The player can also establish trade routes that exchange spice and once the trading bar exceeds, the empire will inform that their colony is available to be purchased at a high price.Ĭommunications Menu First Contact The player can evoke wars against empires to capture or destroy their colonies or build relationships to the point that they can create an alliance. Empires have their relationship features the same as the Civilization Stage influenced by the player’s actions. The player can meet and communicate with other alien empires, along with unique randomly-assigned philosophy that affects their availability of tool trade or behavior towards the player’s empire. The player can explore the vast galaxy encompassing over 41,560 visitable stars, each that can orbit 8 planets and 3 gas giants maximum. Space Stage abandons the previous stages’ RTS format for space simulation game where the player controls the main component through the rest of the game, the spaceship, and expands their empire by colonizing uninhabited planets.