Prepare before you leave
Make sure the colony is producing the gear and supplies your soldiers need before departing.
Check your soldier count and loadout; expeditions draw on the base's output, so an under-prepared run can weaken the colony.
Combat basics
Expeditions are first-person roguelite combat against hostile ships, infantry, tanks, mechs, elites and sector overlords.
Enemy attacks include bullets, lasers, missiles, drones, artillery and bullet-hell patterns, so positioning and loadout choice matter.
What you bring back
Successful runs return resources, Weapon Cores and Core Fragments, new citizens and spread of your creed.
Cores feed the combat-growth systems; resources and citizens feed the colony.
How prisoners feed the colony
Captured enemies can be returned and converted through the prison system.
This closes the loop: expeditions supply the base with both material and manpower.
Source boundary
Primary source checked: 2026-08-26. Pax Autocratica is in Steam Early Access, so changing information should be rechecked before publication.
Primary source: Official Steam listing for Pax Autocratica.