I've listed everything we can build at this point. Financial centers give extra cash, but we'll be rolling in money for the first few decades anyway... our population is way higher than our ability to spend money, at this early point in the game.
Two years from now, when Trans-Newtonian Tech pops, we will gain the ability to gradually convert our 20th-century Conventional Industry (CI) to Trans-Newtonian Industry of various sorts. This is a MAJOR step forward.
Each Conventional Industry generates one point each of factory production, mining production and fuel refining. When converted to TN Industry, it must specialize in only one field (so each Industry now generates only one type of output instead of all three) but it produces TEN points of output instead of 1/1/1. Further techs boost that ten-to-one figure, eventually (much later in the game) reaching sixty-to-one.
The specialized TN Industry falls into five categories (instead of just factory / mines / refining): factories, mines, refining, fighter factories and ordinance (missile) factories. Typically, I would start with a massive conversion from CI => TN Factories, which will speed up all the subsequent mine / refinery / etc conversions (which rely on factories for their conversion). That's why I want to build up a mineral stockpile while researching the needed techs... for a while, we will be using minerals faster than we are mining them, because I intend to prioritize TN Factories over TN Mines.
EDIT: We have built up a surplus of a few thousand minerals, and I've added two new Academies to the build queue. This will be our only build until TN tech pops. It will triple the rate at which we gain new Scientists (and other leaders, of which we already have plenty). Hopefully we will have weapons scientists by the time we need some.
