
Recruit troops to invade enemy colonies and conquer the galaxy! Build up your fleets to defend against enemy empires. Construct defensive bases at your colonies.
Defend: patrol the outlying areas of your empire to protect from raiding pirates or dangerous space monsters. Develop your new colonies by keeping them well-supplied with a steady stream of valuable resources Colonize: send out colony ships to found new worlds for your empire. Uncover secrets that lift the veil on the galaxy’s mysterious past. Explore: explore the vast galaxy, discovering valuable resources, potential colonies for your empire and making contact with other empires. Or have your advisors make suggestions in different areas like colonization, defence or diplomacy – helping you learn the best tactics and strategies Intelligent Automation: automate the various tasks in your empire, so that you can focus on the areas that you enjoy most. Play as a Standard empire or as a Pirate faction, with many adjustable victory conditions and gameplay choices depending on your actions. Choose your Playstyle: Start with a single planet and sub-light ships, or as an established space-faring civilization with warp drives.
Talk to pirate factions, tapping into their underground information, or paying them to do your dirty work for you.
Diplomacy: interact with other empires, discussing treaties, making trade offers or just giving them a piece of your mind. This frees you from micro-management and instead allows you to focus on a macro-scale Private Enterprise: the private citizens of your empire automatically take care of mundane tasks like mining resources, transporting cargo, migration between colonies, tourism and much more. Vast nebula clouds spiral out from the galactic core, shaping the distribution of star clusters in the galaxy Truly Epic-Scale Galaxies: play in galaxies with up to 1400 star systems and 50,000 planets, moons and asteroids.