Items & Artifacts•Guide
Items & Artifacts
Learn when and how to use speedups, shields, teleports, scans, and Ephoran artifacts.
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.
