Empire

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A galaxy populated by multiple empires

An empire is a galactic power controlling at least one system and typically seeking to expand its influence across the stars. The ethics, authority, and civics shape their policies and behavior. Interactions between empires occur through diplomacy, trade, or warfare.

It should be noted that the name of the player empire and its government structure can always be changed in the government window.

Capital

The capital is the ruling seat of an empire as well as the final destination for all its trade routes. An empire's capital can be moved once every 10 years for a cost of 250 influence if the empire is at peace. An empire's capital planet and system are marked by gold star corners on the system and galaxy maps. The capital has its own set of unique designations.

Empire size

Source	Size effect
Hive Mind authority	−25%
Mutualistic Intelligence authority	−25%
Integrated Hive authority	−33%
Replicating Horde authority	−33%
Chimeral Consciousness authority	−20%
Divided Attention civic	−25%
Compact Living technology	−5%
Master Bureaucrat leader trait	−5%
Gray Eminence official trait	−10%
Aturion Efficiency paragon trait	−10%

Empire size represents the increasing difficulties of managing a large empire. Each point of empire size above 100 increases tradition and technology cost by +0.2%. This penalty is affected by certain authorities and a single technology, as noted in the table on the right. Empire size also affects several other mechanics, typically increasing the cost to perform certain actions. Specifically, each point of empire size has the following effects:

• +10 unity cost to reform the empire's government
• +10 plus +6 per planetary ascension tier unity cost to increase planetary ascension tier
• +1% edict cost
• +0.25 infiltration daily for other empires building a spy network
• +0.5 naval capacity use required to maintain power projection
• +0.1% Progress points needed to launch an Agenda

Empire size is increased by each of the following owned by the empire:

Source	Size
Colony	10
Branch offices	2
Starbase	1
Pop	1
District	0.5

Each of these categories is affected by its own set of modifiers:

Source	Type	Scope	Empire size
			Pops	Districts	Colonies	Systems	Branch offices
Imperial Prerogative ascension perk	Ascension perk	Empire			−50%
Interstellar Dominion ascension perk	Ascension perk	Empire				−50%
Corporate authority	Authority	Empire			+50%
Oligarchic Supervision authority	Authority	Empire		−10%	−50%
Memory Aggregator authority	Authority	Empire	−10%
Democratic Concurrency authority	Authority	Empire	−15%
Democratic Interlink authority	Authority	Empire	−15%
Cordant Multiplicity authority	Authority	Empire	−15%
Adaptive Dominion authority	Authority	Empire	−15%
BioPredation GLC authority	Authority	Empire			+50%
Private Prospectors civic	Civic	Empire			−50%	−25%
Sovereign Guardianship Sovereign Guardianship Corporate Protectorate Guardian Cluster Guardian Matrix civic	Civic	Empire	−50%	−50%	+100%	+150%	+100%
Subsumed Will civic	Civic	Empire	−20%
OTA Updates civic	Civic	Empire	−15%
Beacon of Liberty civic	Civic	Empire	−15%
Fanatic Pacifist	Ethic	Empire	−30%
Pacifist	Ethic	Empire	−15%
Regulated Growth resolution (1)	Resolution	Empire				+5%
Ensured Sovereignty resolution (2)	Resolution	Empire			+5%	+15%
A Voice for All resolution (3)	Resolution	Empire			+15%	+25%
Balance in the Middle resolution (4)	Resolution	Empire	−10%
Universal Prosperity Mandate resolution (5)	Resolution	Empire	−10%
Galactic Mobilization resolution (if )	Resolution	Empire	+2%
Imperial Charter	Empire modifier	Empire					−25%
Harmonized Society	Empire modifier	Empire	−10%
Urbanist official trait	Governor	Empire		−75% for planet −37.5% for sector
Integration Facilitator councilor skill level	Councilor	Empire		−3.5%
Labor Intendant councilor skill level	Councilor	Pop	−2% for slaves
Franchise Development Officer councilor skill level	Councilor	Empire					−5%
Bureaucratic I councilor	Councilor	Empire	+5%
Bureaucratic II councilor	Councilor	Empire	+15%
Governor skill level	Governor	Pop	−2% for planet −1% for sector
Stellar culture shock	Planet modifier	Colony	−50%
Planetary Ascension tier	Ascension	Colony	−5%	−5%	−5%
Machine Intelligence ruler skill level	Councilor	Empire	−3%
Cyborg ruler	Ruler trait	Empire		−5%
Ritualistic Implants ruler	Ruler trait	Empire		−5%
Psionic Theory	Technology	Empire	−10%
Construction Templates	Technology	Empire		−10%
Lost Building Methods	Technology	Empire		−30%
Synaptic Sub-Processing (if )	Tradition	Empire		−50%
Nanotech	Tradition	Empire			−50%
Data-Driven Logic Loops	Tradition	Empire	−15%		+100%
Courier Network	Tradition	Empire			−25%	−25%
Modular Depots (if )	Tradition	Empire		−25%
Domination	Tradition	Empire	−10%
Kinship / Synchronized Agents	Tradition	Empire	−10%
Metabolic Reprocessing (if )	Tradition	Pop	−10%
Heightened Attributes	Tradition	Empire	−10%
Heightened Attributes (if )	Tradition	Empire		−25%	−25%
Docile trait	Species trait	Pop	−10%
Streamlined Protocols trait	Species trait	Pop	−10%
Unruly trait	Species trait	Pop	+10%
High Bandwidth trait	Species trait	Pop	+10%
Cave Dweller / Molebot trait	Species trait	Pop	+10%

The sum total of empire size is also affected by the following modifiers:

Source	Amount
Interstellar Assembly (Completed)	−10%
Statecraft	−5%
Administrator Beryllia empire modifier	−5%
Shroud-Touched Architect councilor	+10%
Shroud-Touched Logistician councilor	+10%

Each scope is a different category of size modifier, and all groups are additive within themselves, but multiplicative between each other. As an example, pops with the Docile trait on a planet governed by a level 1 governor in a Fanatic Pacifist empire with Beacon of Liberty with 2 levels of planetary ascension on all colonies with no planetary ascension bonuses will each contribute the following to the empire size:

$${\begin{aligned}{\text{Total}}&={\text{Base}}&\times (1-&{\text{Pop scope modifiers}})&\times (1-&{\text{Empire scope modifiers}})&\times (1-&{\text{Colony scope modifier}})\\&=1&\times (1-&[0.10+0.02])&\times (1-&[0.30+0.15])&\times (1-&[0.1])\\0.4356&=1&\times 0.88&&\times 0.55&&\times 0.9\end{aligned}}$$

Sector systems

Sectors are administrative regions within an empire. Every empire starts with a core sector, with the homeworld as the sector (and empire) capital. All sectors extend up to four hyperlanes away from the sector capital. All contiguous systems within that range are included in the sector; sectors cannot extend across systems that belong to a different sector, a different empire, or are unowned. Sectors also cannot extend through wormholes or gateways. Each sector can have a leader assigned to it, applying their level effects and traits to all colonies in the sector. Any colony which is not in a sector can be selected as the sector capital of a new sector, with the planet becoming marked by blue star corners on the system and galaxy maps. The new sector immediately adds all contiguous systems up to four hyperlanes away to itself.

It is also possible to change a sector capital to a new colony at any time at no cost. This immediately updates the sector's contained systems as if creating a new sector. Changing the core sector's capital requires moving the empire capital with the usual cost to do so.

Sectors of empires that are not Gestalt Consciousness or Fanatic Purifiers can be turned into a subject empire. The new empire will have the same ethics, authority, civics and technologies but not sovereign civics.

All sectors, including the core sector, can be given a Sector Focus. Choosing a Sector Focus will make the sector develop itself automatically towards a given direction as long as it has resources, reducing micromanagement.

Empire focus

The empire focus window

Empire focuses are three progression trees that grant bonus research options once enough progress has been made. Each empire can set one of its focuses as the empire focus to increase the chance of receiving tasks for that focus. Changing the empire focus costs 50 Unity and can only be done once every year.

Tier	Empire focus reward			Required progress (total)
	Exploration	Conquest	Development
1	Automated Exploration Protocols	Doctrine: Fleet Support	Planetary Unification	50 (50)
2	Exotic Materials Labs	Specialized Combat Computers	Adaptive Bureaucracy	100 (150)
3	Administrative AI	Doctrine: Space Combat	Federation Code	150 (300)
4	Hyperlane Breach Points	Destroyers	Starhold	200 (500)
5	Terrestrial Sculpting	Doctrine: Support Vessels	Xeno Diplomacy	250 (750)
6	Self-Evolving Logic	Doctrine: Reactive Formations	Effective Bureaucracy	300 (1050)
7	Hyperspace Slipstreams	Cruisers	Star Fortress	350 (1400)
8	Multi-Dimensional Studies	Extended Combat Algorithms	Xeno Relations	400 (1800)
9	Positronic AI	Battleships	Citadel	450 (2250)
10	Jump Drive	Existential Campaigns	Mega-Engineering	500 (2750)

Progress towards empire focuses is made by completing tasks. Each empire has 5 simultaneous tasks and each task can only appear once. One task can be replaced each year at the cost of 100 Unity. Each time a new task is added, there is a 33% chance to be a Core task, a 44% chance to match the empire focus, and a 22% chance to match one of the other two focuses. Tasks come in 5 difficulties. To unlock a difficulty, half of the tasks from the previous difficulty must be completed.

• Difficulty 1 tasks give 10 progress to their focus
• Difficulty 2 tasks give 25 progress to their focus
• Difficulty 3 tasks give 50 progress to their focus
• Difficulty 4 tasks give 100 progress to their focus
• Difficulty 5 tasks give 200 progress to their focus

Core tasks

All core tasks have a difficulty of 1 and grant 10 progress towards all empire focuses.

• Activate an edict
• Adopt a tradition
• Build a building
• Build a certain type of district
• Build a mining station
• Build a starbase building
• Build a starbase module
• Complete 3 agendas
• Enact a planetary decision
• Found a colony
• Have 1000 of a basic or advanced resource the empire uses
• Set colony designation (other than the capital)
• Establish a branch office ( Corporate authority only)

Exploration tasks

Task	Difficulty	Description
Find alien life	1	'The search for alien life is not a question of if, but when. And when we find it, we must ask: will we recognize it for what it is?'
Finish a special project	1	You think the hard part is making sense of the data. No, the hard part is convincing people that what we found actually matters.'
Get a permanent research option	1	'True progress is never a leap - it is a thousand careful steps into the unknown.' - Principles of Scientific Inquiry, Vol. III
Hire a scientist	1	'You want someone who can chart both a quantum singularity and a budget? Good luck with that.'
Investigate an anomaly	1	'There is no such thing as an ordinary signal. Every flicker, every echo means something. The only question is what.'
Survey a system	1	'No expansion can proceed without first understanding the stars we seek to claim.' - Introduction to Stellar Cartography, 7th Edition
Assign a scientist as governor	2	'Science does not serve tradition, nor does it obey the past. A world ruled by scientists will always be a world in motion.' - Curator Rhassa Tosh, Reflections on Leadership
Finish an archaeology site	2	'Another ancient empire, another ominous warning. You'd think someone would have learned by now.'
Level up a scientist	2	'Knowledge is not a destination, but a bridge - one that extends only when we dare to cross it.' - The Scholar's Path: Growth Through Understanding
Observe a pre-FTL	2	'Current odds on these people blowing themselves up before achieving FTL is 3 to 1. Place your bets.'
Sign a research agreement	2	'Two minds can solve a problem faster than one. Two civilizations? There is no limit to what we may discover together.'
Build 5 research labs	3	'Five new research labs, and somehow we still don't know where the grant money goes.'
Have a scientist reach level 4	3	'A true scientist does not accumulate knowledge; they cultivate perspective.'
Terraform 3 worlds	3	'Have you read the changelog on the latest terraforming cycle? They added beaches!'
Have 3 level 5 scientists	4	'Three scientists, three theories, and three reasons why the other two have no idea what they're talking about.'
Obtain fallen empire building	4	'Behold, the grandeur of the ancients! Now if we can just figure out how it works...'
Research a repeatable tech	4	'Another breakthrough, another step forward. But the horizon? It never gets any closer.' - Chief Researcher Ely Canto
Research crisis debris	4	'To understand a weapon is one step closer to wielding it. The question is whether one can ever step back.' - Admiral Hask'Valgam, On the Scales of Power
Research fallen empire debris	4	'When considering the legacy of the ancients, one must ask: did they fall because of their power, or in spite of it?' - Shattered Crowns: A Study of Galactic Decline
Activate relics 10 times	5	'The full specification of the relic was found in an ancient electronic discussion board. Activating it should be trivial.'
Have 1000 research per month	5	'Apparently, our "innovation output" is down this quarter. Maybe if we had fewer status meetings, we'd make more breakthroughs.'
Get enclave research support	3	'I once asked a Curator what the greatest scientific discovery of all time was. They just smiled and said, "The next one."'
Traverse a wormhole	2	'Note that the institute's life insurance policy does not cover being erased from existence in a time-travel paradox.'
Finish an astral rift	3	'It defies physics, breaks time, and might erase us from existence. Naturally, we had to poke it.'
Build a Dyson Swarm producing at least 30 research	3	'Standing on the observation deck, watching the first satellites unfold... It changes you. The idea that we could own the light of a star is intoxicating.' - Chief Engineer Tig Bori, ISS D'Tuma
Build a Science Nexus	5	'With this Nexus, no answer is beyond our reach, though they may be beyond our time.'

Conquest tasks

Task	Difficulty	Description
Build 3 defense platforms	1	'They're not built to last. Just long enough to make someone else die first.'
Build 5 corvettes or maulers	1	'Fast, cheap, and replaceable. No one says it out loud, but the crews know.' - Ilsh na-Sutar, 3rd Expeditionary Fleet
Declare a rival	1	'An empire's greatness is not measured by the number of its supporters, but by the strength of its rivals.'
Hire a commander	1	'The best Commanders don't ask about salary. They ask how soon they'll see combat.'
Upgrade a starbase	1	'A good starport is a warning. We don't build for beauty - we build so they think twice.'
Win a fleet battle	1	'Their admiral had a winning strategy. We had bigger ships.'
Assign a commander as governor	2	'The trains run on time. But so do the patrols.'
Build 20 destroyers or weavers	2	'Armored enough to last, cheap enough to lose. That's what command calls "a good investment."'
Declare war	2	'For honor, for empire, for destiny! Onward!' - Battle cry of the 54th Assault Army
Level up a commander	2	'Rookies learn how to fight. Experienced Commanders learn when to fight.' - New Doctrines in Space Warfare
Research new weapons	2	'War isn't won on the battlefield. It's won in the lab.' - Igvi-Inor, 2nd Attack Swarm
Build 10 armies	3	The enemy counts soldiers. We count biomass.'
Conquer a homeworld	3	'They called it the heart of their empire. Now it beats for us.'
Hire mercenaries	3	'You can't buy loyalty, but you can rent it long enough to win.'
Force a planet to surrender using orbital bombardment	3	'A siege is not a contest of strength, but of endurance. The planet holds, and the fleet burns. The fleet holds, the planet kneels.' - Rhentok shar Platt, A Protracted War
Win a war	3	'Victory is not the end, but the shifting of burdens. The foolish revel in conquest; the wise turn to what follows.' - Master Huava, The Edge of the Blade'
Defeat a fallen empire	4	'They called us upstarts. We called them dinner.'
Have 3 level 5 commanders	4	'A veteran Commander is not made by training, nor by theory. They are shaped by the void.'
Have a commander reach level 4	4	'Experience in war does not make one wise. It makes one efficient.' - Admiral Kol'dolf
Survive a total war	4	'They burned our worlds, shattered our fleets, and left us for dead. Well, we're still here. And we do not forget.'
Conquer 10 worlds	5	'Conquest is not destruction; it is redirection. The wisest nations do not grow - they absorb.'
Have 3 subjects	5	'A subject is not an ally, but a resource. One that must be cultivated, controlled, and, when necessary, corrected.' - Chancellor Vel Wuhglaam
Clone 5 space amoeba	1	'To take a living organism and mold it into a weapon... Some call it progress. Others, blasphemy. History will only remember who survived.' - Dr. Hask'Zumon, Genetics and the Art of War
Have 10 space amoeba mothers	2	'To take a living organism and mold it into a weapon... Some call it progress. Others, blasphemy. History will only remember who survived.' - Dr. Hask'Zumon, Genetics and the Art of War
Fight the Khan	4	'Our first mistake was underestimating him. The second was assuming we'd get the chance to make a third.'
Fight the Gray Tempest	4	'Insolent monoform.'
Build a Mega shipyard	5	'The empire that outbuilds its rivals does not need to outfight them.' - Strategos Neyn Arvogadi, On the Economics of War

Development tasks

Tasks that require diplomacy will not appear for empires that are genocidal or have the Inward Perfection civic.

Task	Difficulty	Description
Establish a positive relationship	1	'Diplomacy is not built on trust. It is built on interests. Align them, and enemies become partners. Fail, and partners become obstacles.'
Finish first contact	1	'The moment two civilizations meet, the course of history changes. Whether that change leads to peace or war may depend on a single word.' - Envoy Datri Yukonna
Have 7K pops	1	'An empire is only as strong as its ability to sustain those who call it home.' - Curator Arkan Teot
Have a mineral income of +50	1	'Drill, refine, repeat.'
Hire an official	1	'Empires rise and fall. But paperwork is forever.'
Improve relations to +100	1	'Diplomacy is not built on trust. It is built on interests. Align them, and enemies become partners. Fail, and partners become obstacles.'
Promote a faction	1	'The trick to leadership isn't pleasing everyone. It's disappointing them slowly enough that they don't revolt.'
Assign an official as governor	2	'A ruler is praised. A general is feared. A true administrator is neither, for their work is done best when it goes unnoticed.' - Prefect Flent shar Astatenn
Form a defensive pact	2	'Nothing brings two empires together like the mutual fear of a third.'
Form a non-aggression pact	2	'A non-aggression pact is not peace. It is merely a promise that, for now, cooperation is more convenient than war.'
Gain a favor	2	'A favor is not currency, yet it spends like one. It holds no weight, yet it can tip the scales of diplomacy.'
Join the Galactic Community	2	'We were once a single seed. Now, we are part of a garden that blooms across the stars.' - Petals of Black, First Speaker of the Galactic Community
Level up an official	2	'The first lesson of governance: if no one is happy, you're probably doing it right.' - Trial by Tedium, the Official Guidebook
Form a federation	3	'Let this accord stand as a testament to our resolve: that we choose unity over division, dialogue over war, and a shared destiny among the stars.' - Preamble to the Galactic Concord
Have 3 species	3	'The galaxy is vast, full of knowledge, skills, and ideas. Why settle for just one way of thinking?'
Have an official reach level 4	3	'At the end of the day it's the workers who should be tired, not their leaders.' - Chief Magistrate Ir'B va'Bir
Have 3 level 5 officials	4	'Decades of governance have made them masters of policy, negotiation, and passing the blame.'
Have +3000 consumer goods per month	5	'They do not eat them. They do not use them to expand. Some are simply... displayed. The inefficiency of the individuals is maddening.'
Have +200 relations with 10 empires	5	'Being so well-liked is exhausting.'
Join the galactic council	3	'True power is not found in fleets or armies, but in the chambers where decisions are made.'
Build a Genomic Research Facility	2	'If we're not supposed to modify our genome, then why is our genome so modifiable?'
Establish 10 Branch Offices	3	'"Independent Economy Thriving as Mega Corporation Opens 10th Branch Office," claims local official.'
Build a Dyson Swarm producing at least 80 energy	3	'We took one look at that star and thought: "What if we taxed it?"'
Build an Arc Furnace in a system with at least 15 planets	3	'The sun crests the horizon, and for a moment, the whole structure burns gold. Thousands of kilometers of scaffolding and steel... We built this. We made this planet our forge.'
Build a Dyson Sphere	4	'The highest civilization does not compete for resources - it defines them.' - Advancement of the Third Rank
Build a Ring World	4	'The Ring was so beautiful in the light of our star. Then the shadows of the invaders fell upon it...' - Diary of Addavv uvi-Waddiv, Standard 174
Federation level 5	4	'Five levels of government, a hundred committees, a thousand meetings - and somehow, we're stronger for it.'
Build an Interstellar Assembly	5	'To control the conversation is to control the course of history.' - High Chancellor Sagu, daughter of Thub

Relative power

Relative Power is a measure of how much empires are ahead of one another in terms of resource production, fleet power or researched technologies. A Relative Power of Superior/Inferior means that an empire has 50% more (1.5x) resource production, fleet power or researched technologies and a Relative Power of Overwhelming/Pathetic means that an empire has 150% more (2.5x) resource production, fleet power or researched technologies.

Relative Power is split into three categories: Fleet Power, Economic Power and Technology Level.

Fleet Power: The combined fleet power of every owned fleet.

• +1 per 1 Fleet Power

Economic Power: A weighted sum of all monthly income, including income from trade agreements. Monthly spending is not part of this score. The various resources are weighted the same as their base market price (base energy price for 1 unit):

• +1 per Minerals or Food
• +2 per Consumer Goods
• +4 per Alloys
• +10 per common strategic resources
• +20 per rare strategic resources

Technology Level: 60 + the combined base Tech Cost of all researched technologies, divided by 100. Repeatables only count 0.33x as much as regular technologies.

• +60 Base Technology Level
• +0.01 per 1 base Tech Cost of all researched technologies, including repeatable technologies

The formula to calculate the overall power of an empire is: ${\text{Overall Power}}={\text{Fleet Power}}*2+{\text{Economic Power}}*3+{\text{Technology Level}}*1$

Victory score

Victory score tallies an empire's total accomplishment. The empire that has the highest score when the Victory Year arrives is declared winner. The Victory Year is configurable and can be disabled altogether. An empire will always declare victory, if it's the only one that can do so. All players may continue the game session normally even after an empire declares victory and the victory is, in practical terms, of little concern.

The Victory Window shows a total score for each empire and its ranking, as well as a breakdown by category. The categories are as follows:

Economic Strength: +1 per 1 Economic Power based on Relative Power OR +5000 if the Empire has no economy.

Technology Level: 60 +0.25 per 1 Technology Level over 60 based on Relative Power

Number of Systems: +10 per system

Number of Colonies: +50 per colony

Number of Pops: +2 per pop, regardless of type

Subject Empires: +50% of a subject empire's score is given to the overlord

Federation: +10% of each other federation member's score is shared by all federation members

Crisis Ships Killed: +10 per crisis ship destroyed

Relics Collected: Each Relic grants a large amount of score. The score of each Relic is shown on the Relics page.

Unique empires

The following empires can appear during the game as a result of certain events. The species' climate preference will always match its homeworld. While not available as a start option for players, unique empires are playable by switching to them either via temporarily loading a save in multiplayer, receiving a game over, or achieving Cosmogenesis victory. Unique empires generated after the start of the game will have all technologies researched by the player.

Empire name	Species	Traits	Homeworld and origin	Government	Ethics	Requirements
Awoken	Awoken	Mechanical	Random Prosperous Unification	Random Random Random	Fanatic Materialist Xenophile	Limbo event chain outcome
Larionessi Consciousness	Larionessi	Intelligent Rapid Breeders Sedentary Weak	Larion () Larion () Remnants	Hive Mind Empath Memorialist	Gestalt Consciousness	The Signal archaeology site
Nivlac Circle	Nivlac	Quick Learners Nivlac	Random Prosperous Unification	Random Random Random	Random Random	Impossible Organism event chain outcome
Repurposed Surveillance Network	Surveillance Bots	Machine Double-Jointed Durable Enhanced Memory Logic Engines Custom-Made Repurposed Hardware	Observation Terminal Prosperous Unification	Machine Intelligence Built to Last Constructobot	Gestalt Consciousness	Ancient Robot World archaeology site
Subterranean Empire	Random	Cave Dweller Random	Random Subterranean	Random Random Random	Fanatic Militarist Authoritarian	Subterranean Civilization event chain outcome
Namaria	Namarian	Natural Engineers Nomadic Venerable	Random Prosperous Unification	Democratic Random Random	Egalitarian Spiritualist Xenophile	Nomad fleet offer
Daemonic Incursion	Daemon () Daemon ()	Psionic Robust Very Strong Deviants Repugnant Slow Breeders	Random Daemonic Incursion	Dictatorial Fanatic Purifiers Scavengers Divine Sovereign	Fanatic Xenophobe Militarist	The Doorway event chain outcome Can only appear if Knights of the Toxic God
Ketling Star Pack	Ketling	Psionic Thrifty Deviants Fleeting Repugnant Slow Breeders	Ruinous Core Prosperous Unification	Oligarchic Functional Architecture Mining Guilds	Egalitarian Materialist Pacifist	Junk Ratlings systems were discovered At least one Junk Ratlings world was not claimed or invaded for a few decades
Prikkiki-Ti	Prikki	Industrious Decadent Solitary	Gish Prosperous Unification	Random Fanatic Purifiers Cutthroat Politics	Fanatic Xenophobe Militarist	Time Loop anomaly event outcome
Habinte Unified Worlds	Habinte	Random	Dacha II Life-Seeded	Democratic Idealistic Foundation Distinguished Admiralty	Fanatic Egalitarian Militarist	Invading the Habinte Unified Worlds civilization
The Chosen	Charynoi	Random	Aspharelle III Life-Seeded	Random Fanatic Purifiers Exalted Priesthood	Fanatic Xenophobe Spiritualist	Ithome Cluster empire
The Formless	The Formless	Extradimensional Psionic Talented Resilient Slow Breeders	zeya Riftworld	Democratic Random Random	Fanatic Spiritualist Xenophile	Subjugating The Formless

Imperial Fiefdom empires

The Imperial Fiefdom origin will generate a unique overlord and between 1 and 4 unique vassals depending on galaxy size. 40-65 years after the game start, the overlord will break into three separate empires at war with each other and the vassals will become independent. If they have Inferior or Pathetic relative power towards the origin empire they will offer to become a subject. Accepting will grant a small reward.

Empire	Homeworld class	Government	Ethics	Diplomatic policies	Subjugation reward	Min. galaxy size
Holy Empire	Gaia	Imperial Feudal Society Byzantine Bureaucracy	Materialist Militarist Xenophile	Cooperative diplomatic stance Proactive first contact protocol	None	Tiny
Kingdom	Arid	Dictatorial Technocracy Slaver Guilds	Fanatic Materialist Authoritarian	Isolationist diplomatic stance Aggressive first contact protocol	Engineering Research	Tiny
Prince-Electorate	Continental	Dictatorial Warrior Culture Distinguished Admiralty	Fanatic Militarist Spiritualist	Cooperative diplomatic stance Cautious first contact protocol	Influence	Small
Palatinate	Arctic	Dictatorial Exalted Priesthood Philosopher King	Fanatic Spiritualist Xenophobe	Isolationist diplomatic stance Cautious first contact protocol	Unity	Medium
League	Ocean	Corporate Free Traders Ruthless Competition Without DLC, replaced with: Oligarchic Corporate Dominion Meritocracy	Fanatic Materialist Xenophile	Mercantile diplomatic stance Proactive first contact protocol	Energy	Large

Minamar Specialized Industries

Minamar Specialized Industries enlightening a pre-FTL civilization

Minamar Specialized Industries (or MSI for short) is an empire created by the Broken Shackles and Payback origins. For the most part, it works like any regular empire with an advanced start, the only thing setting them apart being the Your Ladder To The Sky origin and their Benevolent Corporation AI personality. It has Fanatic Materialist and Authoritarian ethics and uses Corporate authority and Indentured Assets and Public Relations Specialists civics regardless of whether MegaCorp is installed or not. Their founder species has Tomb World preference, Charismatic, Intelligent, Decadent and Wasteful traits. Their homeworld is a Relic World named Minamar, in the Paraga system. MSI's founder species is called Olinbar and uses a unique species portrait not available to the player empires.

Empires with the Broken Shackles and Payback origins have a permanent −1000 Opinion penalty towards and from Minamar Specialized Industries and cannot choose the Proactive first contact dialogue option with them. The homeworld of Minamar Specialized Industries will contain enslaved pops from both empires' species.

Broken Shackles interactions

Empires with the Broken Shackles origin have the following interactions with Minamar Specialized Industries:

• Encountering Minamar Specialized Industries gives −10 Stability until First Contact is completed.
• Completing First Contact with Minamar Specialized Industries gives +10% Unity for 10 years.
• If forced into a Federation with Minamar Specialized Industries, the empire will receive −10% Happiness and −25% Governing Ethics Attraction for 10 years.
• If at war against Minamar Specialized Industries, the empire will receive +10% Unity, −10% Ship Upkeep, −50% Army Upkeep, −50% Army Cost and +100% Army Build Speed
  • If the war ends in surrender, the empire will receive −10% Happiness for 10 years
  • If the war ends in status quo, the empire will receive −5% Happiness for 10 years
  • If the war ends in enforcing demands, the empire will receive +10% Happiness, +15% Unity, +20% Governing Ethics Attraction, +10% Monthly Consumer Goods, +5% Monthly Resources and +10% Specialist Pop Resource Output for 10 years

Payback interactions

Empires with the Payback origin have the following interactions with Minamar Specialized Industries:

• If the empire has a shortage situation after establishing communications with Minamar Specialized Industries, it will gain the option between receiving a significant amount of the deficit resource or a small amount of Unity. This can only happen once every 5 years.
• The first time the empire technologically enlightens a pre-FTL civilization after establishing communications with Minamar Specialized Industries, the empire will gain a choice between the Certified Educator empire modifier or a large amount of Unity.
• The first time the empire kills a guardian after establishing communications with Minamar Specialized Industries, it will gain a choice between a large amount of Energy or a small amount of Unity.
• As long as the empire isn't at war with Minamar Specialized Industries, they will ask the empire to pay 5000 Energy, 10000 Energy or 600 Pops every 15 years (paying the full amount at once is impossible, if using console commands to have unlimited resources, the collectors will recognize and refuse to accept them). The empire will have 2 ways to approach them. Winning with either approach will end all interactions with Minamar Specialized Industries. If Grand Archive is installed the warning about debt collectors will also include the Reparation Invoice specimen.
  • After paying 2 times, the empire will get a choice between the Payback casus belli or focusing on diplomacy.
    • If focusing on diplomacy, then 10 days after the empire joins the Galactic Community, an event named A War Without Weapons will fire, giving an objective choice between passing the Equal Standing Act or Non-Interference Act Pre-FTL Stance resolution, as well as all minor sanction resolutions. Passing the required Pre-FTL Stance resolution will grant a large amount of Unity. Passing all required resolutions will grant even more Unity and the Rightful Due empire modifier while Minamar Specialized Industries will gain a Planetary Revolt situation and the Angered Populace empire modifier.
      • Alternatively, winning a war against MSI with the Impose Ideology wargoal (as any empire) that causes MSI to outlaw slavery and aggressive Pre-FTL interference (by shifting them to egalitarian and xenophile), will give the same result.
    • If the empire chose the Payback casus belli, then defeating Minamar Specialized Industries in war (whether with the Payback casus belli or not) will grant the choice between the Free From Strife empire modifier or unlocking the Punishment casus belli and Stop Atrocities wargoal.
  • Refusing to pay will cause a debt collector fleet to attack the capital system. The fleets can be defeated relatively easily but defeating them 3 times will result in Minamar Specialized Industries declaring war with the Animosity casus belli (this will occur even if communications haven't been established with MSI). If already a subject of Minamar Specialized Industries, they will impose harsher terms of agreement.
• If Minamar Specialized Industries is destroyed by an endgame crisis, the empire will gain the Underdog permanent modifier.

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