Whether you’re exploring, setting off on your next big conquest, or rushing to defend your territory, traveling across the galaxy a key aspect of Stellaris. As your games progress, you’ll eventually want to make traveling between systems faster, which is when knowing how Hyper Relays work can come in handy.
Introduced as a key feature of the paid Overlord DLC, Stellaris Hyper Relays are megastructures you can build in your star systems to facilitate quicker travel between them.
Stellaris Hyper Relay
In order to gain access to Hyper Relays in Stellaris, you’ll first need to unlock their associated tier 2 research, which you’ll find in the physics tree.
Before you can do that, however, you’ll need to research the technology preceding it, called Hyperlane Breach Points.
The randomized nature of Stellaris’ tech tree does, however, mean that you may not always get them as quickly as you’d like.
With the technology researched, you can build the megastructures in your star systems. They normally cost 25 influence, 500 alloys, and 100 rare crystals.
When built from the galaxy view, they’re placed at a random location within the star system. You can also zoom in and place them manually, should you want to have them closer to things like wormholes or gateways.
As mentioned above, the way Stellaris’ Hyper Relays work is by reducing the amount of time it takes fleets to travel through adjacent systems that house the megastructures.
They do so by allowing ships to jump to other Hyper Relays rather than using the existing hyperlane connections. The only downtime comes from your fleets’ need to recharge their hyperdrive.
To take full advantage of Stellaris Hyper Relays, you’ll need to build at least a pair that connects two systems. Sooner or later, you will likely want to have a network of them that spans at least a chunk of your territory.
Doing so naturally takes time – roughly one year per relay – as well as resources, so you’ll want to either plan ahead or gradually build up networks while holding onto the territory they’re in.
You can keep track of systems in which you’ve already built Hyper Relays thanks to how the hyperlane connecting them is thicker and highlighted when compared to its regular counterparts.
Hyper Relay links can become inactive for several reasons, including the inevitable wars. Should that happen, you’ll notice yellow hyperlanes appearing on the map.
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