Description
A cabal of elite and secretive figures weave complicated political threads behind the scenes of this society, entwining internal affairs with those of other worlds.
Effects
Clandestine Factions will emerge after contacting other empires.
Starts with the ability to conduct Proxy Wars.
… Bureaucrats will produce 
Unity per active and successful Proxy War.
Starts in First Contact with two neighboring empires.
Infiltration Level gained on empires after First Contact: +40
- -25% Proxy War Influence Cost
- -50% Operation Cost
- +1 Envoys
- +1 Encryption
Conditions
Only offered if
- Incompatible with ethic “Gestalt Consciousness”
- Incompatible with authority “Corporate”
- Incompatible with civic “Influential Cartel”
Requirements
- All of the following
- Incompatible with civic “Parliamentary System”, “Media Conglomerate”, “Crowdsourcing”, “Decentralized R&D”, “Fanatic Purifiers” and “Influential Cartel”
- Does NOT have a Scorched World Heralds Civic
- Incompatible with origin “Broken Shackles”, “Cybernetic Creed” and “Hard Reset”