Miniaturization Tech

[Menschenfresser]

This may have been suggested before, or conceived and then tossed because of its difficulty, or even is out there. Hell, I must admit I haven't been keeping up lately.

But I would like to add a miniaturization tech to the tree. I have modded some before, but am not an expert, so I would appreciate some help with this if anyone can.

I would like to have a new area of research that once finished shrinks the size of some or all the components for ships, fighters, etc. I suppose it is possible to have as its prerequisite every other tech, so that it become the final tech to research, and thuse the player would get every tech all over again, but in a smaller size. These smaller sizes would be more expensive. I'm not sure if this would be the only way to go about it, or if this purely theoretical approach would work, but I would like to introduce it earlier than at the end. Not sure how though.

I don't envision it to make everything smaller...weapons, shields, stuff like this.

Ideas?