jpmschweitzerandClaude Opus 4.6
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All 36 commodity stubs fleshed out with lore context, production chain descriptions, and economic intelligence briefing voice. Key treatments: fusion_fuel (D-187 8:1 ratio), services (location-bound mechanics), brands distinguished from commodities per D-185. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Structural Panels
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Structural Panels |
| Tier | intermediate |
| Elasticity | unit_elastic |
| Base Price (Tractus) | 45 |
| Bulk Class | standard |
| Unit | units |
| Production Ubiquity | regional |
| Demand Model | market |
| Commission Certified | No |
| Compact Contested | No |
| Shadow Viable | No |
| Panic Threshold (weeks) | 0 |
| Description | Pre-fabricated building components. Two production paths: timber or stone. |
Structural panels are pre-fabricated building elements — walls, floors, ceiling cassettes, modular partitioning, pressurized station sections — manufactured at scale for assembly on-site. Two production routes feed the same output: the timber route (1.0t timber + 0.5t refined metals → 1.0 unit) and the stone route (1.5t stone + 0.5t refined metals → 0.8 units). Timber yields more per input cycle; stone yields less but uses a different and generally more available raw. Regional ubiquity reflects that panel manufacturing requires stable raw supply chains, which not every system maintains.
The two-route structure is the commodity's most important economic feature. A timber shortage on a world running the timber route forces either a switch to the less efficient stone route or import of finished panels from neighbors. A stone shortage on a stone-route world rarely causes disruption because stone is more geographically common than managed forest. Systems that have both routes available carry structural resilience in their construction sector that single-route systems lack.
Panels are a direct input to habitat modules (1.2 units) and rail infrastructure (1.5 units), making panel availability the gating factor for settlement expansion and transit development. Station construction programs in particular draw on panels intensively — station sections are modular by necessity, and each new habitation ring is largely a panel assembly problem. Disruptions in timber-primary corridors cascade into habitat module lead times, which cascade into settlement capacity expansion.