Completing Projects increases the Power of both the Emperor and those who partook in its completion. Each Project is overseen by a project leader of your choosing, and is supported by three 'Contributors' who excel in a relevant field of expertise.
Expanding the Empire is achieved through Projects, which include scouting new systems, colonising planets, and building new infrastructure like trading hubs. Alternatively, Inquisitors can be used to unravel the plots and schemes of other houses, the information from which can be used to have conspirators arrested, thereby removing them from the power structure.īut the most effective way to influence houses of all stripes is simply giving them things to do. These interstellar spies can be dispatched into rival houses to covertly monitor their activity or perform heavier handed actions such as assassinations. Like Crusader Kings, Alliance has an entire system dedicated to subterfuge, which revolves around characters known as “Inquisitors”. In which case, a subtler approach might be required. But it’s unlikely you’ll be able to do this early on. If you’re powerful enough, you could simply force their house leader into exile or remove them for their post. More belligerent houses are trickier to deal with. These House Heads can then be stuffed into the Galactic Council, where they can influence votes on issues such as whether to cap domestic spending, or whether to curtail the Emperor’s power. Friendlier houses can be brought into the fold with compliments, support for their projects, and the occasional bribe. The point is they don’t like you, which will affect your approach to uniting them (though sometimes vendettas can be resolved simply by saying sorry, which is nice). The reasons for behind these vendettas are not made clear by Alliance, which is a shame, but it also doesn’t matter. Some will be friendly or indifferent toward you, while others will have vendettas or may have even sworn vengeance against you. Your relationships with the various houses don’t start off equal. To that end, one of your most important goals is surveying the political landscape between you and the other Great Houses.
There will always be more problems than you can effectively deal with, so you need to focus on what needs to be done, what can be most realistically achieved, and what will best benefit both you and the Empire. Although this was annoying, it taught me the first rule of running an Empire: learn who to ignore.
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