Starting hero is a lumeris (duh)/seeker, Lumeris talents are not really that worthwhile with the later top tiers not being bad for planet management, but not providing much value in combat (unlike some OP races that get T2В +80% fleet energy damage (sophons, vodyani.), look out for those heroes on market, since they are currently gamebreaking). Pacifism sux if your opponents are assholes, and it's efficiency scales of the number of players in the game, but as a republican, you can score stronger bonuses than other peaceful races currenly picked with ridiculous frequency (like unfallen). They start off as a republic (best gov, if you ask me) on an Atoll planet with gnashast pop pacifist/military government (enabling you to go for lower fleet costs, if dire need arises). This bonus is far from defining your gameplay and almost irrelevant in most playthroughs, but faction wise makes sense, so you can sell off middle planets and not break your trade route setup. The ability to sell your planets/outposts comes in handy for diplomatic means, but it is not going to be used overly frequently unless you feel like being a nice person, it can help you combat the growing price of new planets and overcolonization on rare occasions, and get you out of trouble by simply dropping said outpost/colony for other player to leave you alone (and then to tryhard by wardecing again and killing you without said system).ДЄs far as racial bonuses go, you have the blockade breakers, which will provide little help, by enabling you to trade at reduced efficiency even past blockades, this can come in handy in crowded galaxy in which you were forced to have indirect trade routes through other empire's planets.

It frees up your construction queue and industry to do other things, but lategame it can tie your hands with planets being worth 4,5K, 20K and more, but you should never get there on smaller maps. As for the planet broker affinity, it is not that great, in the early game, it feels really good and strong while you can just go shopping around the galaxy, but the outposts get quite expensive quite quickly (first is just 223, second up 340ish but 10th is 2K for instance).

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