Obtain a technology advantage that removes the requirement to find the 18 Upgrade Plans to be able to buy the higher ship upgrades (gameplay and cosmetic upgrades). Important: You need to progress until Sequence 3 memory 04 to see the effect of this DLC. The plan requirement will be removed from the best ship’s upgrades. You still need to get money and resources to be able to buy and equip them.

System Requirements Minimum:OS: Windows Vista SP2 or Windows 7 SP1 or Windows 8 (both 32/64bit versions)Processor: Intel Core2Quad Q8400 @ 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon II X4 620 @ 2.6 GHzMemory: 2 GB RAMGraphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 or AMD Radeon HD 4870 (512MB VRAM with Shader Model 4.0 or higher)Hard Drive: 30 GB available spaceSound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card with latest driversAdditional Notes: Windows-compatible keyboard and mouse required, optional controller Recommended:OS: Windows Vista SP2 or Windows 7 SP1 or Windows 8 (both 32/64bit versions)Processor: Intel Core i5 2400S @ 2.5 GHz or AMD Phenom II x4 940 @ 3.0 GHz or betterMemory: 4 GB RAMGraphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 or AMD Radeon HD 5850 (1024MB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0) or betterHard Drive: 30 GB available spaceSound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card with latest driversAdditional Notes: Supported video cards at the time of release: Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 or better and GeForce GTX 400, GTX 500, GTX 600 and GTX 700 series. AMD Radeon HD4870 or better and Radeon HD5000, HD6000 and HD7000 series. Note: Latest GeForce drivers tested: 327.23 for all series. Latest Radeon drivers tested: 13.1 for Radeon HD4000, 13.4 for Radeon HD5000, HD6000 and HD7000 series on Vista and 13.9 for Radeon HD5000, HD6000 and HD7000 series on Win7 and Win8. Laptop versions of these cards may work but are NOT officially supported.