House Vernius of Ix

Leader: Earl Rhombur Vernius

Starting Bonuses

• Spice Fields in neutral and controlled regions can be harvested by Tethered Combine Harvester Drones.
• Factions in truce get the effects of unresearched development that have been researched by Vernius.
• Mixed S-Vault districts are split to give district bonuses

Starting Malus

Villages not connected to the Nodal Network through Neural Nodes suffer -50% ressource productions

5k Hegemony Bonus

• Can File Patent on researched developments that no other faction has researched.
• Can research 1 development without having researched its requirement.

10k Hegemony Bonus

• Can Obfuscate a single researched development.
• Each Knowledge point increases the production of all other resources by 0.2%.

Councilors

• Can build multiple Main Base buildings at the same time in the same district of S-Vault
• Removed Main Base buildings in S-Vault are reimbursed fully
• Gain 1 Knowledge per district bonus

• Villages neighboring a single Vernius region cost -20% Authority to Annex
• The furthest connected Neural Node generates an Airfield

• Maximum Influence increases by 5 per Knowledge
• Immediately gain 200 Influence when entering Conflict with another faction

• Infiltration levels required for spying missions are lowered by 1
• While no development is in progress, 50% of Knowledge is turned into Intel

Heroes

• Hero trait:[list]
• +20% drone recruitment speed
• Spying operation launched in Nuwa’s region last 2 days longer
• Nearby Tethered units have +1 armor and move 20% faster

Can deploy a repairing station that heals nearby drones. Cannot move while the repairing station is active.

• Hero trait:[list]
• A single unit can get +1 gear in the armory
• C’tair has stealth near ally non-mechanical unit and ally villages
• C’tair’s first attack executes inside ixian territory.

• Leaves combat and becomes stealth
• Must be near an ally non-mechanical unit or an ally village

Ixian Units

Buildings

• +2 Knowledge per exploited Spice Field
• -2 Fuel Cell Requirement for Combine Harvester Drone

• Connected Neural Nodes produce 1 Fuel Cell
• +2% knowledge per connected Neural Nodes

• Connect the region to the Nodal Network, Tethering drones in the region and neighboring regions.
• Can only be build in region where exactly 1 neighbor is connected to the Nodal Network

Developments

• Can spend up to 2 Fuel Cell in Combine Harvester Drone to increase their production
• Unlock the Spice Silo
• Unlock the Spice Laboratory

• Can spend up to 4 Fuel Cell in Combine Harvester Drone to increase their production
• +0.5 Spice production per Knowledge

• When out of fuel cells, Water is used in its stead
• Unlock the second gear slot in the armory

• +5 Command Point
• Agents assigned on Spacing Guild Information produce 2 Fuel Cell
• Unlock the Command Post

• +10 Command Point
• +0.5% recruitment and regeneration speed per Knowledge

• Gain +5 Standing on Council Opening per active Truce
• +2 Knowledge per active Truce

• Unlock Analytical Machine Agent and get one for free
• Unlock the Harmless Gadget Treaty
• Unlock the Intelligence Agency

• +1 Knowledge per information field with at least 1 Analytical Machine Agent
• Information level increases by 1 in factions that have accepted a Harmless Gadget treaty

• Infiltration Cells neighboring a region connected to the Nodal Network do not count towards the maximum of Infiltration Cells
• Unlock Assassins

• The Nodal Network can optionally connect across Deep Deserts
• Each node in the longest path of the Nodal Network gives +1 Knowledge and +2% authority production

• Enemy factions pay +30% authority to capture a region neighboring at least 2 region connected to the Nodal Network
• Unlock the Neural Core

• +2 free Automated Militia in Village connected to the Nodal Network
• In controlled regions, enemy units suffer -4% health per day per node connected to the main base through this region.