Items & Artifacts•Guide
Items & Artifacts
Browse the complete database of consumables, tracking items, and ancient relics in Interstellar Empires. Learn how to optimize speedup matrices and map scans.
Topics covered: Inventory Directory, Speedups & Scanning Scans
Items provide instant bonuses or unique effects. They can be acquired from missions, events, black market trades, and alliance stores.
Consumables & Combat Logistics
Instant-use items that accelerate your empire's progression, protect your empire, or enhance military operations.
- Building Speedup — Accelerates construction and structure upgrade queues.
- Training Speedup — Accelerates ground recruitment and starship production.
- Research Speedup — Accelerates scientific breakthroughs in Research Labs.
- Healing Speedup — Accelerates casualty repair in the Recovery Bay.
- Hyperdrive Jump — Reduces active fleet travel time on the Galaxy Map by 50%.
- Planetary Shield — Protects your planet from incoming galaxy attacks, raids, and scouting.
- Portal Shield — Protects your portal from hostile Portal Network attacks.
- Base Teleport — Relocates your planet to targeted galaxy coordinates and resets portal symbols.
- Random Teleport — Relocates your planet to random galaxy coordinates and resets portal symbols.
- Frequency Shifter — Re-randomizes your Portal symbols to shake off attackers without moving your planet.
- Black Market Refresh — Instantly re-rolls and refreshes the inventory of your personal Black Market.
- Instant Portal Mission — Instantly resolves an open Portal Mission and returns surviving units immediately with zero delay.
Artifacts, Cores & Fragments
Rare components required for unit enhancements and discovering ancient coordinates.
- Core Shard — Unlocks higher maximum level caps for Ephoran Unit Cores.
- Catalyst Dust — Enhances individual unit core stats across Crimson, Cobalt, and Jade tracks.
- Unknown Fragment — Encrypted precursor data crystal that can be synthesized into Symbol Fragments.
- Symbols Fragment Cryptographic address fragments. Collect all 6 matching symbols to unlock an Encrypted Cache.
Observatory & Alliance Scans
Generated by the Galactic Observatory or purchased from the Alliance Store. Consume scans to spawn custom targets and anomalies.
- Pirate Ship Scan — Spawns a selectable-tier Pirate Ship near your base coordinates.
- Unknown Object Scan — Spawns a selectable-tier Unknown Object anomaly near your base.
- Subspace Anomaly Scan — Spawns a Subspace Anomaly in the Portal Network for coordinated Alliance Rallies.
