
Players can spend 25 Minor Artifacts to discover an precursor site with a cooldown of 5 years. Each AI Empire will only offer an artifact once.Īvailable only with the Ancient Relics DLC enabled. Empires that hold a Protective, Friendly or Loyal attitude will offer the artifact for free instead of asking for payment. If the Player empire has the Warrior Culture civic it can threaten the AI empire to surrender it for free, the success rate depending entirely on both empires' Relative Power. The time is lowered to 13.3 years for Gestalt Consciousness empires.ĪI empires can also sell a discovered artifact to Player empires for 1000 Energy. If every precursor anomaly has been investigated but no empire managed to collect 6 artifacts a random event can trigger every 20 years and add another precursor anomaly on one of the previously investigated planets. 6 artifacts are required to reveal the location of a precursor's home system. Precursor anomalies grant a special project which once investigated grants a small amount of Engineering, Physics or Society research as well as a precursor artifact. Their ruins are scattered across the galaxy for the player to find via anomalies or archaeology sites. The Precursors are long dead galactic empires predating even the fallen empires and the curators.
