Tier 2a: collapse the cross-module duplicates, pin the tie-breaks

Make the AI controller owner-parametric: true two-sided self-play

Promote legacy consumer-goods recipes into a trade-industry branch

P3 T2 industry/tech depth: Grid Substation, scoped Heavy Alloys, standing

Doctrine research develops over time instead of landing instantly

Tier 2: AI-only research pace by difficulty

Let the player recycle a completed building or unit for part of its cost back

Let workers load/unload freighters and add an AI-logistics freighter mode

Icon pass: reuse the game's data icons for research, planets, market

Odyssey Tier-1 "make it playable": fix the threat curve + cheap wins

Fast-follow: complete the Strategic tier — AI Cores, Plasma Torpedoes, the Leviathan

Odyssey Phase 3: the Strategic tier + the endgame win (Antimatter Gate)

Odyssey Phase 2: the research tree (Datacenter + deeper industry)