Indoctrination: Influence primitive civilizations to adopt your ethics through the use of observation stations, preparing them for enlightenment or annexation.Follow one of the three Ascension Paths and achieve Biological Mastery, give up your biological forms in a Synthetic Evolution, or become a fully psionic species through Transcendence. Ascension Perks: Complete tradition trees to unlock Ascension Perks for your empire.Habitat Stations: Build 'tall' and establish space stations that will house more population, serving the role of planets in a small and confined empire.

Megastructures: Build wondrous structures in your systems including Dyson Spheres and ringworlds, bringing both prestige and major advantages.Stunning space visuals: With characteristically complex unique planets and celestial bodies, you will enter a whirlwind of spectacles in a highly detailed universe.You have a multitude of capabilities to choose from to meet the unknown quests that await. Choose from an array of complex technologies when designing and customizing your ships with the complex ship designer. Defend or attack with fully customizable war fleets, where adaptation is the key to victory. Interstellar warfare: An eternal cycle of war, diplomacy, suspicions and alliances await you.Adjust your strategy to your situation through negotiation and skill. Diplomacy is key in a proper grand strategy adventure. Interact with others through the advanced diplomacy system. Choose positive or negative traits, specific ideologies, limitations, evolutions or anything you can imagine. Infinite variation of species and advanced diplomacy: Through customization and procedural generation, you will encounter infinitely varied races.Have your science ships survey and explore anomalies, leading you into a myriad of quests, introducing strange worlds with even stranger stories and discoveries that may completely change your outcome. Deep and varied exploration: Every game begins with a civilization that has just discovered the means to travel between stars and is ready to explore the galaxy.Enormous procedural galaxies: Grow and expand your empire with thousands of randomly generated planet types, galaxies, quests and monsters lurking in space.The direction of the game is based on your choices. Customize your Empire!: The characters you choose, be it a murderous mushroom society or an engineering reptile race, can be customized with traits like ethics, type of technology, type of habitat, philosophies and more.

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