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This article has been verified for the current PC version (3.5) of the game.
Spaceborne aliens range from non-sentient, space-dwelling creatures to gargantuan leviathans to alien enclaves, including the warlike marauders. Spaceborne aliens are likely be the first encounter for newly spacefaring species. Mechanically, each type of spaceborne alien is considered a special type of empire, though exempt from many of the game's usual rules. Spaceborne aliens have increased stats based on the difficulty settings.
Space creatures [edit | edit source]
Humanoid science ships encountering a pacified Space Amoeba Mother
Space creatures are entities which may not even classify as ships or life in the common meaning of the words. They generally inhabit a certain area of space and are seldom seen away from it. After completing first contact, a special project will be added to the situation log; researching the special project gives the empire a choice in how to deal with them:
If killed, space creatures will slowly respawn in their home system.
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| Ancient Mining Drones Expands to new systems | Cost: |
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| Crystalline Entities Expands to new systems | Cost:
| Contains Crystal Nidus, a large crystalline structure guarded by 4 elite fleets. The system can be safely explored and claimed if the crystalline entities have been pacified. As their home system has a pulsar, shields are useless when attacking it. |
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| Space Amoeba Migrates through systems | Cost:
| Always called Amor Alveo, its various celestial body deposits produce in total  8 energy,  12 minerals,  6 society,  3 exotic gases,  3 volatile motes and  2 rare crystals. |
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| Void Clouds Stays in initial systems | Cost:  2000 Physics | Always called Great Wound, it is a black hole cluster guarded by 3 Void Cloud fleets. Most black holes have deposits of 4 physics and the central one contains the largest  Dark Matter deposit in the galaxy. The system should be attacked with a highly superior force due to the effects of black holes on space battles. |
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| Tiyanki Space Whales Migrates through systems | Gained on first contact completion | Always called Tiyana Vek, it contains 4 Gas Giants. Each one has a deposit of 6 society. The star itself always has a deposit of 6 physics | Tiyanki fleets can consist of Cows, Bulls, Calves and Hatchlings.  Regenerative Hull Tissue can be salvaged.
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Ancient Relics is enabled, it also grants the 
Surveyor Relic.
Reactor T2
Amoeba Flagella, strike craft almost as strong as Tier 2 Improved Strike Craft
Cloud Lightning, L weapons that ignore both shields and armor
5 Energy Siphon
1 Regenerative Hull TissueVLUUR [edit | edit source]
VLUUR is a powerful migrating Void Cloud that has around 32K fleet power and is armed with 8 
Cloud Lighting weapons. For as long as VLUUR is in a system it will cause a storm that causes 
−50% sublight speed and 
−15% fire rate on ships. VLUUR moves to a new system every 4-7 years.
VLUUR is not hostile but can be attacked. It has powerful shields and high evasion, but low hull, and can be defeated deceptively easily with missile weapons. Defeating VLUUR grants 100 dark matter, and creates various deposits of 1-3 dark matter on up to 4 planets in the system it's defeated in.
Bemat Thalassocracy [edit | edit source]
The Bemat Thalassocracy is a hostile fleet that can appear after the end-game year is reached. It appears in a system owned by an empire that produces at least 
180 trade value. The fleet is made up of the following ships:
| 40 corvettes | 35 destroyers | 34 cruisers |
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1 Afterburners T2Nomads [edit | edit source]
- Nomads are replaced by Caravaneers if the
MegaCorp DLC is enabled.
The Nomads, or Namarians as they call themselves, are a passive millennia old intergalactic race with no homeworld, forever traveling the void in their starships. Once they establish communications with an empire, the nomads help establish communications between any encountered empires that haven't discovered each other yet. They travel from system to system during their temporary stay in the galaxy, and eventually set sail for another galaxy. Events related to them can take place during their stay.
The date when and if the Nomads arrive is rolled at game start, with the following chances per human player:
- 20% chance to appear after 7,300 to 7,800 days (roughly 20.28 to 21.67 years)
- 25% chance to appear after 14,600 to 15,100 days (roughly 40.56 to 41.94 years)
- 25% chance to appear after 20,075 to 20,575 days (roughly 55.76 to 57.15 years)
- 30% chance to not trigger (they may still appear if another human player rolls them)
If more than one player triggers the Nomads, they spawn a single time on the earliest rolled date.
When they arrive, the Nomads spawn in a random non-hostile rim system that no regular empire has more than 
low intel on. Upon appearing, they decide the midpoint and endpoint systems of their journey.
- Midpoint: A random non-hostile system with a distance of 250 to 500 from their starting system. If no such system exists, they choose a system with a distance of 150 to 500, whether or not it's hostile.
- Endpoint: A random rim system with a distance of 400 to 1450 from their starting system. If no such system exists, they choose a system with a distance of 250 to 1450.
On their journey, Nomads perform an action on entering a system. Those actions depends on if the system has an owner and what their relationship with the owner is. If the system is owned by an empire they haven't contacted and isn't hostile to them, they start orbiting a random planet in the system until contact is established. The system owner is unable to decipher their communications, but contact is always established after 100 days. After contact is established, they send the owner a request. If they enter another system owned by the same empire, they roll for a request again. Each interaction has the following chances:
- 30% - Ask to leave some pops on an owned planet within the empire's borders. If the empire agrees, three
Egalitarian Namarian pops spawn on a random 
Arid, 
Desert, or 
Savannah colony. A colony is 6 times as likely to be chosen if it has more than 0 free housing and 11 times as likely to be chosen if it has more than 1 free housing. Namarians are immortal and have the 
Desert Preference, 
Nomadic, 
Venerable, and 
Natural Engineers traits. - 30% - Ask for an uncolonized planet to colonize, forming a new empire. If the empire agrees, they gain
150 to 300 influence and a random uncolonized Arid, Desert, 
Tropical, 
Ocean, or 
Gaia world within their borders becomes the capital of a new single-system Namarian empire. The new empire has 
Democratic authority, the Egalitarian, 
Spiritualist, and 
Xenophile ethics, random civics, and a decaying 
+100 opinion modifier towards the empire. The new empire starts with 14 Egalitarian Namarian pops that have their climate preference trait changed to match their new planet, 1000 energy and minerals, and 500 influence. Because they start with no other resources, no buildings, and no districts, this new empire immediately starts suffering from food and consumer goods deficits, housing shortages, and unemployment. - 30% - Sell 5 or 15 Cruisers.
- 10% - Move on with no request.
If the system has no owner, isn't hostile, and isn't the mid- or endpoint of their journey, they perform a peaceful action with the following chances:
- 10% - Repair fleet and build new ships.
- ×10 If under 3k Fleet Power
- ×5 If under 5k Fleet Power
- ×0 If over 10k Fleet Power or have built new ships within the last 120 days
- 80% - Pick a random planet and wait in orbit for 40–50 days. Afterwards, they have a 25% chance to move on and 75% chance to pick another planet in the system to orbit. They orbit a maximum of three planets this way before moving on.
- ×0 If less than 1.5k Fleet Power
- 10% - Move on without doing anything.
While the Nomads are inherently peaceful, a fight can be picked in order to get access to their technology. Nomads are easy prey but their technology is just average by midgame, making this rarely useful. The nomad fleet consists of the following:
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Enclaves [edit | edit source]
Shroud-Touched Coven station
Enclaves are special AI empires. They do not own any planets or systems, but consist of large stations. Once an empire has made contact with an enclave, they can purchase various services from the enclave. Enclaves are listed in the Diplomacy Menu under the "Others" category. Each enclave has two or three basic interactions, and a number of restricted interactions that can only be used after sufficient opinion is reached.
The maximum opinion with an enclave is 100, and an empire builds opinion with them by using their services or owning the system with the enclave. Enclaves in owned systems gain +1 opinion with the system owner each year. This is not cumulative when owning multiple systems with the same enclave.
The primary resource for interacting with enclaves is energy. Most actions are repeatable, but some of the actions also have an increasing cost. The price increases as an empire's population goes past certain thresholds:
| Pops | Energy cost |
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| 0-60 | 1000 |
| 61-120 | 2000 |
| 121-180 | 3000 |
| 181-240 | 4000 |
| 241+ | 5000 |
During the renewal request after a modifier runs out, the player will be able to renew the deal for a sum of energy credits which scales with the number of the empire's population. With Trader enclaves you will be asked how many monthly units (of the respective rare resource sold by the enclave) you want to buy.
| Option | Effect | Requirements | |
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Curator Order  (requires  or  ) | |||
| Research aid |  +10% Research speed for 10 years, and +20 opinion | scales with population | |
| Mysteries of the Universe Tell us about | Adds a Leviathan point of interest to the situation log, and +10 opinion | 300 An unencountered Guardian exists | |
| Mysteries of the Universe How to defeat | Adds a permanent  +25% damage modifier against the chosen Guardian, and +20 opinion | Has encountered a Guardian 2000 for Hives 600 for Infinity Machine 1000 for other Guardians | |
| Mysteries of the Universe How would we fare | Compares the total fleet power against the Guardian, and +20 opinion
| Has encountered a Guardian 2000 for Hives 600 for Infinity Machine 1000 for other Guardians | |
| Establish Think Tank | Allow the construction of  Curator Think Tank starbase buildings in enclave system  starbases | 50 | |
| Recruit scientist | Gain a level 5  Scientist with the  Curator trait | 50 1000 No Curator scientist owned | |
| Buy Intelligence | Gain  +20 intel on target empire, and +10 opinion | 50 1000 | |
| Infinity mystery | Gain  1000-10000 Engineering research |  Mirror of Knowledge modifierCan only be done once | |
| L-Gates | Gain an L-Gate Insight, and +20 opinion | 5000 Once per 10 years Encountered an L-Gate | |
Artisan Troupe  (requires ) | |||
| Become patron | Gain the Patron of the Arts modifier for 10 years ( +10% monthly Unity), and +20 opinion.Becoming a patron also allows Patron Events to trigger:
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| Commission art piece | Gain the  Exhibit Art Monument decision, and +10 opinion | 600 Does not own 5 | |
| Found Art College | Allow the construction of  Art College starbase buildings in enclave system starbases | 50 | |
| Organize festival | Gain the Festival of Worlds modifier for 10 years ( +15% happiness and  +10% pop growth speed), and +15 opinion.There is also a chance for one of the following to happen within the next year:
| 50 1000 | |
Traders  (requires ) | |||
| Strategic Resource deal | Provides a 1 to 5 of a rare resource for 10 years, and +5 opinion times amount purchased. Resources vary based on which specific trader enclave is encountered:
| 500 per unit 10 monthly per unit | |
| Seek expertise | Gain an immortal level 5  Governor with the  Enclave Trader trait | 50 500 Once per enclave | |
Salvagers  (requires  ) | |||
| Scrap a fleet | Disbands a fleet and gain  alloys equal to a quarter of the total construction cost, and +10 opinion
| Fleet in the enclave system 300 Once per 5 years | |
| Reclaimed vessels | Purchases 1 or 10 ships based on other empire' designs, and +1-5 opinion | 150 per corvette 300 per destroyer 600 per cruiser 1200 per battleship Once per 2 years | |
| Salvage some debris | Automatically investigate up to 3 debris fields in 90 days, and +5 opinion |  Debris within borders 20 400 | |
| Engineering research |  +15% Engineering research speed for 5 years, and +5 opinion | 20 150 scales with population | |
| Salvage Works buildings | Allow the construction of  Salvage Works starbase buildings in enclave system starbases, and +10 opinion | 40 1000 | |
| Aid with construction efforts |  +10% Ship build speed and +40% Starbase module and building build speed for 2 years, and +5 opinion | Salvage Works 50 800 20 | |
Shroud-Touched Coven  (requires ) | |||
| What is to be our fate | Starts a Sign of the Visitor or Sign of the Locus situation, which can trigger various events or create anomalies, and +10 opinion | 50 scales with population | |
| Send us a teacher | Enables the  Shroudwalker Teacher decision, and +10 opinion | 50 10 per Empire Size Can only be done once | |
| Insight on another empire | Starts a Shroudwalker Insight situation which gives the following reward when completed, and +10 opinion
| 20 50 scales with population Spy network Once per year | |
| Travel via the Shroud | Allow the construction of  a Shroud Beacon starbase building, and +10 opinion | 40 800 Can only be done once | |
Materialist empires.
Xenophile or 
Pacifist empires.
Xenophobe or 
Prethoryn Brood-Queen relic or the Lost Amoeba event can be scrapped for 600 
Food but incur an extra cost of Mercenary enclaves [edit | edit source]
Unlike other enclaves, mercenary enclaves do not exist at the start of the game and instead are founded by 
non-Gestalt empires during gameplay. While 
Gestalt Consciousness empires cannot found mercenary enclaves, they can become their patrons by taking ownership of an enclave's system.
Each mercenary enclave in an empire's owned systems takes up one capacity, regardless of whether that empire founded the enclave or not. There is no penalty for going above the empire's mercenary enclave capacity except for not being able to found additional mercenary enclaves. Mercenary Enclave capacity starts at 0 and can be increased through the following:
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| +2 |  Naval Contractors |  Defense Privatization resolutions 4-5 |
Barbaric Despoilers
Warrior Culture
Private Military CompaniesFounding a mercenary enclave requires sufficient mercenary enclave capacity, a fleet of size 50 or larger led by an admiral in an owned system with a moon or asteroid, and no enclave – mercenary or other – already present in that system; this costs 1500 energy, 2000 alloys, and 100 influence. Once the order is given, the enclave constructs its station in the fleet's current system, the fleet's admiral leaves the empire to become the leader of the new enclave, and the fleet is transferred to the enclave.
Mercenary enclaves provide the following services:
- Empires can rent a mercenary fleet for 10 years and gain +15 opinion for an energy cost that scales with the enclave's opinion and tier. The contract can be renewed at any point for an additional energy cost and +5 opinion. Mercenary fleets are led by admirals with the
Mercenary Warrior trait. If the mercenary enclave station is attacked, all mercenary fleets are recalled, and their clients are refunded between 3000-44000 energy, depending on enclave tier. - Empires that have at least 20 opinion with the enclave can pay 600, 1100, or 2000 energy to hire
5, 10 or 15 mercenary armies. If the enclave is at least tier 4, empires can also pay 1200 or 2300 energy to hire 5 or 10 mercenary mechanized armies. All options will grant opinion equal to the number of armies hired, plus 5 additional opinion if hiring a mechanized army. - Empires that have at least 30 opinion with the enclave can buy
+15% naval capacity for 10 years. This costs between 1000 and 5000 energy based on current capacity and gives +15 opinion. - Empires that have at least 40 opinion with the enclave can pay 1000 energy to unlock the
Mercenary Garrison starbase building and gain +15 opinion. - Empires that have at least 50 opinion with the enclave can pay 1500 or 5000 energy to gain +15% damage versus a mid-game or end-game crisis.
The empire that owns a mercenary enclave's system, initially its founder, is the enclave's patron. Patrons have slightly reduced prices and receive a dividend at regular intervals. The dividend interval is mechanically a situation, and the base progress rate is +0.417 per month, resulting in a total time of 20 years. With all positive modifiers maxed out, the interval is a mere 1.83 years, though that relies on a non-patron hiring the fleet. More consistently, with the patron hiring the fleet, the minimum interval is 2.25 years. The rate is increased (and thus total interval decreased) by the following:
| Source | Base multiple | Raw increase | Interval with only this modifier |
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 Lord of War ascension perk | +2.5 | +1.043 | 5.75 years |
| Enclave fleet hired by anyone | +1 | +0.417 | 10 years |
| Enclave fleet hired by non-patron (stacks with above) | +2 | +0.833 | 5 years |
| Per mercenary enclave tier | +0.4 (max +2 ) | +0.167 (max +0.835 ) | See table below |
| Per Defensive Privatization resolution level | +0.5 (max +2.5 ) | +0.208 (max +1.04 ) | 13.3 years at level 1 5.75 years at level 5 |
| Enclave has Financial Troubles modifier | −5 | −2.085 | Never Cannot reduce progress below 3 |
The dividend can be in the form of basic resources, research, or a fleet if the patron is using less than 95% of their Naval Capacity; there is also a small chance of a special dividend or no dividend.
| Dividend type | Chance | Tier 0/1 | Tier 2/3 | Tier 4/5 |
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| Energy only | 24% | 12x Energy output ( 150 ~ 2000 ) | 18x Energy output ( 250 ~ 5000 ) | 24x Energy output ( 350 ~ 10000 ) |
| Research | 24% |
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| Fleet Ships received based on largest class enclave has | 24% 0% if patron uses >95% of  naval capacity |
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| Special Ships received based on largest class enclave has | 2% |
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| Financial Troubles Choose one of three options: | 2% | • • Kills current enclave ruler, and enclave gains Financial Troubles modifier for 2.78 years • Subsize enclave, based on tier (below), and gain | ||
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Patrons that have at least 80 opinion with the enclave can ask it to recall a fleet hired by another empire for a scaling cost and −15 opinion; the fleet is recalled after 6 months and then 3 months later hired to the patron for 10 years. The patron can also offer to upgrade the enclave – with a one year cooldown, up to 5 times; upgrading improves the tier of its weapons and grants +20 opinion each time, but also increases the fleet recall costs.
| Enclave tier | Upgrade cost | Fleet recall cost | Base patron dividend time | Enclave loadout | ||||||||
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| 0 | - | - | 1500 | 50 | 20 years | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 1000 | 500 | 3000 | 75 | 14.3 years | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 2500 | 1250 | 6000 | 100 | 11.1 years | 0 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 5500 | 2750 | 10000 | 125 | 9.08 years | 0 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | 10000 | 5000 | 15000 | 150 | 7.75 years | 1 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | 13000 | 6500 | 22000 | 200 | 6.66 years | 1 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
Mercenary enclaves build and upgrade ships the same way playable empires do, using all technologies researched by the empire that founded the enclave at the time of the founding. The enclave's patron can grant the enclave all its researched technologies, gaining +1000 energy and +15 opinion.
Attacking enclaves [edit | edit source]
While enclaves never become hostile to any empire except in retaliation, they can be attacked like any neutral entity. With around 10k fleet power and highest level weapons, they are no easy prey. Various rewards can be salvaged from their remnants, depending on the type of enclave destroyed.
 Curator station |  Artisan station |  Trader enclave |  Salvager enclave |  Shroud-Touched station | Mercenary enclave | |
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| AI Opinion change | −15 | 0 | −15 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tachyon Sensors
10000 Unity
500 ZroEnclave stations do not drop debris for salvage. Attacking a Curator, Artisan, or Shroud-Touched enclave makes every enclave station of the same type unavailable for trade.
Crystalline empire [edit | edit source]
If playing with the 
Void Dwellers origin (AI empires can't trigger it) then there is a 1% chance that during the mid-game a unique enclave known as the Crystalline Empire spawns near the galactic core. Its system does not have hyperlane connections but instead has a wormhole to a random system in the galaxy. Empires that are not 
Genocidal and have not attacked them can offer to help them every 20 years to receive one of the following:
Destroying the Crystalline Empire enclave grants no rewards.
Enigmatic Cache [edit | edit source]
Enigmatic Cache
The Enigmatic Cache, or BALDOR as it calls itself, is a tubular entity that emerges from any Gateway or L-Gate once the mid-game year is reached, if any player empire is at peace, and sets course for the nearest empire that is not at war. Upon taking damage to its hull, it instantly teleports away to the closest system with a Gateway or L-Gate.
Once the Enigmatic Cache enters an empire's borders, it starts orbiting each one of the empire's colonies for a decade. As long as it orbits a colony, it gives it a 
+30% research output modifier to the colony, but also −10% happiness to any pops with the 
Xenophobe ethic. The first time the Enigmatic Cache orbits an empire's colony, the empire receives the option of issuing a special project to study it or leave it alone and gain 50 influence. The special project costs 2500 engineering research and finishing it refunds 90-250 engineering research and grants an L-Gate insight, if the empire has discovered an L-Gate. Once all colonies have been scanned, the Enigmatic Cache sets course for the nearest empire and repeats the process.
- Enigmatic Uplifting
After all colonies in the galaxy have been scanned, the Enigmatic Cache goes to the capital of a biological empire that did not attack it and requests to uplift the main species via a special project that takes 2 years. In multiplayer, the human player with the lowest 
relative power is chosen, random if tied. In singleplayer, the player empire is always chosen.
- Enigmatic Dreams
If main species doesn't have 
Intelligent or 
Quick Learners, 60 to 80 days into the project there is a 50% chance to be given the choice between aborting the uplift or adding the Fatigued modifier (
−30% resources from jobs) on 60 random non-robotic main species pops that have one of the following jobs:
 Job | Gestalt Consciousness Job0 |
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 Unemployed | |
 Researcher |  Brain Drone / Calculator |
 Metallurgist | Foundry Drone / Fabricator |
 Artisan | Artisan Drone |
 Culture Worker | |
 Chemist | Chemist Drone |
 Translucer | Translucer Drone |
 Gas Refiner | Gas Refiner Drone |
 Technician | Technician Drone |
 Miner | Mining Drone |
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 Crystal Miner | Crystal Mining Drone |
 Gas Extractor | Gas Extraction Drone |
 Mote Harvester | Mote Harvesting Drone |
The modifier lasts until the uplift process is completed or aborted.
- Alert
130 to 170 days into the project, the empire is notified that the Enigmatic Cache is deteriorating. 4 random non-robotic main species pops (with the same job restrictions as Enigmatic Dreams) gain the Vegetable modifier ( −80% resources from jobs) until the uplift is completed or aborted, and the player is offered the following options:
Note: The traits do not give unique bonuses to leaders despite the tooltips saying they do.
References [edit | edit source]
Source: https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Spaceborne_aliens
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