History VideoGame / EndlessSpace

** Averted with the new Automaton faction. Their creators had all but destroyed their planet so their last action was to create the Automatons. They were barely sapient living meager lives until an Endless Ship crashed into their planet and the dust that was unleashed made them fully self-aware. Now they go collect Dust in an attempt to remain self-aware. The new introduction for them describes them as isolationist pacifists, who have no interest in harming anyone else unless they are forced to defend themselves.
* AbusivePrecursors: The Endless, to some extent for creating the Cravers, who now (and then) just eat everything. They were actually in the process of wiping them out when their civilization colapsed, so this may be NeglectfulPrecursors.
** Perhaps inverted into BenevolentPrecursors for having ever created Dust in the first place (which is apparently a boon to all civilizations, granting some races sapience in the case of the Automatons).
** It is mentioned that the Endless were divided into multiple factions, so they have a bit of all three tropes. The Harmony however fall directly into AbusivePrecursors, as their mission is to destroy all dust. A valuable resource that every galactic power except them uses. And its stated that they don't care how many people they need to kill to do this.

* AmbiguousRobots: The Cravers are explicitly stated to originate from an insectoid race, but it's never made clear how much of it remains after the Endless tampered with them; their muscles freely mingle with cybernetic armor and limbs. Their heads in particularly seem completely robotic.

* InnocentAliens: The Ameobas and the Sophons are pretty nice guys who geniunely want to coexist peacefully with humanity.

* WorkerUnit: Colony ships.

* OurWormholesAreDifferent: Wormholes can be use to move from one system to another just like Cosmic Strings but use up all Move Points upon exiting.

* AIIsACrapshoot: The Sowers are a race of biological machines designed by the Virtual faction of the Endless to terraform and colonize one planet. However there was a Giant civil war that wiped out the Endless. Their response was to keep going to different plants and doing the same thing as that is their goal.

** The "Some Guy" random event. This business whiz is known for wearing a dark blue suit, blue shirt, and yellow tie, as well as being "Awesome to the max", just like "That Guy" (aka Steve Castle) in [[Main/{{Futurama}} Futurama]].

''Endless Space'' is a 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 eleven civilizations (and if you don't like the starting choices you can custom build your own) in conquering a galaxy that once belonged to a race of {{Precursors}} known only 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. Dust is [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum a substance created by the Endless]] and has some fairly useful properties.

* Annihilation: (Coming soon: If all other civilizations are wiped out the last civilization standing wins.)

** The Automatons are Balanced with strengths and weaknesses that touch on everything but research. They get the same bonus to population density as the Horatio and they also get a bonus to approval ratings and a twenty percent increase on ship hitpoints and a fifty percent increase to trade routes bonuses. On the negative side, they have ten percent less dust per system, Hero abilites cost more to use, they have two less command points compared to other factions and their starting planet has an anomaly which lowers approval significantly.

Two SpinOff games have been announced and are available via STEAM Early Access. The first is ''VideoGame/DungeonOfTheEndless'', a RogueLike game which has you coordinating a team of crash-landed [[EnemyMine prisoners and/or prison guards]] trying to survive and escape from an underground network of Endless-built workshops and storerooms. The second is a fantasy 4X named ''VideoGame/EndlessLegend'', which is [[DoingInTheScientist set in the same universe]] as ''Endless Space''.

* ArtficialStupidity: The AI has a tendency to end up negotiating itself out of the game when it's losing by giving away its last planets in exchange for a ceasefire.

Two SpinOff games have been announced. The first is ''VideoGame/DungeonOfTheEndless'', a RogueLike game which has you coordinating a team of crash-landed [[EnemyMine prisoners and/or prison guards]] trying to survive and escape from an underground network of Endless-built workshops and storerooms. The second is a fantasy 4X named ''VideoGame/EndlessLegend'', which is [[DoingInTheScientist set in the same universe]] as ''Endless Space''.

** The United Empire is a hybrid of {{Starcraft}} Terran Dominion and Trade Emergency Coalition of SinsofaSolarEmpire.

** Actually, Endless Space came '''first''' with their idea in Dust before {{RWBY}}, as the material is currently used not just in [[StealthPun industrial]] purposes, but also in scientific and weaponized technology. [[ButWaitTheresMore Not to mention]] it can be used [[UptoEleven to turn average computers into god-like AI's by simply filling them with the same material]].
** WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong if you have a race called Endless to so happened [[{{Halo}} to spread their ancient technology, more so inspiring others]], [[{{Star Wolves}} across the universe]] via [[{{AdvancedAncientAcropolis}} Dark Ancient Cities]] and {{Wormhole}}s, and still look like [[{{HumanoidAliens}} humanoids]] for so many years.

** An Arid world may have too little water or other materials to colonize without specialized equipment which they obviously don't have {{fridge logic}} about having already developed the technology aside.

Two SpinOff games have been announced; ''Dungeon Of The Endless'', a RogueLike game which has you (a crash-landed prisoner) trying to survive in an cavern system against the enemies from the ''other'' spinoff game, the fantasy 4X '' Endless Legend'', which is [[DoingInTheScientist set in the same universe]] as ''Endless Space''

** The United Empire is a hybrid of Starcraft Terran Dominion and Trade Emergency Coalition of SinsofaSolarEmpire.
** The Sophons and Pilgrims are the better halves versions of the Advent from, still, Sins of a Solar Empire. Exiled yet [[Cyborg cybernetically]] enhanced for the Pilgrims and has that EverythingIsAnIpodInTheFuture likeness for the Sophons, while both struggle for their unity as two races.

* HumansAreSpecial: The four human factions (United Empire, Sheredyn, Pilgrims, and Horatio) cover a lot of SF tropes about humanity.

** HumansAreWarriors: The United Empire. The Sheredyn even more so since they are an elite military force of the United Empire that is rapidly becoming a nation unto itself.

** Neutral: Horatio, Sowers, Harmony