Phase 1 — Establish your colony
Assign citizens to the core jobs: mining and gathering for raw materials, hauling to move them, research to unlock tech, and production to make weapons, armor, food and supplies.
Aim for a self-sustaining base before you commit soldiers to the field. Stable logistics make every later expedition cheaper.
Phase 2 — Prepare your first expedition
Before leaving, check your soldier count, their gear and your supply buffer. Expeditions consume the colony's output, so over-committing can starve the base.
Pick a target you can handle; early runs are about collecting cores and resources, not clearing the hardest sectors.
Phase 3 — Run the expedition
Fight in first person alongside your soldiers. Collect Weapon Cores, resources, new citizens and creed spread as you clear encounters.
Bring prisoners back when you can — weakened enemies can be converted at the base instead of killed.
Phase 4 — Return and develop
Feed expedition results into the colony: convert prisoners, spend cores on growth, and expand production with the new resources.
Exact mission sequences, boss orders and numerical thresholds are still being mapped by the community, so this route focuses on the confirmed system interactions rather than a fixed script.
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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.