Aliens

This page describes mechanics of Alien faction in game. For story spoilers, see Aliens/Lore

Logo of the alien faction

The Aliens, or Hydra as they're sometimes referred after the first autopsy, are a non-playable faction. They have their own set of missions separate from human factions.

Aliens usually start on a Kuiper Belt asteroid (such as Haumea, Makemake, Orcus, or Quaoar) with a tier 3 Base and a tier 3 Habitat. They have 1 councilor on Earth and 5 more on Gunships that will soon crash land on Earth. They also start with a Destroyer that will arrive in early 2024. Aliens will expand from the edge towards the core of the solar system but will generally avoid attacking human fleets or habs until they are provoked.

Alien ships bringing councilors to Earth will create an UFO Crashdown Site visible to everyone. Other alien phenomena are created by alien councilor missions and have to be surveyed. Investigating an alien phenomena site will increase Xenology research by 1%.

Alien Threat Level

Alien threat meter

This panel represents our intelligence section's best estimate about the degree to which the aliens regard our faction as a threat. It is based on our monitoring of pro-alien groups and visible alien activity in the Solar System.

We believe hostile actions against the aliens or their proxies on Earth, and/or a large visible space presence, increases their concern about us, and we may expect the aliens to attack our interests on Earth and in space should the alert monitor reach the maximum level. We also suspect they may launch one-off retaliations in response to direct action by our operatives against them, but they may also lose interest if we avoid opposing them or their proxies on Earth directly for a time.

Our analysts emphasize this is an imperfect estimate. We will correct our estimates when the aliens take direct action against us or by speaking with one of them directly.

The estimate will turn entirely red if we conclude the aliens are in a total war footing against our interests.

~ Terra Invicta Codex, 0.4.85.

Alien Threat meter becomes visible in the Intel panel once the Alien Operations council engineering project has been completed. Alien threat is scored from 0 upwards, with every 10 points increasing the threat level by 1. Alien Threat Level caps at 5, at which point the aliens will start attacking a faction's habs and fleets. The points can go above 50, making it harder to lower it. Gaining threat via hostile actions will worsen relations with The Servants and The Protectorate as well.

See Diplomacy for more details on how threat is gained, reduced, and estimated.

Alien Resources

The Alien Faction has the exact same set of resource types as the Human Factions. However, there are several notable differences in how they interact with each resource type:

Control Point Capacity

Although the Alien Faction technically has a Control Point Capacity like any other faction, nothing can ever cause them to use any of it. Even the Control Points of the Alien Nation do not use any Control Point Capacity.

So while Human Factions suffer increased vulnerability to Crackdown and Purge missions from exceeding their Control Point Capacity, as well as incur an annual Influence upkeep equal to the excess amount squared, the Alien Faction can never suffer any of these penalties.

Mission Control Capacity

The Alien Faction has a Mission Control Capacity like any other faction, but never actually benefits or suffers because of it:

• For Human Factions, each Unused Mission Control Capacity turns into a daily income of 0.075 Research and 0.2 Money. But for the Alien Faction, there is no such benefit.
• On the other hand, when Human Factions exceed their Mission Control Capacity, they become unable to build new Habs, as well as suffer an attack/defense penalty equal to the excess on all hab capture Missions. In contrast, the Alien Faction does not suffer any of these penalties.

Nevertheless, the Alien Faction does still have a limit on the number of Habs they can build. See Aliens#Alien_Total_War for details. The AI will also stop building ships once the Mission Control Capacity is reached, despite there being no penalty for exceeding it.

Notably, all Mission Control produced by the Alien Nation is automatically given to The Servants. But any Mission Control produced by Orgs equipped by Alien Councilors will be given to the Alien Faction as normal.

Research

The Alien Faction can produce Research, but never actually uses it for their own development. In a sense, the Alien's research progress is simply modelled by their Abductions, instead of a tree of research projects.

• All Research produced by the Alien Nation is automatically given to The Servants.
• All Research produced by Alien Councilors through equipped Orgs simply vanishes.

Projects

The Alien Faction does not seem to have any interaction with Projects. It is not even given to The Servants.

Money

The Alien Faction has a Money resource type like any other faction, but this represents Human currencies. So alien Habs and Spaceships have zero Money upkeep, since they are not paid in human currencies.

Nevertheless, Money is still a very useful resource for the Alien Faction, having various uses in their interactions with human society such as:

• Buying Human Orgs, which can usually be equipped and used by Alien Councilors.
• Trading with Pro-Alien Human Factions, who could usually use the Money.
• Performing the Build Facility mission, which costs 500 Money. Presumably this money is paid to the local humans in exchange for the local supplies and/or manpower for the construction of an Alien Facility in the target region.

Notably, since the Alien Faction does not have access to any Nations the early stages of the game, they cannot use the Spoils Priority to rapidly accumulate human Money in early stages of the game. So this is one area where Human Factions can build up a significant lead, and it may be worth stealing any Money producing Orgs from the Aliens to starve them of human currencies for as long as possible.

After the Alien Nation is built, the Alien Faction will never invest its IP into the Spoils Priority or the Funding Priority, but any Funding that was built in the nations that were annexed by the Alien Nation is taken by the Alien Nation. So the Alien Faction will be able to earn Money from the Alien Nation.

Influence

The Alien Faction has a Influence resource type like any other faction, but this represents influence among Human societies. So alien Councilors cost zero Influence to hire, meaning you can never stop the aliens from hiring councilors just by starving them of Influence.

Notably, while Human Factions passively earn an annual Influence income of 0.5 per million Population supporting their ideology, human populations cannot directly support the Alien ideology.

Instead, the Alien Faction passively earns the same amount of Influence that The Servants gain from their supporters in each Nation, but multiplied by Min(Total Abductions in Nation / 100, 0.5).

Influence is one of the more dangerous resources for the Aliens to possess, because the Alien Enthrall Missions can all spend Influence to get Bonus Attack. So it may be worth actively reducing global public support for The Servants as much as possible, to reduce the Alien Faction's Influence income.

Operations

The Alien Faction has a Ops resource type like any other faction, and their interaction with this resource type is practically identical to any human faction. But notably:

• Terrorize Missions can spend Ops to get Bonus Attack.
• Human Marine Hab Modules produce Ops, but no Alien Hab Module produces Ops.

Boost

The Alien Faction has a Boost resource type like any other faction, but can never use it to build Habs or Spaceships. Nevertheless, the Aliens can still trade any Boost they produce to the Pro-Alien Human Factions.

Notably, all Boost produced by the Alien Nation is automatically given to The Servants. But any Boost produced by Orgs equipped by Alien Councilors will be given to the Alien Faction as normal.

Exotics

The Alien Faction is the only faction that has Exotics income. This income is determined by Campaign Difficulty (inverted when playing The Servants), and multiplied by the Alien Progression Rate Campaign Setting.

At the 100% Alien Progression Rate of the default Long Campaign Mode:

The Alien Faction's Monthly Exotics income

Difficulty	Cinematic	Normal	Veteran	Brutal
Monthly Exotics Income	10	20	30	40

Notably, the Alien Faction never builds Habs in Earth Interface Orbit, so they cannot sell Exotics to Earth in exchange for Money. They can trade it to Pro-Alien Human Factions though. Furthermore, the Pass Technology and Grant Alien Control missions both transfer Exotics from the alien faction to a pro-alien human faction.

The alien faction also gains 5000 Exotics when their T3 technology unlocks.

Antimatter

The Alien Faction has an Antimatter resource type like any other faction, but do not have any Habs or Spaceships that cost Antimatter.

Nevertheless, the Aliens do produce Antimatter in their Nanofactory hab modules.

Notably, the Alien Faction never builds Habs in Earth Interface Orbit, so they cannot sell Antimatter to Earth in exchange for Money. They can trade it to Pro-Alien Human Factions though.

Basic Space Resources

The Alien Faction has the same five basic resources types as any other faction: Water, Volatiles, Base Metals, Noble Metals, and Fissiles. These basic resources are used in the construction of Habs and Spaceships just like for any other faction.

On the other hand, the technologically superior and highly automated Alien hab modules consume very little space resources compared to their Human counterparts.

One significant difference is that the Alien Faction does not receive any Mining bonuses from equipped Orgs. Instead, these Mining bonuses simply disappear, until The Servants research Hydra Diplomacy, at which point The Servants gain all of the Mining bonuses from Orgs that are equipped by Alien Councilors.

Consequently, it is not too difficult for the player to mine far more space resources than the Alien Faction, simply by collecting these Mining bonuses that the Alien Faction does not have access to.

Notably, the Alien Faction never builds Habs in Earth Interface Orbit, so they cannot sell these basic space resources to Earth in exchange for Money. They can trade it to Pro-Alien Human Factions though.

Alien Agents

Alien councilors always have 25 Loyalty, high Security, respectable Espionage and a set of unique missions. While powerful, these alien agents are usually unable to board a plane, forcing them to travel on foot, only moving between adjacent provinces. As the game progresses, regions that are owned or subverted by pro-alien groups may open up their airports, allowing alien councilors to fly between these regions.

Alien councilors are dangerous, and are notoriously difficult to deal with. Killing and detaining them is required to unlock certain research options, and to prevent the devastating outcomes of their activity. Alien councilors are also immune to natural death mechanics, and almost always have the Survivor trait, which prevents nukes from killing them.

Profession Key Stats Total	Stats	Missions	Scientist Traits	Other Notable Traits	Faction Affinities
Hydra 40-71	7-12 2-5 10-15 5-10 4-8 2-8 10-13 25-25			Surv: 50%	: Ban : Ban : Ban : Ban : Ban : Ban : Ban : Only

Note: Alien missions not shown.

Flight

At the start of the game, Alien Councilors cannot get on planes. They can only travel between adjacent regions, or pairs of regions that are so close that there exists a project that would connect the pair.

An alien councilor can fly from any valid source region to any valid destination region:

Condition	Makes Region a Valid Source	Makes Region a Valid Destination
Region contains a UFO Landing	Yes	No
Region contains an Alien Facility	Yes	Yes
Region is part of the Alien Nation	Yes	Yes
Region's Nation is allied to the Alien Nation	Yes	Yes
Region's Nation's executive is controlled by a faction that has researched Hydra Diplomacy	Yes	Yes

In addition, an alien councilor can also fly to any region within the Alien Nation from any region on Earth.

Note: The only factions that can research Hydra Diplomacy are the three pro-alien human factions, namely The Servants, The Protectorate, and The Academy.

Recruitment

At the start of the game, alien councilors can only be recruited at the alien's starting ground base. So any replacement councilors have to board an alien Transport ship and travel all the way from their starting ground base to Earth, after which the transport ship crashes down on earth to deliver its occupant.

Alien councilors can be recruited on Earth under two conditions:

• An Assault Carrier has landed at any point in the past.
• There is a region on earth for which at least one of the following is true:
  • The region is part of the Alien Nation.
  • The region contains an Alien Facility.
  • The region contains a UFO Landing.

If both conditions are true, then new alien councilors can be recruited directly on earth, with a strong initial location preference for the Alien Nation over Alien Facilities over UFO Landings.

Note: This mechanism works by making the starting location of every alien councilor in the recruit list be somewhere on Earth. So even if the second condition is no longer valid, any recruits still sitting in the recruit list for the alien faction will still have their starting location be somewhere on Earth. This means that even after destroying all alien facilities, you may still have to kill up to 16 alien councilors before the earth is free of alien councilors.

Crashed UFOs

Alien Councilors that are not recruited on Earth have to board an alien Transport ship and travel all the way from their starting ground base to Earth. When this Transport ship arrives in an Earth Interface Orbit, it then performs a Rapid Landing operation that takes only 0.75 days.

This Rapid Landing operation can target any Region of Earth that meets any of the following conditions:

• The region does not have Space Defenses.
• The region's nation's executive control point is owned by The Servants, The Protectorate, or The Academy.
• The region belongs to the Alien Nation.

When the Rapid Landing operation completes, the following effects happen:

• The Alien Councilor that was on board the Transport ship is moved to the target region.
• The Transport ship is destroyed. (But any other ships in the fleet are not affected.)
• The target region gains 0.001 Xenoflora Growth Levels.
• A crashed UFO marker is created in the region, allowing human Factions to perform Investigate Alien Activity Missions on it.

Retaliation

Whenever an alien councilor is killed by a human faction that the alien faction is not at open war with, the alien faction will randomly select up to 3 space assets or space facilities belonging to that human faction, and mark them for death. Once a target is marked for death, the aliens will keep trying to destroy it for the next 5 years, even if they have vented all their hate against the human faction.

Note: A space facility can only be marked for death if it is in a nation where the human faction owns a control point, but The Servants do not.

Kill Method	Will Retaliate?
Destroy Ship that contains Councilor	Only if Councilor dies.
Destroy Hab that contains Councilor	Only if Councilor dies.
Nuclear Weapons	Only if Councilor dies.
Hard Target Councilor Trait	Only if Councilor dies.
Assassinate Councilor Mission	Only if Normal Success.
Detain Councilor Mission	Never

Alien Activity Investigation

Whenever a faction detects a mission that is performed by an alien councilor, the game places an Alien Activity site in the region where the mission occurred. The faction can then investigate this Alien Activity site by having one of their councilors perform the Investigate Alien Activity mission on it. Crashed UFO sites are also valid targets for Alien Activity investigations.

Effects

Investigating Alien Activities provides several beneficial effects for the faction:

Category	Conditions	Effect
Xenology Science	None	+1% Xenology Science per Alien Activity Investigation.
Alien Councilor Detection	Faction is performing Surveil Location mission in region or adjacent region	+1 Strength per Alien Activity Investigation, capped between 1 and 12.
Xenoforming Auto-Detection Threshold	None	65 Xenoflora Growth Levels - 1 per Alien Activity Investigation, capped between 0 and 65.
The Town That Stood Still Event	Picked Option 3	Higher Chance for the Good Outcome.

Increases

The number of Alien Activity Investigations done by a faction is increased by:

• +1 each time one of the faction's councilors performs the Investigate Alien Activity mission.
• +2 each time one of the faction's councilors successfully performs the Assassinate mission on an alien councilor.
• +3 each time one of the faction's councilors successfully performs the Detain mission on an alien councilor.
• +10 when the faction gets the Device Demystified event.

Alien Abductions

Our councilor has investigated some of these reported abductions, interviewing residents and local authorities. The local government continues to deny that anything has happened, and in fact has done its best to actively hinder us. Though we have no proof as yet, we suspect that other organizations are pulling strings to block our investigations.

Despite the obstacles, our councilor has confirmed that a small but statistically significant number of people and animals have gone missing in the area since the alien crash-landing. This is disturbing news – many among our faction had clung to the hope that despite their secrecy, the intentions of the aliens towards our species might be benevolent, or at least neutral. These apparent abductions leave little chance of that. But what is their purpose?

~ Investigate Alien Abductions Objective (The Resistance Variant), Terra Invicta, 0.4.86.

Effects

Abductions provide several beneficial effects for the Aliens:

Category	Conditions	Effect
Councilor Missions	Xenoform	Gain attack modifier bonus of region abductions × Difficulty Scaling.
	Enthrall Elites Enthrall Org Enthrall Public Enthrall Unaligned Elites	Gain attack modifier bonus of average abductions per region in nation × Difficulty Scaling.
	Enthrall Public	Gain propaganda strength bonus of region abductions × Difficulty Scaling × 4 × region population fraction of nation / number of turns per month.
	Build Facility	Enabled only if >15 Region Abductions.
	Enthrall Elites Enthrall Org Enthrall Public Enthrall Unaligned Elites Increase Unrest	Enabled for Alien Councilors only if Global Abductions > 6.
	Coup d'Etat Stabilize Nation	Enabled for Alien Councilors only if Global Abductions > 500 or the Alien Nation exists.
Megafauna Miltech	None	2 + Global Abductions / 100, capped at 6 Miltech. (But can grow beyond the cap through other means.)
Invader Army Miltech	None	6.75 + Global Abductions / 5000, capped at 9 Miltech.
Enable Random Event	>0 Abductions	Cults enabled.
		Localized Panic enabled.
		Sudden Flowering enabled.
	>1 Abduction	Vigilantes enabled.
		Mysterious Obelisk enabled.
		Terror from the Depths enabled.
	>2 Abductions	Haunted Forest enabled.

The Difficulty Scaling for Abductions is:

Difficulty	Cinematic	Normal	Veteran	Brutal
Difficulty Scaling	0.05	0.15	0.35	0.5

These numbers are also multiplied by the Alien Progression Speed. This is a slider you can adjust in Custom Campaign Settings. It is 100% on Long Campaign mode and 200% on Accelerated Campaign mode.

Furthermore, the Abduction bonuses to councilor missions are capped at 60 Abductions per region. While the aliens can continue to conduct more abductions in the region, the excess abductions do not provide any bonuses to any councilor missions.

Increases

Abductions are increased in the following ways:

Source	Conditions	Added Abductions
Abductions Councilor Mission	Normal Success	2 / (Turns Per Month), rounded up to nearest integer.
	Critical Success	4 / (Turns Per Month), rounded up to nearest integer.
Alien Nation	Each Month Each Region inside the Alien Nation	1
Surveillance Hab Modules	Each Month Each Region outside of the Alien Nation (2 × Sum of Module Tiers)% Chance	1
Invader Army	Occupying Enemy Region Each day it increases occupation	1
Surveillance Fleet	Each Surveillance Operation Each Region (Region Population / 10 million) chance	Number of Ships with Functional Surveillance Module
The Town that Stood Still event	Alien Councilor Nearby At most once every 6 months	0 to 6
Haunted Forest event	>2 Abductions Once Per Faction	0 to 4
Terror from the Depths event	>1 Abductions >25 Xenoflora Growth Levels Region has access to oceans At most once every 6 months	0 to 2

Removal

Abductions can be removed in the following ways:

Source	Conditions	Removed Abductions
Retire Alien Councilor	None	Months Since Recruited / 3, randomly spread over all regions.
Destroy Alien Facility	Using Army or Councilor Normal Success	20% of Abductions in region, rounded down to nearest integer.
	Using Army or Councilor Critical Success	40% of Abductions in region, rounded down to nearest integer.
Assault Xenoflora	Using Councilor Critical Success	1

Note: 'Retire Alien Councilor' means make the Alien Councilor stop being an Alien Councilor, by any means. Detain included.

Alien Xenoforming

Alien Xenoforming

Scattered and garbled reports of unusual plantlife have now given way to confirmed sightings of vegetation never before seen on Earth. Strange growths have erupted from the affected land, connected by a pulsing lattice of tendril-like roots. Although this unknown flora appears superficially plant-like, its connected nature is more analogous to fungal growth. Furthermore, small movements have been detected among and around these growths, suggesting that whatever has been done to the local environment has enabled other, as yet undocumented, forms of alien life to survive here on Earth.

While these changes remain localized for now, the ultimate purpose of this "xenoforming" is as yet unclear. Do our visitors similarly require it for their own survival, it is to gain some strategic foothold, are they growing something else within the affected environments — or do they seek to transform our entire world into a simulacrum of theirs?

~ Detect Xenoforming Milestone, Terra Invicta, 0.4.86.

Effects

Alien Xenoforming provides several beneficial effects for the Aliens, and also some beneficial effects for humanity:

Category	Conditions	Effect
Megafauna Spawning	>100 levels of xenoflora growth	Spawn a Megafauna army and lose 50 growth levels. If there is already a Megafauna in the region, spend up to 0.5 growth levels to heal the Megafauna to full.
Megafauna Healing	>75 levels of xenoflora growth	Allow Megafauna to heal in region.
Invader Army Healing	>75 levels of xenoflora growth	Additional 0.5% HP regen per day for alien armies in the region.
Councilor Missions	Abductions Turn Councilor	Gain attack modifier bonus of region xenoflora growth level / 20 × Difficulty.
	Enthrall Elites Enthrall Org Enthrall Public Public Campaign Increase Unrest	Gain attack modifier bonus of average xenoflora growth level in nation / 20 × Difficulty.
Mission Detection	Alien Councilor	Reduce noise by region xenoflora growth level / 5
Climate Change	Every Month	Remove 0.002875ppm CO2 × average xenoflora growth level.
Unrest Rest Value	Alien Nation	Reduce by average xenoflora growth level in nation / 20
Region Secession	To Adjacent Alien Nation Checked every 4 days	Increase chance by region xenoflora growth level / 10000
Annual Population Growth	None	Reduce by region xenoflora growth level × 0.005%.
Enable Random Events	>0.25 levels of xenoflora growth	Alien Friend enabled.
	>25 levels of xenoflora growth	Hunters enabled.
		Terror from the Depths enabled.
		Indigo Dreams enabled.
		Pretenders enabled.
	Visible to owning faction	Unfriendly Locals enabled.

Visibility

Region Xenoforming is hidden by default. But it automatically becomes visible to a Faction when there are at least 65 Xenoflora Growth Levels in the Region. This 65 level threshold is decreased by 1 for every Alien Activity Investigation done by the Faction.

Region Xenoforming can also be discovered by performing Surveil Location Missions in the region or adjacent regions. As well as by gaining the intel from another faction who has discovered them.

Increases

Alien Xenoforming is increased by the following:

Source	Can Create New	Can Add to Existing	Conditions	Added Xenoflora Growth Levels
UFO Crashdown	Yes	Yes	None	0.001
Xenoform Councilor Mission	Yes	Yes	Critical Success	11 to 20
			Normal Success	1 to 10
Sudden Flowering event	Yes	Yes	>0 Abductions	23.75 to 78.75 Depends on choice.
Hunters event	No	Yes	>25 Xenoflora Growth Levels, Pick the Pro-Alien option.	23.75 to 26.25
Mysterious Obelisk event	Yes	Yes	>1 Abductions, Pick Observe Obelisk option, 20% Chance	47.5 to 52.5
Pretenders event	No	Yes	>25 Xenoflora Growth Levels, <7 Cohesion, Pick Leave Alone option	23.75 to 26.25
Unfriendly Locals event	No	Yes	Xenoflora visible to owning faction, Region in Australia, Pick Xenofauna Harmony option	100
Daily Xenoflora Spread	Yes	No	>50 to 80 Xenoflora growth levels (Xenoflora growth levels / 2000) chance	0 to 1
Daily Xenoflora Growth	No	Yes	None	Xenoflora Growth Levels (Up to a cap.)

The amount of xenoflora growth levels needed for xenoflora to spread is scaled by region size and type. Specifically, it needs X levels, where X is calculated as follows:

1. Set X = (region area in km2) ^ 0.7 / 250, but capped between 50 and 70.
2. Round X down to the nearest integer.
3. Add 10 to X if the Region is Rugged.

The passive Daily Xenoflora Growth in a region is capped at X levels, where X is calculated as follows:

1. Set X to a random value between 0.025 and 0.065.
2. Divide X by 2 if the Region is Rugged.
3. Divide X by 2 if the Region has Latitude above 50 or below -50.
4. Multiply X by 2 if the Region has an Alien Facility.
5. Multiply X by the amount of atmospheric CH4 in ppm, then divide by 1.5.
6. Multiply X by the amount of atmospheric CO2 in ppm, then divide by 400.

Reduction

Alien Xenoforming can be reduced in the following ways:

Attacker	Mission	Bonuses	Conditions	Removed Xenoflora Growth Levels
Nuke		None	No Space Defense Facility	All Xenoflora Growth Levels
Region Damage		None	None	Xenoflora Growth Levels × Damage Strength
Space Fleet	Bombard	None	Green Lasers, Railguns, or Coilguns.	Depends on weapon.
Army	Assault Alien Asset	None	Normal Success	Xenoflora Growth Levels × Army Miltech / 10 × Army HP %
			Critical Success	Also Halve Xenoflora Growth Levels.
Councilor	Assault Alien Asset	None	Normal Success	(20 to 40) / (Turns per Month)
		Remove 1 Abduction	Critical Success	(40 to 80) / (Turns per Month)
Unfriendly Locals Event		Various Event Bonuses/Penalties	Xenoflora visible to owning faction, Region in Australia, Did not pick Xenofauna Harmony option	100
Alien Friend Event		Various Event Bonuses/Penalties	>0.25 Xenoflora Growth Levels, Picked Terminate Friend option	23.75 to 26.25
Pretenders Event		Various Event Bonuses/Penalties	Picked Humanity First unique option	23.75 to 26.25
Indigo Dreams Event
Haunted Forest Event
Terror from the Depths Event		Various Event Bonuses/Penalties	>25 Xenoflora Growth Levels, Region can access oceans, Picked Naval Warfare option (Needs a navy)	23.75 to 26.25
Hunters Event		Various Event Bonuses/Penalties	>25 Xenoflora Growth Levels, Picked Anti-Alien option	23.75 to 26.25

The Alien Flora, Xenoflora Defoliants, Xenological Culls, and Invasive Species Containment projects each multiply the damage done by Armies and Councilors against Xenoflora by 125%, compounding. So researching 3 will almost double the amount of xenoflora growth levels reduced by army and councilor Assault Alien Asset missions, and researching 4 gives a total damage multiplier of roughly 2.44×.

Notably, with all 4 projects, an army theoretically only needs 4.1 Miltech to clear out a entire region full of xenoflora with every assault. However, armies actually take damage first then deal damage in assaults. This significantly increases the Miltech required, because an army that assaults a xenoflora takes the following damage:

• On Critical Failure: (30% to 150%) / Base Miltech
• On Normal Failure: (15% to 112.5%) / Base Miltech
• On Normal Success: (0% to 75%) / Base Miltech
• On Critical Success: (0% to 15%) / Base Miltech

Where the Base Miltech is simply the army's home nation's Miltech, with all modifiers ignored.

Megafauna

Alien Megafauna

Where previously the land altered by the alien visitors was almost eerily still, now mountainous and monstrous silhouettes move through the unearthly vegetation. There were, until now, still those who refuted the presence of extraterrestrial beings on our world, but the startling footage of these immense new entities is something to demolish the convictions of even the most staunch unbeliever.

Their titanic bulk blots out the light; the land trembles at their step. Trees and buildings are pushed aside as if they were tissue paper, or are uprooted by vast tendrils as if they were mere seedlings, and, even miles away, the very air seems to bend at their deafening cry. All the world knows it now: giants are among us.

~ Alien Megafauna Spawns Milestone, Terra Invicta, 0.4.86.

A Megafauna is an army that can only fight other armies and cause damage to Regions. It cannot occupy Regions, or oppress Unrest. Nor can megafaunas be attached to Navies, or cost a nation any IP to upkeep.

The base Miltech level of a Megafauna army is 2 + Global Abductions / 100, but capped at 6 Miltech. So it only takes 400 total abductions (slightly more than 1 per region) to reach the 6 Miltech cap. However, multiple Megafaunas in the same region can merge together into one Megafauna army with an additional 0.1 Miltech for every Megafauna merged into it.

• When in battle with other armies, a megafauna behaves identically to any normal army.
• When in battle with a region, a megafauna simply does its Miltech × its health % / 2000 damage to the region every day.
• Outside of battle, megafaunas can only heal in the Alien Nation or in regions with >75 Xenoflora Growth Levels.
• A megafauna heals by 100% / (60 * Number of currently healing Megafaunas in the region) per day.

In practice, megafaunas deal fairly negligible amounts of damage. Their inability to heal in most regions means that they usually quickly exhaust their health and die before causing too much destruction. That can change significantly after the Alien Nation is created, which gives megafaunas a safe harbor to recover in, and rampant xenoflora growth can lead to giant hordes of hundreds of megafaunas, which can then merge into one army with absurdly high Miltech. When this happens, it can be helpful to remember the effects of a nuclear strike.

The following projects help to handle the megafauna threat:

• The Megafauna Necropsy and War Dog Necropsy projects each multiply damage done to megafaunas by 125%, compounding.
• The Urban Armoring project reduces the damage done by Megafaunas to your regions by 50%.
• The Xenofauna Harmony project, which is only available to The Servants and The Protectorate, completely eliminates all damage done by Megafaunas to Regions owned by Nations where you have executive control, and encourages them to move to Regions owned by other Nations.

All Human Factions complete the Alien Megafauna Spawns milestone when the first Megafauna spawns. Killing a Megafauna completes the Access Alien Megafauna milestone and unlocks the Destroy Megafauna Achievement.

Alien Surveillance

Earth Surveillance Fleets

Survey human behavior from a close Earth orbit. Grants the equivalent of one abduction in every Earth region.

~ Earth Surveillance Fleet Operation Description, Terra Invicta, 0.4.86.

Conditions

An alien fleet can perform an Earth Surveillance operation under the following conditions:

Category	Requirement
Location	The fleet must be in an Earth Interface Orbit
Not Busy	The fleet cannot be in combat or in transfer.
Ship Module	The fleet must contain at least one ship with a functional Alien Surveillance Module.

The operation will take 192 days to complete. During this time, any combat would force the operation to abort. Progress is not saved, so the fleet would have to restart the operation from the beginning.

Effects

For each region on Earth, there is a (region Population / 10 million) chance that the aliens will gain X Abductions in the region, where X is the number of ships in the alien fleet that have a functional Alien Surveillance Module.

Every ship in the alien fleet then exhausts their Alien Surveillance Module, which means they need to return to an alien space dock to restore its functionality.

Earth Surveillance Habs

As the Campaign progresses, the aliens will attempt to found a Surveillance Platform, Orbital, and Ring hab within the Earth-Luna planetary system. These habs serve the same role as their earth surveillance fleets.

Earliest Creation

The aliens are not allowed to found these Surveillance Habs until a certain number of years have passed. The exact number of years depends on the campaign settings:

Hab	Cinematic	Normal	Veteran	Brutal
Surveillance Platform	13	9	3	1
Surveillance Orbital	15	11	5	2
Surveillance Ring	17	13	7	3

These numbers are also divided by the Alien Progression Speed. This is a slider you can adjust in Custom Campaign Settings. It is 100% on Long Campaign mode and 200% on Accelerated Campaign mode.

Effects

Every month, for each region on Earth, there is an X% chance that the aliens will gain 1 Abduction in the region, where X is twice the sum of alien surveillance hab module tiers. If the region is part of the Alien Nation, then X is set to 100 instead.

Alien surveillance habs have static designs, so X is easy to compute:

• The Alien Surveillance Platform has exactly one Alien Observation Post, so it adds 2 to X.
• The Alien Surveillance Orbital has exactly two Alien Surveillance Arrays, so it adds 8 to X.
• The Alien Surveillance Ring has exactly two Alien Watchtowers, so it adds 12 to X.

So if the aliens have built all three, then each region has a 22% chance each month to gain 1 Abduction. Unless it is part of the Alien Nation, in which case the region has a 100% chance each month to gain 1 Abduction.

Module Stats

Hab Module	Build Cost	Monthly Upkeep	Monthly Income	Special
Alien Observation Post Project: Alien Only	0.4 4.5 0.1 60 Days Mass: 50 tons	15 16 Crew	4	Alien Surveillance. Part of an Unchangeable Hab. Max one per Hab.
Alien Watchtower Upgrades: Alien Surveillance Array Project: Alien Only	10 112.5 2.5 120 Days Mass: 1250 tons	80 64 Crew	25	Alien Surveillance. Part of an Unchangeable Hab. Max one per Hab. Allows Ships to resupply.
Alien Surveillance Array Upgrades: Alien Observation Post Project: Alien Only	2 22.5 0.5 90 Days Mass: 250 tons	40 32 Crew	10	Alien Surveillance. Part of an Unchangeable Hab. Max one per Hab.

Alien Coordination

This group has determined the aliens are of divine origin and has declared itself their heralds ... and defenders.

~ Encountering The Servants, Terra Invicta, 0.4.88.

As The Servants progress through their storyline, they begin to provide the alien agents with more support for their alien missions on earth:

Alien Coordination Mission Modifier at each level of The Servants' progress.

The Servants' progress	Total Value of Attack Modifier
Start of Campaign	0
Researched Alien Signatures	1
Researched Alien Methods	2
Researched Alien Operations	3
Researched Alien Movements	4
Completed Alien Diplomacy Milestone	6
Researched Hydra Diplomacy	10
Researched The Alien Nation	14

Note: This bonus does not require The Servants to own any control points anywhere.

Alien Enthrall

The situation is worse than we had feared.

All of the countries with high abduction rates are now showing aberrant political trends. We have tracked rapid swings toward pro-alien views in ways that are extremely concentrated by geography, spreading in ways that more closely resemble infectious disease vectors than communications networks. These changes are being accompanied by sharp shifts in policy, with key officials and leaders either being replaced with pro-alien figures or – more disturbingly still – abruptly changing their beliefs and publicly expressing conciliatory views toward the alien presence on our planet. Multiple independent reports have noted sudden and uncharacteristic behavioral changes in these individuals, describing them as aloof, phlegmatic, and disinterested in any issues other than human-alien relations. None of our sources were able to offer any explanation for these changes.

~ Research Alien Operations Objective (The Resistance Variant), Terra Invicta, 0.4.88.

The Abductions. The Xenoforming. The Surveillance. The Coordination.

Each of these actions, while providing some benefits of their own, serve one primary purpose: increasing the power of Alien Councilor Enthrall missions:

The Alien Enthrall Missions

Enthrall Mission	Human Analogue	Effect
Enthrall Elites	Purge	Takes the target control point from another faction, giving it to The Servants.
Enthrall Public	Public Campaign	Increases public support for The Servants in the target nation. Does not need to be performed in the nation's capital region.
Enthrall Org	Hostile Takeover	Takes the target org from another faction. The org is not given to The Servants.
Enthrall Unaligned Elites	Control Nation	Takes the target empty control point, giving it to The Servants.

• Alien Coordination buffs all enthrall missions.
• The average Abductions per region in a nation buffs all enthrall missions.
• The average Xenoforming per region in a nation buffs all enthrall missions except for Enthrall Unaligned Elites.

See Missions#Alien-Related_Missions for more details.

Alien Terrorize

Alien forces are attacking civilians in the ■■■■■ region of ■■■■■, causing widespread damage. Authorities there are pledging to seek conciliation with the aliens to prevent further attacks.

~ Terrorize UI Notification, Terra Invicta, 0.4.88.

Note: This section assumes that The Protectorate faction exists. If it does not exist in the chosen Campaign Settings, then The Servants will be used instead of The Protectorate.

Occasionally, an alien agent may choose to forgo subtlety and simply attempt to terrorize a region into submission. When successful, the leftmost control point that is not already owned by The Servants or The Protectorate will be given to The Protectorate. The executive can never be targeted unless it is the only control point in the nation.

If a faction's CP is taken away by the Terrorize mission, then the faction completes the Targeted By Terror Mission Milestone.

Depending on the outcome of the Terrorize mission, Propaganda for The Protectorate may automatically be performed on the nation. The strength of the propaganda is:

• 40 on Critical Success
• 20 on Normal Success
• 0 (no propaganda) on Normal Failure
• -10 on Critical Failure

Regardless of the Mission outcome, the region will suffer damage of strength between 0.01 and 0.07.

This mission is only granted by a unique alien org:

Org Stars	Stats and Missions	Bonuses and Resource Incomes	Affinities and Requirements	Purchase Cost
Salamander Shock Troops	3 Terrorize Region Extract Councilor	10% 8	Affinity: Banned: Not on Market

Alien Space Territory

The aliens consider everything in or beyond Jupiter's orbit as their territory. They also claim any system where they have a hab, except for Earth.

Any human space assets sent into alien territory will be attacked by the aliens, even if the aliens are not at war with the space assets' owners. The only exceptions are:

• The Servants, who can never be attacked by the aliens in space.
• The Protectorate, after they establish a non-aggression pact with the aliens.

Alien Habs

Apart from their Earth Surveillance Habs, Alien habs primarily serve two roles for the aliens: mining and building ships. Their nanofactories also produce Antimatter, though this Antimatter is not used for anything (except maybe trade).

Capturing Alien Habs

But for the human factions, the alien habs are full of goodies, just waiting to be cracked open and harvested. Bombarding an alien hab does not give anything. Destroying an alien hab just gives 10% of the resources used to build the hab as salvage and completes the Access Alien Tech milestone. But capturing an alien hab may give several rewards depending on the type of capture and mission outcome.

Different Hab Capture Methods and Success Level

Success Level	Capture Method	Can Happen to Alien Habs?
-1	Normal Success on a Marine Assault.	Yes
0	Critical Success on a Marine Assault.	Yes
1	Normal Success on a Councilor Assault Enemy Space Asset mission.	Yes
2	Normal Success on a Councilor Control Space Asset mission.	No
	Hab defects to faction in a random event.	No
3	Critical Success on a Councilor Assault Enemy Space Asset mission.	Yes
4	Critical Success on a Councilor Control Space Asset mission.	No
5	Hab traded to faction.	No

Rewards for Capturing an Alien Hab

Reward Category	Reward Amount	Minimum Success Level	Conditions
Reveal all Alien Councilors to Capturing Faction		-1	None
Complete Access Alien Tech milestone		-1	None
Complete Access Griffin Corpus milestone		-1	None
Reset Estimated Alien Hate Level		-1	None
Gain Salvage	Hab Build Cost × (2 + Success Level) / 10	-1	None
Gain Bonus Exotics	Hab Tier × (1 + Success Level) × (2.4 to 3.6)	0	None
Gain Bonus Exotics from Under Construction Spaceships	Ship Exotics Cost × Success Level / 4	1	Hab is currently building Ships
Gain Intel on Alien Faction	5 × Hab Tier × (1 + Success Level)	0	None
Complete Access Hydra Corpus milestone		-1	>1 Hab Tier
Complete Access Live Griffin milestone		3	None
		-1	Hab contains Space Dock or Point Defense module
Complete Access Live Hydra milestone		3	>1 Hab Tier
		-1	No Alien Councilors on Earth
Complete Access Salamander Corpus milestone		-1	None
Complete Access Live Salamander milestone		-1	None
Complete Access War Dog Corpus milestone		-1	Hab contains Barracks or T2+ Point Defense Module
Complete Access Alien Ship milestone		-1	Hab is currently building Ship(s)

Alien Mine Limit

Difficulty	Cinematic	Normal	Veteran	Brutal
Original Mine Limit	10	12	18	-
Years before Mine Limit Increase	25	20	10	0
New Mine Limit	10	15	25	35

These year values are divided by the Alien Progression Speed. This is a slider you can adjust in Custom Campaign Settings. It is 100% on Long Campaign mode and 200% on Accelerated Campaign mode.

Note: In some situations, the Aliens may exceed their Mine Limit by up to 50%.

Alien Primary Hab

The Aliens begin the game with one fully built t3 ground hab. This ground hab contains their wormhole module, which produces 200 Volatiles, 200 Base Metals, 50 Noble Metals, 10 Fissiles, 0.01 Antimatter, and 10 Exotics every month, as well as provides 100 Mission Control.

Note: The Exotics income is multiplied by campaign difficulty (1 for Cinematic, 2 for Normal, 3 for Veteran, and 4 for Brutal), and by the Alien Progression Speed. This is a slider you can adjust in Custom Campaign Settings. It is 100% on Long Campaign mode and 200% on Accelerated Campaign mode.

The location of this Alien Primary Hab is always set to a Dwarf Planet beyond the orbit of Neptune, on a hab site that produces all 5 basic resources. The specific selection process is as follows:

1. Consider all Dwarf Planet sites beyond the orbit of Neptune.
2. Remove any that are missing one of the 5 basic resources.
3. Let N be the highest produced by any of the remaining sites.
4. Remove any site that does not produce at least 75% of N .
5. Pick the remaining site whose total resource output sum is highest, but each of the 5 basic resources has the following weight multipliers:
   • Water = 10
   • Volatiles = 10
   • Base Metals = 20
   • Noble Metals = 60
   • Fissiles = 80

Alien Ships

Killing an Alien ship in combat completes the Access Alien Ship milestone if the battle is won.

Ship Hull	Hard Points						Structural Integrity		Construction Time (days)
	Nose		Hull		Utility				T1		T2		T3
	Human	Alien	Human	Alien	Human	Alien	Human	Alien	Human	Alien	Human	Alien	Human	Alien
Destroyer	2	2	2	2	5	5	18	24	202.5	384	135	256	81	128
Fighter	1	1	1	1	1	1	3	3
Monitor	0	1	4	4	3	5	16	22	180	384	120	256	72	128
Escort	0	0	2	2	2	4	7	10	90	96	72	72	32.4	24
Lancer	4	6	3	4	7	7	36	52	540	540	360	360	240	180
Titan	4	6	6	8	9	7	64	90	607.5	1080	405	720	270	480
Assault Carrier		0		6		6		90		1080		720		480
Dreadnought	3	4	8	8	7	9	48	72	540	720	360	480	240	240
Battlecruiser	3	3	2	3	5	6	24	48	270	540	180	360	108	180
Battleship	2	2	6	6	6	7	40	60	450	540	300	360	200	180
Cruiser	2	2	3	4	7	7	20	36	270	480	180	320	108	160
Gunship	1	1	0	0	2	3	4	6	60	64	48	48	21.6	16
Mothership		4		16		7		512		1152		768		512
Frigate	1	1	2	3	5	5	12	20	120	128	96	96	43.2	32
Corvette	1	1	1	1	3	4	8	10	90	96	72	72	32.4	24

Alien Assault Carrier

An alien transport has set down in the ■■■■■ region in ■■■■■. Reconnaissance imagery shows it disgorging what appear to be troops and war machines. We believe we only have 30 days to stop it.

Any attempt to assault the landing using armies will surely be regarded as a declaration of war upon the aliens and their interests on Earth.

~ UFO Landing UI Notification, Terra Invicta, 0.4.86.

An Alien Assault Carrier is a slow transport ship that carries 3 Invader Armies to Earth. This is usually the first serious threat that a player has to face:

• Shooting down the Assault Carrier generates roughly 31.5 alien hatred, lighting the spark for a long and grueling war in space.
• Yet that is usually preferable to letting it land, because the aliens gain significant benefits from landing assault carriers on earth.

Earliest Creation

The aliens are not allowed to build Assault Carriers until a certain number of years have passed. The exact number of years depends on the campaign settings:

Difficulty	Cinematic	Normal	Veteran	Brutal
Years since Campaign Began	16	12	6	0

These numbers are also divided by the Alien Progression Speed. This is a slider you can adjust in Custom Campaign Settings. It is 100% on Long Campaign mode and 200% on Accelerated Campaign mode.

UFO Landing

When the Assault Carrier arrives in an Earth Interface Orbit, it will begin a Land Army operation that takes 3 days. If intercepted while performing this operation, the assault carrier's fleet must accept combat.

This Land army operation can target any Region of Earth that meets any of the following conditions:

• The region does not have Space Defenses.
• The region's nation's executive control point is owned by The Servants and the nation is allied to the Alien Nation.
• The region belongs to the Alien Nation.

But a region cannot contain two assault carriers at the same time. So each Land Army operation will land only one of the assault carriers in the fleet.

Effects

The aliens appear to have moved to the next stage of their plan for Earth. This is no midnight visitation or surreptitious abduction: This is an open declaration that they are here, and they are powerful. We believe they are preparing to deploy an army of alien war machines -- our visitors having dispensed with all attempts at subterfuge, and arriving on Earth en masse, in plain sight and conspicuously well-armed. Whether this show of force is intended to be a deterrent or is but the vanguard of a full-scale invasion may well depend upon humanity's response to it.

~ Aliens Land Army Milestone, Terra Invicta, 0.4.86.

As soon as the first Assault Carrier touches the Earth, the Aliens Land Army milestone is completed for all human factions. Simultaneously, the ManyAliensOnEarth flag is permanently set to true. This flag is used for many purposes, but its primary role is serving as one of two conditions needed for the alien faction to recruit their councilors directly on earth. Consequently, any attempts to remove all alien councilors from Earth are henceforth significantly more difficult.

The region that the Assault Carrier landed in also becomes a valid source region for Alien Councilors to fly away from, since it contains a UFO landing marker. This UFO landing site can be attacked and destroyed by Armies, Councilors, and Fleets.

If the ship is destroyed by an army or a councilor, then the responsible faction may complete the following campaign milestones:

Needs Critical Success?	Milestone	Conditions
No	Access Alien Ship	None
	Access Alien Tech	None
	Access Griffin Corpus	None
	Access Hydra Corpus	Faction can see Alien Councilors
Yes	Access Live Griffin	None
	Access Live Hydra	Faction can detain Alien Councilors

If the ship is not destroyed within 32 days, then the UFO landing marker disappears and is replaced by 3 Invader Armies that start at 50% health but will quickly recover to full if not immediately engaged in combat.

Invader Armies

An Invader Army mainly differs from normal armies in the following ways:

• It does not cost any Investment Points to upkeep.
• Its Miltech level is not attached to any nation. Instead, it is 6.75 + Global Abductions / 5000, but capped at 9. So it takes 11250 Global Abductions to reach the Miltech cap of 9.
• Whenever it occupies a region, the region is immediately annexed by Alien Nation.
• It takes far less splash damage from nukes. Though the nuke will still automatically kill the strongest army in the region.
• Whenever it increases its occupation of an enemy region, it also conducts 1 Abduction.
• It does not need to be in a friendly region to heal. But the other requirements still apply.
• When healing:
  • If there is an active UFO landing in the same region, then the daily heal amount is set to 100%.
  • Otherwise the daily heal amount is set to:
    • 1% Base
    • +0.5% if there are >75 Xenoflora Growth Levels in the region.
    • +1% if there is an Alien Facility in the region.
    • +1% if the region is owned by the Alien Nation.
    • +0.5% if the region is owned by nation whose Executive Control Point is owned by The Servants.

A nation that is being invaded by Invader Armies may find its Abductions increasing once per day per Invader Army. So even if the Invader Armies eventually fail to conquer the nation, the sheer number of Abductions generated may open the doors for the Alien Councilors to enthrall the nation's elites, handing it over to The Servants.

Killing an Invader Army unlocks the Destroy Alien Army Achievement, and completes the following milestones:

• Access Alien Tech
• Access Salamander Corpus
• Access War Dog Corpus
• Alien Army Destroyed
• 40% Chance: Access Live Salamander

Alien Facility

The aliens are moving forward with whatever their plans are for Earth and are establishing fixed, defended installations in what they must consider their territory.

~ Alien Infrastructure Milestone, Terra Invicta, 0.4.86.

Effects

An Alien Facility provides several beneficial effects for the Aliens:

Category	Effect
Mission Detection	-6 Mission noise for alien councilors in the region.
Flight	Allow alien councilors to fly to and from the region.
Alien Councilor Recruitment	Allow alien councilors to be recruited on earth, if an Assault Carrier has ever landed in the past.
Xenoflora	2x cap on daily xenoflora growth in the region.
Invader Army Healing	Additional 1% HP regen per day for alien armies in the region.
Alien Nation	One of the requirements for The Servants to give the nation to the aliens via the Grant Alien Control councilor mission.

Visibility

Alien Facilities are always visible to aliens and The Servants. Other factions can discover them by performing Surveil Location Missions in the Region or adjacent Regions, or by gaining the intel from another faction who has discovered them.

Creation

An Alien Facility is built wherever and whenever the Build Facility councilor mission is performed. All alien councilors can perform this mission. The Servants unlock a special org that grants them this mission after researching The Alien Nation project.

The following conditions need to be true for the Build Facility councilor mission to be used:

Category	Requirement
Cost	500 Money must be paid by councilor's Faction.
Reach	The councilor must be able to travel to the target region.
Unique	The region cannot already have an alien facility.
Nation Control	The Servants or Aliens must own every control point in the nation.
Abductions	The region must have at least 15 Abductions.
Occupation	The region cannot be occupied or being occupied by war enemies.

Destruction

An Alien Facility can be destroyed in the following ways:

Attacker	Mission	Bonuses	Conditions
Space Fleet	Bombard	None	None
Army or Councilor	Assault Alien Asset	Remove 20% of Abductions in region (rounded down to nearest integer).	Normal Success
		Remove 40% of Abductions in region (rounded down to nearest integer).	Critical Success
		Gain 2.25 to 3.75 Exotics.	Normal Success
		Gain 4.5 to 7.5 Exotics.	Critical Success
		Complete Access Alien Tech Milestone.	None
		Complete Access Salamander Corpus Milestone	An Assault Carrier has landed
		Complete Access Live Salamander Milestone	An Assault Carrier has landed Mission Critical Success
		Complete Access Hydra Corpus Milestone	An Assault Carrier has landed Faction can see Alien Councilors 50% Chance OR Mission Critical Success
		Complete Access Live Hydra Milestone	An Assault Carrier has landed Faction can Detain Alien Councilors Mission Critical Success 50% Chance

Alien Administration

Flag of the Alien Administration

The aliens have carved a nation out of the former territory of ■■■■■. Through human politicians there, the new alien nation is presenting itself to the world as a unifying force capable of solving Earth's problems.

With the aliens as the power behind the throne, the nation appears invulnerable to usual attempts to assume political control - crackdowns, purges and coups simply will not succeed. Only an internal rebellion or an outright invasion has a chance to remove the aliens from power.

~ Alien Nation Founded UI Notification (war variant), Terra Invicta, 0.4.86.

The Alien Administration is a nation that is created either when an Invader Army occupies a region or when The Servants give a nation to the aliens via the Grant Alien Control mission. The control points of the Alien Nation are always under the alien faction's control, and ordinary coups cannot succeed. The only ways to remove regions from the Alien Nation are:

Secession

Raising Unrest and wrecking Cohesion in the Alien Nation can cause non-capital regions of the Alien Nation to randomly break off to form their own Nations or to join existing human nations that have claims on them.

Revolution

The game periodically checks whether Unrest in the Alien Nation is >9.9.

If so, a revolution occurs. But in contrast to revolutions in human nations, revolutions in the Alien Nation do not change who owns the control points.

Instead, regions within the Alien Nation may randomly break off to form their own nations or to join existing human nations that have claims on them. See Foreign_Relations#Alien_Related for details.

And then the aliens will gain 80 hatred, split up among the factions responsible for raising unrest in the Alien Nation.

War

Wars involving the Alien Nation differ from normal wars in that regions are never occupied.

Instead, every time an alien nation's region is occupied, it breaks off to form its own nation or to join an existing human nation that has claims on it.

If the capital of the alien nation is occupied, then all regions within the Alien Nation may randomly break off to form their own Nations or to join existing human nations that have claims on them. See Foreign_Relations#Alien_Related for details.

And then the aliens will gain 80 hatred, split up among the factions responsible for conquering the Alien Nation.

The creation of the Alien Nation can trigger a massive shift in inter-faction relationships, as humanity recognizes the growing threat that is now in their midst.

If the Alien Nation has >6 Miltech, then killing Human Armies that are under the control of the Alien Nation completes the following milestones:

• Access Alien Tech
• 50% Chance: Access Salamander Corpus
• 5% Chance: Access Live Salamander

Overthrowing the Alien Nation, via revolution or war, completes the following milestones:

• 65% Chance: Access Alien Tech
• 50% Chance: Access Hydra Corpus
• 40% Chance: Access War Dog Corpus
• 37.5% Chance: Access Salamander Corpus
• 25% Chance: Access Live Salamander

If more than one faction was responsible for overthrowing the alien nation, then each of these milestones are given to a random faction, weighted by how much they contributed to overthrowing the alien nation.

Alien Total War

See Diplomacy#Alien_Total_War.

Tier 3 Alien Technology

After enough time passes, the aliens unlock their third tier of ship technology. This new tier includes upgrades to their drive, power plant, lasers, magnetic guns, and missiles.

Years before Aliens get T3 Tech

Difficulty	Cinematic	Normal	Veteran	Brutal
Years	35	25	16	10

These values are divided by the Alien Progression Speed. This is a slider you can adjust in Custom Campaign Settings. It is 100% on Long Campaign mode and 200% on Accelerated Campaign mode.

Alien Progression Rate

Controls the general rate of alien progression in the campaign. Affects invasion speed and aggression towards human factions.

- Alien Progression Rate tooltip, Terra Invicta, 0.4.86

The actual effects of having X% Alien Progression Rate are:

• Exotics Income for the Alien Faction is multiplied by X%.
• Exotics Salvage from battle is divided by X%.
• Abduction Bonus to Alien Missions is multiplied by X%.
• Research given by Pass Technology councilor mission is multiplied by X%.
• Increase in Alien Maximum Hate per Year is multiplied by X%.
• Alien Passive Hate Gain is multiplied by X%.
• Every "Years Before Aliens Can Do Something" timer has its duration divided by X%.

Banned Orgs

These orgs are somehow immune to alien takeover.

Org Stars	Stats and Missions	Bonuses and Resource Incomes	Affinities and Requirements	Purchase Cost
Sahar Launch Systems	Control Space Asset	5% 5% 1.5 8	Affinity: Banned: Not on Market
Bifrost Command Staff	3 Launch the Bifrost	5%	Affinity: Banned: Not on Market
Random NGO12	Stabilize Nation	4% to 6% -5 to -1 25%: 1 to 2	Banned: NOT Sociopath	50 to 100
Random Engineering13	1	3 50%: 10 to 20 30%: 1 to 31	Banned: Cybernetics	1000 to 1500 10 to 20
Mission to the Hydra	3 Forge an Alliance Assault Enemy Space Asset		Affinity: Banned: Not on Market
Random NGO41	Advise Stabilize Nation	2% to 4% 1% -5 to -3 1	Banned: Arrival Domestic Politics NOT Sociopath	25 to 50
Spaceguard Section	Assault Enemy Space Asset Control Space Asset	5% 5% 1.5 8	Affinity: Banned: Not on Market
The Sword of the Devoted	3 Herald Our Masters Abductions		Affinity: Banned: Not on Market
Children of the Cog	50%: 1 to 2 2 to 3 2 Investigate Councilor Investigate Alien Activity Surveil Location	1% 1% to 2% 1% 1 2 to 5 50%: 0.5 5 to 10	Affinity: Banned: Cybernetics	500 to 1000 100 to 200
Anarchy Inc.	1 2 Sabotage Project Sabotage Hab Module Sabotage Facilities Steal Project	3% 2 to 5 2 to 4 33%: 1 to 2	Affinity: Banned: Quantum Computing	250 to 750 100 to 150
Random NGO22	Advise	4% to 6% -10 to -6 25%: 1 to 2	Banned: NOT Sociopath	50 to 100
Alien Administration Transition Team	3 Build Facility Grant Alien Control Xenoform Abductions		Affinity: Banned: Not on Market
Janus Section	3 Close the Gate Assault Enemy Space Asset		Affinity: Banned: Not on Market
Random NGO11	Stabilize Nation	2% to 4% 25%: -2 to 0 25%: 1	Banned: NOT Sociopath	25 to 50
Special Activities Section	5 5 10 3 3 3 Assault Alien Asset Advise Stabilize Nation	5% 10% 2 4 20	Affinity: Banned: Not on Market
Reddington Agency	25%: 1 2 25%: 1	1 to 4 2 to 3 25%: 1 to 5	Affinity: Banned:	350 to 600
Random NGO21	Advise	2% to 4% -5 to -3 25%: 1	Banned: NOT Sociopath	25 to 50
Random Engineering12	50%: 1	2 35%: 5 to 10 20%: 1 to 21	Banned: Augmented Reality	250 to 500
The Pherocyte Masters	10 5 10 5 3 Tame the Enemy Control Nation Purge Public Campaign	20% 10	Affinity: Banned: Not on Market
The Protectorate Authority	3 Claim Hegemony Assault Enemy Space Asset Dominate Nation		Affinity: Banned: Not on Market
Shiva Rocketry	Assault Enemy Space Asset	5% 5% 1.5 8	Affinity: Banned: Not on Market
Shield Initiative	1 1 2 Stabilize Nation Advise Defend Interests	2% 1 50%: 1 to 5 50%: 2 to 5 5 to 10	Affinity: Banned:	500 to 750
Jolt Games	1 Assault Alien Asset	50%: 1 to 5 1 to 2	Affinity: Banned:	50 to 100
Random NGO43	10%: 1 10%: 1 25%: 1 Advise Stabilize Nation	6% to 8% 3% -20 to -10 1 to 3	Banned: Arrival Governance NOT Sociopath	100 to 200
Pherocyte Deployment Team	15 5 5 5 Control Nation Purge Public Campaign Control Space Asset	20% 10% 10% 4 2	Affinity: Banned: Not on Market
New Epoch	Assault Enemy Space Asset Control Space Asset	5% 5% 1.5 8	Affinity: Banned: Not on Market
Random NGO23	10%: 1 10%: 1 Advise	6% to 8% -20 to -10 25%: 1 to 3	Banned: Arrival International Development NOT Sociopath	100 to 200
Aegis Defense Division	1 to 2 2	1 to 2 2 to 3	Affinity: Banned:	1000 to 1500
The Omega Solution	3 Trigger the Weapon Assault Enemy Space Asset		Affinity: Banned: Not on Market
Espero	3 to 4 1	50%: 1 to 15 1 to 2	Affinity: Banned: Space Mining and Refining Dallas	350 to 600
The Executioners	5 10 3 10 Assault Alien Asset Purge Assassinate	5% 10% 10% 5	Affinity: Banned: Not on Market
Project Exodus Engineers	3 5 Advise Control Space Asset	5% 10% 10% 10% 20% 1 10% 9 4 40	Affinity: Banned: Not on Market
Orbital Ventures	Control Space Asset	5% 5% 1.5 8	Affinity: Banned: Not on Market
Random NGO13	10%: 1 Stabilize Nation	6% to 8% -10 to -5 25%: 1 to 3	Banned: Arrival Economics NOT Sociopath	100 to 200
Second Chance	2 50%: 1 3 Assassinate Assault Alien Asset Coup d'Etat Detain Councilor	2% 2 to 3	Affinity: Banned: Terrestrial Military Science	350 to 600
Random Vigilante11	50%: 1 to 2 Surveil Location Increase Unrest	2% to 7% 25%: 1% to 3% 2 to 3	Affinity: Banned: Not on Market	20 to 40
The Shield of the Devoted	3 5 6 10 Control Nation Purge Defend Interests	10% 5% 10% 3 4	Affinity: Banned: Not on Market
Random NGO42	Advise Stabilize Nation	4% to 6% 2% -10 to -6 1 to 2	Banned: Arrival Law NOT Sociopath	50 to 100
Random NGO32	25%: 1	4% to 6% 2% -10 to -6 25%: 1 to 2 20%: 1 to 21	Banned: Biotechnology NOT Sociopath	50 to 100
Random NGO31		2% to 4% 1% -5 to -3 25%: 1 10%: 1 to 11	Banned: NOT Sociopath	25 to 50
SpaceTech	3	3% 1 to 2 20 to 30	Affinity: Banned: Ad Astra	1500 to 2500
Academy Envoys	3 6 2 Control Nation Defend Interests Advise Control Space Asset	10% 2 10	Affinity: Banned: Not on Market
Random Engineering11	10%: 1	1 20%: 1 to 5 10%: 1 to 11	Banned:	50 to 150
Asterion Stellar Systems	Control Space Asset	5% 5% 1.5 8	Affinity: Banned: Not on Market
Random NGO33	10%: 1 50%: 1	6% to 8% 3% -20 to -10 25%: 1 to 3 30%: 1 to 31	Banned: Clean Energy NOT Sociopath	100 to 200
Gannet Exploration	Control Space Asset	5% 5% 1.5 8	Affinity: Banned: Not on Market
Reeducation Team	5 3 6 Crackdown Public Campaign Defend Interests	5% 10% 3 2	Affinity: Banned: Not on Market