Academy - heroes | Academy - Heroes Endless Space Guide

Heroes are very important in Endless Space. Well developed hero can change poor backwoods into proper system within few turns. A problem is, that you have very limited number of heroes to hire. Truth to be said, during the majority of the game, you'll have only three such characters. Academy will offer them from the beginning of the game, and their number will be increasing periodically.

After researching the specific technology, your hero cap will be increased about 2.

Thanks to this tech, you have five heroes to rule the galaxy

But with the following technology, you obtain few more heroes:

Another three heroes, eight is what you have

In Endless Space you have fire hero classes, every hero can have two of them. Classes are assigned randomly to the particular character, who gains XP. Experience points allow them to level up and take another skill or upgrade the owned one. In general, your subordinates split on two: governors and leaders. First ones are perfect in system managing. The others upgrade your army very well.

Hero's classes

ADMINISTRATOR	CORPORATE	COMMANDER	ADVENTURER	PILOT
Increases production and Food	Increases Science and all resources exploitation	Upgrades fleet statistics	Spying, killing, stealth and stealing	Similar to Commander. Allows also faster taking over hostile system

It's worth to mention here, that the best choice is to level up hero only in one of his classes. Thanks to that you get a real expert in the particular field. Very important is also initial choice of heroes. Your first (and sometimes second also) hero should be a good governor, who'll improve economic of the planet.

All heroes have the same attributes:

VIEW OF THE HERO SPECIALIZED IN MANAGING

VIEW OF THE HERO-PILOT

Every hero has also abilities, which he gains after level up. They modifies power of particular attribute. They are gradated, so you can have two different abilities or one but twice upgraded. They can focus on single attributes, or increase all of them.

Here you can see freshly colonized system without any hero:

The red framed thing is the most important. This system has very poor Food, Science and Dust. Only Industry is on abided level, but is also too low to make upgraded crops in some reasonable time: 12 turns in Endless Space is a long time.

Notice how everything changes, when you add a hero to the system.

Time of waiting is three times smaller, what is more the Food and Industry increased greatly. The Science barely changed and the Dust got on minus (hero's salary doubles the system's income) but two last elements are marginal. In quickly putting system on its feet main role always plays Industry, what stands for the speed of production.

To hire a hero, choose a hero you'd like to in the Academy window and click on HIRE (you can check hero's profile by clicking INSPECT). Placing hired unit to the system/fleet takes place in the Fleet/System View or directly during choosing the particular fleet or system on the galaxy map.