

Some planets are uninhabitable at all, starting with Dark Avatar some require special technologies to colonize due to special conditions like high gravity or toxic atmosphere, and each planet has a Planet Quality rating which affects how much you can build on it. If you happened to be the one who got the event, you can quickly find yourself at the top of the ladder, as all the enemy fleets get obliterated, leaving planets wide open to invasion and resourced for appropriation. Their ships are powerful enough that only late-game factions can stand against them. A random mega-event has one of the factions find and accidentally activate the Peacekeepers, who then start attacking everyone but the faction that found them.You can either destroy them and save your people, or sacrifice a portion of your population to examine their performance and improve your military power. There is also a random event in which your empire finds and accidentally activates some Precursor war robots, which go wild and start laying waste to your people.

It's even lampshaded in the manual, " apparently they didn't have any science-fiction" The Iconians built them, but they rebelled against their creators after the Dread Lords corrupted them. They can be molded as you see fit to improve different aspects of your empire (or be assigned to massively improve output of one particular planet), boosting things like Science or Production, expanding your administrative capacity, or being assigned to a fleet to improve the stats of every ship in it. The Ace: GalCiv3 introduces Citizens, rare exemplars rising above from the common clay of your civilization.Abusive Precursors: The Dread Lords, who sought to annihilate all forms of non-Arnor life, as they thought that life had no purpose in the grand scheme of eternity.The Korath, who were originally a clan within the Drengin, ended up breaking away from the Empire after they secretly joined up with the Dread Lords, pursuing the Dread Lords' goal of annihilating all other forms of life in exchange for great power (and the right to continue to live).

