build slot holds one building, which then grows through its own levels. An upgrade stays in the slot it already occupies.
3. The perk is what the finished building does. Levels replace each other: level 2 states the final value, it is not added to level 1.

Hub Projects, City Projects, Institutions and the Airfield Project draw from four separate pools, so a slot in one can never be spent on another.

A Hub is therefore a specialist and a City a centre: level 3 gives a Hub breadth, and a City the one seat that carries a server-wide Institution. Most Hub Projects are exclusive per region, so the Hub slots of a region form one shared budget rather than several independent ones.

The Reconstruction Fund takes one crate off every line of every Project requirement, never below one crate per line.

A region without a Survey Station never sees anything beyond Lumber and Food, so everything the other Projects are paid in has to be flown in from elsewhere. Demolishing the station removes the tier access it granted.

The Security bumps are one-off and cumulative, the floor is replacing: level 3 sets 55%, it does not add to 40%. A region starts a fresh world at 20% Security, so the complete ladder carries it to 65% and every point beyond that has to be won in the air. This is also why the Dispatch Office's 75% requirement cannot be met by building alone. Checkpoints keep working during unrest.

The effect applies to every Source in the region, so its value scales with how many Sources the region actually has. However many effects apply, a Source never produces more than twice as fast as its base rate.

Without a Dispatch Office a region receives no AI flights at all. Building Materials, Industrial Parts and Fuel stay player work at every level. The Security condition is checked when the office is built and never again: if Security later falls, the office keeps dispatching and its transports simply start getting intercepted. A Dispatch Office serves only its own region until the Air Logistics Command exists. It keeps working during unrest.

The only Hub Project that is local rather than regional, so it is the only one whose cost multiplies with the number of Hubs: a region with three Hubs pays three times for three airfields. Both services stop while the Hub is in unrest.

No City Project has a requirement of its own. The free slot is the only limit: a City holds one from level 1 and two from level 2, so it takes two of the three and permanently forgoes one. All three are priced alike on purpose, so the choice is about the region's weakness, not about the bill.

It multiplies the recovery rate that already follows from Food stock, so it is worth most where supply is good. It rewards keeping a region fed; it does not rescue a neglected one.

Inbound only. A Settlement of this region that falls into unrest of its own still drags on its neighbours.

Crates left lying on a Source's pad still occupy its storage, so the extra space also buys off a Source blocked by its own uncollected output. Additional space is capacity, not additional stock after a restart. The perk pauses while the City is in unrest.

Every active airfield holds one slot of its own for a Direction-Finding station. This pool is separate from Hubs and Cities, and it is the only part of the catalogue without a Trust, supply or prerequisite condition: the cargo is the whole requirement.

Each level also narrows the bearing cone it reports and the direction sector of a rumor anchored at that airfield. Upgrading clears the station's calibration, because the antenna has changed. The full mechanics are in Enemy Detection and A/N Direction Finding.

The level sits outside every slot pool and is always available. It is what pays for the slots the tables above consume.

A level is not free once it is paid for: Food demand rises permanently, and the supply condition every later Project has to satisfy is measured against the new demand.

A Settlement in unrest cannot start Projects, because its Trust has fallen below what building requires. What already stands keeps running, with three exceptions.

Unrest halts growth, not rescue: the buildings a region needs in order to recover are exactly the ones that stay on.

Demolition is what makes a slot a decision rather than a trap. It removes the building completely, including every level it had, and the slot comes back free.

Industrial Parts sit at the end of the deepest production chain in the game, so demolition is deliberately expensive: it is a correction, not a way to rotate buildings through a slot. The Public Works Office halves the cost rounded up, refunds half of everything ever invested in that building rounded down, and removes the cooldown.

Demolishing a Survey Station takes the region's tier access with it, and demolishing the last Dispatch Office in a region stops its AI flights.

• Survey Station first in almost every region. It is the cheapest building in the catalogue and the only one that unlocks the cargo the others are paid in.
• The Checkpoint is a requirement in disguise. It is the only regional source of Security, and the Dispatch Office cannot be reached without it.
• Maintenance Works pays per Source. In a Source-rich region it is the largest throughput gain available; in a region with the bare minimum of three it barely repays its cost.
• The Dispatch Office is the only route to AI flights, and level 3 is what makes Lumber and Steel routine instead of hand-flown.
• The Forward Airfield competes with itself. It is per Hub, so every Hub that wants one spends its own slot and its own cargo.
• A City picks two of three. Civic Administration if the region loses Trust faster than it recovers, Civil Defense Office if the damage arrives from neighbours, Regional Depot if Sources sit full while nobody collects.

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