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Hi!

IIRC you still need to research all previous research buildings.

BR, Iztok

The Thalan tree is lacking most of the traditional ethics techs, certainly ALL of the evil ones. If you want them you're going to have to give/sell ethics to someone (Terrans are always a good bet to go neutral) and wait for them to research NLCs on their own. Then you can buy them from the AI.

I mostly play Thalans as Technologists and try very hard to put my Hyperion Matrix on a research bonus tile. That plus putting ability points into creativity and getting the Thalan creativity-boosting techs has led me to pretty much ignoring the NLCs that were crucial to me in Dark Avatar games. Even when I get the tech via theft, conquest, or a whim in the trading screen, I almost never build the things--they are very expensive, after all. I still pick Neutral, but that's for the free terraforming and morale bonus.

I like big maps. By the time I'm done colonizing and collecting ethics events, I'm nearly to the point where I can get the orbital terraformer anyway. I go evil to get the soldiering and influence bonuses, as well as free starbase upgrades. If I can tempt an AI to research Concepts of Malice the ASC, NMIC, and MCC are helpful, but usually the AI won't research that until I've reached the point where I'm trying to avoid taking planets.