Space Emperor

Controls 

• Left Click: Select units, structures, or issue directives from the UI.
• Right Click & Drag (or Middle Click): Pan the camera around the wasteland.
• W, A, S, D / Arrow Keys: Pan the camera.
• Scroll Wheel: Pan the camera faster.

🚀 HOW TO PLAY (INDIRECT CONTROL)

You cannot order your units to attack or move directly. Instead, you rule through capitalism:

• Build Infrastructure: Construct guilds, markets, and hab blocks to generate tax revenue.
• Issue Bounties (Flags): Place "Explore" or "Strike" flags and fund them with your credits. Mercenaries will evaluate the payout against their own greed and courage to decide if it's worth their time.
• Protect the Spire: Use your automated TAX-BOT 5000s to gather revenue from your buildings and return it to the Spire. If the Zenith Spire falls, your empire collapses.

💀 THE ROSTER (YOUR "HEROES")

Your operatives have their own AI, wallets, and morale. Keep them happy, or they might just turn on you.

• Imperial Troopers: Cheap and brave, but prone to friendly fire and recklessly throwing grenades.  
• Bounty Hunters: Greedy and fast. They prioritize high payouts and big aliens—and won't hesitate to rob your Tax-Bots if they go broke.
• Dark Adepts: Powerful force-users who can hypnotize up to 4 aliens to fight for them. Beware: if they gain too much power with a full cult, they will rebel and try to overthrow you.
• HK-Androids: Fearless, flamethrower-wielding killing machines. But if you fail to pay their massive upkeep costs, their "Eradication Protocol" kicks in, and everyone becomes a target.

🏗️ THE INFRASTRUCTURE

Expand your colony to survive the alien waves:

• Garrisons, Outposts, & Sanctums: Deploy your Troopers, Hunters, and Adepts.
• Cantinas & Black Markets: Essential for a thriving empire. Injured or terrified mercenaries flee here to drink, heal, and buy weapon upgrades, funneling their personal gold back into your tax pool.
• Hab Blocks: Generates indentured serfs who wander the map repairing your damaged buildings.
• Defense Turrets: Automated, static defenses to hold the line when your mercenaries are too busy drinking.

👽 THE THREAT

The planet is infested with Xeno-Hives that continuously spawn mutating threats:

• Swarmers: Fragile but numerous, leaving behind toxic acid puddles when they strike.
• Hunters: Stealthy stalkers that turn invisible to ambush your forces.
• Colossi: Massive siege beasts that use a devastating ground-slam to knock back defenders and crush your buildings.