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Gwen's Starter Techs 1.6.1

1) This mod adds a mix of species traits and civics that grant you techs at the start of the game.

Species Tech Traits: These traits consist of all of the techs that cost 380 research or less and have no prerequisites. Each one costs a single trait point. You may only get one from physics, society, and engineering.

Civic Techs: Each one grants techs totaling around 1k research points and gives a boost as per the Mechanist utopia civic. They cannot be swapped out and they are all mutually exclusive.

I allowed for one to grant the ascenion technology with no other bonus. An early game boost with a late game lack of a civic.
Click To View Trait List [docs.google.com]

If you have any concerns over power or any glitches please let me know.

Title image done by an anon

5/22/2017
Posted new version while preserving legacy version

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This mod is an update of a 1.4/1.3 mod of the same name