Ephaptic Axon

Unity building

Not built directly

Ephaptic Axon is an unity building in Stellaris 4.5.2. It costs 2,500 Alloys, 500 Rare Crystals and takes 600 days to build, with an upkeep of 5 Alloys, 30 Energy Credits, 5 Rare Crystals a month. It adds Bureaucrats and Coordinators jobs, depending on the empire.

Cost: 2,500Alloys500Rare Crystals
Upkeep: 5Alloys30Energy Credits5Rare Crystals
Build time: 600 days
Housing: —
ID: building_fe_administration_hive_2

Jobs Ephaptic Axon adds

Jobs come from the building's job modifiers; 4.x counts jobs in hundreds (a district adds 100). Variants for other kinds of empires are listed with their condition.

1,200 Bureaucrats
Regular empire (not gestalt)
- Owner
  - Regular empire (not gestalt)
1,200 Coordinators
Not: Regular empire (not gestalt)
- Owner
  - Not: Regular empire (not gestalt)

Cost, upkeep and output

Base values from the building's resources block; conditional variants (nomadic empires pay other resources, for example) open with their condition.

Cost: 2,500Alloys500Rare Crystals
400Biomass — Wilderness empire
Owner
Wilderness empire
Upkeep a month: 5Alloys30Energy Credits5Rare Crystals
Produces a month: +20Unity

What Ephaptic Axon does

On the planet

-10%Pop Housing Usage

Only in some cases

- +3%Infrastructure Build Speed
- +3%Decision Enactment Speed
when…
- Owner
  - Wilderness empire
  - Tradition: Purity Traditions Finished
- +50%Bureaucrats Automated Workforce
- +50%Coordinators Automated Workforce
when…
- Owner
  - Not: Wilderness empire
  - Not: Virtuality

Upgrade chain

upgrades = { } in the files: each building upgrades to the next.

How to unlock Ephaptic Axon

No technology needed.

Shown when (potential)

Owner
- Hive Mind
- Any of
  - Fallen Empire
  - Technology: Quantic Administration Processes
  - Country flag: fe_administration_hive_1_can_build
None of
- Modifier: Resort World
- Modifier: Thrall-World
- Modifier: Penal Colony

Can be built when (allow)

Requires schematics acquired from Arcane Deciphering

Destroyed or converted when (destroy_trigger)

Owner
- Not: Hive Mind

In the game

Carefully tended by highly specialized drones, this vast network of ephaptic nodes fortifies the Hive's will over the galaxy.

ID

building_fe_administration_hive_2

Ephaptic Axon: questions

How much does Ephaptic Axon cost in Stellaris?

2,500 Alloys, 500 Rare Crystals, 600 days to build; upkeep 5 Alloys, 30 Energy Credits, 5 Rare Crystals a month (common/buildings, base values).

What jobs does Ephaptic Axon give?

Depending on the empire: Bureaucrats and Coordinators.

What does Ephaptic Axon upgrade from and to?

It is upgraded from Ephaptic Cluster.

What is the ID of Ephaptic Axon?

building_fe_administration_hive_2 (common/buildings, Stellaris 4.5.2).

Source: common/buildings/13_fallen_empire_buildings.txt, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776). Base values before modifiers.