Infantry Barracks

A Building that is available from the beginning of the game, not requiring any Technology Advance. One of these Buildings is provided on each empire's homeworld.

An Infantry Barracks provides +5 defense factor to the planet where it is built, significantly assisting with defending against a Colony Assault. It also creates 1 unit of defensive Troops per 5 turns, up to the limit of troops on that planet (1 unit per 10 units of maximum population limit). Infantry Barracks cost 10 Coins per turn and require no power. They can be built for 500 Shields and can be scrapped for 250 Coins.

A potentially much faster way to build up defensive Troops on a world is to build Transport ships, or warships with Troop Pods, and then disembark these offensive troops onto the Colony as defensive Troops. This method uses 40 Production shields per troop unit (or even less), rather than 50 coins per troop unit. Depending on the empire's economy, this may be cheaper as well as faster.