Knight

"Knights are noble warriors that fight for right, not for personal gain. Peace will come to the galaxy only when evil has been vanquished."

- In-game description

Knight Unique Power
The Knight acquires the Summon Mini-U unique ability. Summon Mini-U can be used to summon a miniature version of your own ship that acts as an ally in your fleet. Pirates also have the Summon Mini-U ability, yet they can create more than one Mini-U. Summon Mini-U is the only spaceship ability in the game that can only be obtained via evolution (unless you use cheats).

Through Evolution
The Knight archetype is awarded to species that gain every color, plus an extra red.

Through Mission
It is impossible to encounter knights in the galaxy, as there are no AI empires that are knights. Even if you have a game saved as the knight archetype, they will be warriors if you encounter them.

Other Notes
Knights cannot be encountered as randomly generated AI races during space stage. For unknown reasons there is no entry for knights in the game files that set the chance of any given race spawning and as such they (Like wanderers) will never appear.

Depending on the specific trait cards given, Knight empires can be very good at both socialising and military. If the trait is obtained through red-red-green-blue, the consequence abilities will make your weapons more efficient (military), you will get a bonus to relations (social), you will have more ship health (all-round useful) and you will be able to make money easier (extremely useful).

Galactic Adventures
Although all other archetypes (except wanderers) have their own set of tools to unlock for a captain, knights don't. However, they do get their own set of titles completely different from the Warrior titles.

It is worth noting that, because a squire is a knight in training, and therefore a noble, they would in fact be higher ranked than a man-at-arms, who is generally just a peasant (in medieval society of course).

Ranks

 * 1) Rogue
 * 2) Apprentice
 * 3) Squire
 * 4) Adventurer
 * 5) Man-at-Arms
 * 6) Guard
 * 7) Chivalric
 * 8) Paladin
 * 9) Noble
 * 10) Lord

Trivia

 * Knights' voice upon communication can only sound like your empire because there is no way to find a CPU knight empire other than a file you are currently playing
 * It is possible that pirates are Knights (although this is unlikely) because they have the Summon Mini-U Consequence ability.

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