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Later in the game, crisis events can occur that have galaxy-wide implications-for example, an awakening of dormant sentient AI or an invasion by extra-dimensional or extra-galactic forces, these always being triggered by careless empires.

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Edicts are used to boost and passively upgrade empires, costing Strategic resources, energy, and influence. Advancement in Stellaris is achieved through technologies and traditions which progressively scale in cost for the player to achieve, but provide better features for the player as the game continues.

Edicts also can cost Influence which can be obtained by supporting factions with in your empire or by participating in diplomacy with other empires in your galaxy. There are also Strategic resources that are used to make advanced buildings, weapons, defenses, and can also be used to endorse edicts. The economy of a player's empire throughout the game is primarily based on five main resources: energy credits, minerals, food, consumer goods, and alloys, each having a primary purpose to contribute to the player's economy. Early gameplay consists of exploring and colonizing increasing swaths of space, while mid-game activities may include engaging with warfare and/or diplomacy with other empires, but can also be filled with a vast amount of micro-management.

In most cases, the player's empire begins with a single inhabited planet, several mining and/or research stations, a construction ship, a science ship, three small warships, and a starbase. The player can customize the flag, name, homeworld, appearance of cities and space constructs, and ruler of their empire. Both ethics (other than Gestalt Consciousness) and most civics can be changed throughout the game. Megacorporations, a government type added in the Megacorp DLC, aren't restricted ethics-wise like a hive mind is, but they can only choose civics unique to them. The ethic named Gestalt Consciousness makes the empire a hive mind or robotic empire, takes up all ethics points and gives new civics only available to hive mind and robotic empires. Fanatic versions of ethics give greater bonuses than their normal variants, but usually have even higher restrictions and always take up two ethics points instead of the normal one point per ethic. These secondary species are created in a similar process to the one previously described.Īll ethics, other than the later added Gestalt Consciousness, have normal and fanatic versions which represent the alignment of the empire. Origins can include originating from a world ravaged by nuclear warfare or starting with a secondary playable race, such as robots or a strong but unintelligent worker race. Players also choose an origin, a kind of backstory for their empire. Ethics give various buffs, restrict certain features (a Spiritualist empire cannot use robots, a Materialistic empire cannot outlaw robots) and governments from being picked (an Authoritarian empire is unable to be a democratic government and vice versa), and change the way information is presented to the player. In this phase, the player chooses the ethics and civics of their empire (with Ethics and Civics points, respectively) which the ideology the empire has adopted. Next, the player customizes the empire of their species. The first of these choices involves picking a mixture of positive and negative characteristics ('Traits') that make up their species. The process of creating involves several different choices. The game begins either by picking one of the premade empires or using a player-customized empire/species. There are also diplomatic options such as alliances and trade agreements with other races.

Combat includes space combat and ground combat and is more centered towards the bigger picture, preparation, and strategy. The player controls ships, including science, construction and military vessels. Players play as a government of a species in early stages of interstellar space exploration, right after the invention of faster-than-light (FTL) space travel technology, ready to claim a place as one of 'the species of the stars.' Depending on several factors, such as the ethics of the civilization and the player's desires, the ultimate goal of the empire can range from galactic conquest, hoarding of resources and technological supremacy, to peaceful coexistence with or absolute destruction of all other sapient life. Stellaris is a real-time grand strategy game set in an alternate reality of space in the distant future.