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.

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.

Mission	Cost	Success XP	Difficulty	Success factors	Failure factors	Effect
Advise	10 Influence	1	0	Councillor's Command Councillor's Administration Councillor's Science	Always successful	Improves a nation's or hab's research output, combat capabilities and financial performance. Additional councilors with the same mission provide a diminishing benefit.
Contact	10 Influence	1	0	None	Always successful	Attempts a diplomatic exchange with the targeted councilor's faction.
Defend Interests	20 Influence	1	0	None	Always successful	Temporarily decreases the success chance of Coup, Crackdown and Purge missions in the targeted nation.
Assassinate	Variable Ops	3	12	Councillor's Espionage Security Apparatus control point in the target's nation Target is detained Intel on the target	Target's Security Protect Target mission on the target Target's faction owns a control point in the target's nation	Kills the targeted enemy councilor.
Assault Alien Asset	Variable Ops	3	4	Councillor's Command	Protect Target mission on the target	Destroys the targeted asset.
Control Space Asset	Variable Influence	2	12	Councillor's Persuasion Target is being decomissioned Target's faction has negative influence Ideological similarity with the target's faction	Target's core module tier Target's crew Defend Interests mission on the target Protect Target mission on the target	Targeted hab or ship joins the councilor's faction.
Coup d'Etat	Variable Ops	2	6	Councillor's Command Oligarchs control point in the target's nation Ideological similarity with the target's faction	Target's Cohesion Target's GDP Target's Government Target's Unrest Another faction owns control points in the target	Targeted nation's control points become unowned.
Crackdown	Variable Influence	2	0	Councillor's Investigation Security Apparatus control point in the target's nation Target's faction exceeds its control points cap Ideological similarity with the target's faction	Target's GDP Defend Interests mission on the target	Temporarily disables the benefits of the targeted control point, removes Defend Interests mission protection and increases the Purge mission success chance.