So to start this guide, i want to remind everyone that this information is coming from the dev blogs, so if the dev want me to remove this guide, ill gladly do it. I just wanted to put it as a easier to access or read way for new players. And i was sick of clicking to get to that information.

If anyone see any missing information or false ones, ill do my best to correct this guide.

• The first tier of the tree can be unlocked once you have put at least one cultural point into another tier.

• The second tier is unlocked once you invest 7 points in any cultural tree (Any tree allowed, you dont need to invest it all in the same tree)

• The last tier is unlocked once you invest 15 points (Need to confirm it, not sure) in any cultural tree

Your empire’s focus on creating intelligent artificial life has led to the creation of android leaders. Far more art than science, not every intelligent android can be trusted as a leader, and as a result you'll unlock one android ship or colony leader of your choice with every culture level-up. The androids you receive are reliable, loyal, and cheap. Their only real downside is their inexperience. However, due to your empire’s focus on leadership, you’re no longer able to dismiss any leaders you choose to employ.

As the galaxy's preeminent diplomats, your empire reaps extra rewards from its relationships. Each of your active mining treaties provides you with additional production and diplomatic relation bonuses. Your true strength lines in the alliances you form though, as each active alliance you have will provide you with a significant empire-wide morale boost.

Your efforts to make your ships nearly impenetrable has led to the development of the ultimate shield system. Whenever a shield overload action is taken, your shield will now fully recharge and actually lower, rather than raise, the heat level of the ship. In addition, your ship’s systems have been reinforced giving them increased uptime due to their additional health points.

Your empire sees a brighter future for the galaxy and inspires others to unite behind its cause. As the leader of your alliances, you'll be forced to break off any relations with their rivals. Your partners will however be more likely to accept your requests for coordination. They’ll also provide you with access to their supply range and a portion of all their strategic resources. As your relation grows with your allies over time, your relationship with their rivals will ultimately wither as well.

Wars are fought and won on many fronts, not all of which are obvious. For every active war your empire is in, you’ll receive additional weapon and defense research bonuses and additional income from your populace. As your political connections worsen relations between your treaty partners and your rivals, your propaganda machine will cumulatively lower the morale of your rivals every turn you remain at war with them. Due to your empire’s focus on war, cultural and planetary engineering matters become much more difficult to achieve.

Your empire believes that “might makes right” and takes great pride in its military prowess. Your ship crews are unparalleled and gain additional combat bonuses. Every weapon and defense technology tier unlocked provides additional culture to your empire. In addition, your predatory warriors hunt the great beasts, and each trophy (kill) they obtain provides even further cultural bonuses. As a society built on strength, weakness and fear are abhorred, and your warriors would sooner die than face the shame of fleeing a battle.

Believing that the most impactful statements can only come from the barrel of a gun, your empire is focused on improving its kinetic weaponry. Your ships have increased accuracy with kinetic weapons, and combined with their crew bonuses, can make more effective use of them and their mods. In addition, your ships do more damage with all kinetic weapons.

With your journey towards galactic conquest well underway, the only thing that still stands in your way is the willful disobedience of those you conquer. To quickly assert your authority, your empire can now sacrifice a portion of a colony’s population to instantly assimilate it. In addition, from now on any minor civilizations located within your borders will now be assimilated, granting you all their bonuses and removing any risk that anyone can ever take them from you.

In order to improve their ability to withstand and recover from damage, your empire has integrated biological materials into its ship designs. This built-in special system has no additional cost or space utilization and provides additional armor as well as regenerative capabilities. As scars are seen as the true measure of a warrior, your crews are no longer willing to be seen hiding behind an energy shield. Shields can no longer be equipped on your ships or stations.

Your weak and pathetic rivals have failed their worlds and it is time for your empire to take its place as their rightful ruler. Your siege speed is dramatically increased and you now receive two assault ships every time one is built. You also receive up to two technologies with every successful invasion. As conquerors, your people have little desire to deal with domestic matters and are no longer willing to dedicate effort to building colony, outpost, or survey ships.

Facing fierce competition, every scientist in your empire struggles to stand-out. Every early breakthrough you achieve inspires your scientists and provides you with a free colony ship they hope will lead to new opportunities. Every research outpost you control provides additional info and increases the odds of a breakthrough occurring. Your scientists also unlock ultra technologies faster than normal. With a taste for science, rather than conquest, your assault ships take significantly longer to build.

As your empire spreads out across the stars, its culture continues to grow and expand along with it. For every unique type of biome you’ve colonized, you’ll begin to generate culture at an accelerated pace. In addition, you can now have early culture breakthroughs, just like early research breakthroughs, and every culture breakthrough also provides a free colony ship.

Your scientists have focused on improved ways to manipulate energy. Your beam weapons now have additional power provided to them when they are overloaded in combat, allowing them to do substantially more damage for that attack. In addition, they’ve devised methods to incorporate beam modifications in a simpler manner, reducing the miniaturization level requirements for their modifiers.

Your people have adapted and evolved to the point that their physical form is completely malleable. They can now live in every biome and gravity type without penalty. Such adaptability is not without consequence though, as your ability to colonize anywhere is seen as a clear threat to other races. Combined with your often grotesque appearance, all empires are now unwilling to conduct any type of diplomacy with you aside from declarations of war or peace.

With all your ship’s power systems now interconnected, your empire has eliminated the need to choose how to overload them. Your overload actions are now interlinked, allowing your ships to activate weapon, shield, and engine overloads simultaneously at no additional cost. In addition, refinements have led to an increase in the maximum heat threshold of your ships and a reduction in their overload cooldown timers. Unfortunately, due to the tight integration of components to make this viable, your ships suffer double damage to their systems when hit.

Like a plague of locusts, your empire prefers to swarm upon its enemies with deadly intent. All your ships now gain bonus damage based on the number of similarly sized ships fighting alongside them. Your frigates and destroyers start at a higher experience level than normal, and your destroyers also use less support points to field. To support the swarm, your colonies also generate additional ship production towards military ships. With a focus on swarm tactics, your empire views its ships as expendable, and therefore sees no value in refitting its existing ships.

Capable of death defying feats of agility and breakneck speeds, your ship pilots are true daredevils. Your frigates and destroyers move exceptionally fast, even for their size, and can easily maneuver across the battlefield. These ship classes also have a chance to dodge incoming missiles completely, regardless of the ship attack or ship defense of the ships involved.

Your ships are adept at stealthily seeking out and striking the most vulnerable parts of their targets. Your frigates and destroyers have a chance to cause double damage to any ship larger than themselves. In addition, their ability to avoid detection grants them the chance to dodge incoming kinetic and beam weapons regardless of the ship attack or ship defense of the ships involved.

For those seeking the ultimate thrill, it is said that nothing can compare to going out in one final blaze of glory. The salvage action of your ships is replaced with a collide action which allows crashing into larger enemy ships. As both speed and hull play a role, the faster and stronger your ships are, the more damage they will do. With little regard for their own ships, it’s not surprising that your crews are uninterested and unable to collect any combat salvage left behind by others.

As ultimate mischief makers, your empire is exceptional at taking things that don’t belong to it. Your empire’s saboteur actions now steal targeted enemy ships instead of destroying them. To help support this, several leaders will gain the saboteur skill or level it up. In addition, your frigates and destroyers can now board enemy ships without requiring they be immobile. Always up to no good, your empire is blamed for every undetected spy action in the galaxy.

The use of a hub and spoke distribution system has greatly enhanced your empire’s ability to support remote colonies. Your capital becomes the central hub of your empire, providing a portion of its production capabilities to all your other colonies. The capital’s production and research output is further increased with every space culture level-up. To defend it, your capital gains a built-in Capital Defense Force which defends it from attack and which grows in strength with each unlocked evolution perk. This system requires absolute obedience and has no room for strong personalities, including leaders, who you are no longer able to employ.

Assembly line techniques and automation have improved the efficiency of your empire’s ships. Your empire can now apply a colony’s refit production simultaneously to any number of ships at the same time, allowing you to very quickly upgrade and redeploy them. Due to efficiency improvements, battle pods equipped in your ships now provide additional space as well.

The innovative structural design techniques of your engineers are a clear indicator that practice makes perfect. The use of insulating materials throughout your ships grants them a complete immunity to ion weapons and has significantly reduced the costs involved in hull reinforcement. You also receive more infrastructure development speed for every production asteroid exploitation controlled by your empire.

Your population has developed the means to learn, communicate, and receive commands telepathically. As a collective mind, your ship crews are immune to crew stunning and mind control effects. Every experience is shared, causing all your ship crews to receive XP whenever any of your fleets engage in battle. Outsiders are easily identified and independent thoughts unwanted, causing your empire to be immune to all spy actions. With no room for creativity, your empire is no longer able to achieve any early research breakthroughs.

Having reached the pinnacle of the hub and spoke paradigm, your capital’s influence transcends the bounds of a single system. Your capital can now be relocated to any colony within your empire. The capital generates additional population growth and ground combat strength and also extends these benefits to all nearby colonies. In addition, nearby colonies also receive access to their own Capital Defense Force. Given the ultimate importance of your capital, losing it either forces a surrender (for the AI) or acts as a loss condition (for the player).

Your race's history is deeply intertwined with an ancient relic of unknown origin that it possesses. When you unlock this perk, you receive a research bonus across all research categories as well as bonus research from any data core artifacts you possess. In order to find other artifacts, the relic immediately reveals the location of all ancient ruin throughout the galaxy. As it guides you to these artifacts, your chance to discover them also increases. Unfortunately, the relics power is fickle, and it seems at time to enjoy meddling in your affairs, leading to an increase in negative events for your empire.

Through the generous power of your ancient relic, it truly is better to give than to receive. All diplomatic gifts now provide you with bonus effects in addition to the standard diplomatic benefits. Whenever you send a gift of BC, your empire will receive a significant amount of space culture in return. Whenever you gift a ship, you will reduce the cooldown of your unique abilities a number of turns based on the ship size. Whenever you gift a system, you will receive an empire-wide morale boost based on the number of pops and the amount of infrastructure gifted.

Your relic opens every door to you and grants you unfettered access to far away places in your, or perhaps its, quest for further artifacts. Your empire immediately gains full knowledge of every system containing a wormhole revealing all wormhole paths. In addition, the relic will open any wormhole, even closed ones, for your ships to travel through.

After resisting its destructive temptations, the ancient relic cleanses your spirits and opens your minds to endless possibilities. Adventure, Wealth, and Knowledge space culture perks are no longer mutually exclusive and all strategic resource techs, regardless of path selection, are now immediately available to use. Your empire receives production bonuses for each of its data core artifacts and additional space culture for each colony it has containing ruins. The relic no longer provides additional negative events and provides additional positive ones instead. With your most destructive tendencies removed, your empire will no longer take part in bombing, invading, or raiding colonies.

With the true power of your relic finally unleashed, your empire has been granted incredible destructive powers. Your unique abilities can now be freely swapped at any time as long as they aren't on cooldown. In addition, for every colony you have with ancient ruins, you receive additional ship support points, and for every data core artifact you've collected, your ships will do increased damage. Unleashing these powers is not without consequence though, and your capital is immediately and permanently turned into a barren wasteland.

They say there’s almost nothing that money can’t buy and technology is certainly high on your empire’s shopping list. Your empire can now purchase any technology currently available to be researched (following normal prerequisite rules) using money (BC). Knowing how important and valuable technology is, your empire guards it with its life. Your ships now self-destruct if they’d be captured and your technology can never be obtained as combat salvage, through raids, or through invasion. Lacking any sort of technical knowhow, your empire’s POPs no longer produce any research.

In order to protect its investment in technology, your empire has financed the development of a new and unique type of hangar bay. The Peacekeeper Bay is a new equippable special system which houses 4 unique Peacekeeper strike craft. Each Peacekeeper is equipped with a pair of custom PD ion cannons designed to disable the armament of enemy ships. As with other hangar bays, this system can be equipped for free on titans if you have the Command Carrier titan ability.

Serving and protecting may be important, but so is collecting your fair share. Your empire’s patrols allow you to claim large swaths of galactic space as your own, greatly increasing the size of your borders. For each known system within your borders, your empire collects a protection fee as a result of the inspections and other various services its patrols provide. This extra income comes in quite handy as you seek to purchase the latest technologies.

By increasing the size of your strike craft hangars, your ships have become versatile and deadly combat carriers. Your cruisers and star bases gain +1 strike craft per bay. Your battleships and battle stations gain +2 strike craft per bay. Your titans and star fortresses gain +3 strike craft per bay. Due to the change in engineering philosophy this requires, all of your ships can no longer use any overload actions.

Through the Galactic Security initiative, your empire has convinced its people that it is vital they provide you with all the necessary resources to protect them. In order to ensure a fast response to incoming threats, your military ship construction rush costs are significantly reduced. In addition, your ships travel faster when moving to any system within your borders. The contributions of Minor Civilizations are critical to your defenses, and the assistance of each Minor Civilization within your borders provides additional ship support points to your empire. Due to its desire to protect and benefit from their assistance, your empire can no longer destroy any Minor Civilizations.

Your empire’s fellowship with nature has allowed you to form unusually close bonds with things that attune with it. As a result, any uncontrolled space monster will now offer to join your empire when encountered. In addition, the ideal living conditions provided by your uplifted (eco-3) colonies will cause an adult space monster to appear and join your cause. All space monsters that join you are ready and willing to fight alongside you in battle. Due to the fact that your people have fully adapted to living in these idyllic conditions, even tolerable biomes are unfortunately now considered hostile to them.

The reproductive process of an adult space monster is exceedingly complex, but your empire’s nurturing ways have finally allowed you to begin truly enjoying the fruits of their labor. Your adult space monsters will now begin spawning offspring on a periodic basis. This process is sped up based on the number of strategic resources within your empire available to feed them. Progress until the next spawning can be tracked on the empire overview screen. Keeping your adults alive is key to benefiting from this evolution.

When it comes to organic fertilizer, there is simply no substitute for the nutrient rich waste of your space monsters. Your adult space monsters now provide planetary engineering production and population growth to all colonies in your empire. The amount of each bonus provided is based upon the total number of strategic resources available to you to feed them.

With an insatiable appetite and seemingly endless potential for growth, the strength of your monsters is bound only by the resources you have available for them. Your space monsters, both adult and offspring, will now be able to grow stronger based upon the number of strategic resources you have available to you. This will provide them with extra armor and structure, ship attack, and even additional weapons. Since your monsters will consume every resource you have available, your empire can no longer make use of any strategic resource based technologies.

No longer content to sit idle while you do all the work, the flora and fauna of your planets have evolved and are now capable of assisting you in your efforts to serve and protect them. As a result of their efforts, the infrastructure development speed, ship refit speed, and ground combat strength of all your colonies are significantly increased. The benefits provided are based upon the eco level of the planet, with uplifted (eco-3) worlds receiving the most benefits. Unfortunately, your unnatural connection to plants and animals leaves other empires weary of interacting with you and hinders your diplomatic efforts.