Ships

An empire's fleet uses one of two ship types, set by its ship appearance (graphical culture) at creation:

  • Regular ships — the standard, mechanical hulls used by most empires.
  • Organic ships (bio-ships) — living vessels from the Biogenesis appearances. A biological shipset also starts the homeworld with an extra +1 agriculture district, and uses its own organic ship components.

Ship type is a free pick at empire creation — but some origins and civics force or forbid the organic appearance:

Your ship type

Force organic ships

Wildernessorigin Shared GeneticsGestaltAerospace AdaptationGestalt

Origins that exclude organic ships · 6

Red GiantCosmic DawnStarlit CitadelFear of the DarkCalamitous BirthHard Reset

Civics that exclude organic ships · 7

Privatized Exploration CorporatePlanetary Architects CorporateStargazers GestaltVolcanic Nesting GestaltExploration Protocols GestaltThermal Optimizers GestaltPlanet Forgers Regular