Civics

• Agriculture Districts provide 400 more Housing.
• Generator Districts and Mining Districts provide 300 more Housing.
• City Districts provide 200 less Housing., Farmers also produce 2 Amenities.

Colonies have +1 Ascension Tier on game start.

• Available Buildings: Astrometeorology Observatory
• Additional Starting Buildings: Astrometeorology Observatory
• Stellar Observatory Output: +50%

• Cannot form Migration Treaties
• Cannot form (but can join) Federations other than Martial Alliances or Hegemonies
• Has the 'Despoliation' casus belli on all other empires
• Unlocks the Raiding bombardment stance, which in turn allows us to abduct pops from besieged planets and resettle them to our own worlds.
• Decreased Opinion for most other empires

• Additional Starting Technologies: Physics Gravity Snares, Society Artificial Breeding
• Available Starbase Buildings: Beastports
• Home System: Start with a Beastport
• Starting Military Ships are replaced with Space Amoebas
• Starting Genetic Material: Common Space Amoeba

• Guaranteed Research Options: Engineering Research Improved Wayline Logistics
• Home System: Start in a richer system with a Waystation already constructed.

• Starts the game in contact with a Shroud Patron.
• Additional Starting Technologies: Society Psionic Aura

Grants access to the Recruitment Office Holding

• Starts with the Offworld Trade Companies technology already unlocked
• Unlocks Ship Type: Private Colony Ship

Waives all Unity costs for Pop Resettlement.

• Factions produce Physics Society Engineering Research instead of Unity
• Factions will form in your empire shortly after the game starts, but Faction Output is reduced for the first ten years

• Commanders start with the Crusader Trait
• Can only use Liberation Wars policy

• Additional Starting Technologies: Physics Dark Matter Drawing
• Access to Dark Matter Edicts
• Has access to the Dark Matter Breakthrough Council Agenda.

• Initial Pops: +3000
• Starting and Future Arkships: Blocker Deprecated Cryo Pods: +3

Available Starbase Buildings: Dimensional Shrine

• Start with 2 Exploration Vessels and an Engineering Vessel equipped with Subspace Drives, making them incapable of Hyperlane travel but granting limited Jump Drive abilities.
• Gain an increased chance to discover FTL Travel Technologies

Bureaucrats and provide Edict Fund scaling with their Unity production.

• Enables the following Edicts: Energy Drain, Sanguine Council, Convergence of Will
• Can construct: Leeching Tower.
• Leaders start with the Psychic trait.

• Available Buildings: Ranger Lodge
• Additional Starting Buildings: Ranger Lodge
• Available Holdings: Ranger Lodge

• Starts with Experimental Testing situation, which grants technology insight upon completion.
• Can construct and starts with: Experimentation Chambers.
• All non-Machine slaves get access to the Orderlies Slave Job.
• Access to Slave Army: Abominations

• Cannot engage in Diplomacy with other species!
• Cannot access the Galactic Market
• Has the 'Purification' casus belli on other species
• Xeno Pops will always be purged
• Gains Unity from purging Pop Xeno Pops
• May use Armageddon bombardment stance

• Ignore Diplomatic Requirements when proposing Subjugation
• Your Subjects cannot have the following Agreement Terms: Expansion Prohibited, Do not join subject wars, Limited Diplomacy

Additional Starting Technologies: Engineering Carrier Operations

Waives Technology requirements for Zone Basic District Specializations

• Starts with Engineering Research Living Metal already researched.
• Homeworld has a Living Metal Mass.
• Gain access to special Edicts: Centrifugal Siphoning, Modular Growth Compounds
• Gives access to Living Metal components: Regenerative Armor, Reshaping Projectile Accelerator
• Has access to Colony Decision: Distribute Living Metal.
• Can recruit the Mimetic Strike Force armies.
• Can build a Offworld Expedition Hub in systems with a Molten World for Offworld Prospector jobs.

• Available Colony Ships: Genesis Ark
• Planets Colonized with Genesis Arks: Pre-Sapient Pops: +300, Planetary Features: Genesis Preserve
• Gains Unity from uplifting Pre-Sapient Species

• Trade reward from Military Contracts: +50%
• Ship Fire Rate while under Military Contract: +15%
• Ship Upkeep while under Military Contract: -15%
• Ships in orbit of Hostile colonies have -10% Upkeep.

• Physics Hyperlane Breach Points is Guaranteed Research Option.
• Has Low Intel on all systems within 3 Hyperlanes of your starting system.

• Can build Gaia Seeders on your and your vassal's worlds ideal to your starting species.
• Facilities spread across the planet progressively bring it closer to becoming a Gaia World, through 4 upgrade phases.
• As you unlock improved Society Terraforming technologies, Gaia Seeders can be constructed on additional planet types.

• Cannot have Rivals
• Cannot form Defensive Pacts
• Cannot form Migration Treaties
• Cannot form Research Agreements
• Cannot form Commercial Pacts
• Cannot Guarantee Independence
• Cannot join Federations
• Cannot Infiltrate pre-FTLs
• Cannot have forced Subjects
• Cannot use Unrestricted Wars policy

• Available Buildings: Hyper Lubrication Basin
• Leaders with the Substance Abuser trait gain +3 Effective Leader Skill Level while governing a Colony with Hyper Lubrication Basin.

• On Ocean Worlds, Agriculture Districts are uncapped.
• On Wet worlds: Agriculture Districts have the Zone Aquaculture Specialization, Farmers are converted into Anglers, Artisans are converted into Pearl Divers

• Available Buildings: Mutagenic Spas
• Leaders with the Substance Abuser trait gain +3 Effective Leader Skill Level while governing a Colony with Mutagenic Spas.

Available Buildings: Genomic Services Center

• Enforcers are Pop Cat Ruler Elites instead of Pop Cat Specialists
• Only Pop Cat Ruler Elites can produce Amenities and have Amenities Upkeep
• Forces Dystopian Society Living Standard, under which non-Elite Pops have decreased Consumer Goods Upkeep
• Non-Elite Pops generate additional Crime
• Cannot build Holo-Theatres

Factions will form in your empire shortly after the game starts, but Faction Output is reduced for the first ten years.

• Unlocks starting planet: Volcanic World.
• Guaranteed Research Options: Society Research Volcanic Forge.
• Can construct Volcanic Forge building which adds Thermotechnic Mentors.
• Planets with a Volcanic Forge will gradually turn into a Volcanic World.
• Guaranteed Habitable Worlds will be Dry worlds.

• Additional Starting Technologies: Society Technologies to remove Blocker Natural Blockers on the Homeworld
• Society Technologies to remove Blocker Natural Blockers are granted as Permanent Research Options upon Colonization
• Mastery of Nature Ascension Perk replaced with Cultivated Worldscaping Planetary Decision
• For each Blocker Natural Blocker on Colonized Planets: Resources from Jobs: -10%, Pop Growth Speed: -10%, Pop Upkeep: +15%

Can only engage in Diplomacy with other empires if they are the proposer.

Can build Coordinated Fulfillment Center, significantly increasing Alloy and Consumer Goods output at the cost of reduced Pop Growth and gradually turning planets into Tomb Worlds.

• Researching Debris grants both Physics Society Engineering Research and a portion of other Resource Costs of the destroyed fleet
• Ships can be salvaged from some Debris

• Cannot engage in Diplomacy except with Thermophiles.
• Cannot access the Galactic Market.
• Grants the 'Cleansing Blaze' casus belli on other species.
• Gains Unity when bombarding with the Firestorm bombardment stance.
• Creates special blockers with the Seismic Carpet Bombing bombardment stance on the planet below.
• Non-Thermophile Species are restricted to Slavery or worse.

• Clandestine Factions will emerge after contacting other empires.
• Starts with the ability to conduct Proxy Wars., Bureaucrats will produce Unity per active and successful Proxy War.
• Starts in First Contact with two neighboring empires.
• Infiltration Level gained on empires after First Contact: +40

• Opinion of Empires with shared Species Class: +100
• Opinion of other Empires: -50
• Refugee Attraction with our Species Class: +30%
• Refugee Attraction with other Species Classes: -20%, Pops of our Species Class have Full Citizenship
• Other Pops are barred from Full Citizenship

• Allows Shared Burdens Living Standard, under which all Pops have moderate Consumer Goods Upkeep regardless of Strata
• Disables the use of most other Living Standards
• Grants access to the Communal Housing Outreach Holding

• Unlocks Fanatic Guardians as defense armies.
• Allows building a Reloading Bay in starbases.
• Enables Inner Focus Edict, converting Influence into Unity.

• Available Situation Approach: Celebration
• Situation Log Entry: Star Journal

• Adds the Tankbound trait., Farmers, Miners, and Technicians are fully Automated.
• Colonist Jobs are Pop Cat Specialists., District Urban Districts have additional Production Overseers jobs.

Can build unique Vaults of Knowledge, Vaults of Knowledge produce Unity and increase Leader Experience Gain based on Destiny Traits acquired.

• Unlocks the Plundering bombardment stance, which allows us to steal resources produced on a planet.
• Additional Waystation Modules: Defenses and Piracy Modules.

• Biological Ships in orbit of Friendly colonies have -50% ship upkeep.
• Friendly colonies with Biological Ships in orbit get increased Build Speed, Amenities, Clear Blocker Speed and potentially Job Output, depending on fleet size.
• Biological Ships in orbit of Hostile colonies have -85% ship upkeep.

• Initial Pops: +3000
• Starting and Future Arkships: Blocker Deprecated Cryo Pods: +3

• Starts the game in contact with a Shroud Patron.
• Additional Starting Technologies: Society Psionic Aura

Change 1 Base Unity Leader Upkeep to 2 Food, Minerals or 1 Alloys

• Additional Starting Technologies: Physics Gravity Snares, Society Artificial Breeding
• Available Starbase Buildings: Beastports
• Home System: Start with a Beastport
• Starting Military Ships are replaced with Space Amoebas
• Starting Genetic Material: Common Space Amoeba

• Start the game with 1000 assimilated Pops and the ability to Assimilate organics into the hive mind.
• Has access to the Prepare Invasion Espionage Mission
• Gains extra Pops from the Smuggle Population Espionage Mission

• Starts the game in contact with a Shroud Patron.
• Additional Starting Technologies: Society Psionic Aura

• Available Buildings: Astrometeorology Observatory
• Additional Starting Buildings: Astrometeorology Observatory
• Stellar Observatory Output: +50%

• Available Buildings: Astrometeorology Observatory
• Additional Starting Buildings: Astrometeorology Observatory
• Stellar Observatory Output: +50%

Waives Technology requirements for Zone Basic District Specializations

• Start the game with 3 Reanimated Amoebas.
• Defeated organic Space Fauna are automatically reanimated.
• Some defeated organic Leviathans can be resurrected.
• Controlled cloned organic Space Fauna can be reanimated
• Gain Genetic Material from killing Space Fauna.

• Starts with Experimental Testing situation, which grants technology insight upon completion.
• Can construct and starts with: Experimentation Chambers.

• Additional Starting Technologies: Society Technologies to remove Blocker Natural Blockers on the Homeworld
• Society Technologies to remove Blocker Natural Blockers are granted as Permanent Research Options upon Colonization
• Mastery of Nature Ascension Perk replaced with Cultivated Worldscaping Planetary Decision
• For each Blocker Natural Blocker on Colonized Planets: Resources from Jobs: -10%, Pop Assembly: -10%, Pop Upkeep: +15%

• Cannot engage in Diplomacy with organic species!
• Cannot access the Galactic Market
• Has the 'Purification' casus belli on organic species
• Will always Purge Pop Organic Pops
• Gains Unity from purging Pop Organic Pops
• May use Armageddon bombardment stance

• Cannot engage in Diplomacy with other empires!
• Cannot access the Galactic Market
• Has the 'Hunger' casus belli on all other empires
• Xeno Pops will always be eaten
• Gains Society Research from eating Pop Xeno Pops

• Start the game with 1K Pop Cyborg Pops and the ability to Assimilate organics as cyborgs
• Assimilating Pop Organic Pops generates a small amount of Unity and Society Research
• Non-assimilating Pop Organic Pops are automatically Purged over time
• Has the 'Assimilation' casus belli on all other empires
• Decreased Opinion for most other empires
• Allows access to the Cybernetic Ascension Path.

Colonies have +1 Ascension Tier on game start.

Colonies have +1 Ascension Tier on game start.

Reduces the Opinion penalty Gestalts normally have with biological empires.

• Enables the following Edicts: Energy Drain, Nexus Charge, Convergence of Will
• Can construct: Siphon Battery.
• Leaders start with the Psychic trait.

• Available Situation Approach: Celebration
• Situation Log Entry: Star Journal

Can build unique Vaults of Knowledge, Vaults of Knowledge produce Unity and increase Leader Experience Gain based on Leaders who acquired Level 8.

• Start with 2 Exploration Vessels and an Engineering Vessel equipped with Subspace Drives, making them incapable of Hyperlane travel but granting limited Jump Drive abilities.
• Gain an increased chance to discover FTL Travel Technologies
• Gain 50% more Insight progress from observing pre-FTL Civilizations.
• Gain Unity every time you finish establishing first contact.

• Envoys and Officials take on the physical form of the Empires they are assigned to.
• Trust Required to perform Diplomatic Actions: -50%

• Starts with Engineering Research Living Metal already researched.
• Homeworld has a Living Metal Mass.
• Gain access to special Edicts: Centrifugal Siphoning, Modular Growth Compounds
• Gives access to Living Metal components: Regenerative Armor, Reshaping Projectile Accelerator
• Has access to Colony Decision: Distribute Living Metal.
• Can recruit the Mimetic Strike Force armies.
• Can build a Offworld Expedition Hub in systems with a Molten World for Offworld Prospector Drone jobs.

• Starts with Engineering Research Living Metal already researched.
• Homeworld has a Living Metal Mass.
• Gain access to special Edicts: Centrifugal Siphoning, Modular Growth Compounds
• Gives access to Living Metal components: Regenerative Armor, Reshaping Projectile Accelerator
• Has access to Colony Decision: Distribute Living Metal.
• Can recruit the Mimetic Strike Force armies.
• Can build a Offworld Expedition Hub in systems with a Molten World for Offworld Prospector Drone jobs.

• Additional Starting Technologies: Society Technologies to remove Blocker Natural Blockers on the Homeworld
• Society Technologies to remove Blocker Natural Blockers are granted as Permanent Research Options upon Colonization
• Mastery of Nature Ascension Perk replaced with Cultivated Worldscaping Planetary Decision
• For each Blocker Natural Blocker on Colonized Planets: Resources from Jobs: -10%, Pop Assembly: -10%, Pop Upkeep: +15%

• Available Colony Ships: Genesis Ark
• Planets Colonized with Genesis Arks: Pre-Sapient Pops: +300, Planetary Features: Genesis Preserve
• Gains Unity from uplifting Pre-Sapient Species

• Available Colony Ships: Genesis Ark
• Planets Colonized with Genesis Arks: Pre-Sapient Pops: +300, Planetary Features: Genesis Preserve
• Gains Unity from uplifting Pre-Sapient Species

• Unlocks Matrix Units as defense armies.
• Allows building a Reloading Bay in starbases.
• Enables Inner Focus Edict, converting Influence into Unity.

• Unlocks Matrix Units as defense armies.
• Allows building a Reloading Bay in starbases.
• Enables Inner Focus Edict, converting Influence into Unity.

• Available Buildings: Hyper Lubrication Basin
• Leaders with the Substance Abuser trait gain +3 Effective Leader Skill Level while governing a Colony with Hyper Lubrication Basin.

• Physics Hyperlane Breach Points is Guaranteed Research Option.
• Has Low Intel on all systems within 3 Hyperlanes of your starting system.

• Physics Hyperlane Breach Points is Guaranteed Research Option.
• Has Low Intel on all systems within 3 Hyperlanes of your starting system.

Available Buildings: Genomic Safeguard Warren

• Can build Gaia Seeders on your and your vassal's worlds ideal to your starting species.
• Facilities spread across the planet progressively bring it closer to becoming a Gaia World, through 4 upgrade phases.
• As you unlock improved Society Terraforming technologies, Gaia Seeders can be constructed on additional planet types.

Can build unique Vaults of Knowledge, Vaults of Knowledge produce Unity and increase Leader Experience Gain based on Leaders who acquired Level 8.

Commodities Consolidation situation, granting rewards upon completion if production targets are met

Waives all Unity costs for Pop Drone Resettlement.

• Enables the following Edicts: Energy Drain, Sanguine Council, Convergence of Will
• Can construct: Leeching Tower.
• Leaders start with the Psychic trait.

• Enables Galactic Dowsing
• Every 13 years, the Cycle changes.
• Fortune Events will periodically benefit or impair your empire.

• Available Buildings: Mutagenic Permutation Pool
• Leaders with the Substance Abuser trait gain +3 Effective Leader Skill Level while governing a Colony with Mutagenic Permutation Pool.

• Cannot engage in Diplomacy except with Thermophiles.
• Cannot access the Galactic Market.
• Grants the 'Cleansing Blaze' casus belli on other species.
• Gains Unity when bombarding with the Firestorm bombardment stance.
• Creates special blockers with the Seismic Carpet Bombing bombardment stance on the planet below.
• Non-Thermophile Species are restricted to Slavery or worse.

• For each Positive main species trait: +2.5% Ship Hull, +0.5% Upkeep.
• For each Negative main species trait: +1.5% Ship Fire Rate, +0.5% Upkeep.

Change 1 Base Unity Leader Upkeep to 2 Energy Credits

• Initial Pops: +3000
• Starting and Future Arkships: Blocker Deprecated Cryo Pods: +3

• Start with 2 Exploration Vessels and an Engineering Vessel equipped with Subspace Drives, making them incapable of Hyperlane travel but granting limited Jump Drive abilities.
• Gain an increased chance to discover FTL Travel Technologies
• Adds the Stargazer trait.
• Begin with low Intel about your starting cluster.

The Cognitive Node starts with a random Expertise trait

Waives all Unity costs for Pop Drone Resettlement.

• Commanders start with the Tactical Algorithms trait
• Can trade Commanders to other Empires
• Can create Mercenary Enclaves
• Starts game with Military Academy, Military Academy grants Tactical Insights

• Unlocks starting planet: Volcanic World.
• Guaranteed Research Options: Society Research Volcanic Forge.
• Can construct Volcanic Forge building which adds Pyroclastic Drones.
• Planets with a Volcanic Forge will gradually turn into a Volcanic World.
• Guaranteed Habitable Worlds will be Dry worlds.

• Automatically generate Mining and Research Stations over a random unexploited deposit in a system we own, every four months.
• Lacking the technology to exploit a given resource reduces output from it by -75%.
• Directly building Mining and Research Stations will have an additional Build Cost of 10 Unity.

• Available Situation Approach: Celebration
• Situation Log Entry: Star Journal

• Unlocks starting planet: Volcanic World.
• Guaranteed Research Options: Society Research Volcanic Forge.
• Can construct Volcanic Forge building which adds Pyroclastic Drones.
• Planets with a Volcanic Forge will gradually turn into a Volcanic World.
• Guaranteed Habitable Worlds will be Dry worlds.

• Additional Starting Technologies: Physics Gravity Snares, Society Artificial Breeding
• Available Starbase Buildings: Beastports
• Home System: Start with a Beastport
• Starting Military Ships are replaced with Space Amoebas
• Starting Genetic Material: Common Space Amoeba

• Enables Galactic Dowsing
• Every 13 years, the Cycle changes.
• Fortune Events will periodically benefit or impair your empire.

• Trade reward from Military Contracts: +50%
• Ship Fire Rate while under Military Contract: +15%
• Ship Upkeep while under Military Contract: -15%
• Ships in orbit of Hostile colonies have -10% Upkeep.
• The Mercenary Liaison Office Corporate Building generates additional Trade and adds +200 Trader jobs to our Capital.

• Available Colony Ships: Genesis Ark
• Planets Colonized with Genesis Arks: Pre-Sapient Pops: +300, Planetary Features: Genesis Preserve
• Gains Unity from uplifting Pre-Sapient Species
• The Xeno-Outreach Agency Corporate Building generates additional Trade and adds +200 Trader jobs to our Capital.

• Starts with Engineering Research Living Metal already researched.
• Homeworld has a Living Metal Mass.
• Gain access to special Edicts: Centrifugal Siphoning, Modular Growth Compounds
• Gives access to Living Metal components: Regenerative Armor, Reshaping Projectile Accelerator
• Has access to Colony Decision: Distribute Living Metal.
• Can recruit the Mimetic Strike Force armies.
• Can build a Offworld Expedition Hub in systems with a Molten World for Offworld Prospector jobs.
• Can build the Living Metal Enhancement Clinic Corporate Building.

The Corporate Embassy Corporate Building generates additional Trade and adds +200 Trader jobs to our Capital.

• Starts the game in contact with a Shroud Patron.
• Additional Starting Technologies: Society Psionic Aura
• The Psionic Offices Corporate Building generates additional Trade and adds +200 Trader jobs to our Capital.

• Unlocks Fanatic Guardians as defense armies.
• Allows building a Reloading Bay in starbases.
• Enables Inner Focus Edict, converting Influence into Unity.

• Adds the Tankbound trait., Farmers, Miners, and Technicians are fully Automated.
• Colonist Jobs are Pop Cat Specialists., District Urban Districts have additional Production Overseers jobs.
• The Virtual Entertainment Studios Corporate Building generates additional Trade and adds +200 Trader jobs to our Capital.

• Enables the following Edicts: Energy Drain, Sanguine Council, Convergence of Will
• Can construct: Synergy Headquarters.
• Leaders start with the Psychic trait.
• The Executive Retreat Corporate Building generates additional Trade and adds +200 Trader jobs to our Capital.

• Can build Branch Offices on the planet of any regular empire they have no war or active truce with
• Crime on Branch Office Planets increases Branch Office Value
• Can build special Crime-increasing Corporate Buildings

• Factions produce Physics Society Engineering Research instead of Unity
• Factions will form in your empire shortly after the game starts, but Faction Output is reduced for the first ten years
• The Private Research Enterprises Corporate Building generates additional Trade and adds +200 Trader jobs to our Capital.

• Available Starbase Buildings: Dimensional Shrine
• The Xeno-Outreach Agency Corporate Building generates additional Trade and adds +200 Trader jobs to our Capital.

• Guaranteed Research Options: Engineering Research Improved Wayline Logistics
• Home System: Start in a richer system with a Waystation already constructed.
• The Commercial Forum Corporate Building generates additional Trade and adds +200 Trader jobs to our Capital.

• Your Subjects cannot have the following Agreement Terms: Expansion Prohibited, Limited Diplomacy, Independent Sensors
• Available Holdings: Franchise Headquarters on Subject colonies
• The Commercial Forum Corporate Building generates additional Trade and adds +200 Trader jobs to our Capital.

• Initial Pops: +3000
• Starting and Future Arkships: Blocker Deprecated Cryo Pods: +3
• The Fast Food Chain Corporate Building generates additional Trade and adds +200 Trader jobs to our Capital.