Your adventure in StariumXCV begins with creating your Empire.
Once part of The Concordium, a vast alliance linked by the Quantum Gates, your empire is now isolated. The gate that connected you was mysteriously destroyed, and years have passed with no answers.
Hope fades until your scientists uncover an ancient alien probe. Its technology offers a path back to the stars.
From here, you decide your Empire’s fate.
After creating your account, you’ll set up your starting position. This determines how your empire begins its journey.
1. Select a Game Type
StariumXCV has multiple Game Types that modify aspects of the game. They each offer a different pace and starting resources. We recommend starting with our default, 'Sagittarius'.
2. Choose a Colony
Colonies are the starting point for your Empire. There are 31 Colonies, each with unique histories, bonus skills, and one or two native Races that shape your early advantages.
3. Establish Your Leader
Every empire begins with a Leader who receives the skill bonuses from your chosen colony. Leaders guide your armies, fleets, production, and missions as your empire grows.
Starting Out
After finalizing your empire, your first view of the galaxy will be through The Galactic Map. Here you’ll see your home system and your fleet.
You can move Fleets to other stars or worlds, essential for expansion, battles, and discovery.
We recommend focusing in on the world your fleet is at to see what’s there. Worlds are the centerpiece for resources and development.
Exploring a World
When you focus on a world, Fog of War hides terrain and activity. Your fleets and army actions reveal more, and any Areas they claim stay visible permanently.
Each world is made up of tiles known as Areas, with their own terrain and ownership. Areas host your populations, who build infrastructure and produce the resources needed to grow your empire.
Houses and roads represent Infrastructure, which limits how much of your workforce can operate. Insufficient infrastructure may cause homelessness.
Use Armies to expand on a world. They claim, settle, and defend areas, among other things. Claiming an area adds it to your empire's territory. Settling that area adds a population to it.
Population & Economy
Populations generate Production based on their assigned work and the infrastructure supporting them. Output is influenced by terrain and race adaptability to the atmosphere.
Your Populations need care. Starvation causes them to shrink and lowers output, while poor infrastructure reduces efficiency.
Every world where you own Areas has a single Markets hub that connects them. Resources your populations produce flow into this Market, and all consumption is drawn from it.
Specialty items called Trade Goods can be produced and sold to your populations. Their prices fluctuate with supply, and selling them is a good way to earn Exocredits.
Resources and goods move between markets through Trade Routes. Routes require spaceports.
Forces & Operations
Use your fleets and armies to engage enemies. For full details on mechanics and strategies, see the Combat Guide.
Your leaders can complete Missions, short adventures that offer rewards such as skill increases and Virtues. Mission outcomes depend on the leader’s skills, traits, and the decisions you make along the way.
Successful missions may also recruit Agents, specialized operatives who perform espionage, diplomacy, religious influence, and other covert actions. Agents improve with experience, increasing their effectiveness.
Shaping Your Empire
Your empire’s behavior is defined by its Government, which tracks traits like aggressiveness, altruism, and xenophobia. These traits shape your interactions with others and can evolve over time.
Beliefs influence your populations’ happiness, complacency, and production. Through Religion, leaders and agents can spread or suppress beliefs, making it a tool for control or disruption.
Finally, the Lexicon is your gateway to advanced research and development. Different insight nodes unlock new technologies and abilities for your empire.
With these basics, you’re ready to begin.Your Empire awaits your command.
