Get ready for endless exploration, great discoveries, and encounters with the diverse races that inhabit the galaxy. Create a galactic empire and send science ships on research missions and build space stations near discovered planets. Discover forgotten treasures and unknown phenomena and chart the path for your society, creating new opportunities (and limitations!) for your researchers. Numerous alliances will be formed and brutal wars will break out. As in the case of other games in the "grand strategy" genre, the adventure will take on different faces over time. Free updates are an integral part of every active Paradox title, and we intend to continuously evolve the world with new technologies and potential. What awaits you among the stars? Only you will know the answer to this question. Complex and varied explorationEach playthrough begins with a civilization that has just learned the ins and outs of interstellar travel and is ready to explore the galaxy. Send your science ships to investigate anomalies and take part in countless missions. Visit peculiar, unknown worlds with equally fascinating backstories and make discoveries that could completely change your fate. Stunning Space VisualizationStep into the depths of a refined cosmos where planets and galactic formations have been recreated with their distinctive complexity. Infinite Variety of Genres and Advanced DiplomacyCustomization and procedural content creation features guarantee an unlimited abundance of a wide variety of races and species. Choose between positive and negative traits, determine ideologies, limitations and possibilities for evolution, and anything else you can imagine. Connect with other inhabitants of space with a system of complex diplomacy that is the key to every great strategy game. Adapt your strategy to the situation, using the art of negotiation and your talent. Interstellar conflictGet ready for an endless cycle of wars, diplomacy, suspicions, and alliances. Defend yourself or attack with customizable naval fleets. The sense of adaptation is the key to victory. Design and customize your own ships with a complex ship editor with a wealth of advanced technologies. The tasks that await you in uncharted space can be completed in many ways. Procedurally Generated Giant GalaxiesGrow your empire and get ready for thousands of randomly generated planets, galaxies, quests, and monsters lurking in space. Play your wayCreate a unique empire! You can customize the heroes of your choice – from murderous toadstools to a tech-savvy reptilian race – using factors such as ethics, technology, preferred mode of interstellar travel, environment, and philosophy, among m.in others. The direction of the game depends on your decisions.