

They have Imperial authority and the Lethargic Leadership and Empire In Decline civics, which prevents them from colonizing and conquering worlds or building new ships. Despite their complete development and immense power, the Fallen Empires will remain passive, staying within their borders and taking no action unless provoked. If an empire has the Scion Origin while Fallen Empires were turned off a small Fallen Empire with only the home system will be created.Īll Fallen Empires begin the game in Sleeping status.

In the Contact list, they are listed under their own section ("Fallen Empires").Įmpires cannot conduct any form of espionage on fallen empires.Īvailable only with the Federations DLC enabled. For example, it is possible for a human Fallen Empire to be generated as Enigmatic Observers or Militant Isolationists. This does not happen every time and depends entirely on empire placement.Ī Fallen Empire's species is randomly generated, but there is a 5% chance for them to be picked from any of the pre-made species if the species in question have not already spawned on the map and have the Fallen's Empire required ethic, fanatic or not. However, if a galaxy is too populated (both regular empires and fallen empires sliders have been set to max) then some Fallen Empires might not be created. The max number of Fallen Empires within the game depends on the galaxy size. There are 4 types of Fallen Empires, 5 with the Synthetic Dawn DLC, and only one of each type can exist in a game. Any empire can make claims on a Fallen Empire system regardless of Ethics or their War Philosophy policy. When engaging in a conflict with them, it is essential that an empire be fully prepared to deal with the consequences and be prepared to follow through on any demands made. It is impossible to vassalize a Fallen Empire in any way. Fallen Empires use a unique ship and station appearance which is exclusive to them there are visual variants of this style and different weapon and component selections for each type of Fallen Empire, but the general number of slots is about equal. They always start with two fleets of around 40k-150k Fleet Power and can obtain additional fleets through events. Unlike normal empires, a Fallen Empire is fully developed at the start of the game, and due to their extremely large and powerful fleets they should not be provoked until your fleet strength and technology is comparable. Enigmatic Observers finishing a Battlecruiserįallen empires are vestigial remnants of millennia old, extremely powerful empires that have become stagnant and decadent over the ages.
