# Textiles/Composites

| Field | Value |
|-------|-------|
| Name | Textiles/Composites |
| Tier | intermediate |
| Elasticity | unit_elastic |
| Base Price (Tractus) | 50 |
| Bulk Class | standard |
| Unit | tonnes |
| Production Ubiquity | regional |
| Demand Model | market |
| Commission Certified | No |
| Compact Contested | No |
| Shadow Viable | No |
| Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
| Description | Clothing, technical fabrics, composite materials. |

Textiles and composites cover the full spectrum from basic clothing fiber to technical aerospace composites, carbon-weave structural reinforcement, and the specialty biological fabrics — brach fiber among them — that carry a cultural premium in specific corridor markets. Production requires 0.8t of organic compounds and 0.2t of chemicals per output tonne. The organic compounds dependency means textile production is effectively a biosphere-dependent industry: worlds without viable complex ecology cannot run it independently and must import.

The commodity is a direct input to consumer goods (0.3t per unit), making textiles a quiet but consistent component of the broadest demand category in the simulation. Consumer goods demand is ubiquitous and market-driven; a textiles shortage ripples into consumer goods production at every manufacturing node that depends on it. Regional ubiquity means this effect is not uniform — outer corridor nodes with limited local textile production are more exposed to import disruptions than inner-corridor manufacturing hubs.

At 50 Tractus per tonne, textiles carry a real price premium over the base raw materials that go into them, reflecting the processing complexity and the biosphere requirement. Specialty textile streams — brach fiber from Braemar, technical composites for shipbuilding — command prices above the generic catalog figure, but the simulation tracks this category at the generic level. No certification, no shadow channel. Technical composites occasionally attract attention for dual-use concerns, but not enough to generate a formal shadow market.