can someone explain how the Galactic Empire thing works?

[Green Raven]

Is there an endgoal?

[Roderick]

Without any mods... you create yourself a roaster of heroes, from which you choose one as the commander for the next mission. On these missions can be found artifacts. You basicly just have to win the mission (no matter how) to get the artifact - besides the grails. The grails have to be found in archeological expeditions. Additionally, you get... I think its called empire points? It's a resource to buy pre selected boni during your mission. You get that points from achieving secondary goals.
The race, secret tech and heroes gain XP during such missions. There are additional sidequests, some fix, some randomly thrown in, which provide additional XP for races or techs. The more artifacts and XP you gain over the course of the missions, the more boni you'll get. These bonus are:
- starting with a commander and getting heroes that are already leveled
- you get to select boni before each mission to buy during the game with those empire point I mentioned earlier. In the end these boni are: units you can't normally build, mods to install on units and heroes and doctrines and operations
- starting with some early techs already unlocked.

There is an achievment for reaching empire level 300, which is done by getting all races and techs to their maximum level, I guess.
There is also an achievment for managing a mission with 300% XP bonus (the more difficult the missions get, the more % XP you can rack up).
Haven't reached that yet so I can't tell you wether there is more to come or not. ^^

[Charlando[SunsOfStmChrts]]

Originally posted by Green Raven:

Is there an endgoal?

There isn't really an end goal, the main is getting the chance to try out some OP combinations with the stuff you unlock. Combos that you normally dont have access to

[Syrris]

And looking at that nice swirl of planets that you've taken.

[Roderick]

Originally posted by Syrris:

And looking at that nice swirl of planets that you've taken.

Is there a limit how big that swirl can get? :D

[sandman25dcsss]

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/age-of-wonders-planetfall-dev-diary-67-your-galactic-empire.1440738/

[Roderick]

Originally posted by sandman25dcsss:

https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/age-of-wonders-planetfall-dev-diary-67-your-galactic-empire.1440738/

That's interesting. I didn't know about the Hero-Traits based on loadouts. Is there any list for this?

[sandman25dcsss]

https://aowplanetfall.paradoxwikis.com/Imperial_command_abilities

[Roderick]

Originally posted by sandman25dcsss:

https://aowplanetfall.paradoxwikis.com/Imperial_command_abilities

Thank you again! Have a treasure award. ^^

[sandman25dcsss]

Originally posted by Roderick:

Thank you again! Have a treasure award. ^^

Welcome. Thank you.