Essence of theEndless (Endless Space)

A planet of your own design, in a location of your choosing with enough resources to jumpstart your interstellar colonization effort.

You have the option to stay Concrete (Keeping your Body) or go Virtual (Upload to Virtual Systems). You can choose to adopt the appearance of the Endless if you so desire. Regardless of your choice you'll receive a ship corresponding to your choice.

Complete access to the Tech Tree regardless of which species it belong to.

You'll receive the following to serve as your servitors.

• Sowers a machine race created by the Virtual faction of the Endless. Who traverse the universe & make worlds livable & habitable for you. They come, establish industries, create the basic infrastructure needed to make a wild planet habitable, and move on to the next one.

• An army of Cravers to serve you. They were created by the Virtual Endless to use as a weapon against the Concrete Endless. They would swarm the enemy and use any available resources to feed the hive, replenishing their numbers and strength.

Complete Mastery of Dust & the ability to create more at will. Dust is valuable and versatile, the Endless created an infrastructure of nanobots and nano-computers to maintain their society. Some used these infinitesimally small machines to help maintain their biological bodies, while others used constructs of these nano-elements nown collectively as "Dust" as virtual bodies once they uploaded themselves. The technology was sufficiently advanced to self-replicate itself and self-assemble. While individual motes of Dust had very limited computing power, the ability to "talk" and network was built in. As a result, "clouds" of Dust could form extremely sophisticated systems. During the time of the Endless it improved computing systems and networks, added intelligence to things that were usually "dumb" (roads, buildings, tables, lights, clothing, etc.), and even locked itself together to form structures. Sufficiently large quantities of Dust could form networks and supercomputers; small quantities could assemble into cybernetic enhancements.

• Dust is blackboxed so nobody but you can reverse engineer it, without your express permission or be successfully corrupted or subverted by another force unless you build or modify it to possess such a weakness.

Once you've conducted the appropriate research & have the required amount of resources needed you can desired object instantly assembled in a location of your choosing.

All the skills needed for creating & managing a successful space empire.

Can optionally choose to max out the tech tree, regardless of which species it belong to.

Can optionally be dropped into the Endless Space setting.