If the entire fleet is destroyed, the Hero will return to the Academy for several turns to recover from their injury, during which you can't assign them. If the rest of the Hero's fleet is destroyed but the Hero survives, they'll continue commanding the (now empty besides their ship) fleet this is the only way to have a Hero command a fleet by themselves. If a Hero's ship is destroyed in combat, but at least one other ship from their fleet survives, they'll revive at end of combat with minimal health. Every hero has a Hero Ship specific to their class these take a diverse set of modules (including some unique to Hero ships) and do not add any CP to the fleet. You can assign Heroes to your fleets, and they will participate in space combat.

If the attacker's fleet contains a ship with the Tractor Beam module (only equippable on Behemoths and Carrier-class hulls), the defender is not allowed to Retreat.

If not, the retreating fleet will be entirely destroyed (after a confirmation dialog warning about this). If there is a starlane connecting to a friendly or neutral system, the retreating fleet will take 60% health damage (possibly destroying already-damaged ships) and begin moving toward it.

The defender attempts to leave the system before being destroyed by the opposing fleet.

The battle ends after the third phase, or if either side loses all their ships. When the battle begins, the flotillas fire weapons at each other across three distinct combat phases, gradually moving to optimal ranges as determined by each fleet's tactics.

Each fleet chooses a battle tactic, and distributes their ships across up to three flotillas, aided by some basic information provided about the enemy fleet's composition and effectiveness. (If there are multiple hostile factions in the system, the attacker can choose which to engage.) From this position, the attacked fleet has 2 options, fight or retreat. It occurs when an attacker's fleet chooses to attack another hostile fleet in the same system (only possible in neutral or attacker territory if in cold war with the defender unless the attacker has 'Righteous Fury' law) by taking the Attack action, which causes them to automatically engage the strongest hostile fleet. While extremely deadly and versatile in their original state, their ultimate purpose is to evolve and become specialized.Ship combat takes place in orbit around systems. These gigantic ships are remnants from the mysterious Endless era. Their goal is to reach this Sanctified Equilibrium as quickly as possible by eliminating those species unlikely to survive in the long term.

The Illo are reasoning machines whose credo is Survival of the Fittest. Powerful and versatile, Hissho fleets can easily switch between straightforward and devious loadouts thanks to numerous polyvalent slot modules capable of hosting both support and defense or attack modules. They are best suited for admiral positions thanks to strong damage and fleet upkeep bonuses but if push comes to shove, they make decent governorsвЂ¦ as long as your goal is to make your system a manpower and spaceship factory. FOUR NEW HEROESДЄs a faction well versed in the art of combat, the heroes are focused on warfare and space battle. Crushingly strong in offence, the Hissho will only fall if you cannot sustain your war economy and let your Honor wither away.

It also drives their empire Obedience which replaces happiness. This new resource can only be replenished through combats is used to power special abilities. The Hissho are a military and expansion-oriented faction whose main gameplay feature is Keii. About This Content Endless Space 2: Supremacy introduces the Hissho Major Faction to the game, as well as a new massive galactic platform available to all Factions: the Behemoth Ship.

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