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From joining your first alliance to managing a multi-system sovereignty campaign, this guide covers the social and political systems that define Outer Directive's endgame.
To found an alliance, you need a one-time payment of 500 Structural Alloys and 100 Circuit Boards. This is intentionally expensive for a new player. Founding an alliance is a mid-game commitment, not a day-one action.
When creating an alliance, you set:
New players should join an alliance rather than create one. The Alliance Browser lets you search by region, size, activity level, and recruitment policy. Look for alliances active in your part of the galaxy.
When you join, you start at the Recruit rank. Recruits can access shared facilities in alliance-controlled systems and participate in fleet operations, but they cannot access the treasury or vote on sovereignty decisions. Promotion to Member and beyond is at the leader's discretion.
Full control. Sets diplomacy, manages sovereignty, controls treasury, promotes and demotes all members. One per alliance.
Can manage recruitment, issue fleet commands, spend from the treasury (with limits), and manage sovereignty structures.
Full access to alliance facilities and fleet operations. Can view treasury balance but not spend. Can vote on proposals.
Basic access. Can use alliance facilities and join fleets. Cannot view treasury details or vote. Probationary period.
Claiming sovereignty over a star system is the primary alliance endgame objective. The process works in three stages:
100 * n^1.5 where n is your total claimed systems.Sovereignty benefits include: +25% extraction yield, -50% marketplace fees for alliance members, access to Jump Bridges for fast travel between claimed systems, and the ability to build Capital Shipyards.
Diplomatic relationships are managed through the Alliance Diplomacy panel. Only Leaders can propose treaties; Officers can vote to ratify them. All treaties are system-enforced and publicly visible.
The four treaty types:
The transparency of diplomacy means politics is played on an open board. Alliances build reputations over time: who honors agreements, who breaks them at the first opportunity, who can be trusted in a coalition.
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