History VideoGame / EndlessSpace

* XanatosRoulette: The Wonder Victory is literally the winning faction developing a machine that allows this to do this. The game literally stops there [[MagnificentBastard because there is no way in hell that a nation capable of doing these on a regular basis is going to lose except as part of a larger strategy.]]

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: All the leaders of the Untied Empire.

* HumansAreDiplomats: Well, the Pilgrims are anyway.

* {{Nanomachines}}: What Dust is composed of. Becomes a mild GreyGoo scenario in one of the all-faction affecting Random Events-a group of scientists figure out how to send commands to the Dust...[[OhCrap because they activated the Dust's self-defense protocols]]. Needless to say, everyone loses a bit of Science due to the Dust raging around the laboratories of a;; the races.

* {{Nanomachines}}: What Dust is composed of. Becomes a mild GreyGoo scenario in one of the all-faction affecting Random Events-a group of scientists figure out how to send commands to the Dust...[[OhCrap because they activated the Dust's self-defense protocols]]. Needless to say, everyone loses a bit of Dust.

Oh and one cool fact about the game. The developers are allowing the players to actually vote on which features will be included in future updates of the game.

** The Horatio are a mixture of Industrialists and Loyalists.
** The Pilgrims are a mixture of Diplomats and Researchers.
** The Sophons are Researchers.

** The United Empire is a mixture of Economists and Brute Force. They get ten percent more Dust per system, +1 Dust per unit of of population and their ships are tough.

* BlingBlingBang: The Horatio have a trait called ''The Price of Beauty'' which adds twenty percent to ship costs.
* BoringButPractical: The Horatio's bonuses consist of more food per unit of population and the ability to support a larger population on small and medium planets. Pays big dividends in the long-run.
* BugWar: Any war that involves the Cravers.
* CharacterAlignment:

** Sowers: Neutral

* CoolShip: Dreadnoughts. If you can't make one a CoolShip with the ship editor you are not doing it right.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: All the leaders of the Untied Empire.

* DesignItYourselfEquipment: Has an in-game ship editor.

* EliteArmy: Pretty much the Hissho's hat.

* ExcusePlot: Kind of like ''SinsOfASolarEmpire,'' there is a back-story that sets stage for the gameplay, but there is no campaign, no story-driven missions.
* ExtremeOmnivore: The Cravers are an entire civilization of these. Their life cycle is based on consumption, and as such they are capable of digesting any form of plant or animal matter. Once their home world was consumed, they left to seek further nourishment. If they do not continue to expand, discover and exploit new worlds, their society would literally eat itself to death.
* ForeverWar: It is ''literally'' impossible for the Cravers to be at peace with any of the other factions. They actually have a trait called ''Endless War.'' Which you can give to your own custom factions.
* GalacticConqueror: The outcome of achieving the Expansion and Supremacy victories (and eventually the Annihilation one as well).
* HumansAreDiplomats: Well, the Pilgrims are anyway.

* HordeOfAlienLocusts: The Cravers, except these Locusts have got some real nasty warships and guns.

* MacrossMissileMassacre: Yes, you can design ships that are jammed packed with missile tubes.

* OmnicidalManiac: The Cravers. Everything is food to them. Including each other.
* PlanetLooters: The Cravers. They already consumed their homeworld of all natural resources, now they intend to do the same to the galaxy at large.
* {{Precursors}}: The Endless.

* [[ProudScholarRaceGuy Proud Scholar Race]]: The Sophons, described in-game as curious, analytical and inquisitive, a people who pride knowledge over all.
* [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Proud Warrior Race]]: The Hissho are a race of highly competitive tribal warriors.
* RecursiveCreators: The Sowers.

* SeparateButIdentical: You know that special faction you got when you purchased the Emperor Edition, the Sheredyn Fleet? Yeah, it's nothing more than the United Empire with a different paint job.

* SpacePirates: Yeah, they exist in game and early on they can be a real pain in the ass.

* StandardSciFiFleet: Ship classes consist of transports, corvettes, destroyers, cruisers, battleships and dreadnoughts.
* StarfishAliens: The Amoeba. They look like what their name would suggest.

** Also, the cultists responsible for destroying one of your [[LostTechnology Moon Temples]] in a random event-they knocked the proton beams out of alignment, [[{{Ghostbusters}} they crossed]]...

* TheGreys: Take a look at the Sophons' picture.

* DitzyGenius: The Sophon's hat. See the TooDumbToLive entry.

* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: You have to conduct research in order to colonize planets beyond Terran. Some of which, like Arid, you wouldn't think you would have much trouble colonizing.

* BeamSpam: This what happens if you load up ships with lots of Energy Weapons.

* SpiritualSuccessor: For''VideoGame/MasterOfOrion.''

* SingleBiomePlanet: Desert, Ice, Lava, Tundra, take your pick.

* XanatosRoulette: The Wonder Victory is literally the winning faction developing a machine that allows this to do this. The game literally stops there [[MagnificentBastard because there is no way in hell that a nation capable of doing these on a regular basis is going to lose except as part of a larger strategy.]]

* HumansAreFlawed: The three human empires run the gamut of alignments.

** However unlike most Precursors that mysterious disappear with no trace the various factions know exactly what happened to them. A giant CivilWar is what destroyed all of them... Save for the occasional Remnant which you can get as a hero if you bought the Emperor's edition

* XanatosRoulette: The Wonder Victory is literally the winning faction developing a machine that allows this to do this. The game literally stops there because there is no way in hell that a nation capable of doing these on a regular basis is [[MagnificentBastard going to lose except as part of a larger strategy.]]

* Egopolis: The Horatio race, which is made out of entirely ''one person's clones.''

* TheSingularity: The Science Victory is this. There are also signs of a developing Singularity culture through out the tech tree. One late game tech says that most if not all of a person's time is spent in virtual reality. It also gives you a happiness boost.

* AndYourRewardIsClothes: If you bought the Emperor edition you get access to a special faction. However other then a reskin and a slightly different faction bonus your still playing as the United Empire. Really cool skin though.

* AndYourRewardIsClothes: If you bought the Emperor edition you get access to a special faction. However other then a reskin and a slightly different faction bonus your still playing as the Untied Empire. Really cool skin though.

* AscendedToAHighPlaneOfExistence: Played with. The Amoebas can astral project and spend their whole lives doing so. However if their physical body dies so does their mind. So their entire ship designs is based around protecting the central part where their bodies are on life support.

* MegaCrop: The Untied Empire. It's a faction of a whole bunch of Robber Barons controlled by the Emperor.

* Also one of possible traits you can give a custom faction.

* TheEmpire: The United Empire

* DefectorfromDecadence: The only real explanation for why you can have some many other Faction's heroes.

** However unlike most Precursors that mysterious disappear with no trace the various factions know exactly what happened to them. A giant CivilWar that destroyed all of them... Save for the occasional Remnant which you can get as a hero if you bought the Emperor's edition

* Me'sACrowd: The Horatio.

''Endless Space'' is a new FourX game from indie developer Amplitude Studios and is in many ways the SpiritualSuccessor to ''VideoGame/MasterOfOrion.'' Set in the year 3000 AD, the player must chose to lead one of eight civilizations (and if you don't like the starting choices you can custom build your own) in conquering a galaxy that once belonged to the [[{{Precursors}} extremely powerful, ancient, extinct civilization only known as the Endless]]. The galaxy is randomly generated each time and can vary in size and shape, depending on how the host player chooses to generate it. The game's economy is centered around four basic resources: food, industry, dust and science, or FIDS. [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum Dust is a substance that was leftover from the Endless]] and has some fairly useful properties.

* ExtremeOmnivore: The Cravers are an entire civilization of these. Their life cycle is based on consumption, and as such they are capable of digesting any form of plant or animal matter. Once their home world was consumed, they left to seek further nourishment. If they do not continue to expand, discover and exploit new worlds, their society could literally eat itself to death.

''Endless Space'' is a new FourX game from indie developer Amplitude Studios and is in many ways the SpiritualSuccessor to ''VideoGame/MasterOfOrion.'' Set in the year 3000 AD, the player must chose to lead one of eight civilizations (and if you don't like the starting choices you can custom build your own) in conquering a galaxy that once belonged to the [{{Precursors}} extremely powerful, ancient, extinct civilization only known as the Endless]]. The galaxy is randomly generated each time and can vary in size and shape, depending on how the host player chooses to generate it. The game's economy is centered around four basic resources: food, industry, dust and science, or FIDS. [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum Dust is a substance that was leftover from the Endless]] and has some fairly useful properties.

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