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	Success factors	Effect
Advise	10 Influence	1	Councillor's Command Councillor's Administration Councillor's Science	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	None	Attempts a diplomatic exchange with the targeted councilor's faction.
Defend Interests	20 Influence	1	None	Temporarily decreases the success chance of Coup, Crackdown and Purge missions in the targeted nation.
Deorbit	None	1	None	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.
Go To Ground	None	1	None	Go into hiding in an Earth region to escape enemy detection and attacks.
Investigate Alien Activity	5 ops	2	None	Investigate an alien site.
Orbit	0.1 Boost	1	None	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.
Surveil Location	None	1	None	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.

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.

Mission	Cost	Success XP	Difficulty	Attacking modifiers	Defending modifiers	Effect
Assassinate	Variable 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	Variable Ops	3	4	Command Ops Spent	Alien Defenses Protect Mission: Command	Destroys the targeted asset.
Control Nation	Variable 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 a control point in the targeted nation.
Control Space Asset	Variable 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	Variable Ops	2	6	Councillor's Command Oligarchs control point in the target nation Ideological similarity with the target's population	Target's Cohesion Target's GDP Target's Government Target's Unrest Target's faction owns an Oligarchs control point in the target's nation 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 population	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.
Detain Councilor	Variable Ops	2	8	Councillor's Investigation Security Apparatus control point in the target's nation Intel on the target	Target's Security Protect Target mission on the target	Targeted councilor is detained for interrogation and their mission is canceled.
Extract Councilor	Variable Ops	2	8	Councillor's Command Control points in the target's nation Security Apparatus control point in the target's nation	Target's faction owns a Security Apparatus control point in the target's nation	Targeted detained councilor becomes free.
Hostile Takeover	Variable Money	2	12	Councillor's Administration Detained councilor National Industries control point in the target's nation Target's faction has 0 money	Org owner's Administration Target's faction owns a National Industries control point in the target's nation	Seize an org from the targeted faction.
Inspire	Variable Influence	2	8	Councillor's Persuasion	None	Improve the loylty of another councilor. May also bring back a turned councilor.
Investigate Councilor	Variable Ops	2	0	Councillor's Investigation Control points in the target's nation Target is detained	Target's Espionage Protect Target mission on the target Target's faction owns a control point in the target's nation	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.