Value in,
reward out.
In EMPIRES, you earn rewards by adding value to a multi-layered economy, one that sustainably generates revenue by serving the demands of players from CITADELS.
Multi-Layered EconomySignature Required
Ashes of Mankind
EMPIRES
Ashes of Mankind · Volume I
EMPIRES
An idle MMO and corporate strategy game inside the Ashes of Mankind universe. You are a Freelancer, technically free, practically owned by The Consortium. The Consortium leases the land, emits the order permits, taxes what you produce.
Your job is to carve a piece out of that system.
The Consortium · Edict the First
“We do not promise equality. We deliver order.
We do not offer democracy. We provide prosperity.”
Posted at every Deployment Bay on Ortus
One economy.
Two games. Both real.
EMPIRES is where the economy gets made. CITADELS is where the economy gets consumed. Manufactured by a Corporation on Ortus, sold to a Revenant who needs it on Floor 14 tonight.
I
Where it is made
EMPIRES
Idle MMO. Corporate strategy. Resource extraction, research, manufacturing.
The forge that supplies the war upstairs.
Live · First Playable
II
Where it is consumed
CITADELS
AAA tactical extraction FPS. 330,000m² of indoor warfare in the towering
Citadel above Ortus. Where the goods get used or lost.
Pre-Access · Wishlist Open
Both running asynchronously · whether you are logged in or not
Interactive · The Operator's Ascent See how the loop actually compounds, stage by stage. Walk all six: Exploration, Mining, Refining, Assembly, Trading, Corporations, and the choice at every rung: work the asset, or own it. Begin the Ascent
Carve a piece.
Keep the yield.
The Charter is free to sign, what you do after that decides what it pays. Three ways the economy tips toward the people who actually build the place.
Value in,
Make what
they wear.
CITADELS boasts a near-unrivalled level of cosmetic customisability, an enticing opportunity for EMPIRES players who produce in-game items to earn a share in the revenue potential.
Revenue Share · CosmeticsFly your
banner.
For gaming guilds and eSports teams, the Corporation path offers a uniquely cooperative experience, a platform to promote your brand through community engagement or the production of branded in-game assets.
Guilds · eSports
Six ways to carve
a piece out of the system.
A Freelancer is whatever they decide to be. Run a single bay and check in once a day. Or stack every layer until you're voting on acquisitions.
The Bay
Buy a Deployment Bay, drop in an Autonomous Extraction Vehicle, let Unbiquadium accumulate while you sleep. Five minutes a day is enough. The chassis the entire game is built on.
Floor cost · 1 Bay + 1 AEV MK IThe Survey
Bid on land at the next Consortium auction. Prospect it. Discover what is underneath, and what nobody else knows is underneath. Patient money's path.
Floor cost · 1 Land Parcel · Tier-Iron+The Center
Open a Research Center. Stake $ASH. Discover order permits nobody else has. Outcomes are governed by verifiable on-chain randomness, the same dice you roll, we roll.
Floor cost · Research Center licenseThe Forge
Build a Forge. Manufacture weapons, armor, modules. List Order Permits. Get paid every time a CITADELS Revenant uses your gear to survive, and again when they need a new one.
Floor cost · Forge charter + 1 order permitThe Corporation
Form a Corporation. Recruit shareholders. Set tax rates. Vote on acquisitions. Pay dividends. Or join one and let someone else carry the admin while the dividends still hit.
Floor cost · Multi-sig deposit · 3 foundersThe Floor
Arbitrage between Unbiquadium, $ASH, and CITADELS Credits. Order Permit licenses. Forge contracts. Bullion lots. Settle every position on-chain. No special permission required.
Floor cost · A wallet and a hunch
Everything begins
as matter pulled from Ortus.
Seven raw extracts feed the economy. Two refined goods carry it. The Unbiquadium spine, element 124, is what the upstairs war is fought over.
Sort
Symbol
Resource
Function
Rarity
Five marks. One vocation.
And the exploratory one.
The AEV is the chassis on which Empires are built. The AXV is the chassis that breaks the rules, whatever you bolt on, it becomes. Modules decide that.
AEV-01 · ROUGHNECK
The chassis on which a thousand small fortunes have been built. Modest yield, trivial maintenance, forgives the inexperienced. Issued to every Freelancer who walks out of the Registry with ink still drying on their charter.
UBQ Yield
×1.0
Slots
2 modules
Upkeep
Low
AEV-02 · DRAYHAULER
Heavier frame, larger hopper, an honest set of arms on it. Where the MK I asks polite questions of the soil, the MK II makes assertions. Standard issue for second-tier Bays once the lease compounds.
UBQ Yield
×1.8
Slots
3 modules
Upkeep
Medium
AEV-03 · PILLARBREAKER
Treaded, armored, geared for veins the surveyors flagged as deep. First mark with serious multi-resource intake, Aurelium becomes a realistic line on the ledger. The chassis where most Corporations find their footing.
UBQ Yield
×2.6
Slots
4 modules
Multi-res
Yes
AEV-04 · SOVEREIGN
The vehicle a Corporation pays to be seen with. Heavy hauler, deep-vein optimized, with diagnostic uplink to the Forge so what it pulls is logged the instant it surfaces. Approved for Tier-Gold land.
UBQ Yield
×3.8
Slots
5 modules
Tier
Gold
AEV-05 · SEQUENCER
Flagship line. Crewless. Order Permit-locked. The kind of machine that retires its Bay in eighteen months and pays a dividend in twenty-four. There are not many. The Consortium prefers it that way.
UBQ Yield
×5.4
Slots
6 modules
Run state
Continuous
AXV-01 · EXPLORATION
Not an Extraction Vehicle. An eXploration one. The AXV doesn't queue at a Deployment Bay, it goes where nothing has been surveyed and comes back with answers the Consortium hasn't priced yet. Module-driven, high-risk, order permitly overpowered.
Yield
Variable
Slots
Module-defined
Risk
Frontier
Mythic · Order Permit-Locked
Beowulf Hearth
Engine · Slot I
Beowulf Hearth
Engine · Slot I
Transcendent · One per cycle
Prometheus
Engine · Slot I
Prometheus
Engine · Slot I
Modules are crafted at the Forge against an Order Permit, and bolt onto far more than engines, a drill for a mine, a hauler module for an AEV, an engine for an AXV. Each asset class takes its own. These two are the apex engine order permits: Beowulf burns long and quiet, for Researchers who want their AXV back, and Prometheus is the order permit the Consortium could not unmake.
Beowulf Output
+220% range
Prometheus Output
+480% intake
Slot
Engine · I
Multi-sig DAOs
in the body of a Corp.
Cooperation inside the Corporation. Conflict between Corporations. Both running simultaneously, asynchronously, whether anyone is logged in or not.
Structure built for guilds. Designed for nights you'd rather not log in.
A multi-signature entity with a treasury, governance, and a dividend schedule. The Forge → Order Permit pipeline is structurally a guild revenue stream.
i.
Recruit and admit shareholders. Public charter or invitation. Cap table is on-chain, no one shows up later claiming they were always promised something.
ii.
Vote on acquisitions and dissolutions. Multi-sig is the floor. Quorum and weights are tunable. Every motion has a hash.
iii.
Pay dividends, on schedule. $ASH, Unbiquadium, CITADELS Credits, Aurelium. Distributions execute the moment quorum lands.
iv.
Or join one and skip the admin. Most Freelancers do. The work pays whether your name is on the charter or further down the list.
Fair, because
we don't trust us either.
We've watched too many project tokens bleed out for eighteen months while a team kept emitting more. Running the entire economy on-chain isn't a marketing line, it's an admission. We don't get to peek at the rules either.
100% on-chain economy.
Every consequential action, every land prospecting outcome, every research discovery, every dividend, every vote, is settled on a public ledger. Auditable by anyone who cares to.
Zero-knowledge fog of war.
Your Corporation's private intelligence, yields, research in flight, vault reserves, is hidden without trusting a centralised server. Competitors can't peek. We can't either.
Anchored in real bullion.
Kinesis-issued tokenised gold and silver sit alongside the native resources. Part of what flows through is backed by physical metal, externally priced, not a number we made up.
IX
The Sister Game
Your gear gets used
Your gear gets used
on Floor 14 tonight.
CITADELS is the AAA tactical extraction FPS the rest of the economy feeds. A 330,000m² indoor warzone in the Citadel above Ortus, run by a rogue AI called GRIM. Three-player squads. Modular weapons. Real consequences.
Every rifle a Revenant carries up there was forged here. Your Forge. Your Order Permit. Your dividend notification when they survive, or when they need a new one tomorrow.
Provision for
the long game.
Free play always opens a Bay, these don't replace that. They fund the operators who'd rather not start from zero, and grant standing in the Citadel above. Released in three waves; the early allotment is the scarce one, and it does not return.
Early Adopter Allotment
Granted before launch · does not return
Early Adopter
AEV · MK I, Common
Roughneck-Class, bearing the Early Adopter tag
Founder's Manifest
Sign early.
Sealed at launch · XXVII · January · MMXXVII
Sign early.
Carry it forever.
Every Charter opened before EMPIRES launches is marked a founder's, and carries this allotment on top of whatever pack it rides in on. The window does not reopen, and the title is one you cannot earn later.
Early Adopter Title
Identity
Early Adopter Portrait
Cosmetic
Early Adopter Discord Role
Community
Always first on pre-sales & whitelists
Priority
Lifetime discount on the Battlepass
Lifetime
CITADELS Founder's Bandana
CITADELS Cosmetic
Empires Provisions
Operating capital · Ortus
Empires
Standard
$19.99
Entrepreneur Pack
A bay, a charter, and enough float to outlast your first lease. Where most operators begin.
Units released · by wave
Acquire
4,000Wave I
5,000II
6,000III
Empires
Standard
$49.99
Industrialist Pack
Working capital for an operator who intends to compound. Enough to scale past a single bay.
Units released · by wave
Acquire
2,500Wave I
3,000II
3,600III
Empires
Premium
$149.99
Tycoon Pack
The provisioning a Corporation arrives with. Deep float, premium standing, priority at the Forge.
Units released · by wave
Acquire
800Wave I
1,000II
1,200III
Dual Bundles
Standing across both games
Dual
Alpha 1
$99.99
Revenant Bundle
Standing in both halves of the economy, plus Alpha 1 ingress to the Citadel above Ortus.
Units released · by wave
Acquire
2,000Wave I
2,500II
3,000III
Dual
Alpha 0
$249.99
Ascendant Bundle
The earliest door into CITADELS. Alpha 0, Floor access before it opens to anyone else.
Units released · by wave
Acquire
800Wave I
1,000II
1,200III
Dual
VIP
$599.99
Sovereign Bundle
A seat at the table. VIP standing across the entire Ashes of Mankind economy.
Units released · by wave
Acquire
300Wave I
400II
500III
Mystery Caches
Sealed · drawn at random
Mystery
Random
$4.99
Cosmetic Cache
A sealed crate of livery, finishes, and plate. What surfaces is the Consortium's choice, not yours.
Units released · by wave
Acquire
15,000Wave I
20,000II
25,000III
Mystery
Random
$9.99
Tech Cache
Sealed modules and order permits, drawn at random. The same dice you roll, we roll.
Units released · by wave
Acquire
8,000Wave I
10,000II
12,000III
Prices in USD · settled on-chain at checkout · playempires.com/sales
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