Missions

Periodically, the game will enter the mission phase, during which all factions will secretly assign their councilors to missions. These missions will be resolved in a sequence over the next few days or weeks. While some missions are automatically successful, most are contested and require a success roll. Missions typically target nations, regions, control points, space facilities, and other councilors.

Between mission phases, missions resolve in a partially predetermined order, denoted by the number of small clock symbols visible in the mission description. Uncontested and defensive missions trigger earlier than contested ones. When two councilors are attempting the same mission, the one with the higher primary attribute used in calculating the mission success chance goes first.

Uncontested Missions

Uncontested missions are always successful.

Mission	Cost	Success XP	Effect
Advise	10 Influence	1	Improves a nation's or hab's research output, combat capabilities and financial performance. Scales with the councilor's Command, Administration and Science. Additional councilors with the same mission provide a diminishing benefit.
Contact	10 Influence	1	Attempts a diplomatic exchange with the targeted councilor's faction.
Defend Interests	20 Influence	1	Temporarily decreases the success chance of Coup, Crackdown and Purge missions in the targeted nation.
Go To Ground	None	1	Go into hiding in an Earth region to escape enemy detection and attacks.
Investigate Alien Activity	5 ops	2	Investigate an alien site.
Protect Target	None	1	Applies the councilor's Command or Security to the targeted councilor, region or hab. Will also prevent councilor from dying in failed assault missions.
Surveil Location	None	1	Increases the chance to detect other factions' agents in the targeted hab, fleet or region. May also detect hidden alien assets in nearby Earth regions.
Orbit	0.1 Boost	1	Move from Earth to any orbit in the Earth-Luna system, or from any space body to a hab or ship in orbit. Undercover trait is required to target other factions' ships and tier 1 habs.
Deorbit	None	1	Move from a hab or ship in orbit to the surface of a space body, or from any location in the Earth-Luna system to Earth.

Contested missions

For contested missions, the success chance is determined by adding all the relevant bonuses and maluses for a particular mission, and the faction conducting the mission may spend resources to improve its chance of success. If the bonuses and maluses add up to zero, the success chance is 50 percent; otherwise, each point in one direction has a decreasingly powerful impact on the outcome. Changing conditions on Earth can modify success chances between the mission assignment phase and the mission resolution.

When a contested mission resolves, a random number between 0 and 100 is generated; if it is less than or equal to the success chance, the mission is a success; otherwise it fails. Results that are less than 10% of the success chance mark a critical success, which typically offers bonuses over a normal success; results in the top 10% of the range of possible failure values are a critical failure and have worse consequences.

Contested missions have a variable cost.

Mission	Resource	Success XP	Difficulty	Attacking modifiers	Defending modifiers	Effect
Assassinate	Ops	3	12	Espionage Ops Spent Security Apparatus Control Point Detained Target Intel on Target	Security Local Control Points Protect Mission: Security	Kills the targeted councilor.
Assault Alien Asset	Ops	3	4	Command Ops Spent	Alien Defenses Protect Mission: Command	Lead a combat unit against the targeted alien asset.
Assault Enemy Space Asset	Ops	2	0	Command Ops Spent Attacking Force Strength	Joint Council Command Hab Size Hab Support Shortages Decommissioning Hab Defending Force Strength Protect Mission: Command	Attempt to capture the targeted hab. Requires Marines at the councilor's location. Fleets must dock with enemy habs to launch an assault. Station may drop troops to the surface, and bases may assault nearby hab sites. Requires spare Mission Control.
Control Nation	Influence	2	0	Persuasion Influence Spent Popular Support Control in Larger Allies / Federations Control Points in Neighbors Bureaucracy Control Point	Size of National Economy Control Points in Rivals	Gain an unowned control point in the targeted nation.
Control Space Asset	Influence	2	12	Persuasion Influence Spent Target has Negative Influence	Council Loyalty Crew Size Hab Size Hab Support Shortages Decommissioning Hab Difference in Ideology Defending Force Strength Defend Interests Protect Mission: Security	Targeted hab or ship joins the councilor's faction.
Coup d'Etat	Ops	2	6	Command Ops Spent Popular Support National Unrest Elite Dissatisfaction Oligarchs Control Point	Joint Council Command National Cohesion Elite Satisfaction Size of National Economy Defended Control Point Oligarchs Control Point Democracy	Targeted nation's control points become unowned.
Crackdown	Influence	2	0	Investigation Influence Spent Popular Support Security Apparatus Control Point Target Over Control Point Cap	Council Administration Size of National Economy Popular Support Defend Interests	Temporarily disables the benefits of the targeted control point, removes Defend Interests mission protection and increases the Purge mission success chance.
Detain Councilor	Ops	2	8	Investigation Ops Spent Security Apparatus Control Point Detained Target Intel on Target	Security Local Control Points Protect Mission: Security	Targeted councilor is detained for interrogation and their mission is canceled.
Extract Councilor	Ops	2	8	Command Ops Spent Local Control Points Security Apparatus Control Point	Nearby Councilors' Security Detaining Faction Joing Security Security Apparatus Control Point	Targeted detained councilor becomes free.
Hostile Takeover	Money	2	12	Administration Money Spent National Industries Control Point Detained Target Intel on Target Target has Negative Funds	Administration National Industries Control Point	Seize an org from the targeted faction.
Inspire	Influence	2	8	Persuasion Influence Spent	None	Improve the loylty of another councilor. May also bring back a turned councilor.
Investigate Councilor	Ops	2	0	Investigation Ops Spent Local Control Points Detained Target	Espionage Local Control Points Protect Mission: Security	If used on a councilor from a different faction enables targeting them with other councilor missions and discovers more about their faction. If used on a councilor from the same faction it discovers their real Loyalty.
Public Campaign	Money	2	0	Persuasion Money Spent Control in Larger Allies / Federations Control Points in Neighbors Mass Media Control Point	Nation Population Censorship	Increase public opinion in the targeted nation towards the councilor's faction.
Purge	Influence	2	6	Espionage Influence Spent Popular Support Control in Larger Allies / Federations Control Points in Neighbors Legislature Control Point Party Control Point Target Over Control Point Cap Crackdown Mission	Council Administration Size on National Economy Difference in Ideology Defend Interests Legislature Control Point Party Control Point Control Points in Rivals	Gain an owned control point in the targeted nation.
Sabotage Facilities	Ops	2	12	Espionage Ops Spent National Unrest	Joint Council Security Military in Region Protect Mission: Security	Sabotage the targeted space facility.
Sabotage Hab Module	Ops	2	4	Espionage Ops Spent	Joint Council Security Defend Interests Hab Support Shortages Protect Mission: Security	Sabotage the targeted non-core hab module in the current hab.
Sabotage Project	Ops	2	6	Espionage Ops Spent	Security Hab Support Shortages Protect Mission: Security	Target a councilor or hab with an engineering module to remove progress on a project.