Empire Identity Creation

Empire identity creation is the process of founding a new empire in a universe. During creation, the player sets the empire's visible identity, species profile, and starting doctrine before the empire enters play.

Creating an Empire

To found an empire, the player chooses the universe they want to join and then fills in the empire's starting identity.

The player enters an empire name and a species name.

The player also chooses a species archetype, a species archetype image, one to three species traits, and one starting doctrine.

The player name is not entered during this step. The game uses the name attached to the signed-in account.

Species Profile

The species profile is made up of the species name, the chosen species archetype, the chosen species archetype image, and the chosen species traits.

Species traits are chosen from the species trait list that is currently available in the game.

Every new empire begins with at least one species trait.

No empire can begin with more than three species traits.

This means a new empire always starts with exactly one, two, or three traits.

Starting Doctrine

Every new empire begins with one starting doctrine.

That doctrine is chosen from the doctrine list that is currently available in the game.

Rules

A signed-in account is required to found an empire.
One account can have only one active player.
The game uses the signed-in account name as the player name.
Two active players cannot share the same player name.
Every new empire must have an empire name, a species name, a species archetype, a species archetype image, at least one species trait, and one starting doctrine.
A new empire must begin with one, two, or three species traits.
The same species trait cannot be selected more than once during empire creation.
Every selected species trait must come from the current species trait list.
The starting doctrine must come from the current doctrine list.
If any required choice is missing or invalid, empire creation does not complete.

Player Actions

Choose the universe to join.
Enter an empire name.
Enter a species name.
Choose a species archetype.
Choose a species archetype image.
Select one, two, or three species traits.
Choose one starting doctrine.
Confirm empire creation.

Constraints

Players cannot enter a separate player name during empire creation.
Players cannot found a second active empire on the same account.
Players cannot start with zero traits.
Players cannot start with four or more traits.
Players cannot select the same trait more than once.
Players cannot select a trait that is not currently available.
Players cannot select a doctrine that is not currently available.