Empire
What is the Empire?
Empire
The Empire is your civilization's command center. Here you manage everything that affects your domain globally: permanent upgrades that boost your account, the total production of resources across all your colonies, the status of your fleets, and space megastructures under construction.
This is the most important screen for long-term strategy. Check your Empire Points (EP) before expanding and choose upgrades that align with your playstyle.
Empire Sections
From the Empire you can access the following sections. Click any tab to navigate directly:
Personal Upgrades
Every few days a new level unlocks where you choose 1 of 3 permanent bonuses. They stack, so you can pick the same upgrade multiple times to boost it.
Total Production
The combined production of all your planets and asteroids, broken down by resource and by hour, day, and week.
Fleet Summary
All your ships grouped by location: on planets, in flight, in orbit, or collecting. Includes total fleet points.
Space Constructions
Queue of megastructures under construction: Dyson Spheres, Artificial Wormholes, Sector Defenses, Motherships, Citadels, and Banks.
Personal upgrades
Personal Upgrades are permanent bonuses you choose for your civilization. They unlock automatically every few days.
How do they work?
- At each level you choose 1 of 3 options — the choice is final
- Upgrades stack: choosing +3% production twice gives you +6%
- Options rotate between 6 different themed groups
Upgrade categories:
- Economy: Mine production, industry production, harvesting, construction/research/module costs, asteroid nanofibers
- Military: Fleet points, assembly points, hyper speed, combat debris, conquest costs, shelter
- Administration: Empire points, trade time, expedition and mission rewards
You can see the detail of each upgrade directly in the Upgrades tab, where the description and exact percentage are shown.
Alliance Upgrades
Alliance upgrades
If you belong to an Alliance, you will have access to collective upgrades that benefit all members.
Differences from personal upgrades:
- Unlocked by researching Alliance technology (not by time)
- The choice is made by the leader or members with permissions
- Benefits all members of the alliance equally
- Same categories as personal upgrades: economy, military, administration
They stack with your personal upgrades:
If you have +6% personal production and your alliance contributes +3%, you'll have a total of +9%. Being in an active alliance is a direct advantage.
Empire Production
Production
The Production tab shows the resources your entire empire generates per hour, day, and week, combining planets and asteroids.
Production sources:
- Planets: Produce resources through buildings (mines, industries, assemblers...)
- Asteroids: Collector fleets extract specific resources, including nanofiber (exclusive to asteroids)
Tip: If one resource is much lower than the others, prioritize upgrading its production buildings. Economic balance is key to growing without bottlenecks.
Fleet Summary
Fleets
The Fleets tab shows all your ships grouped by location and type.
Possible states:
- On planets: Stationed and ready to defend or depart
- In flight: On mission to a destination
- In orbit: Orbiting other players' planets
- Collecting: Mining asteroids
Fleet Points:
Represent the military value of your ships, calculated from their manufacturing cost. You have a fleet points limit (expandable through research and upgrades). If you reach it, you won't be able to build more ships.
Space Constructions
Space Constructions
Space Constructions are megastructures you build in space. They are expensive, long-duration projects, but very powerful.
Construction types:
- Dyson Sphere: Built around a sun, generates massive energy for nearby planets
- Artificial Wormhole: Instant travel between two universe points without fuel cost
- Sector Defense: Defensive platform that protects an entire sector
- Mothership: Mobile operations base that can manufacture ships and jump to different positions
- Citadel: Personal structure with modules similar to enclaves, but at 50% effect
- Bank: Allows managing credits and investments with other players
Important:
- Each space construction consumes Empire Points (check the EP table above)
- You can cancel a construction in progress to recover part of the resources
- They require prior research to unlock
Planet Vision
Planets with vision vs Planets without vision
Each planet can have active vision or be hidden. This has direct consequences on EP and your map intelligence.
With vision:
- See nearby objects and fleets in Astrometry
- Consumes less EP
- Other players can detect your colony
Hidden:
- Doesn't provide surrounding vision
- Consumes more EP
- Harder to detect and spying on it won't give information to enemies
Tip: If you're short on EP, enable vision on your main planets to save. Only hide planets you want to protect strategically.
New Player Guide
New Player Guide
If you're just starting out, these tips will help you grow efficiently from the very beginning:
First steps:
- Build mines and industries — Resource production is the foundation of everything. Without resources you can't research, build ships, or expand.
- Research from day one — Research is the engine of progress. Prioritize technologies that unlock new buildings and ships.
- Level up Empire Administration — Without enough EP you won't be able to colonize new planets. Research it regularly.
- Join an alliance — Alliance upgrades stack with yours, and experienced members can help you.
Protection and resources:
- Enable vision on your planets — consumes less EP and lets you see threats in Astrometry.
- Spend your resources before logging off so an attacker can't take them. If you can't spend them, the shelter partially protects them.
- Send fleets to harvest asteroids — It's free extra production, especially for obtaining nanofiber.
- Choose production personal upgrades early on — military upgrades are more useful once you have a solid economy.
Common mistakes to avoid:
- Don't build more planetary modules than you actually need — they consume EP.
- Don't try to build ships before having stable production — you'll run out of resources.
- Don't leave the research queue empty — every second without researching is wasted time.
Advanced Tips
Advanced Tips
If you've mastered the basics, these strategies will help you optimize your empire:
Advanced EP management:
- Plan before colonizing — Check the EP table: calculate whether after colonizing you'll have enough EP for the modules you'll need on the new planet.
- Vision/hidden balance — Use visible planets in safe zones (EP savings) and hide those in conflict zones (espionage protection).
- Selective modules — Don't max out all modules. Prioritize production on economic planets and military on shipbuilding ones.
Military strategy:
- Don't leave planets undefended — Spread your fleets to defend while attacking. A defensive defeat can cost more than an offensive victory.
- Use the Mothership as a forward base — It can build ships and jump to different positions, ideal for projecting force far from your territory.
- Specialized designs — Don't make an "all-purpose" design. Create separate attack, defense, and harvesting fleets.
Economic optimization:
- Personal upgrades — Diversify early, but long-term consider specializing: if you play aggressively, prioritize military; if economic, maximize production.
- Coordinate with your alliance — Sync alliance upgrades to cover areas your personal upgrades don't boost.
- Megastructures with purpose — Dyson for massive economy, Artificial Wormhole for fast logistics, Sector Defense for protecting key zones.
- Review global production regularly — If one resource is far below the rest, it will be your bottleneck. Balance before expanding.