Your building area is limited by a shield that only grows as you complete specific research milestones .
Design your Power Grid
: You have a maximum of 12 orbital workshops to distribute across five research branches: Agriculture, Biotech, Electronics, Energy, and Heavy Industry. Each workshop type requires a specific astronaut class—Biologists, Physicists, or Engineers—launched from training institutes on Earth, the Arctic, or the Moon. Anno 2205 Orbital Station Layout
Some modules (like the Quantum Laboratory) are energy hogs. Others (like solar arrays) are net producers. Your layout must place high-consumption modules near high-production clusters to avoid transmission losses (a hidden mechanic where distance from energy sources slightly reduces efficiency). Your building area is limited by a shield