Dominions

A dominion is a system you rule but do not run. It develops by itself and pays you a share of what it makes.

What a dominion gives you

• A share of its credit, technology and ideology. See Dominion Tax Rate.
• It builds by itself. See Self-development.
• It counts toward your faction's score, like your systems. See Population class.

Your active lexes and your faction's traditions apply to a dominion the same way they apply to your systems.

What you cannot do there

You cannot order buildings or ships in a dominion. Unlike your own systems, a dominion gets no defense from its population.

Getting a dominion

A Siderian in the system can use Control to make it your dominion.

• It works on an autonomous system.
• It also works on another player's dominion, even a faction-mate's.
• It never works on a system a player runs.
• You need a free dominion slot. See System and dominion limits.
• The system must be in a sector your faction holds, or next to one. See Star systems.
• The higher the system's stability, the more likely a Control fails.

No Navarch can stop a Control, whatever its stance. See stances.

You can also turn one of your own systems into a dominion with Liberate, and a dominion back into your own system with Administer. See Administrative Operations.

Losing a dominion

• You use Abandon on it. It becomes autonomous and no one owns it. See Administrative Operations.
• Another player's Siderian uses Control on it. It becomes their dominion.
• A Navarch's conquest takes it. It becomes the conqueror's system. See Star systems.

Under attack

A Navarch can bombard or pillage your dominion. A successful pillage takes its loot from your own credit, technology and ideology, not from the dominion. The loot is based on the dominion's full output, even though you only receive a share of it. See siege.

If a dominion's output is negative, your share of it is negative too, so it lowers your income. See Dominion Tax Rate.