During gameplay, commanders receive credits by performing tasks like destroying enemy units in battles by their own fleet or actively managing player’s planets. To do so player should appoint a commander as governor of an not fully developed planet and invest in the development of such a planet at the same time.


When any commander has accumulated enough credits he will be promoted to his next rank immediately. Starting rank of any commander is 1, maximum rank - 10. Amounts of credits required for each rank in total is:


Each time when a commander promoted, player may choose one new skill for him from 3 randomly selected skills from the list in Commanders Skills section. Imho, this game mechanic is frustrating and can be easily abused by simple save and reload, because every time 3 skills to choose during the promotion are randomly selected without any dependencies, and thus will be different after each reload.

Each commander may obtain no more than 9 new skills in total during each gameplay. Each skill cannot be acquired by each commander more than once. The skills acquired by the commander during gameplay can be checked via the Skills button in commander's data menu.

Moreover, each time when a commander promoted his main characteristics will grow by certain random values within specified intervals. The range of values in such intervals reflects the growth potential of the military and administrative characteristics of each commander. Conditionally commanders can be divided into three groups according to their growth potential: