
The number of points required increases with each hero you own, regardless of how that hero was acquired. "Points" towards the unlock of additional heroes are awarded for various actions such as exploring curiosities or fighting battles - in general, you'll earn them passively simply for running your empire, since even mundane actions like erecting system improvements awards them, but a few actions like exploring curiosities will give a noticeable "surge" of them. The Embassy will also reduce the points it takes to unlock additional heroes by 20%, for the rest of the game, so it's still well worth building even if the Academy has already been located. Either (any) one of the players needs to discover the system in which it is located, in which case it will be considered "contacted" for all players, from then on - or if this is taking too long, an individual player can construct an Academy Embassy, which will give them contact ahead of time, before the global unlock.


To establish contact with the Academy, one of two things needs to happen. In order to do this, you must have contact with the Academy, and you must accrue a certain number of "points" which thematically just represent the growth and flourishing of your empire - and the fact that you're becoming important enough for the academy to send another one of their members to. The Academy will occasionally grant you heroes free of charge. one of the quests shown in a tier of the tech tree). In addition to this, there are several other random quests (not bound to a faction) that spawn during the game which will give out a hero (like hunting down the mysterious "Photobomber"), as well as a Deed which will occasionally grant one (i.e. These heroes are strictly unique to that faction, and under normal circumstances are impossible to acquire, otherwise (they may be possible for someone to sell, and then for you to buy on the market, but the AI will not sell their heroes).

The first way is by passively earning points with the academy, which will freely give you heroes, periodically the second is by directly hiring them for from the marketplace, and the last way is by earning them for completing a quest.Įach faction has a major storyline quest, with several chapters, about their struggles in the Endless Galaxy frequently, a reward for completing a new chapter is a hero associated with that faction (for example Lena Zelevas, the sister of Emperor Zelevas, is a possible quest reward in the United Empire questline).

Additional heroes are earned in a few different ways. Every faction begins the game with one hero.
