^^^ @ crazed rabbit

I never played the demo and the options may be limited.

In the retail version you have options for fast research to slow research. By default I'm assuming the demo is set at normal. If you look at the journals on thier website it will tell you what is in the demo compared to the full game.

Also you can start a game with the lower end techs researched right away so you can militarize right away all the way to all techs researched. Also I'm sure you can mod how the techs are, all the way to making a custom map where the warmongers have a decent tech tree already researched for militarization to other races who start with less in the military tree.