The Imperials have a very flexible endgame, since they are later able to change their culture into Sheredyn (who have militaristic bonuses) or Mezari (who possess scientific bonus), making them well-suited for several victory types.

Their gameplay is focused on industrial output, which generates influence, which can be used to buy out system improvements, technologies and resources. The United Empire is an expansionist multiethnic faction ruled by an emperor.The Vodyani don't inhabit planets but instead live on their arks and exploit all the planets that their arks orbit around, allowing them to easily move to a new system that is richer in resources. The Vodyani society is based on a religious hierarchy and they seek to convert other civilizations into Vodyani, drawing their lifeforce (by a unique resource called essence) and helping them ascend past their physical forms into virtuals. Due to overexploitation of their home planet's resources they almost went extinct, but were saved by stumbling upon the technology of the Virtual Endless, causing them to worship them as gods. The Vodyani developed on a poor planet called Tchinomy.The Lumeris are able to colonize new systems using dust (instead of with colonizing ships) and gain bonuses to trade companies as well as reduction to dust inflation, which allows them to more efficiently buy out system improvements and spaceships with dust. The Lumeris are an amphibian race that focuses on trading and dust acquisition (dust is the collection of nanobots and nano-computers created by the Endless and used as the currency by today's factions who lack the ability to understand it and manipulate it).

They are also able to enslave other populations, increasing their FIDS output, but reducing their Approval (happiness). The Cravers gain 150% bonus to FIDS resources (Food, Industry, Dust and Science), but slowly deplete the planets that they inhabit, turning them unproductive and reducing their FIDS output to 50% after a certain time. The Cravers are always at war with other factions and are incapable of signing peace unless the Militaristic party has no representation in their senate.

The Cravers are an aggressive hive-like half-machine half- insect race created by the virtual Endless who used them as a weapon against the Concrete Endless.

The Sophons have a unique ability to gain a research bonus to the technology that they are researching proportional to the number of factions that haven't yet researched the chosen technology. For Sophons, the universe and life are something to be looked at with awe and to be studied and understood. They pursue scientific advancement as a constant goal, often to the point of recklessness, having once blown up their own moon.

The Sophons are a peaceful and curious race which evolved from a Gecko like species.

The player takes control of one of the 12 major factions, 'each with their own asymmetrical gameplay, storyline, homeworlds, spaceships, heroes and technologies'.

Tens of thousands of years after the demise of the Endless, the galaxy is yet again thriving with life capable of interstellar travel, picking at the remains of the once great Endless empire. The quarrels quickly grew into an open war, called the Dust Wars, which essentially destroyed their society, leaving but a few splintered surviving individuals. This created a great schism in their society, splitting it into two opposing factions, the Virtuals, who embraced electronic immortality, and the Concretes, who viewed it as an abomination. Inquisitive and dedicated, the Endless were able to make great advances in the fields of science, which culminated in them achieving virtualization, allowing them to upload their minds into machines and giving them eternal life. ( October 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Д®ndless Space 2 is set in a universe that was long ago dominated by a powerful race called the Endless. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. This section may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience.

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