After the Fifth Terran Republic went down to economic and military defeat a mere 8 years after its founding (the last words of Captain Sarah Adams of the First Exeter Wing were "Where are all those missiles coming from? Why isn't our point defense firing on them? And God dammit, doesn't anyone know how to turn on the long range sensors?") I decided to found the Sixth Terran Republic on the ashes of the old. I wanted to design my own starting techs, so I turned off "Computer picks starting technologies", and now I have 120K research points and no idea how to spend them. If I start a project, it seems to generate its own RPs from the labs instead of draining the ones I've got.