Glossary

Analyst

Those with the desire to serve and protect their own, analysts are equipped with all the tools to provide security. They are the ones able to spot the wolves among the sheep.

Base capacity

Maximum size ground unit that a base can build.

Base queue

Identifies how many ground-based military units are in production.

Base rate

Determines how fast and efficiently a base can produce units.

Base size

Determined by population assigned to creating base and exocredit costs.

Beacon

Used by a player to contact other players. Beacons can be positioned on the System Map at specific orbits--usually around either the star or a world/moon. Player must be at a system to drop a beacon. Messages are preset, but players can include Empire name and contact information are part of the message. Possible messages could be "Claimed by Dragon Empire - [email protected]" or "Dragon Empire hails and welcomes trade - [email protected]". Fleets drop beacons.

Carrier Hangar Capacity

Light and heavy carriers have hangar space to transport scouts, fighters, bombers or army units. A ship's hangar capacity is figured in this way:

      - 1 army unit = 1 hangar

      - 1 ship = 1 hangar

Color Alternative

Preference which displays color alternative icons for visual impaired players. These icons are primarily used to identify the relationship the player empire (green) has with other empires. Color alternatives are available when art cannot provide another type of non-color discrimination, like shape or orientation.

Commando

A commando is adept in search and destroy missions, able to effectively destroy area infrastructure and sabotage military bases and shipyards. They are self-sufficient, resourceful and difficult to eliminate.

Deploy/Deployed

When an agent is placed back on the game map where an existing agent is located. This action costs a Quadran unless the sponsor agent (the agent at the location where the "#Furloughed" agent is being deployed to) is of the Diplomat type class.

Detective Analyst

An individual trained in analyzing behavior and recognizing potential threats. These men and women are fighting an invisible war against enemies you don't even know you have.

Detective Chief

Well practiced in feeding the enemy false information, Detective Chiefs are masters of making the unreal feel real. Instead of simply diffusing situations, they manipulate it to provide results the enemy will have never imagined.

Detective Inspector

One whose sole purpose is to maintain security for those they serve. They have extensive training and experience in the art of observation. While the institutions of counter-espionage are busy watching for the enemy, there are some who watch the watchers.

Exocredit (ξ)

In game currency generated by production and trade.

Expert Extraction Agent

A master of the shadows, the seasoned extraction agent is able to blend into any surrounding and work in plain sight. With a mastery of the art of invisibility, they take all they need.

Expert Spy

An intelligence field agent and a expert in social engineering. They slip seamlessly into any segment or social element of society. Above suspicion, they are able to bare the soul and reveal the darkest secrets that can hurt you the most.

Extract/Extracted

When an agent is removed from the game map where his status is "#Furloughed".

Extraction Agent

With a background in infiltration and extraction, the extraction agent is capable of weaving through the shadows to retrieve just what is needed. By the time anyone realizes a thief is among them, it’ll be too late.

Flag

Used by a player as a personal notation about the Galactic Map. Flags show up in Galactic Scans only on player's screen. Possible notations include "Colonize ASP", "Wonder" and selected System information like types of objects in orbit. Fleets deploy flags.

Fleet Movement

These icons provide information about a fleet's abilities:

Government Ethos

How an empire behaves within game play. Each empire is tracked for five traits: aggressiveness, altruism, egocentricity, belief strength and xenophobia. These traits determine the empire’s governing ethos. Over time an empire’s ethos can change. The player’s Empire Dashboard or another Empire’s Dossier displays one of the following icons to identify the current ethos. Colors representing the two dominant traits are incorporated into the icons.

Furloughed

The status of an agent who is not on the game map. It takes three hours real time before the agent can be "Deployed" or placed back on the game map.

Industrial Unit (IU)

The base measurement of production cost.

Informant

A broker of information who sells knowledge professionally. They seek out secrets and information to leverage. As it is said, even the walls have ears.

Intelligence Agency Director

They are the head of a massive intelligence gathering operation with agents embedded at all levels of government. If knowledge is power, then it is the director who is truly seated on the throne.

Intelligence Officer

A thief with an eye for vital information, the Intelligence Officer has learned the practice of insertion to retrieve such needed material and secrets. To retain the loyalty of a thief is to possess all that you require.

Investigation Agency Director

Investigation Agency Directors inhabit the space between myth and reality. With the power of illusion, they conjure smoke and mirrors, dealing in half-truths to make it all seem real. If warfare is based on deception, then these are its true masters.

Junior Analyst

Junior analysts are drawn from the many police forces and are specialists in surveillance and counter surveillance. For the price of security, freedom is the cost.

Junior Informant

A low-level information asset who fits seamlessly into the fabric of society. These are the eyes peering out of the shadows, watching. Always watching.

Junior Intelligence Officer

Legal hackers, they are experts at electronic warfare, well able to engage with others in cyberspace. They are thieves with the luxury of never having to leave the comfort of their own desk.

Junior Sapper

A low-level pyromaniac indoctrinated to strike against significant targets. Their missions tend to be dangerous and they are often not expected to return.

Master Commando

Veterans of many conflicts, these master commandos thrive in high-stress environments, far behind enemy lines. Here, where the enemy feels the most secure, they are best able to inflict destruction. They no longer know the meaning of fear.

Master Extraction Agent

Experts in multiple elements of information gathering and covert activities, they mold situations to their liking to provide prime scenarios to see their objectives fulfilled. The enemy may likely even blame themselves, or each other.

Master Spy

An experienced field agent able to get into and out of locations with ease. These agents are adept at social engineering. They understand a single weapon can kill many, but that a word to the right people can lead to the downfall of an entire empire.

Observation post

A small hidden outpost designed to monitor and track orbiting spaceships around a planet or moon.

Pin

Used by player as a personal notation for a specific area on a world. Armies post pins.

Øuadran

In game currency earned through game play or purchased by the player.

Sapper

An explosive expert found at the forefront of strategic demolition efforts. Their job is to enact targeted destruction of key objectives by any means necessary. They deconstruct the enemy’s sense of security, sowing the seeds of doubt.

Security Agency Director

From the stuff of legends, individuals who have seen victory through their profession countless times. These are the ones pulling the strings from behind the curtains, setting the stage and making each actor dance to their tunes.

Shipyard queue

Identifies how many ships are in production.

Shipyard rate

Determines how fast and efficiently a shipyard can produce ships.

Shipyard size

Shipyard size determines two things:

1. How large of ship can be built at this shipyard
2. How fast the shipyard works

    Note: Orbitals can be created by any size shipyard.

Support and Efficiency Index (SEI)

Measures positive and negative influences of player actions and various events for an area.

Space Combat

Rules of Engagement:

1. One weapon can only fire at one ship. Note: a Heavy weapon with massive damage will fire against one ship, regardless of size even if it the damage could eliminate a dozen smaller ships.
2. Each "class" of ship has an order of preferred targets.
3. At the end of combat, any ship that has shields heals damage equal to those shields not to exceed the value of the shields.
4. At any given round where weapons can fire, they do fire.

Special Operations Director

The Special Operations Director knows that it is not enough to simply defeat an enemy in battle, but that they must entirely destroy their will and ability to fight. They are the reason for your enemy's walls and also the reason those walls will fall.

Spy

A trained intelligence officer who is adept in the finer arts of interrogation and information gathering. They hold a wide range of lesser contacts that provide leads. Knowledge of the enemy’s disposition can only be obtained from others.

Veteran Commando

Having completed multiple campaigns, these grizzled veterans are able to seek out and destroy high-value targets with a deadly level of professionalism. They have learned the tactics of guerrilla warfare and know the meaning of survival.