Remains of the Ether Drake's mate: The remains can be studied to unlock the Artificial Dragonscales technology.Building a mining station above it will reveal both of the following within 50 years, though not necessarily at the same time: The Dragon's Hoard, which outputs 30 Energy and 30 Minerals.If an Admiral was leading the fleet that defeated it, it will gain the Dragonslayer trait.The Empire gains the Ether Drake Trophy Relic.The Empire Capital gains the unique Dragonslayer Monument planetary feature.If the Ether Drake loses 85% HP it will stay or retreat to Dragon's Hoard and heal.ĭefeating the Ether Drake grants the following rewards: After the Ether Drake leaves if the systems were colonized the starbases will be rebuild into frontier outposts. Initially the Ether Drake will stay and guard Dragon's Hoard but should it be attacked enough to lose 20% HP it will go to two random systems belonging to the attacker and destroy their starbases. As a result, shielded fleets equipped with energy weapons are the ideal counter. The Ether Drake uses only energy weapons that do -20% damage to shields and has high hull and armor but no shields itself. Gestalt Consciousness empires will automatically get the rewards above upon defeating the Fortress, skipping the event chain entirely.Ī random class F star system in the galaxy will feature a Molten World called Dragon's Hoard guarded by the Ether Drake, a dragon-like guardian the size of a moon. Successfully investigating the Enigmatic Fortress will grant 1000-5000 Research across all fields as well as unlock the Enigmatic Encoder and Enigmatic Decoder technologies. Supply Dark Matter ( -10 Dark Matter) (science ship)Įvent failed - the vault and all ships in the system are destroyed, every habitable planet is turned into a Tomb world and every uninhabitable one into a Molten world. Remove center and rightmost poles from the pedestal Search for torus-shaped indentations on the bulkhead Place metal rings around the remaining two poles Local Power Surge - Go with the lower estimate ( -50 energy) (science ship) Local Power Surge - Go with the higher estimate ( -500 energy) (science ship)
Letting the timer expire at any point will result in the vault repowering. The installation consists of the following stations:ĭefeating the Enigmatic Fortress will start a lengthy event chain that must be completed to gain its rewards. The Enigmatic Fortress uses regular components and can be countered appropriately. In addition carrier ships have point defenses themselves.ĭefeating all 6 Asteroid Hives will grant 500 Energy and 2000 Society research in addition to allowing the system to be safely mined.Ī random class A star system in the galaxy will house the Enigmatic Fortress, a massive space station guarded by numerous unique defense platforms. As a result carrier ships are the ideal counters as the Asteroid Hives have no point-defense themselves and launched strike craft will engage and destroy the enemy ones before attacking the guardians. The Asteroid Hives use only strike craft as their weapons. If the system is claimed with a Starbase the Asteroid Hives will awaken with the following MTTH based on the number of constructed mining stations: Entering the system for the first time will display an event window hinting that there's more to the system than meets the eye. Reanimated guardians cannot be merged into fleets or be commanded by admirals.Īvailable only with the Leviathans DLC enabled.Ī random system in the galaxy will have an asteroid belt containing 5 unique crystalline asteroids with deposits of 6-8 Minerals and 6 unselectable asteroids with one of them producing a chirping-like sound. AI empires will only attack a guardian if their fleet power is at least 40k.Īvailable only with the Necroids DLC enabled.Įmpire with the Reanimators civic that kill an organic guardian will gain the option to issue a special project that costs 10000 society research to resurrect the guardian on their side. Guardians get various bonuses to make them stronger based on the game difficulty.
Guardians have an immense amount of health and should only be engaged mid-late game. While one can just stumble over one during exploration, they can also be found with the help of the Curator Enclave. They are marked with a skull icon both in the fleet power box and on the galactic map, and the exact strength number can only be seen with debug mode on. They can be found in special predetermined systems and rival moons in size and mass. Guardians are extremely powerful Spaceborne aliens added in various DLCs.