In the rule “Innovation”, add the following rows to the table:

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| Technological || Military Research || 1 || None || When Gathering and performing the step that begins with “Gain n * 0.1 Defences”, use 0.2 intead of 0.1 in that calculation.
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| Technological || Improvised Shields || 2 || Military Research || If your Defences are greater than 0 and you are not Starving, any time you would lose People from applying a Downside, you may choose to lose 1 Defences instead when applying that Downside.