If you decide to remove an army belonging to an NPC faction by force, it means war with the entire faction and a hit on your global reputation. Each NPC Faction has its own set of quests and narrative flavor. You might decide to approach them in a friendly way, so you perform quests for them and improve relation and influence – which you can then use to ask faction armies to give up important structures for you to use. When expanding you’ll soon run into one or more of the factions. It was last verified for version Pre-release.

Please help with verifying or updating this section. With the networks gone, they seek their thrills in the physical world.

Their society and religion were shaped by gaming culture, as the empire population was entertained by extreme VR experiences.

Spacers - Mutated descendants of the urban populations.

Psi-fish - Mysterious floating aliens that have become more prevalent after the collapse.

They haven’t lost their arrogance and entitlement though. They’ve survived the collapse through life extending augmentations and therapies which are now faltering.

Paragon - The former governing and elite classes.

They strive to live in symbiosis with other life forms.

Growth - Intelligent plants escaped from biotech company Terra Tech.

Autonom - Robots from the emergency services that have developed their own autonomous AIs after the central network of CORE went down.

The game recognizes the following NPC factions (NPC is short for Non-Primary Combatants): They might have alien savage societies, but are in the majority at the start of the game.

The NPC factions are far from the sitting ducks from previous AoW games they can’t be ignored. Please help with verifying or updating older sections of this article.Īt least some were last verified for version Pre-release.Īs you visit the collapsed worlds of the Star Union, you’ll notice they are filled with survivors.

Age of wonders planetfall faction list