Develop your new colonies by keeping them well-supplied with a steady stream of valuable resources
Defend: patrol the outlying areas of your empire to protect from raiding pirates or dangerous space monsters.
Build, expand and improve your empire while playing through one of the storylines, with victory conditions or in an open-ended sandbox mode. Recruit troops to invade enemy colonies and conquer the galaxy!
Espionage: covertly seek out information about other empires, or even disrupt their progress with acts of sabotage
Research: develop new technologies for use in building your own unique ships and star bases
Characters: including Leaders, Admirals, Generals, Ambassadors, Governors, Agents and Scientists, all with defined skills and traits and the opportunity to advance and improve
Design and Build: A very flexible system allows you to design and build the ships and star bases in your empire. Vast nebula clouds spiral out from the galactic core, shaping the distribution of star clusters in the galaxy
Private Enterprise: the private citizens of your empire automatically take care of mundane tasks like mining resources, transporting cargo, migration between colonies, tourism and much more.