Covert Agents

Agents are your spies. They carry out covert operations — spying, sabotage, bombing enemy targets, bribery, and more.

You spend agents on operations. Each operation needs one agent, and a failed operation loses it. On your own planet, the number of agents on either side does not change your chance of success, unless a treaty adds an ally's agents. The Covert Operations topic explains what does. Against terrorist operations between planets, the target's agents do help it defend.

A large stock of agents lets you keep working after several failures. Agents do not fight in normal battles. See the Covert Operations topic for what they can do.