Custom Factions let you design a completely original civilization from scratch. Set your own name, species, backstory, bonuses, combat profile, homeworld type, and even upload a portrait image.
Creating a Custom Faction
On the Choose Your Faction screen, click the "Custom Race" card to open the faction editor. Fill in your faction's identity, adjust bonuses and combat stats, pick a homeworld type and starting tech, then save.
Faction Editor Tabs
- Identity: Name, species name, description, lore, color, traits, and aggression level.
- Portrait: Upload a custom image (PNG, JPG, WebP) to represent your faction. Displays at 96-128px in-game.
- Bonuses: Distribute economic and social modifiers across 7 stats. Budget: net +5% total.
- Combat: Adjust weapon, defense, speed, hull, and ground combat modifiers. Pick a combat orientation label.
- Homeworld: Choose your starting planet type (affects habitability) and a free Tier 1 starting technology.
Saving & Reusing
Custom factions are saved to your account and persist between sessions. You can create multiple custom factions and select any of them when starting a new game. Edit or delete them anytime from the faction selection screen.
Balance Notes
- Bonus budget is capped at +5% net, same as standard factions.
- Combat modifiers range from -10% to +10% per stat.
- Habitability is auto-generated based on your homeworld type.
- Terraforming paths use the closest matching standard faction path.