Aleryos strategy game FAQ

Short answer

Aleryos is a massively multiplayer online strategy game. You play an emperor developing an empire, planets, economy, technology and military power.

Useful detail

In Aleryos, your goal is to make your empire prosper. You start with a main planet, then gradually develop your buildings, research, resources and military capabilities.

To start well, focus first on the resource production buildings on your main planet: Iron Mine, Crystal Extractor and Aether Synthesizer. They increase your production and help you unlock the Research Laboratory faster, then specialized buildings such as the Barracks, Training Center and Shipyard.

This economic and technological base then lets you prepare your first colonizations quickly.

Colonizing early is important because each new planet greatly increases your development potential. The more planets you own, the more infrastructure you can build, the more resources you can produce, and the faster your empire can grow.

Do not forget to join an alliance quickly too. Alliances provide important bonuses, especially technology bonuses. They also let you exchange with other players, coordinate your actions and compete with the other communities in the game.

Your progression therefore rests on several core axes:

• develop your main planet;
• strengthen your Iron, Crystal and Aether production;
• unlock your first research, military and space buildings;
• colonize new planets;
• join an alliance;
• advance your technologies;
• gradually unlock the Shipyard, ground units, specialized devices and defenses.

Depending on your playstyle, you can then orient your empire differently. You can attack other players with your fleet, launch ground attacks through the Pillars, spy, trade, take part in PvP actions, or focus more on PvE.

In the long term, you are an expanding emperor. And if you progress far enough, you may one day become a Monarch.

Short answer

A fleet in flight is technically untouchable. The real risk is leaving it docked while you are away or not paying attention.

Useful detail

In Aleryos, there are no moons and no moon destruction. A fleet that is already in flight cannot be intercepted through that kind of mechanic.

In return, attacks can be very fast. Depending on distance and speed, a planet where your fleet remains docked can be attacked in less than 1 min 30 to 2 min. Stay attentive when your fleet is stationed on a planet.

To protect it, make it fly when you log out or when you cannot monitor your account. You can send it toward one of your own planets, or toward an external target depending on your goal.

To cover a longer absence, include a slow ship in the fleet. The fleet's overall speed depends on the slowest unit in the group, which lets you lengthen the travel time and adapt the flight to your inactivity window.

Also use the interstellar sensors: they let you see incoming and outgoing fleets, so you can react better when a fleet approaches or when an important movement is underway.

Short answer

A large army should either be defended by an Iris or a sufficient force, or sheltered on a planet whose Pillars are disabled.

Useful detail

In Aleryos, your population can include assault units. These units are used to attack, but also to defend your planets against ground attacks.

The first method is to avoid leaving a large army on a poorly defended planet. If the planet is not protected by an active Iris, or if the army present is not strong enough to discourage an attack, you can become a target for one or more players.

The second method is to station your army on a planet whose Pillars are disabled. As long as the Pillars are disabled, that planet cannot receive a ground attack through the Pillars, which temporarily shelters your army.

To move your population to a planet protected by closed Pillars, use your fleet and ships with a Transport or Deployment mission. This lets you bring your units in when you are not using them, then send them back out when you need them.

You can also send your population to a trusted ally. They can hold it temporarily and make it available at the right moment, for example to prepare a shared alliance army.

Short answer

To protect your resources, you can spend them, load them into ships in flight, or temporarily entrust them to an ally able to protect them.

Useful detail

In Aleryos, you can suffer two types of attacks: space attacks and ground attacks. If resources, ships or population are available on a planet, another player can attack you to destroy or recover them depending on the attack type.

The most direct solution is to spend your resources before leaving, reducing what can be recovered.

The other method is to load them into ships and make that fleet fly. As long as the resources are in ships in flight, they are protected. Sending them toward one of your own planets is usually the simplest and most common way: your resources stay secured while remaining available when you return.

You can also temporarily entrust resources to an alliance member able to protect them.

Short answer

Create a model in the Shipyard first, then build or assemble your ships from the Assembly tab.

Useful detail

In Aleryos, you can create your own ship models and customize them to build fleets that match your goals.

To create a model, open the Shipyard, then Create a model. First choose an Infrastructure. It determines the ship's total volume, meaning the space available for components and the remaining cargo capacity.

Then add the model's components: Weapons, Hulls, Shields and Reactors. You are limited to one component type per family, but you can choose the quantities you want in each family as long as the model stays within its limits.

Shields cannot exceed the total resistance provided by the hull. Reactors are limited to 2 per ship, and a model's maximum raw speed is 5,000.

The more components you add, the lower the available cargo becomes. If components use all the volume, the model has no cargo capacity left. If you exceed the infrastructure's total volume, the model is rejected.

On missions, the game uses the fleet's total available cargo, not a separate hold for each ship. A model with little or no cargo may therefore need to be accompanied by other ships with cargo capacity to carry the fuel or useful mission load.

Once the model is saved, go to Shipyard, then Assembly. You can build ships directly with resources, or assemble them with components you already created.

The number of ship models you can keep is limited. To increase this limit, improve the Infrastructure technology.

Short answer

Colonization is only done via Pillars. You must send exactly 100 soldiers and 10 scientists to a free position.

Useful detail

The target must be an unoccupied slot. If another planet, player or bot already has this position, the colonization fails.

100 soldiers and 10 scientists are consumed when colonization succeeds.

The standard limit is 10 colonies, plus your home planet. Certain artifacts can increase this limit.

Example

If you already have 10 colonies, you can no longer create a new one, unless a colony limit bonus is active.

Short answer

Each colony receives random modifiers on Iron, Crystal and Ether upon creation.

Useful detail

The game draws separately:

• a total bonus between +15,0% and +30,0%
• a total penalty between -0,1% and -30,0%

These values are then randomly distributed between the three resources.

A colony can therefore have:

• 2 resources with bonuses and 1 with a penalty
• 1 resource with a bonus and 2 with penalties
• 1 bonus, 1 penalty and 1 neutral resource

The displayed biome does not impose these modifiers. Two colonies in the same biome can therefore have very different production profiles.

Example

A colony can obtain:

• Iron +12,5%
• Crystal +4,4%
• Ether -6,1%

Another may have:

• Iron 0%
• Crystal +18,2%
• Ether -7,3%

Short answer

No, not directly.

Useful detail

The biome today is mainly visual. Production modifiers are generated separately and are not biome dependent.

The biome therefore serves to identify the planet, not to automatically determine its economic bonuses.

Example

Two Verdant planets can have opposite results:

• one with a bonus in Iron
• the other with a penalty in Iron and a bonus in Crystal

Short answer

Available space depends on the type of planet and its Terraformer level.

Useful detail

The basic capacity is:

• 240 slots for the home planet
• 180 to 240 slots for a colony, according to its initial draw

Then, each Terraformer level adds +10 slots.

Formula:

total slots = base slots + (Terraformer level × 10)

Example

If a colony starts with 192 slots and has a level 3 Terraformer, it has:

192 + (3 × 10) = 222

Short answer

A colony begins with its own starting resources and active Pillars.

Useful detail

When it is created, a colony receives:

• 500 Iron
• 400 Crystal
• 200 Ether

Its Pillars are active by default.

Its base number of slots and production modifiers are generated at the time of colonization.

Example

Two colonies created on the same day can start with the same basic resources, but with:

• a different number of slots
• different production modifiers

Short answer

Your home planet starts with a few resources and account-wide Astrium, but no free building, technology, unit or inventory item.

Useful detail

When you first enter the universe, your account receives:

• 500 Astrium
• no chest
• no universal fragment

Your home planet receives:

• 1,000 Iron
• 750 Crystal
• 250 Ether
• 0 Frame Resonator
• buildings at level 0
• technologies at level 0

Other units, specialized devices, ships, defenses and components also start at 0.

Short answer

No. A pre-registered account does not produce resources until the player gets their first real access to the universe after opening.

Useful detail

The account creation date remains the pre-registration date, but production clocks start on the first authorized owner access after the official opening.

There is no retroactive catch-up between pre-registration, official opening and the player's first real access.

Natural Iron, Crystal and Ether production, plus passive Soldier and Frame Resonator production, start from that first real access.

Short answer

When it is enabled on a universe, galactic catch-up helps lagging empires progress faster through cost and duration reductions.

Useful detail

It is not a free resource package, and it is not retroactive production catch-up.

The game compares your empire to a reference calculated from the average of the 10 best eligible human players in the universe. If your weighted score is below 55% of that reference, a progressive bonus can apply.

As your empire progresses and gets closer to the threshold, the bonus decreases. Once the threshold is reached, catch-up pauses as long as your empire remains above that limit.

The bonus can reduce:

• building cost and duration;
• research cost and duration;
• ship, defense, ground unit, component and specialized device cost and duration.

The maximum effect is -45% cost and -30% duration for buildings. Research receives 80% of that effect, and units receive 50%.

The bonus does not change production, energy, fleet speed, or queues already launched.

Example

If you join an already advanced universe, your first buildings and research can cost less and finish faster. However, you do not automatically receive the resources you would have produced before arriving.

Short answer

The normal limit is 10 colonies, in addition to the home planet.

Useful detail

Certain bonuses, notably the artifact Border Throne Fragment, can increase this limit:

• +1 colony limit at level 5
• +2 colony limit at level 10

This brings the possible total to 11 or 12 colonies, or 12 or 13 planets counting the home planet.

Example

Without bonus, you can have:

• 1 home planet
• 10 colonies
• or 11 planets in total

With the artifact at level 10, you can achieve:

• 1 home planet
• 12 colonies
• or 13 planets in total

Short answer

Yes, but part of its recent natural production can be temporarily protected.

Useful detail

When a planet becomes inactive, its natural production of Iron, Crystal and Ether can enter a temporary sanctuary.

During the first 6 hours of inactivity, this natural production is neither visible to espionage nor lootable by an attack.

Once those 6 hours have passed, the protection ends: all production becomes visible and lootable normally again.

On the other hand, constructions, research, fleet returns, incoming transports and other direct credits continue to be applied normally.

Example

If you leave a planet for a few hours:

• it continues to produce
• you get this production back when you return
• but another player cannot necessarily see it or loot it immediately

Short answer

Yes, but not instantly.

Useful detail

Abandoning a colony triggers a delay of 1 hour.

The home planet cannot be abandoned.

Certain situations also block abandonment, for example if a linked fleet is still active.

Example

If you initiate the abandonment of a secondary colony, it does not disappear immediately: it first enters a countdown.

Short answer

All positions use the same grid: galaxy / system / planet.

Useful detail

The game manipulates coordinates everywhere in the form:

• g for the galaxy
• s for the system
• p for the planet

This same structure serves:

• for calculating fleet distances;
• to the projection cost of the Pillars;
• to the resolution of mission targets.

Example

Two planets with the same galaxy and system values, but different planet position, stay in the same local sector but are not on the same location.

Short answer

A fleet travels through space with a travel time and an Ether cost. Pillars project ground units with a cost in RT.

Useful detail

Fleets use:

• a spatial distance;
• a movement speed;
• a speed percentage;
• consumption of Ether.

Pillars use:

• the same coordinate logic;
• a projection cost calculated according to the destination;
• a payment in RT;
• instant gameplay processing for all missions except Exploration.

Example

To move a fleet, you choose between speed and consumption. To move a force via Pillars, you mainly choose between range and RT cost.

Short answer

The distance depends on changing planets only in the same system, then changing systems or galaxies.

Useful detail

The calculation adds:

• 8 000 by planetary position deviation only if the two positions are in the same system;
• if the galaxy is the same but the system changes: 60 000 + (system gap - 1) × 800 ;
• if the galaxy changes: 100 000 + (galaxy gap - 1) × 20 000 + system gap × 400.

Special case:

• recycling on a debris field located at exactly the same position uses a minimum distance of 5.

Example

Between two planets of the same system with 2 positions of difference:

2 × 8 000 = 16 000

Between two systems of the same galaxy with 3 systems difference:

60 000 + (3 - 1) × 800 = 61 600

Short answer

Travel time depends on distance, effective fleet speed and chosen speed percentage.

Useful detail

The game calculates:

1. the distance to travel;
2. the effective speed of the fleet;
3. the duration of the journey in seconds.

Effective speed applies:

• the fleet reference speed;
• the chosen speed percentage;
• the Monarch Pack bonus if it is active;
• the global speed multiplier of the universe fleets.

The game then imposes a minimum of 75 seconds.

Example

Even for a very short distance, a fleet never leaves for less than 75 seconds.

Short answer

Because the speed chosen for the journey is that of the slowest unit in the group.

Useful detail

The motor cycles through all the units sent and retains the lowest positive speed found.

This value becomes the reference speed for the entire fleet.

On certain missions, the calculation only takes into account the ships concerned by this mission:

• Transport
• Deployment

For Deployment, some authorized autonomous recyclers may also be considered.

• at another player, a fleet Deployment must contain only recyclers, with no ships, units, components or cargo.

Example

Adding a very slow aircraft to a fast fleet immediately increases the travel time for the entire group.

Short answer

It allows you to voluntarily slow down a fleet to adjust its arrival time and reduce its Ether consumption.

Useful detail

The lower the speed percentage:

• the longer the fleet takes to arrive;
• the less Ether it consumes.

The effect on consumption is very strong, because the cost varies with the square of the chosen percentage.

Example

Going from 100% to 50% not only reduces the speed by half: the base consumption drops to 25%.

Short answer

Consumption depends on the type of units sent, the distance and the speed percentage chosen.

Useful detail

Basic rules:

• for custom models, consumption varies according to the model's total empty mass;
• recyclers consume less;
• spatial probes use a dedicated rate of 0.026 Ether/km/probe;
• special transporters use the standard rate;
• ground units do not consume Ether;
• space Espionage pays only for the one-way trip and carries no fuel as cargo.

The engine then calculates:

1. basic consumption according to units, the total empty mass of custom models and distance;
2. the effect of speed percentage;
3. possible alliance and artifact reductions.

The transported load does not make the mission cost more fuel. The final result is rounded down.

Example

Two identical fleets will not have the same consumption if one leaves at 100% and the other at 70%.

Short answer

Allowed content depends on the mission type.

Useful detail

For a space mission, not everything can be sent in all cases.

Important rules:

• Astrium can never be transported by mission;
• components cannot be sent in Transport nor in Deployment;
• recyclers are refused in Transport;
• recyclers are authorized in Deployment, including alone.

For a space Transport, the population actually delivered uses the manifest planned for this mission.

Example

A fleet can be valid for a Deployment but refused for a Transport if it contains recyclers.

Short answer

A recall cancels the outbound trip, refunds Ether pro rata and creates a return, except for a spatial espionage mission, which cannot be recalled.

Useful detail

When a recall is accepted:

• the outward journey is canceled;
• Ether is refunded pro rata;
• a Return mission is created.

The return reuses the exact duration of the initial outward journey.

Exception: a Spatial Probe flies one way only. Its Espionage mission cannot be recalled, so it creates no return and grants no refund.

Example

If the outward journey were to last 30 minutes, the return created by the server starts again on a basis of 30 minutes.

Short answer

Pillars allow instantaneous ground projections, but with a cost in RT.

Useful detail

Unlike fleets, Pillars are not based on a classic space journey with Ether consumption and visible flight time.

Their logic is different:

• movement is instantaneous on the gameplay side;
• cost depends on destination;
• this cost is paid in RT ;
• the server always recalculates this cost authoritatively.

Pillars Exploration is the only case that follows its own duration instead of instantaneous processing.

Example

A Transport via Pillars does not work like a space convoy: the main issue is not travel time, but projection cost.

Short answer

The cost of Pillars depends on the gap between origin and destination, then is converted to RT.

Useful detail

The calculation adds:

• a base cost;
• a cost linked to the planet gap;
• a cost related to the system deviation;
• higher cost if the galaxy changes.

The total is first calculated in energy, then converted according to the rule:

• 1 RT = 100,000 energy

Certain artifact reductions can then lower this cost.

Example

A short trip within the same galaxy costs little RT, while a projection between galaxies costs significantly more.

Short answer

Pillars have their own transport rules.

Useful detail

Public Rules:

• resonateurTrame is only allowed on Transport and Deployment;
• in Pillars Exploration, ground units are allowed;
• among the special units for Pillars Exploration, only Small Transporter and Large Transporter are allowed.

The projection cost in RT is always recalculated by the server and is added to any RT possibly moved.

Example

A mission can be valid in Pillars Transport and refused in Pillars Exploration if it contains an unauthorized special unit.

Short answer

Final validation is always up to the server.

Useful detail

The server can still refuse a mission if:

• target is invalid;
• mission type does not match target type;
• a required pact does not exist for a Transport or a Deployment between players;
• a 6-hour period after a pact breach blocks an Attack or Espionage;
• the manifest contains units or quantities prohibited for this mission.

Pre-validation on the interface side helps prepare for departure, but it never replaces authoritative validation.

Example

A mission may appear ready in the interface but then be refused at launch if the target is no longer valid or if a diplomatic restriction applies.

Short answer

The game distinguishes resources, passive productions and units.

Useful detail

The real resources are:

• Iron, Crystal and Ether, which are the three main economic resources of each planet;
• Energy, which is a planetary balance and not a stored resource;
• Astrium, which is an empire resource, global, with no storage cap.

In addition to these resources, there are also:

• Frame Resonators, which serve as special energy to activate the Pillars;
• Soldiers, which are the basic ground troop produced passively by the Barracks.

Example

You can run out of Energy without running out of Ether: one measures the functioning of your planet, the other is a resource that you store and spend.

Short answer

Production depends on buildings, active bonuses and elapsed time.

Useful detail

The server credits the production according to the formula:

gain = hourly production × elapsed time

The hourly production of the planet depends on:

• mines;
• a basic minimum production;
• technologies;
• planet modifiers;
• alliance bonuses;
• packs;
• Miners;
• production artifacts.

The basic minimum natural production is:

• 30 Iron
• 30 Crystal
• 30 Ether

before global production multipliers.

Example

Even a poorly developed planet continues to produce a minimum of natural resources.

Short answer

Each production building follows a formula per level, then applies a multiplier specific to its role.

Useful detail

The calculation basis is:

level × 1.1^level

Then each building applies its multiplier:

• Iron Mine : × 33
• Crystal Extractor : × 22
• Aether Synthesizer : × 11
• Power Plant: × 30 in energy, on level × 1.16^(level - 1)
• Impulse Power Plant: × 38 in energy, on level × 1.185^(level - 1)

Mines also consume Energy:

• Iron Mine : -11
• Crystal Extractor : -11
• Aether Synthesizer : -22

The Impulse Power Plant produces Energy, but also consumes Ether. Its energy production follows 38 × level × 1.185^(level - 1), while its Ether consumption stays on 12.5 × level × 1.08^(level - 1) and follows the universe production speed: in a x8 universe, it is multiplied by 8. If the planet's Ether stock is 0, the plant produces no Energy.

Example

An Impulse Power Plant can greatly improve your energy balance, while reducing your net Ether gain if it is running at full speed.

Short answer

Energy cannot be stored. It measures the balance between what your power plants produce and what your mines consume.

Useful detail

The game calculates:

• Energy produced by power plants;
• Energy consumed by mines;
• then the difference between the two.

If the planet produces enough Energy, it operates at 100% efficiency.

If it is lacking, mine production is slowed down according to an efficiency coefficient:

efficiency = energy produced / energy consumed

with a minimum of 0.

The less your planet covers its energy needs, the more its mines lose efficiency.

Example

If your planet only produces half the Energy needed, its mines run at about 50% their output.

Short answer

Yes. Each mine and power station can be set individually from 0% to 100%.

Useful detail

The setting acts proportionally:

• on building production;
• on its associated consumption.

This allows a planet to be better balanced, particularly in the event of a lack of Energy.

Example

Switching a Iron Mine from 100% to 50% reduces both its production and its consumption of Energy.

Short answer

Production can be increased by technologies, alliance, planetary modifiers, packs, Miners and certain artifacts.

Useful detail

Bonuses applied to Iron, Crystal and Ether include:

• specialized production technologies;
• the alliance production bonus;
• planet modifiers;
• the pack bonus;
• the Miners: +0,00002% per unit;
• artifacts that enhance production.

Energy also follows its own technological bonus.

Notable Rules:

• only one of the two packs Emperor or Monarch gives +5% production;
• both active at the same time give +10%.

Example

Two planets with the same buildings can produce very differently if one has more bonuses.

Short answer

Iron, Crystal and Ether each have their own storage building.

Useful detail

Basic capabilities:

• Iron Warehouse : 60 000 × 2^level
• Crystal Warehouse : 40 000 × 2^level
• Ether Tank : 30 000 × 2^level

The natural production of each resource is limited by this capacity.

Example

An Iron Warehouse level 3 gives:

60 000 × 2^3 = 480 000

Iron storage capacity.

Short answer

When a resource reaches its normal capacity, its natural production stops. Beyond 125%, any additional surplus is lost.

Useful detail

The system applies three rules:

• under normal capacity, production continues;
• from normal capacity: additional natural production is cut off;
• beyond 125% capacity: any additional excess is lost.

This extended ceiling is mainly used when a resource exceeds its capacity through a transfer, reward or other direct contribution.

Example

If your Iron storage is worth 480 000, natural production stops at 480 000 and the absolute ceiling is 600 000.

Short answer

The Soldiers are produced automatically by the Barracks.

Useful detail

The time formula is:

2 × 1.5^(Barracks level - 1)

This production is passive. The Soldiers do not go through a dedicated recruitment queue and are capped by the storage of the Barracks:

25 000 × 1.6^Barracks level

Example

One level 1 Barracks produces 2 soldiers per hour.
One level 4 Barracks produces 6.75 soldiers per hour.

Short answer

The target planet must be able to store all the soldiers sent.

Useful detail

When launching a TRANSPORT or DEPLOY mission, the server checks the soldier storage of the target planet. It counts soldiers already present and soldiers from active incoming missions not yet applied. If the delivery exceeds capacity, the mission is refused before departure.

Short answer

Frame Resonators are produced automatically by the Barracks, on a weekly basis.

Useful detail

The formula is:

60 + (Barracks level - 1) × 5 per week

This production is passive and fuels the use of Pillars.

Example

One Barracks level 1 produces 60 Frame Resonators per week.
One Barracks level 5 produces 80 per week.

Short answer

During the first 6 hours of a planet's inactivity, its recent natural production of Iron, Crystal and Ether is neither visible to espionage nor lootable.

Useful detail

This protection only concerns:

• the recent natural production of Iron ;
• the recent natural production of Crystal ;
• the recent natural production of Ether.

It does not protect:

• constructions;
• searches;
• production queues;
• fleet returns;
• inbound transports;
• direct rewards and credits;
• the passive production of Soldiers;
• the passive production of Frame Resonators.

The owner recovers this production on his return. It simply remains hidden from other players for the duration of the sanctuary.

Once the 6 hours have passed, all this production becomes visible and lootable normally again.

Example

A planet that has been inactive for 3 hours may have produced resources usable by its owner, while still remaining invisible to an enemy spy.

Short answer

Ships are built from components crafted and stored in the Space Worksite.

Useful detail

Each component belongs to a specific family:

• Infrastructure: the ship's chassis
• Hull: durability
• Reactor: speed
• Weapon: attack power
• Shield: energy protection

Components are not complete ships. These are spare parts that you can produce in advance, store, and then use to make or assemble your models.

Component storage capacity depends on the level of the Space Worksite.

Formula:

Example

You can produce weapons, hulls and reactors in advance, then use them later to quickly assemble a series of ships.

Short answer

A ship model is a custom construction plan that you save before starting production.

Saved models are shared between all planets in your account. On the other hand, the ships constructed, the components and the buildings remain specific to each planet.

Useful detail

Each model combines exactly:

• 1 Infrastructure
• a quantity of Hulls
• a quantity of Reactors
• a quantity of Weapons
• a quantity of Shields

The game then automatically calculates its final statistics:

• attack
• hull
• shield
• speed
• cargo
• consumption
• total volume
• total cost
• crew required

The model therefore really determines the role of the ship.

Example

Two models built on the same chassis can have very different uses if one favors speed and the other resistance or firepower.

Short answer

Cargo is the remaining available volume on the saved model.

Useful detail

Each Infrastructure provides a total available volume.

The installed components occupy part of this volume:

• hulls;
• reactors;
• weapons;
• shields.

When saving the model, the game calculates:

If the components occupy the entire volume, the ship no longer has any cargo available. If the components exceed the total volume, the model is rejected.

On a mission, the cargo of all selected ships is added together to form a common capacity. This is not a separate cargo hold per ship in the loadout interface.

Fuel is also carried on ships. It therefore occupies part of the available capacity of the mission, in the same way as the loaded resources.

Example

A chassis with 400 total volume and 250 installed components keeps 150 cargo available.

If a mission selects multiple ships, their available cargo is added together. The fuel needed for the journey is reserved in this common capacity before the rest of the payload.

Short answer

Each ship has a crew requirement, determined by its chassis.

Useful detail

The crew is not freely chosen at the time of departure. It is imposed by the Infrastructure of the model.

Depending on the chassis used, a ship may request:

• of Soldiers
• of Pilots
• of Technicians
• of Computer Specialists

The game automatically calculates this crew from the saved model.

The larger the chassis, the higher the crew required.

During the flight, this crew remains removed from the player's population points. Other assets sent on missions, such as ships, devices, components and populations transported, remain counted.

Example

A small light chassis may require only 1 Pilot, while a large heavy chassis may require Soldiers, Pilots, Technicians and Computer Specialists at the same time.

Short answer

A template must meet volume, speed, composition, and prerequisite limits.

Useful detail

The server refuses a model if:

• total volume exceeds chassis capacity;
• speed exceeds 5 000 ;
• model contains more than 2 reactors ;
• shield exceeds total resistance;
• a component is invalid or placed in the wrong location;
• technology or building requirements are not met.

The model must also remain viable:

• at least 1 hull
• at least 1 reactor
• at least 1 weapon

The maximum number of models depends on the technology Infrastructure:

Example

A model may be rejected even if it seems powerful, simply because it exceeds the capacity of the chassis or a technical limit of the game.

Short answer

A ship's rate of fire is equal to the number of weapons installed on its model.

Useful detail

Each weapon adds:

• of the attack;
• one more shot.

The game then calculates:

• rate of fire = number of weapons
• damage per shot = total attack / rate of fire

So:

• 1 weapon = 1 shot
• 3 weapons = 3 shots
• 10 weapons = 10 shots

If you add several identical weapons, you increase both the number of shots and the total attack. The real rule is therefore: each additional weapon adds its shot and its power.

Example

If a ship mounts 3 weapons identical to 200 attacks each:

• total attack: 600
• rate of fire: 3
• damage per shot: 200

Short answer

A ship is built in Space Worksite from an already saved model.

Useful detail

There are two methods:

• direct construction
• assembly

In both cases, the final time then depends on the site bonuses:

• Space Worksite level
• Coalescence Matrix
• Computer technology
• Monarch Pack
• alliance bonus

The final time is rounded and never goes below 1 second.

Ship chassis require both Infrastructure technology and Space Worksite at the required level: Hunter and Interceptor level 2, then Carrier 4, Escort 6, Shuttle 8, Corvette 10, Cruiser 12, Heavy cruiser 14 and Destroyer 16.

If a colony does not have the required Space Worksite, the model remains visible but the Build and Assemble actions are unavailable on that planet.

Example

Two players launching the same model can have very different build times depending on their construction site bonuses.

Short answer

Direct construction consumes resources. Assembly consumes components already in stock.

Useful detail

:

• pays the full cost in Iron, Crystal, Ether and optionally Astrium
• uses normal construction time

:

• consumes the necessary components already produced
• requires all parts to be available
• is approximately 10 times faster

The game always checks component stock before accepting assembly.

Example

If you have already produced all the parts for a model, assembly is much faster than direct construction.

Short answer

The cost of a ship is the sum of the cost of its chassis and all its components.

Useful detail

The game adds:

• the cost of Infrastructure
• the cost of Hulls
• the cost of Reactors
• the cost of Weapons
• the cost of Shields

The final cost therefore depends entirely on the model you have designed.

Example

Two models based on the same chassis can cost very differently depending on the number and quality of components fitted.

Short answer

Recycling allows you to deliberately destroy a ship to recover part of its cost.

Useful detail

Recycling reimbursement is worth 85% the total cost of the recycled vessel or device.

Recycling goes through Space Worksite and follows normal queue rules. It does not allow you to recover more than the ship cost.

Example

A ship costing 1 000 Iron and 200 Crystal will return 850 Iron and 170 Crystal.

Short answer

Yes.

Useful detail

The total queue of Space Worksite cannot exceed 15 days per production type.

This limit applies to categories:

• vessels
• fenders
• specialized devices
• units
• components
• recycling

Example

Even if you have the necessary resources, a new production may be refused if the queue for this category already exceeds the authorized limit.

Short answer

No. An attack must be aimed at a valid, unprotected target and within the correct point spread.

Useful detail

The protection ratio is x3 in PvP and x3 for PvE interactions with Errants.

An attack can therefore be refused if the target is:

• more than 3 times stronger than you;
• more than 3 times weaker than you.

This protection applies in PvP and in PvE.

An attack cannot target the source planet itself. Another planet of the same player may be targeted if the mission is otherwise valid.

Short answer

The normal limit is 3 attacks against the same player per day.

Useful detail

This limit adds:

• fleet attacks;
• attacks via Pillars.

The reference day is from 00:00 to 23:59, server time.

There is also a specific limit: maximum 1 Pillars attack per day against the same planet.

Espions do not count as attacks.

Short answer

An attack can be blocked by a system protection, a points rule or a diplomatic rule.

Useful detail

The main blockages are:

• target not found or invalid;
• target in vacation, banned, frozen or protected mode;
• target technically linked to the player;
• strong/weak protection beyond the applicable ratio (x3 in PvP, x3 with Errants);
• active total pact;
• truce after breach of pact;
• general truce;
• source planet identical to target;
• Iris active for ground attack.

Short answer

The fleet initiates space combat. The Pillars trigger a ground fight.

Useful detail

A fleet attack:

• uses ships;
• tracks travel time;
• can loot with cargo from surviving ships;
• can create a debris field.

An attack by Pillars:

• uses ground units;
• consumes Frame Resonators ;
• can be blocked by Iris ;
• can capture casualties or carriers;
• does not create a debris field.

Short answer

Some restrictions are common, but spying does not count as an attack.

Useful detail

Attack and espionage can both be denied if the target is invalid, protected, or prohibited.

But their effects are different:

• an attack triggers combat;
• spying produces report;
• spying does not consume the daily 3 attacks limit.

Short answer

Espionage is used to obtain information about a planet before an attack, land incursion, or strategic decision.

Useful detail

A report can gradually reveal:

• visible resources;
• vessels;
• defenses;
• land troops;
• buildings;
• technologies.

The report does not reveal everything automatically. Its content depends on the gap between the attacker's Espionage technology and the defender's.

Short answer

There are two forms of espionage: space and ground.

Useful detail

Space espionage uses a Sonde Spatiale sent by fleet.

Ground espionage uses a Ground Drone sent via Pillars.

Short answer

A spy mission uses at least 1 device and can send more.

Useful detail

The player chooses how many probes or drones to send, within available stock.

Each extra device adds 0.01% bonus chance, capped at 40%. If it triggers, the report gains +1, +2, or +3 temporary effective espionage levels with 70% / 20% / 10% odds. All sent devices are consumed.

Short answer

The report depends on the gap between the attacker's Espionage technology and the defender's.

Useful detail

The game calculates:

Alliance bonuses related to espionage are included in this calculation.

The higher the benefit, the more information the report reveals.

Short answer

The report reveals information in stages.

Useful detail

The bearings are:

• advantage less than 0: no important detailed information;
• advantage 0 or more: visible resources;
• advantage 1 or more: ships;
• advantage 2 or more: defenses;
• advantage 3 or more: ground troops;
• advantage 4 or more: buildings;
• advantage 5 or more: technologies.

Specialized devices are not displayed in spy reports.

Short answer

No.

Useful detail

Energy is not a lootable resource and does not appear in spy reports.

The resources displayed are only:

• Iron ;
• Crystal ;
• Ether.

Short answer

Yes, during its protection window.

Useful detail

During the first 6 hours of a planet's inactivity, the recent natural production of Iron, Crystal and Ether is not visible to espionage.

Once the 6 hours have passed, this production becomes visible and can be looted.

Short answer

It depends on the type of spying.

Useful detail

For space espionage, the defender receives an alert only if their Espionage technology exceeds the attacker's by at least 2 levels.

For ground espionage via Pillars, the defender always receives an alert.

Short answer

Yes.

Useful detail

The Sonde Spatiale and Drone Terrestre are single-use devices for espionage.

They transmit the information obtained, then are destroyed.

Short answer

Yes, for space espionage.

Useful detail

A Space Probe consumes 0.026 Ether per kilometer and per probe, adjusted by the square of the selected speed percentage and existing fuel reductions, then rounded down.

The cost is debited from the origin planet for the outbound trip only. The probe carries no cargo or return fuel, is destroyed at destination and cannot be recalled.

Ground espionage goes through Pillars and consumes the Frame Resonators needed for projection.

Short answer

Yes.

Useful detail

AI planets can be targeted by Attack or Espionage.

, Deployment or support missions to an AI are not allowed.

Short answer

The report arrives in the mailbox.

Useful detail

The attacker receives an intelligence message containing the spy report.

If the defender detects espionage, it also receives a counterintelligence alert.

Short answer

A space fight takes place in maximum 8 combat turns.

Useful detail

Each turn always follows the same order:

1. shields are recalculated;
2. living units at the start of the turn are frozen as a basis for resolution;
3. living Thread Aegises receive their cover charges;
4. attacker shoots;
5. the defender shoots, with any critical effects from the relevant defenses;
6. destroyed units are removed.

Both sides therefore draw on the state at the start of the turn. A unit destroyed during the turn still fires even if it was still alive when that turn began.

Combat ends as soon as one side no longer has units, or at the end of the 8th round if both sides still have survivors.

Example

Two fleets can destroy each other during the same turn and still both have fired before being withdrawn.

Short answer

No, not if the attacker is destroyed in the first round.

Useful detail

When the attacker loses a space combat in the first round, their copy of the report hides defender details: fleet, defenses, losses, survivors, defender crew and round log. The defender keeps a complete report.

If this report is shared in chat, readers see the same version as the owner of the shared copy: an attacker copy stays hidden, a defender copy stays complete.

The generated debris field remains a world element visible from the galaxy; this masking concerns the combat report, not the CDR mechanic.

Short answer

Shields are reset at the start of each turn, with a 10% degradation per turn.

Useful detail

The shield does not simply retain its remainder from the previous turn. At each new turn, it is recalculated from its original value:

• round 1: 100%
• round 2: 90%
• round 3: 80%
• round 4: 70%
• round 5: 60%
• round 6: 50%
• round 7: 40%
• round 8: 30%

Damage always hits the shield first. If the shot exceeds the remaining shield, the excess passes onto the hull. The critical effects of some orbital defenses are detailed in the Planetary defenses section.

Example

A ship with 1 000 shield points starts again at 900 on turn 2, then at 800 on turn 3, even if it finished the previous turn with an almost empty shield.

Short answer

Each unit fires several times per turn depending on its rate of fire.

Useful detail

The game does not treat a unit's attack as one big hit. He divides his total attack into several shots.

For ships:

• rate of fire determines the number of shots per round;
• each shot applies the same unit attack power;
• the total number of shots therefore depends directly on the model sent.

Example

A ship with 3 shots and 200 damage per shot inflicts 600 damage split into 3 impacts, which can hit one target or several targets.

Short answer

Each shot chooses a target at random from all living enemy units at the start of the turn.

Useful detail

The system does not give automatic priority:

• to larger units;
• to the lowest units;
• to defenses;
• to the most dangerous vessels.

At the start of the turn, combat builds a list with each enemy unit still alive. A unit counts as one entry in this list, regardless of its size, hull, shield, or value. A large ship and a small defense each have a chance of being targeted with each shot if they are both present in the snapshot.

Each shot then makes its own random choice from this list. The shots are independent of each other: hitting a target does not automatically reduce its chances of being hit by subsequent shots, and does not guarantee that other units will receive their share.

Targets destroyed during the turn are only removed at the end of the turn. During this same turn, they can therefore still be part of the list of targets used by the shots already launched on the snapshot at the start of the turn.

Exception: if an attacker shot targets a non-Aegis defense and a living Thread Aegis still has a cover charge, that shot is redirected to the Aegis. This cover does not protect defender ships.

Example

If 12 targets remain at the start of the turn, each shot has about a 1 in 12 chance to target each one. With 500 shots, that gives an average of about 42 shots per target, but that is only an average: one target may receive 60 shots, another 25, and another almost none.

A unit that fires 5 times during a turn can therefore hit 5 different targets, or instead hit the same target 3 times and other units 2 times.

Short answer

Raw damage indicates the total power of the shots launched, not the actually useful damage after random distribution.

Useful detail

In space combat, shots do not form an automatically optimized damage pool. The engine resolves individual shots:

• each shot chooses a target at random;
• all enemy units in the snapshot have the same targeting weight per shot;
• several shots can fall on the same target;
• a target already condemned during the turn can still receive impacts from the same turn;
• excess damage on a destroyed target is not redistributed to other units.

This surplus is often called overkill or excess damage. It explains why a side can show enough raw damage to theoretically destroy the entire opposing group, but still leave survivors if too much fire has been concentrated on a few targets, or if fire continues to fall on targets already doomed in the turn.

Example

If 500 shots are randomly distributed across 12 targets, each target receives about 42 shots on average. That average does not mean the game gives exactly 42 shots to each target: shots are launched one by one, and each one makes a new random choice.

In this case, a small defense can absorb a lot of unnecessary fire once destroyed, while a very durable ship can survive if it hasn't taken enough hits. The raw damage report adds up all shots thrown, including damage that did not change the final result because it was extra on an already destroyed target.

Short answer

No.

Useful detail

In space combat, all shots count as hits. Reports retain fields named Esquives, but they do not change combat resolution.

Concretely:

• a shot launched at a valid target is a shot that hits;
• the difference is then made on the shield, the hull and the volume of fire.

Example

If a unit fires 4 times, the system will count 4 hits.

Short answer

Space combat pits attacker ships against defender ships and orbital defenses.

Useful detail

Participating in combat:

• the ships sent by the attacker;
• the ships present on the defended planet;
• the planet's orbital defenses.

Iris does not participate in space combat. Plasmic Forge, Rupture Relay and Thread Aegis participate as orbital defenses; their special effects are detailed in the Planetary defenses section.

Example

An orbital defense destroyed in space combat counts as a defensive loss, not a regular fleet loss.

Short answer

The winner is the side that still has units when the other side has none.

Useful detail

At the end of the fight:

• if only the attacker still has units, the attacker wins;
• if only the defender still has units, the defender wins;
• if both sides still have survivors after the 8th turn, the result is a draw;
• if both sides are annihilated, the result is also a draw.

Example

A fleet can inflict more raw damage than its opponent and still lose if it ends up destroyed before him.

Short answer

Bonuses are applied before the start of combat, when unit statistics are calculated.

Useful detail

Combat technologies increase:

• attack;
• the hull;
• the shield.

Artifacts can be added at the same time. The fight therefore enters directly into battle with already improved statistics.

Example

Two fleets that are identical on paper can produce a very different result if one is several levels ahead in weapon or shield technology.

Short answer

If the attacker wins, he loots 50% Iron, Crystal and Ether exposed on the planet, up to the cargo of his surviving ships.

Useful detail

Looting follows three stages:

1. the game takes 50% from the planet's exposed resources;
2. it calculates the cargo capacity of attacking ships still alive;
3. if the cargo capacity is not enough, the loot is reduced proportionally.

The important word is exposed: during the first 6 hours of a planet's inactivity, the resources protected by the sanctuary are not included in this calculation. Once that period has passed, they become visible and lootable again normally.

Example

If the planet exposes 100 000 Iron, 40 000 Crystal and 20 000 Ether, the possible raw loot is 50 000, 20 000 and 10 000. If the surviving fleet cannot carry everything, these amounts are reduced pro rata.

Short answer

Casualties create a debris field on combat coordinates.

Useful detail

For each unit destroyed, part of its cost is converted into recoverable debris.

Ratios applied:

• player ships destroyed, including against AI: 75%
• defenses destroyed: 10%
• Errant ships destroyed: a variable share based on the player's real losses; the Errant's threat level also affects the amount of debris generated; when the player is defending, 10% of the value of their destroyed defenses is also included in the calculation

If a debris field already exists at this position, the new debris is added to it.

Example

Two successive combats on the same coordinates feed the same debris field instead of creating several.

Short answer

No. 90% of destroyed defenses are automatically repaired after combat.

Useful detail

The game calculates defense losses, then automatically restores 90% of them, rounded down.

Example

If 7 defenses are destroyed:

• gross losses: 7
• defenses repaired: 6
• net loss: 1

Short answer

When attacking ships are destroyed, 40% of their onboard crew survives and leaves in escape pods.

Useful detail

The game calculates the crew on board destroyed ships, then applies a survival rate of 40%.

The survivors depart on a separate mission from capsules de sauvetage.

The speed of the capsules is fixed:

• 150 km/min

Their travel time depends on the distance between the target and the home planet, with a minimum of 75 seconds.

Example

If the destroyed ships carried 100 pilotes and 50 techniciens, the capsules can save 40 pilotes and 20 techniciens.

Short answer

The defender loses 60% from the crew of the destroyed ships.

Useful detail

The defender treatment applies a net crew loss to destroyed ships. A part implicitly survives, but the final loss retained is 60%.

Example

If 100 crew members are associated with destroyed defending ships, 60 are permanently lost.

Short answer

A classic return mission is created if the attacker has not lost and has at least one surviving ship remaining. If a human player loses, part of their fleet can also leave through an emergency evacuation.

Useful detail

Classic return exists if:

• the attacker won or had a draw;
• at least one attacking ship survived;
• attacker is not a bot.

If the attacker has won, the loot leaves with this returning fleet.

In addition to the classic return, the human loser of a space battle evacuates 20% of the initially engaged fleet, rounded down per model and capped by the real losses. This evacuated fleet stays frozen as an emergency evacuation mission until manual recall, then returns to the origin planet at fixed speed 350.

This evacuation does not reduce losses, looting or debris fields: debris stays calculated from the ships disabled before evacuation.

Example

An attack won with a single surviving ship can still generate a fleet return with the remaining transportable loot.

If a human defender loses with 10 ships of the same model initially engaged and those ships were destroyed, 2 can be evacuated. They appear as a recallable emergency evacuation, but combat debris stays calculated from the full losses.

Short answer

The Pillars allow the projection of ground forces between planets by consuming Frame Resonators.

Useful detail

The Pillars do not carry ship models. They are used for ground movement and certain special operations.

General rules:

• they use Frame Resonators ;
• their cost depends on the distance;
• Most Pillar missions are instantaneous gameplay-wise;
• the Pillars Exploration follows a specific duration;
• Pillars must be active on the source planet;
• to target a planet, the Pillars must also be active on the target planet.

Example

A ground attack via the Pillars does not follow a classic spatial path: it is resolved according to the rules specific to the Pillars network.

Short answer

The Pillars allow Attack, Transport, Deployment, Colonization, Espionage, Exploration and some automatic returns.

Useful detail

Main missions:

• Attack: ground combat
• Transport: transfer of ground units, resources and certain devices authorized
• Deployment: sustainable installation on another planet
• Colonization: creation of a new colony
• Espionage: ground espionage via Ground Drone
• Exploration: special mission specific to the Pillars

Special cases:

• Return exists for some automatic resolutions;
• Reinforcement remains logic reserved for future development.

Example

You can only colonize via the Pillars, while a spaceship cannot do this.

Short answer

The Pillars can be activated or deactivated on a planet-by-planet basis, with a delay before taking effect.

Useful detail

When you initiate an activation or deactivation:

• the change is not immediate;
• it becomes effective after 1 hour.

Then, a cooling time applies before being able to change the state:

• 23 hours between two status changes after the effective switchover.

The game also limits the number of systems disabled at the same time:

• maximum 3 planets with disabled Pillars simultaneously.

Example

You can schedule the deactivation of a planet's Pillars, but it only takes effect one hour later, and you cannot freely multiply these toggles throughout your empire.

Short answer

A planet with disabled Pillars can no longer send or receive Pillars missions.

Useful detail

If the Pillars are disabled:

• the source planet cannot launch a Pillars mission;
• a target planet with disabled Pillars cannot be reached by a Pillars mission.

The interface normally displays an explicit reason when the activation of a mission is blocked for this reason.

Example

You can have enough troops and enough Frame Resonators, but still be stuck if the Pillars are inactive on the starting planet or on the destination.

Short answer

Ground combat is triggered during an attack via Pillars against a target planet.

Useful detail

Combat receives:

• land units sent in the assault;
• the Small Transporter and Large Transporter sent with the assault.

Before the simulation, the target planet is resolved with only its resources exposed: the resources protected by the sanctuary are therefore not lootable.

Example

A ground attack can be militarily victorious without being able to loot all recent production if the target planet has been inactive for less than 6 hours and part of its natural production is still protected by the sanctuary.

Short answer

Only military category land units fight directly.

Useful detail

Attacking side:

• land military units fight;
• the carriers accompany the assault, but do not fire;
• logistics and civilian units do not participate in combat.

Defender side:

• only military category land units participate;
• logistics and civilian units present on the planet are not included in the simulation.

Example

Sending scientists or pilots in a Pillars attack does not turn them into fighters. They do not take part in the resolution of the ground battle.

Short answer

An active Iris can block the attack before the fight begins.

Useful detail

If the target planet has an available Iris:

• a charge is consumed;
• no ground combat takes place;
• the attacking troops do not engage in combat and leave.

The report result is recorded as an attack blocked by Iris.

Example

A planet can repel an entire land attack without losing defense units if an available Iris activates in time.

Short answer

Ground combat takes place in maximum 10 combat turns.

Useful detail

Each turn:

1. shields are recalculated with a 10% degradation, down to the 50% threshold;
2. the game calculates the volume of shots from both sides;
3. the attacker and the defender resolve their shots on the living troops;
4. round losses are recorded;
5. combat stops if a side no longer has military units.

If the attacker does not send any military assault units, the defender immediately wins.

Example

An assault made up entirely of carriers cannot win a land combat: without an assault military unit, victory goes directly to the defender.

Short answer

Ground combat does not resolve shots one at a time on a random target. It distributes shots statistically between opposing groups.

Useful detail

For each group:

• the number of shots is unit count × rate of fire ;
• if a unit does not have a defined rate, it fires 1 time per turn;
• shots are distributed proportionally to the size of the opposing groups;
• the bigger an enemy group is, the more shots it attracts.

This means that on land, targeting is a distribution weighted by numbers, not a completely random selection shot by shot as in space.

Example

If a defender lines up two groups, one of which represents 80% numbers and the other 20%, the larger group will receive the majority of shots calculated on this turn.

Short answer

Shields are recalculated at the start of each turn down to the 50% threshold, then the remaining shield becomes persistent.

Useful detail

Until turn 6, the shield starts from a reduced value compared to its base value:

• round 1: 100%
• round 2: 90%
• round 3: 80%
• round 4: 70%
• round 5: 60%
• round 6: 50%
• rounds 7 to 10: no further recalculation; the shield left after the previous turn is kept, capped at 50% of the still-active units

Damage always hits the shield first. If the shield is not enough, the surplus goes to life points.

Example

A unit with 1,000 shield points starts again at 900 on turn 2, then at 800 on turn 3. From turn 7 onward, if it has only 120 shield points left, it keeps those 120 points instead of rising to a new value.

Short answer

If the attacker no longer has any military units, he loses the combat.

Useful detail

There are three cases:

• if the attacker does not send any military units to attack, the defender immediately wins;
• if the attacker loses all his military units during the combat, the defender wins at the end of the turn concerned;
• if both attacker and defender are wiped out, the result is a draw.

If the defender wins:

• the attacker does not loot any resources;
• 40% attacker's wounded are captured;
• 50% attacking carriers are captured;
• the rest of the surviving units set off on a return mission, if any remain.

Example

If you attack with only carriers, you lose immediately.
If you attack with soldiers but they are all eliminated on turn 3, the defender wins on turn 3.
If both sides lose all their units in the same turn, the combat ends in a draw.

Short answer

If the attacker wins, he loots 50% exposed Iron, Crystal, and Ether, up to the capacity of his carriers sent with the assault.

Useful detail

Land plunder:

1. takes 50% from exposed resources;
2. adds the capacity of Small Transporter and Large Transporter present in the attack;
3. reduces loot pro-rate if capacity is insufficient.

Important point: this capacity is calculated from the carriers sent in the assault. Carriers do not take direct combat losses in the land simulation.

Example

Without a carrier, a won land attack brings back no resources. With 1 Small Transporter, the total loot cannot exceed 20 000.

Short answer

Not all the wounded are lost. Part of them can be recovered by their side, and part can be captured depending on the outcome of the combat.

Useful detail

If the attacker wins:

• he captures 10% from the injured defender;
• these wounded are removed from the defender and added to the winner.

If the defender wins:

• he captures 40% of the attacker's wounded;
• these wounded are removed from the attacker and added to the defender.

In case of a draw, there is no capture of casualties.

Uncaptured wounded remain at their original camp.

Example

If the defender suffers 20 wounded and the attacker wins, 2 can be captured and then change sides.

Short answer

Carriers are used for cargo and can be captured, but they do not participate in land fire.

Useful detail

Exact rules:

• Small Transporter and Large Transporter are added to the attack manifest;
• they are excluded from the groups that shoot;
• if the defender wins, he captures 50% of the sent carriers;
• if the attacker wins or draws, the uncaptured carriers leave with the return mission.

Example

If you attack with 4 Small Transporters and lose, the defender will capture 2.

Short answer

If survivors or carriers remain available, a return mission is created.

Useful detail

The return contains:

• the attacker's units still retained after deaths and captures;
• uncaptured carriers;
• the loot, only if the attacker won;
• wounded captured from the enemy, if the attacker won.

If the defender wins, the attacking return contains only what is neither dead nor captured.

Example

A won attack can return with fewer soldiers than it started with, but with captured enemy loot and wounded.

Short answer

No.

Useful detail

Ground combat manages deaths, injuries, captures, possible looting and mission return, but it does not generate a debris field to recycle.

Example

After ground combat, there is no land recycling mission equivalent to a space debris field.

Short answer

Errants are the universe's PvE opponents. They replace what was previously called AI/PvE.

Useful detail

Each universe contains 450 Errants:

• 150 Noctes;
• 150 Veyrs;
• 150 Haldens.

These three factions do not behave the same way. Noctes are the most offensive, Veyrs are more balanced, and Haldens play a more defensive and economic role.

Example

In the Errants ranking, the faction indicates the expected threat type: a Noctes is usually more aggressive than a Haldens.

Short answer

An Errant is generated from a top 150 player, then adjusted by faction.

Useful detail

The server uses the 150 highest-ranked players by points as sources. If the universe contains fewer than 150 source players, the selection loops over the available players.

With 150 source players or more, each top 150 player therefore inspires 3 Errants.

If a legacy universe was already initialized with fewer than 450 usable Errants, the PvE worker automatically creates the missing Errants up to 450.

Each Errant takes a base inspired by a source player, then applies its own rules:

• main planet buildings copied, with +1 to +4 on the three production buildings;
• active/inactive Pillars status rolled randomly: 75% open, 25% closed;
• fleet generated from AI base points, without copying the source player fleet: Noctes budget 50% to 130%, Veyrs 10% to 50%, Haldens 0% to 10%, using AI models by point tier;
• source player total troops with the same faction power multiplier;
• source planet defenses with a separate reduced multiplier: Noctes 65% to 100%, Veyrs 30% to 65%, Haldens 15% to 40%, without Locking Iris;
• specialized devices copied identically, with a minimum number of Recycler II adjusted to the generated fleet when the source copy is insufficient;
• production bonus applied on the generated building base: Noctes x1.6 to x2.1, Veyrs x2.1 to x2.8, Haldens x2.8 to x4.0;
• technologies copied identically, except Espionage with a -1 to +1 level variation compared with the source player;
• points recalculated from the Errant state, with infrastructure points counted x3 in the Errant base;
• initial resources calculated on estimated production.

The Errant is therefore not an exact copy of a player. It keeps a coherent base from the ranking, but its faction changes its power and economy.

Short answer

You can attack or spy on an Errant.

Useful detail

Transport, deployment and other utility missions to an Errant planet are denied at server launch. An Errant is therefore not a trading, basing or support destination.

Short answer

Yes. A player can launch at most 3 attacks per UTC day against the same Errant faction.

Useful detail

The quota is separated by faction, not by mission type.

You can therefore launch at most per UTC day:

• 3 attacks against Noctes;
• 3 attacks against Veyrs;
• 3 attacks against Haldens.

Space and ground attacks consume the same faction quota.

Example

If you already launched 2 space attacks and 1 ground attack against Noctes today, you have reached your Noctes limit for the day.

Short answer

An Errant is refreshed every 24 to 36 hours.

Useful detail

During this refresh, the server reassigns the Errant to a source player among the players with the most points, gives it a new random free position in open galaxies, then recalculates its buildings, fleets, troops, technologies, defenses and resources. Its passive resources are bounded to avoid unlimited accumulation. If a mission is active to or from this Errant, the relocation refresh is postponed to the next available tick.

Short answer

Noctes and Veyrs can each launch up to 1 space attack and 1 ground attack every 24 hours. Haldens do not attack.

Useful detail

Each attacking Errant has two separate timers:

• one for space attack;
• one for ground attack.

When an attack is triggered, the Errant chooses a valid target, launches the attack, then its next attack of the same type is rescheduled for the following day.

A same player cannot receive more than 2 Errant attacks per UTC day, across all Errants and attack types. Canceled attacks do not count toward this limit.

When an Errant launches a space attack, it sends a separate recycling mission with its Recycler II to the same coordinates shortly afterward. When it defends its own planet and the battle creates debris, it also launches its Recycler II after a longer delay to recycle that local field.

Short answer

It chooses a valid target, then attacks.

Useful detail

Server excludes invalid targets:

• player who has not triggered a first ATTACK or ESPIONAGE mission against an Errant during the current UTC day;
• Errant targeting window not yet open after that first interaction;
• player who has already received 2 Errant attacks during the current UTC day;
• player banned;
• player in vacation mode;
• account too recent;
• target off ratio protection;
• planet without active Pillars for ground attack.

Once valid targets have been filtered, the Errant can prioritize the origin planet of the first interaction or choose another valid planet owned by the player.

Short answer

It sends part of its available forces.

Useful detail

For a space attack, the Errant selects some of its ships.

For a land attack, it selects part of its available assault troops.

Special units are not used as regular attack ships.

Short answer

An Errant can counterattack, dodge or stay docked. These reactions are mutually exclusive.

Useful detail

When reacting to a space attack, the Errant faction determines whether it may lean toward a counterattack, a dodge, or staying docked. Noctes are the most inclined to react offensively, Veyrs are more balanced, and Haldens mostly avoid direct confrontation.

A counterattack is space-only. It is an Errant retaliation after a fleet attack.

A dodge only concerns the fleet. The full docked fleet takes off, then automatically returns to the planet after a short delay.

An Errant cannot dodge and counterattack at the same time.

Short answer

Yes for space combat. No for land combat.

Useful detail

Fields of ruins are created from spatial losses on combat coordinates.

Ratios applied:

• player ships destroyed: 75% of their cost;
• Errant ships destroyed: a variable share based on the player's real losses; the Errant's threat level also affects the amount of debris generated; when the player is defending, 10% of the value of their destroyed defenses is also included in the calculation;
• defenses destroyed: 10% of their cost.

Ruinfields contain Iron, Crystal and Ether. If a field already exists at the same coordinates, the new ruins are added to the existing field.

Short answer

They can be recycled like other fields of ruins.

Useful detail

A recycler collects according to its available capacity. If it can take everything, the field disappears. Otherwise, the collection is proportional to the composition of the field and the rest remains at the same coordinates.

Short answer

No.

Useful detail

PvE ruins exist, but it is forbidden to deliberately stage casualties or arranged fights with Errants to generate an abnormal advantage.

Short answer

Exploration exists in two modes: space and ground via Pillars.

Useful detail

The two modes do not rely on the same means:

• Space exploration: uses ship models
• Ground exploration via Pillars: uses the Pillars network

Main differences:

• the space version consumes Ether;
• the terrestrial version consumes Frame Resonators;
• the space version returns via a return mission;
• the terrestrial version follows the rules specific to Pillars.

Example

A space exploration engages a fleet. A terrestrial exploration engages a force via Pillars.

Short answer

It depends on the exploration mode.

Useful detail

In space exploration:

• you send model ships.

In ground exploration via Pillars:

• population units are allowed;
• on the device side, only Small Transporter and Large Transporter are allowed.

Example

A terrestrial exploration via the Pillars can leave with the population alone, or with authorized transporters.

Short answer

The base quota is 10 explorations par jour.

Useful detail

The daily quota increases with:

• technology Technologie Exploration ;
• alliance bonuses;
• some pack bonuses;
• some artifacts;
• purchased exploration Faction skills.

An exploration recalled before arrival returns its quota as soon as the recall is accepted.

Basic formula:

10 + Exploration Technology level + alliance bonus + pack bonus + artifact bonus + Faction bonus

The number of simultaneous active explorations is limited to 5.

Example

A player with good exploration technology or exploration Faction skills can launch more than 10 explorations per day, but cannot have more than 5 active at the same time.

Short answer

The result is drawn randomly from a probability table.

Useful detail

The engine draws between several families of results:

• neutral failure;
• resources;
• space vessels or components / terrestrial devices;
• population;
• hostile presence;
• total crash;
• Astrium;
• rare item;
• neutral success.

Distribution:

• 15% neutral failure
• 25% resources, with 2 to 8 Echoes in addition
• 13% vessels, components or devices
• 13% population
• 13% hostile
• 1.25% total crash
• 5.25% Astrium
• 5% rare item
• 9.5% neutral success

Example

An exploration can return without gain, bring back useful loot, or on the contrary go very badly.

Short answer

Loot depends on the weight of the expedition.

Useful detail

The game calculates an overall value based on what you commit to the mission:

• vessel value;
• units value;
• value of engaged devices.

This value then serves as the basis for calculating possible rewards, often within a range of 6% to 15% of the weight involved depending on the type of result. On a resources result, the game also adds a global roll of 2 to 8 Echoes.

The loot then remains limited by the available carrying capacity.

If this limit or the reward budget results in 0 actual gain outside Echoes, the final report remains neutral rather than announcing a find without loot, except when the resources draw credits its global Echoes.

Example

A small expedition may succeed, but will yield little. An expedition whose hold is already full can also obtain a neutral result, even if the initial draw was for resources.

Short answer

Space exploration can yield resources, ships, population, Astrium, rare items, and sometimes components.

Useful detail

In the section dedicated to vaisseaux type gains, space exploration can:

• bring back ships of the engaged model;
• or replace this gain with components.

The components found are filtered:

• only components whose prerequisites are already met can be obtained.

Example

A space exploration may find ship components instead of a complete ship.

Short answer

Land exploration via the Pillars can yield resources, devices, population, Astrium and rare items.

Useful detail

It can never yield ship components.

When the draw falls on the corresponding slice, land exploration gives specialized devices instead of ships or components.

Example

Land exploration can bring you a useful device, but never a ship part.

Short answer

A hostile presence triggers a real battle against a Breach entity.

Useful detail

The game no longer applies an abstract loss roll. It simulates a full battle.

Encounter intensity is rolled as follows:

• small encounter: 60%, enemy force randomly per type/model between 10% and 20% through Pillars, between 20% and 50% in space;
• medium encounter: 30%, enemy force randomly per type/model between 30% and 50% through Pillars, between 51% and 80% in space;
• large encounter: 10%, enemy force randomly per type/model between 65% and 85% through Pillars, between 81% and 100% in space.

On a small number of units, the real enemy force can be proportionally higher than the announced ratio. Hostile units are always whole units: if the calculation produces a positive fraction, it is raised to at least 1 unit of the relevant model. For example, if you send 1 ship and roll a small 20% space encounter, you will not face 0.2 hostile ship, but 1 hostile ship. The same rounding principle applies to land hostile encounters through the Pillars.

The encountered presence copies the sent ship models or assault units, then receives random combat technologies from -3 to +3 compared with the player.

In the report, enemy forces may use Breach class names. These names are cosmetic and do not change copied stats, losses, wounds or captures.

Short answer

A space hostile encounter triggers a full space battle.

Useful detail

The hostile entity copies the player's sent ship models. The encounter size is shared, then each ship model rolls its own space ratio in the matching range: 20% to 50%, 51% to 80%, or 81% to 100%.

Space losses can create a debris field on position 11 of the explored system:

• 75% of the destroyed player ship value is converted to debris;
• 5% to 40% of the destroyed hostile entity value is converted to debris, based on the ratio between the player's real losses and the destroyed hostile value;
• debris is created as Iron, Crystal and Ether;
• land exploration never creates a space debris field.

Short answer

A land hostile encounter triggers a full ground battle.

Useful detail

The hostile entity copies the assault units sent through the Pillars. The encounter size is shared, then each unit type rolls its own land ratio in the matching range: 10% to 20%, 30% to 50%, or 65% to 85%.

Ground combat keeps the normal rules: deaths, wounds, captures, possible captured transporters and survivors.

Enemy units receive Breach class display names, but their stats remain those of the copied units.

Short answer

A crash destroys the whole expedition.

Useful detail

A crash is different from hostile presence: it does not trigger a detailed battle, creates no survivors, gives no loot and represents a total loss.

Short answer

Yes.

Useful detail

The position 11 is reserved for explorations. It is not used as a normal planetary position for other missions.

Example

A classic mission to position 11 will be refused if it is not an exploration.

Short answer

The Relations page brings together pacts, trade and commercial value simulation.

Useful detail

It contains three tabs:

• Pacts, to send, accept, refuse, cancel or break agreements;
• Trade, to consult the exchanges validated by the server;
• Simulator, to estimate a commercial value before an exchange.

Short answer

There are two types of pacts: commercial and total.

Useful detail

The pacte commercial allows exchanges between players, but it does not prevent attacks or espionage.

The pacte total also allows trades, but blocks attacks and espionage between the two players as long as the pact exists.

Short answer

You must indicate the nickname of the targeted player and choose the type of pact.

Useful detail

The server refuses in particular:

• a pact with oneself;
• an already active pact with this player;
• a request already pending in one direction or the other;
• a request during the breaking truce;

The targeted player can then accept or refuse the request.

Short answer

Yes, while it is still pending.

Useful detail

A sent request can be canceled from the Pacts tab. The server verifies that the request belongs to the player who cancels it.

Short answer

The pact is broken, then a 6-hour truce applies.

Useful detail

During this truce, the two former partners cannot:

• tackle;
• spy on yourself;
• recreate a pact;
• send a new pact request between them.

The break is refused if there is still an open trade between the two players.

Short answer

Trade is powered by actual deliveries between players.

Useful detail

Manual trading is not product flow. The server automatically logs trades when an inter-player mission from Transport or Deployment delivers something as part of a valid pact.

For a space Deployment to another player, only recyclers can be based.

The commercial journal then keeps:

• the transmitting player;
• the partner;
• the type of mission;
• the vector used, fleet or Pillars;
• the content delivered;
• the commercial value in Iron equivalent.

Short answer

Yes for Transport or Deployment inter-player missions.

Useful detail

An inter-player transfer by fleet or Pillars requires an active trade or total pact between the two players.

Without a valid pact, the mission is refused by the server.

Short answer

Trading only involves items permitted by the system.

Useful detail

The commercial catalog takes into account:

• Resources;
• Specialty devices;
• Populations.

Astrium does not enter into player-to-player trading.

Short answer

This is the value of an exchange converted into Iron equivalent.

Useful detail

The base values are:

• 1 Iron = 1
• 1 Crystal = 1,5 Iron
• 1 Ether = 3 Iron

Specialized populations and devices are valued based on their production cost converted into Iron equivalent, with certain values fixed by commercial rule.

The simulator uses this catalog to display possible equivalences before an exchange.

Short answer

It is used to estimate a trade, not to execute it.

Useful detail

The player chooses what he wants to sell, indicates a quantity, then the simulator calculates the total value and displays the possible equivalences in other tradable items.

The simulation does not move anything. The actual transfer always involves an authorized mission.

Short answer

A trade is balanced if the value difference remains within the allowed margin of 25%.

Useful detail

The server refuses to close a trade if the spread exceeds 25%.

If the trade is still unbalanced, players must add a regularizing delivery before requesting close.

Short answer

It cannot be closed until the gap is too large.

Useful detail

A trade must stay within the allowed breakeven margin of 25%.

If the difference exceeds this margin, the server refuses the closure. Players must add a regularizing delivery to rebalance the exchange.

Unfair trade may be subject to a moderation check if the situation reveals abuse or circumvention of the rules.

Short answer

A trade must be balanced within 48 hours.

Useful detail

The rules require regularization within 48 hours after the first delivery. Trade tracking displays open, closed, or expired statuses to help monitor trades.

Short answer

The Federation market lets a player sell a global resource offer against a resource request, without a pact between players.

Useful detail

The seller posts an offer by paying 2 Echoes. A Federation convoy picks up the resources, then the offer becomes visible on the market after the deposit arrives. The offer remains valid for 24h and can be extended by +24h for 1 Echo.

Buying is all-or-nothing. The buyer pays the listed request and 2 Echoes; the seller receives 85% of the requested resources, and the buyer receives 85% of the deposited resources. Self-buying is refused.

Related reports appear in messages under Diplomacy, subcategory Trade.

Short answer

The smuggler lets you exchange resources directly with an NPC, without another player's offer.

Useful detail

You choose the resource to sell, the quantity, and the resource to receive. The server calculates a quote using official rates and a random whole tax between 25% and 40%.

The quote is locked for 5 minutes. Negotiating the tax costs 300 Astrium. Confirming costs 10 Echoes and consumes 1 weekly transaction, with a limit of 7 confirmed transactions per UTC week.

Two convoys depart at the same time: your sold resources go to the smuggler, and the smuggler convoy brings the net resources to your planet. Both convoys count against your active convoy capacity.

Short answer

The Echo Shop lets you buy direct resources, queue reductions, temporary boosts and espionage bonus charges with Echoes.

Useful detail

Direct resources grant 1h, 6h, 12h or 24h of reference production on the active planet. Time catalysts reduce a selected queue. Temporary boosts cover attack, hull, shields or speed and last 6h.

The espionage bonus adds +1 level to the next successful space or ground espionage launches. Packs give 1, 2 or 3 uses for 50, 80 or 110 Echoes. Charges are shared by both espionage types, do not stack, and are consumed on launch.

Example

You buy a 720 minute catalyst for the building queue. If the active building has 5h remaining, it completes and the remaining 7h reduce the next building.

Short answer

The Bonus button lets you periodically collect resources and Astrium.

Useful detail

The first reward is available immediately. After each claim, the server starts a random cooldown between 2h and 4h.

The timer continues while you are offline, but claims do not stack: if you come back after a long absence, you recover only one available claim.

Each claim always gives:

• Iron;
• Crystal;
• Ether;
• a roll between 0 and 10 Astrium;
• a roll between 0 and 1 Echo.

Resources are credited to your active planet. Astrium and Echoes are credited to your global player balance. The resource amount uses the same base as resource chests, with a roll corresponding to 0 to 60 minutes of reference production.

Example

If your Bonus button is ready and you click it, you receive the three resources on the active planet, an Astrium roll, an Echo roll, then the button starts recharging.

Short answer

The Vote button lets you vote for Aleryos on an external platform and receive Echoes, a global player resource.

Useful detail

When you choose a platform, the game opens the voting page in a new tab. After the vote is validated on the platform, Aleryos automatically verifies the vote and credits the reward.

In V1, 1 confirmed vote gives 1 Echo. Voting helps support and promote the game, but it is not the only possible source: some events and some actions can also grant Echoes. Echoes can be spent in the Federation Echo Shop.

Example

You open Vote, choose Server-Privé.net, vote on the external page, then the game adds +1 Echo once the vote is confirmed.

Short answer

It is a recurring reward claimed manually.

Useful detail

The first bonus is available immediately.

After each claim, a random cooldown between 2h and 4h starts. The timer continues offline, but bonuses do not stack.

The bonus gives resources on the active planet and can also give Astrium and Echoes.

Short answer

You can earn Echoes by voting for Aleryos, through the activity Bonus button, through global daily, weekly and monthly mission bonuses, and also through some events or actions planned by the game.

Useful detail

The Vote button opens the voting platform. Once the vote is validated by the platform, Aleryos verifies the result server-side and credits the reward. This vote also helps support and promote the game.

In V1, the available platform is Server-Privé.net and 1 confirmed vote gives 1 Echo.

Echoes are a global player resource: they are not stored on a specific planet. In addition to voting, the activity Bonus button can already grant an Echo roll, and global daily, weekly and monthly mission streak bonuses also grant Echoes. Depending on active content, some events and some actions can also grant them.

Example

You vote through the Vote button, the vote is confirmed correctly, then your global balance increases by +1 Echo. You can also obtain an Echo roll with the activity Bonus button, or receive Echoes if you reach the global bonus of a daily, weekly or monthly mission series.

Short answer

Echoes are used for Federation services, including the intergalactic market, the smuggler and the Echo Shop.

Useful detail

Current uses are:

• posting an offer on the Federation market for 2 Echoes;
• buying an offer on the Federation market for 2 Echoes;
• extending an offer by +24h for 1 Echo;
• validating a smuggler transaction for 10 Echoes;
• buying direct resources, Time Catalysts or temporary boosts in the Echo Shop.

Echoes are not a planetary resource. They are not spent from the active planet, but from your global player balance.

Example

If you have 5 Echoes, you can buy a direct resource item for 5 Echoes in the Echo Shop. You can also post an offer on the Federation market for 2 Echoes, then keep the rest of your balance for another use.

Short answer

Points represent the value invested in your empire.

Useful detail

The basic rule is:

The game adds up the value of your buildings, technologies, units, ships, components, specialized devices and defenses.

Short answer

Anything that represents a sustainable investment counts towards the points.

Useful detail

The following are taken into account:

• buildings;
• technologies;
• land units;
• vessels;
• components;
• specialized devices;
• defenses.

Buildings and technologies use their cumulative cost until the level reached.

Short answer

No.

Useful detail

Astrium is a special global resource. It does not count in the calculation of points.

Points are based on the value in Iron, Crystal and Ether.

Short answer

Yes, except in special cases involving the crew on board.

Useful detail

Ships, devices, components and populations sent on missions remain counted in the player's points during the journey.

Exception: Crew on ships are removed from points during flight, then become counted again upon returning to a planet.

Short answer

Astrium is a global special currency.

Useful detail

It cannot be transported by fleet, cannot be looted and does not count towards points.

It is used in particular for certain purchases, items, packs or improvements depending on the systems available.

Short answer

Yes, if the Astrium store is open to the player.

Useful detail

Astrium purchases are made via secure external payment.

Astrium packs may be purchased more than once while the gross cumulative amount remains at or below €200 per UTC calendar month, per account and per universe. Pending payment reservations temporarily use their amount. A refund or chargeback does not automatically reopen the month's quota.

Astrium is only credited after payment has been confirmed.

Short answer

Yes.

Useful detail

The store catalog is controlled on the server side.

If a price changes between display and confirmation, the purchase may be refused to avoid a discrepancy between the price seen and the price actually applied.

Short answer

The premium shop lets you obtain packs and items by spending Astrium.

Useful detail

Premium shop purchases are not random draws. Before confirming, the game shows the item being bought, its Astrium price and its main effects.

The elements currently linked to the premium shop include:

• the Emperor and Monarch packs;
• the Pillar Iris;
• the Resource Chest;
• the Universal Fragment.

Some items are added to the inventory after purchase and then need to be used from the appropriate surface. Packs directly activate a temporary premium status.

Example

If you buy a Universal Fragment, you receive an inventory item that is then used to upgrade your artifacts. If you buy a pack, it activates its bonuses for the planned duration.

Short answer

No.

Useful detail

A premium purchase in Astrium gives the element shown before confirmation. It is not based on hidden probability, a paid random chest or a paid lootbox.

The catalog is controlled server-side. If the displayed price is no longer the active price at purchase time, the purchase can be refused to avoid a mismatch between what you saw and what would actually be charged.

Short answer

Shop activations last 15 days. New players also receive the Monarch and Emperor packs automatically for 72h.

Useful detail

The Monarch Pack gives in particular:

• 3 concurrent research slots;
• +5% production ;
• -10% building construction time;
• +10% fleet speed;
• a daily pack with Astrium and universal fragment.

The Emperor Pack gives in particular:

• 5 building construction slots;
• quick actions;
• +5% production ;
• a daily pack in Astrium.

Short answer

Yes for certain bonuses.

Useful detail

If Monarch and Emperor are active together, their production bonus is cumulative:

The other bonuses remain linked to their respective pack.

Short answer

No.

Useful detail

Daily pack bonuses must be collected manually.

If the player does not claim them, they are not automatically added like a classic production.

Short answer

Each premium item has a precise effect.

Useful detail

The main items are:

• Pillar Iris: added to the inventory, then activated on a planet to block a ground incursion via the Pillars;
• Resource Chest: gives resources on the active planet when used;
• Universal Fragment: used to upgrade artifacts.

Bulk purchases are possible for some items, such as Iris, resource chests and universal fragments.

Example

You can buy several universal fragments, then use them to progress an artifact. You can also buy a chest, choose the resource when using it, and receive the resources on your active planet.

Short answer

An Iris is used to protect a planet against a terrestrial attack via Pillars.

Useful detail

The Iris must be activated on a planet.

Once active, it can block a land incursion. The Iris used is then consumed.

Short answer

They give resources when used.

Useful detail

Some chests give a generic resource value.

Others are targeted at a specific resource: Iron, Crystal or Ether.

Short answer

They are used to advance artifacts.

Useful detail

Universal Fragments are used to improve permanent artifacts.

They are not a resource that can be transported per mission and are not used for traditional trade between players.

Short answer

An artifact is upgraded with Universal Fragments.

Useful detail

Universal fragments are inventory items. They can come from several sources depending on active systems, including the shop, missions, exploration or some bonuses.

Each upgrade consumes universal fragments. An artifact cannot exceed level 10.

Example

If you have enough universal fragments, you can choose an artifact and launch its upgrade. Its level then increases by +1, and its bonus becomes stronger.

Short answer

Artifacts give permanent bonuses linked to a specialty.

Useful detail

Depending on the artifact, the bonus can affect:

• attack, hull or shields;
• explorations, fleet speed or fuel;
• Pillars, Frame Resonator consumption or cargo;
• buildings, production or research;
• the colony limit.

The higher the artifact level, the stronger its bonus, up to the maximum level.

Short answer

A player faction is a doctrinal allegiance chosen by the empire.

Useful detail

It does not grant a free immediate bonus. It mainly guides long-term progression through the faction skill tree: reduced Echo cost on a favored branch and access to exclusive skills.

Example

An empire aligned with the Solarian Crown is naturally oriented toward fleets, while an empire aligned with the Helioris Syndicates is more oriented toward industry and defenses.

Short answer

There are 5 playable human factions.

Useful detail

The available factions are:

• Solarian Crown;
• Luxian Directorate;
• Veridian Conclave;
• Ferrenne Legion;
• Helioris Syndicates.

Each faction represents a different imperial doctrine.

Example

The Ferrenne Legion represents a military and ground doctrine, while the Veridian Conclave favors exploration and reading rare signals.

Short answer

No. The initial choice does not directly grant free power.

Useful detail

The active faction mainly guides the skill tree. It can reduce the Echo cost of standard skills tied to its favored branch, and it determines which exclusive skills can be purchased.

Note

The real bonuses come from purchased skills, not merely from having chosen a faction.

Short answer

The faction tree groups skills that can be purchased with Echoes.

Useful detail

It contains common branches: Fleet, Pillars, Industry, Research and Exploration. Standard skills are available to all players, but some exclusive skills depend on the active faction.

Example

A player can progress in standard skills even if they do not match their faction, but they can only buy the exclusive skills of their current faction.

Short answer

Echoes are used to buy levels of faction skills.

Useful detail

Each skill can have several levels. Raising a level costs Echoes and may require reaching a specific doctrine grade.

Example

If a skill improves production or reduces construction time, its effect increases with the purchased levels.

Short answer

Faction experience advances the player's doctrine grade.

Useful detail

It is not spent when a skill is purchased. It raises the faction grade, and some grades must be reached before more advanced skills can be unlocked for purchase.

Example

A player may have enough Echoes to buy a skill, but still need to reach the required doctrine grade before unlocking it.

Short answer

Faction experience is gained by completing eligible activities.

Useful detail

The planned sources are missions, events, and certain PvP or PvE activities. Not every action automatically grants faction experience: it is awarded when the activity or reward provides it.

Example

Completing a mission that grants faction experience, joining an event with a progression reward, or succeeding in an eligible PvP/PvE activity can advance the doctrine grade.

Note

Echoes are used to buy skills. Experience advances the grade. The grade then unlocks access to certain skill tiers.

Short answer

Doctrine grades represent faction progression and unlock skill tiers.

Useful detail

The more faction experience the player gains, the more their grade progresses. Some skills or skill levels require reaching a minimum grade.

Example

A high-grade player can access more advanced skill tiers than a player who has just started doctrine progression.

Note

The grade is a progression condition. It does not replace Echoes, which remain the resource spent to buy skills.

Short answer

There are 6 doctrine grades.

Useful detail

The grades are:

• Line Aspirant: levels 1 to 10;
• Seal Bearer: levels 11 to 20;
• Trame Watcher: levels 21 to 30;
• Pillar Commander: levels 31 to 40;
• Throne Pretender: levels 41 to 49;
• Chosen of the Crowning: level 50.

Note

The grade is a progression reading. It does not replace the skills purchased in the tree.

Short answer

Yes, a player can change faction.

Useful detail

The first change is free. Later changes cost 40,000 Astrium. Changing faction resets the skill tree, refunds the Echoes actually spent, and starts a 30-day cooldown.

Example

If a player leaves the Ferrenne Legion to join the Luxian Directorate, their faction skills are reset, their spent Echoes are refunded, and they rebuild their tree according to the new faction.

Short answer

No. Changing faction does not remove faction experience.

Useful detail

Global experience and therefore the doctrine grade are kept. Purchased skills are the part that is reset.

Example

A Pillar Commander player remains in that grade band after a faction change, but must buy skills again with the refunded Echoes.

Short answer

No, not in the current version.

Useful detail

The tree reset and Echo refund are tied to changing faction. It is not a free respec.

Note

Changing faction is therefore a structuring decision, not just a button for reorganizing skills.

Short answer

An alliance brings together players around a common organization.

Useful detail

It allows in particular:

• to gather members;
• to manage ranks and permissions;
• to use an alliance channel;
• to advance in alliance technologies;
• to structure diplomacy and pacts.

Short answer

It depends on the member's rank and permissions.

Useful detail

The leader has primary rights.

Some ranks may be given specific permissions to manage members, edit alliance, send mass messages, negotiate, or launch alliance technologies.

Short answer

Permissions give access to certain administrative actions.

Useful detail

They can authorize for example:

• see activity;
• modify alliance;
• manage members;
• send mass message;
• negotiate;
• declare war;
• manage technologies.

The server checks permissions for important actions.

Short answer

They give collective bonuses to members.

Useful detail

Alliance technologies can improve production, times, fleets, combat, espionage, exploration or certain costs.

These bonuses apply to alliance members depending on the technology concerned.

Short answer

Members donate tokens to fund technology.

Useful detail

An alliance technology requires a certain number of tokens.

When the threshold is reached, the evolution can be launched by an authorized member. The duration depends on the target level, then the bonus becomes active for the alliance once the evolution is completed.

Short answer

They reward regular activity.

Useful detail

Missions require you to complete game actions: connection, exploration, attack, espionage, construction, alliance donations, trading, recycling or using items.

They exist in daily, weekly and monthly versions.

Short answer

The server automatically tracks the relevant actions.

Useful detail

When an eligible action is resolved, the game increments the corresponding progress.

The player does not need to manually declare a mission: he must only complete the requested action.

Short answer

Rewards can include chests, fragments, Astrium or Iris.

Useful detail

Examples:

• daily missions: resource chest;
• weekly missions: chests and universal fragment;
• monthly missions: chest, fragments and sometimes Iris.

Short answer

Each UTC day, you see 9 quest cards. You can accept 5 per day and have 2 occupied cards at the same time.

Useful detail

The draw refreshes from 00:00 UTC, but a card that is still active, completed but unclaimed, expired, or already claimed keeps its slot until the next applicable UTC draw.

You can reroll up to 3 available cards per day. A reroll keeps the same difficulty but changes the quest type.

There is no abandon action. A completed quest must be claimed manually.

Example

If you accept a blue quest, you have 4h to finish it. If it succeeds, you can claim 200 faction XP and 2 Echoes.

Short answer

Rewards depend only on difficulty.

Useful detail

• Green: 2h, 100 faction XP, 1 Echo
• Blue: 4h, 200 faction XP, 2 Echoes
• Violet: 8h, 350 faction XP, 3 Echoes

The reward is granted only through manual claim after success.

Short answer

It counts if the action resolves during the quest's active window.

Useful detail

Progress starts when the quest is accepted, but actions are validated when they resolve. An action launched before acceptance can count if it resolves between acceptance and expiration.

For percentage objectives, the base value is captured at acceptance.

Short answer

Orbital defenses protect the planet in space combat.

Useful detail

They participate in battles against the attacking fleets, alongside the ships present on the planet.

Certain defenses have a particular operation:

• Plasmic Forge and Rupture Relay: can trigger critical damage against attacking ships;
• Thread Aegis: can cover non-Aegis orbital defenses;
• Iris: blocks ground incursions via Pillars.

Some advanced defenses can also have a maximum limit per planet; this limit applies to construction and to rewards credited to the planet.

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Some orbital defenses can trigger a critical effect when they fire during space combat.

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These criticals concern defender shots against attacking ships.

• Plasmic Forge: each relevant shot has a 1% chance to neutralize the shield of the ship it hits. The effect starts on the next turn and the shield stays at 0 until the end of combat.
• Rupture Relay: each relevant shot has a 1% chance to instantly destroy the hull of the ship it hits, but only if that ship has no active shield when the critical triggers.

These effects do not apply between defenses. An orbital defense therefore does not trigger a special critical against another orbital defense.

When attacker fleet statistics are visible in the combat report, Plasmic Forge and Rupture Relay criticals also display the affected ship types.

Example

If a Plasmic Forge triggers its critical on a ship on turn 2, that ship starts turn 3 with no shield.

If a Rupture Relay triggers its critical on a ship whose shield is already inactive, that ship can be destroyed directly.

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No.

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Conventional orbital defenses participate in space combat.

Iris does not participate in space combat. It is used to block a ground attack via Pillars.

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The Iris blocks land incursions instead of fighting normally.

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If a planet has an available Iris, a land attack via Pillars can be repelled before combat.

In this case:

• land combat does not take place;
• the attacking troops leave;
• the Iris used is consumed.

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The Iris does not work like a classic construction site defense.

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The Iris is tied to items and inventory, not standard spaceyard production.

A planet can have several activated Iris, within the limit provided by the system.

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You must send a mission from Recyclage to the field coordinates.

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The recycler travels to the debris field, then collects what it can according to its available capacity.

The field must exist at the targeted coordinates.

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It recovers the resources present in the debris field.

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A debris field may contain:

• Iron ;
• Crystal ;
• Ether.

These resources come from space losses and defenses destroyed according to combat ratios.

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It only recovers part of the field.

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If the recycler capacity is insufficient, the recovery is reduced proportionally.

The remainder remains in the debris field.

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Yes, as long as there are resources left in it.

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A partially recycled field remains present at the same coordinates with the remaining resources.

Another recycling mission can therefore recover what is left.

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It is a temporary debris field created by an active event.

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When the event is active, debris fields can appear in open galaxies for a limited time.

They are recycled with a Recyclage mission like a normal debris field, but they display a badge and a timer in the galaxy.

Their position is not announced: you must find them by browsing the galaxy.

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The mission returns without collecting resources.

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The event field must still exist when the mission arrives.

If the timer expires before arrival, the recycler collects nothing, even if another normal field later exists at the same coordinates.

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No, each event field may have a recycler cap per mission.

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The cap applies to each mission sent to that field. Recycleur I and Recycleur II each count as 1 toward the cap.

You can send missions to several different fields if you find them, but you cannot exceed the cap on the same mission.

You cannot have several active missions at the same time toward the same event field. After a full return, you can launch another one if the field still exists.

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Each building is built level by level on a planet.

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Cost increases with building level. Production buildings keep a softer curve; storage buildings use the same standard curve as advanced buildings.

Construction time depends on the building, the target level, the speed of the universe and active bonuses.

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Yes, only with the appropriate bonus.

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Without bonus, you can start 1 constructing buildings at a time.

With the Emperor pack, the building construction queue increases to 5 slots.

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It reduces the items that start after getting the bonus, not the one already in progress.

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If a construction, dismantling or research is already active, its duration does not change.

However, when the active item ends, the next item in the queue is recalculated with the bonuses actually active at that time. For example, if an Usine Robot ends in first position, buildings waiting behind it can benefit from its bonus when they become active.

The same principle applies to research bonuses, the Coalescence Matrix, Computer technology, units, artifacts, packs, and the relevant alliance bonuses.

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Research is global to the player.

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Research initiated from one planet benefits the entire empire when completed.

Cost and time increase with level. Some research unlocks additional components, missions, bonuses, or abilities.

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Yes, with the Monarch pack.

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Without a bonus, you can run 1 research project at a time.

With the Monarch pack, the research queue increases to 3 simultaneous research slots.

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Part of the resources is reimbursed.

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A cancellation reimburses 75% for committed resources.

If the cancellation concerns an intermediate level, the dependent higher levels still in queue can also be canceled.

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The building loses a level and returns part of the cost.

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A dismantling reduces the building by 1 level.

It returns 40% of the cost of the removed level and takes 40% of the corresponding construction time. Once launched, it does not cancel like a classic construction.

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These are technical units with a specific role.

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They are not designed like ships. They exist with fixed statistics and serve targeted uses: espionage, land transport, recycling or operation of Pillars.

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Each device has a main mission.

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Examples:

• Sonde Spatiale: space espionage;
• Drone Terrestre: terrestrial espionage;
• Small Transporter and Large Transporter: transport via Pillars;
• Recycleur I and Recycleur II: recycling of debris fields;
• Frame Resonator: Pillars network energy.

Short answer

No.

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are used as energy for Pillar missions.

They are produced automatically by Barracks, are not built manually on site and cannot be recycled like a conventional device.

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No.

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Recyclers are not eligible for Pillar missions.

Ground transporters are used for transportation via Pillars, while probes and drones are used for espionage.

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The population includes military, civilian and logistical units.

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Military units serve in ground combat.

Civilian units improve certain aspects of the economy.

Logistics units serve in particular as crew for ships.

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Soldiers are the basic ground troops.

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They are used for ground combat and certain important Pillar actions, such as colonization.

They may also be part of the crew requirements depending on the ship's chassis.

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They give economic bonuses.

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improve production.

reduce build times.

reduces search times.

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They serve as crew for ships.

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Each chassis may require a different crew.

When a ship is sent on a mission, the necessary crew is taken with it until it returns.

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The inventory stores items usable by the player.

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It can contain objects like Iris, universal fragments or resource chests.

Certain objects are activated on the active planet, others are used to improve a global system.

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It centralizes important reports and messages.

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The messaging system receives combat, espionage, exploration, transport, recycling, colonization reports and system messages.

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In messaging.

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When an action produces a report, it is sent to the player as a message.

The report can then be viewed from the messaging system.

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Yes.

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Some messages may contain winnings to collect.

In this case, the player must claim the reward from the relevant message.

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They allow you to exchange directly with another player.

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Private messages are grouped by conversation with the player concerned.

It is possible to reply in the existing thread instead of creating a new separate message.

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The chat is used for real-time exchanges.

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There are several channels: GLOBAL, ALERYOS, QUESTIONS, language rooms, alliance, direct messages and groups.

Private channels are only accessible to affected players.

ALERYOS is visible to everyone but reserved for announcements from the Aleryos team. Language rooms display exchanges adapted to the language of the account, with expanded access for administration.

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A player can join the game with a sponsor.

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Referral program is recorded upon registration.

The referral link uses a stable public code. Older links based on the sponsor's nickname remain accepted.

It grants a reward to the referred player and progressive rewards to the sponsor.

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The referred player receives Astrium upon registration.

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When the registration with sponsorship is valid, the referred player receives 500 Astrium.

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The sponsor receives rewards when the referral progresses.

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The sponsor's rewards depend on the points reached by the referred player:

• 10 000 points: 500 Astrium ;
• 100 000 points: 1 000 Astrium ;
• 1 000 000 points: 2 000 Astrium.

Short answer

In the messaging system.

Useful detail

Referral rewards come via a message containing the credit to be recovered.