Heroes are very important in Endless Space. Well developed hero can change poor backwoods into proper system within few turns. A problem is, that you have very limited number of heroes to hire. Truth to be said, during the majority of the game, you'll have only three such characters. Academy will offer them from the beginning of the game, and their number will be increasing periodically.

Academies - details on the different Academies of Endless Space, Heroes - details of the heroes in the game, Hero Statistics - all hero statistics and background texts, Hero Abilities - information about hero's abilities. The red framed thing is the most important. This system has very poor Food, Science and Dust. Only Industry is on abided level, but is also too low to make upgraded crops in some reasonable time: 12 turns in Endless Space is a long time. Notice how everything changes, when you add a hero to the system. In Endless Space, the Academy is used to manage your hired heroes. The size of the academy dictates how many heroes can be hired. Looking around the interface, I don't see how to expand the Academy size or by what means it can be increased. There maybe a research item or a game option to increase the Academy size, but I haven't found it yet.

After researching the specific technology, your hero cap will be increased about 2.

Thanks to this tech, you have five heroes to rule the galaxy

But with the following technology, you obtain few more heroes:

In Endless Space you have fire hero classes, every hero can have two of them. Classes are assigned randomly to the particular character, who gains XP. Experience points allow them to level up and take another skill or upgrade the owned one. In general, your subordinates split on two: governors and leaders. First ones are perfect in system managing. The others upgrade your army very well.

Hero's classes

ADMINISTRATOR	CORPORATE	COMMANDER	ADVENTURER	PILOT
Increases production and Food	Increases Science and all resources exploitation	Upgrades fleet statistics	Spying, killing, stealth and stealing	Similar to Commander. Allows also faster taking over hostile system

It's worth to mention here, that the best choice is to level up hero only in one of his classes. Thanks to that you get a real expert in the particular field. Very important is also initial choice of heroes. Your first (and sometimes second also) hero should be a good governor, who'll improve economic of the planet.

All heroes have the same attributes:

LABOR	WIT	MELEE	OFFENSE	DEFENSE
Increasing Food and Industry	Increasing Dust and Science	Better taking over of hostile systems	Increasing hero's attack	Increasing hero's defense

VIEW OF THE HERO SPECIALIZED IN MANAGING

VIEW OF THE HERO-PILOT

Every hero has also abilities, which he gains after level up. They modifies power of particular attribute. They are gradated, so you can have two different abilities or one but twice upgraded. They can focus on single attributes, or increase all of them.

Here you can see freshly colonized system without any hero:

The red framed thing is the most important. This system has very poor Food, Science and Dust. Only Industry is on abided level, but is also too low to make upgraded crops in some reasonable time: 12 turns in Endless Space is a long time.

Notice how everything changes, when you add a hero to the system.

Time of waiting is three times smaller, what is more the Food and Industry increased greatly. The Science barely changed and the Dust got on minus (hero's salary doubles the system's income) but two last elements are marginal. In quickly putting system on its feet main role always plays Industry, what stands for the speed of production.

To hire a hero, choose a hero you'd like to in the Academy window and click on HIRE (you can check hero's profile by clicking INSPECT). Placing hired unit to the system/fleet takes place in the Fleet/System View or directly during choosing the particular fleet or system on the galaxy map.

Endless Space 2
Developer(s)	Amplitude Studios
Publisher(s)	Sega
Engine	Unity^[1]
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows macOS
Release	May 18, 2017
Genre(s)	Turn-based strategy, 4X
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Endless Space 2 is a turn-based strategy, science fiction4X game developed by Amplitude Studios. It is the sequel to Endless Space, which was released in 2012. The game had been made available through Steam's early access program since October 2016.^[2] It was released on May 18, 2017.

4Reception

Gameplay[edit]

At the beginning of the game, the player can choose from one of several races, each with their own perks and traits. They are then given control of a fledgling empire, which they must expand by conquering systems. Each system has up to 5 planets, with their own environments, climates, stats (i.e. production, food, etc.), and sometimes anomalies. Anomalies can be explored using an explorer ship, and give buffs or debuffs to the entire system. Planet stats decide how effective planets are at what, while environments decide whether a planet is colonizable or not. The ability to colonize different environments is unlocked through research. Each planet can also be given a specialization, which give buffs, with additional buffs being granted based on climate. Finally, the player can construct different structures, which give system-wide buffs and can be built an unlimited number of times, with a few exceptions. To reach different systems, players must follow established star lines, unless they have special technologies researched.

Research is key to progressing through the game. It unlocks new constructions, ship hulls, weapons, modules, upgrades, tactics, abilities and other useful things. The game has currently 10 factions (including DLC ones).^{[clarification needed]} There are four different categories of research trees: military, science and technology, business and trade, and empire development. Each tree has four levels, which are only unlockable by researching different subjects in the level before. Politics are also important for different reasons. Each race has different parties, such as industrialists and scientists, which can have different statuses, such as entrenched and established. There are also different types of government. There are also a certain number of law slots, where the player can pass bills associated with a certain party that give buffs. However, bills require the party to have reached a certain status, and parties can pass 'forced bills' without player interaction. Increasing party status/representative counts can be achieved by reaching certain technologies, constructing different buildings, and performing certain actions (one example is how declaring war, building bunkers, and researching weapons increases militarists count).

In order to expand their empire, the player must colonize systems throughout their galaxy. They are also competing with various other empires, who are also attempting to win the game. The player can interact with them, by declaring war, sending tributes, or forming alliances. Each empire has their own territory, and different relationships with the player (i.e. Cold War, War, Wary, etc.). There are also minor civilizations, who players can improve their relationships with to get them to send resources, or declare war on. They can also be assimilated into the player's empire if their relationship is good enough. However, enemy empires can int

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