Claim
Claim (conquest) in the Stellaris encyclopedia: Claims represent territorial assertions over foreign-controlled star systems. Claims are primarily used to justify Wars of conquest, allowing an empire to seize contested systems upon victory.
Claim in the game's words
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Claims represent territorial assertions over foreign-controlled star systems. Claims are primarily used to justify Wars of conquest, allowing an empire to seize contested systems upon victory.
Claims are established by spending 
Influence, with costs increasing based on system distance, strategic value, and existing Claims by other empires. Claiming systems is more expensive during an offensive war, so shrewd empires will do so beforehand.
Claims are managed in the 
Claims View.
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Source: common/game_concepts (concept_claim, also concept_claims) and localisation/english, Stellaris Cygnus v4.5.2 (9776).