The provider is an eternal hard worker. He is a weak combat unit of a young pack and a space debris collector. He collects the debris left over from the battles, as well as minerals and metals from the planet's surface. To collect resources from the planet, the provider needs more energy. If you want him to spend less energy, reduce his activity in the Resources. It is easier for a provider to produce resources from small planets, so the size of the planet is inversely proportional to the amount of resources produced and is directly proportional to the amount of energy used.

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It is harder to extract raw materials for each next Provider that is why the growth is reduced with the increasing of the quantity of workers.

Provider extracts resources on a planet using the formulas:
LOG (1 + number of providers, 1.04) / (planet diameter / 25000)
LOG (1 + number of providers, 1.08) / (planet diameter / 25000)
We do not pity for workaholics so from the 10th level of acid evolution, the mutation analogue of lactic acid begins to spur the muscles of Providers and increasing their basic speed. From the 10th level of the solar pulse evolution, the basic consumption of Vespene increases.
Abilities:
Recycling

Send the unit to your colonized asteroids and it will extract resources by the formulas:
4 + (maximum temperature) / 50
1 - (minimum temperature) / 100
- 10 * quantity of providers
with a maximum of 100 Providers * (basic number of fields) to the power of 0.85 for asteroids with more than 15 fields and with a maximum of 1000 for the rest.