Cheat Codes...
	Easy "Tourist Trap" Achievemen...
	Easy "Towards Utopia" Achievem...
	Easy "Unboxing" Achievement...
	Easy "Xenophage" Achievement...
	Playthrough Strategy...
	Synthetic Dawn: Steam Achievem...
	Various Steam Achievements...

Bring up the console by hitting the ` key and type the following for desired effect.

Code	Effect
Cash [value]	Sets energy amount.
Engineering [value]	Adds engineering points.
Influence [value]	Adds influence.
Instant_Build	Enables instant build.
Minerals [value]	Adds minerals.
Resource [resource] [amount]	Adds specified amount of specified resource.
Skills [value]	Adds specified number of skills to leaders.
research_technologies	Unlocks all technologies.

Conquering the planet "The Preserve" from the equalitarian fallen empire will likely reward this achievement if you not playing in a tiny/small universe or in an universe where you selected low amount of other factions. Planet "The Preserve" has one pop from each sentinent race.

For this achievement, you need to have an empire with the Egalitarian ethic, to access Utopian living conditions. Be sure to select ten species that have not large population, as it will surely crumble your mineral consumption.

So these are found within the borders of fallen empires. Specifically Militant Isolationist empires. So if your game doesn't have one you can't get this achievement. Send your science ships into their area and start scanning planets. There will always be three within their borders. When you find one it will show up as a research project. Have your scientist complete it and you'll get the achievement. You'll get an admiral, some of their ships, or a void cloud.

In order to unlock this achievement, you need to play an empire that is able to set foreign species to Full Slavery. This is only possible if you choose Xenophobe or Fanatic Xenophobe as your ethic. With full slavery enabled for a species, set Livestock as their slavery type in the Species screen. Do this for five species you conquered or obtained by other means. Careful: There is also an option to use a species as livestock if you purge them. Thies does not work. You need to select livestock as slavery type not purge type.

Red color empires look cool on the map but make it difficult to spot enemy fleets who are also red.... You have been warned.

Split your starting corvettes and send them to explore the nearest systems to identify potential colonizable planets so you can tell your science ships which systems to survey first.

Wait for pops to fill a planet before clearing tile blockers and prioritize energy and minerals in early game.

Some factions are really annoying because of the unhappiness they generate. I was successful in eradicating one once by spending 1 influence a month for many months. Soon afterwards 3 annoying ones appeared. My personal opinion is: influence is too valuable to waste on those whackos and since you are the leader and their agendas are often incompatible with sensible management... ignore them. One player on the forums compared faction suppression to a child's game called whack-a-mole.

Brief review of traps waiing to spring on new players:

Outposts.

Holy worlds belonging to Spiritualist fallen empires and colonizing / outposting in the exclusion zone around xenophobe fallen empires.

Activating terraforming machinery found by a science ship on a perfectly habitable world. There is a much higher probability of terraforming a hellish inferno than a gaia planet. Pops get really unhappy when habitability drops below 60%.

Defense pacts can draw you into unwanted wars you are not ready for.

Allow us to guide you "The treaty calls out to you" that is a nice way for a fallen empire to ask you to be their vassal Generals. Only good for ground assault troops. Waste of influence and leader slot. Instead build 15 assault troops and give them hunter killer drone attachments (to each one manually).

Complete the indicated task to unlock the achievement.

Achievement	How to unlock
Dreadnought (23)	Restore an ancient warship.
Hear me Roar (38)	Hatch the egg.
Infinite Creation (31)	Birth a new universe.
Last, Best Hope (42)	Lead the non-aligned powers to victory against an awakened empire.
Mad Genius (16)	Recruit a scientist from the Curators.
Patron (15)	Support the Artisan Troupe for 10 years.
Return to Dust (25)	Destroy an enclave.
Stellar Performance (42)	Take a trophy from a stellar being.
The Good Stuff (16)	Purchase a rare resource from the Traders.
Unravelling Enigma (23)	Uncover the secrets of an ancient fortress.
Warrior of Light (29)	Destroy a wraith.
Whence It Came (23)	Defeat a horrifying invader.

Complete the indicated task to unlock the achievement.

Achievement	How to unlock
... To The Other Side	Research 15 Rare technologies in a single game.
A Home Away From Home	Conquer another species homeworld.
Battle Thralls	Have 3 other Empires as vassals.
Birth of a Federation	Establish a Federation.
Brave New World	Colonize a planet.
Break On Through...	Research a Rare technology.
Building Better Worlds	Terraform a planet.
Clever Girl	Uplift a species.
Deus Vult	As a spiritualistic empire, own 4 holy worlds.
Digging Deep	Earn a total Mineral income each month above 250.
Domo Arigato	Build a Robot Pop.
Energetic	Store/have 1000 EC.
Enlightened Times	Enlighten a bronze age civilization.
Explorer	Survey one of each basic planet-class.
Faster, Stronger, Better	Genetically alter a species (not uplift)
Grand Admiral	Fleet dealt 100000 hit points damage during battle.
Mutual Understanding	Successfully negotiate a trade deal.
New Shining Star	Upgrade your capital to an Imperial Complex.
Old Friends	Receive a gift from a Fallen Empire.
Omnicultural	Have your ruler be of a different species class than your founding species.
Outside Context	Invade pre-FTL Earth while it is in the midst of a world war.
Paradise Found	Terraform a planet into a gaia world.
Payback	As a humanoid species, infiltrate the homeworld of pre-FTL reptilians.
Peacekeeper	As a pacifistic empire, have all other independent empires be pacifistic as well.
Planned Obsolescence	As a materialist empire, have at least 75% of the pops in your empire be robotic in an empire with at least 200 pops.
Power Overwhelming	Store/have 5000 EC.
Put A Ring On It	Have a ringworld section as your capital.
Queening	Successfully capture an extragalactic matriarch.
Resourceful	Have access to ten different strategic resources.
Rift Sealed	Destroy the portals employed by the invaders from another time and space.
Slave to the Systems	As a collectivist empire, have at least 200 enslaved pops in an empire of at least 500 pops.
Suffer not the Alien	As a xenophobic empire, purge all other sentient species in the galaxy.
Supremacy	Win a War against another Empire.
The Grand Fleet	Build a fleet with a total fleet-size above 120.
The Industrial Re-Revolution	Earn a total Mineral income each month above 1000.
Then Virgil, Now Beatrice	Return a long-dead species to life.
Tourist Trap	As an individualistic empire, own a planet with at least 10 different species on it.
Unboxing	Open up a shielded world.
Very Open Borders	As a xenophilic empire, have migration treaties with at least 10 other empires.
Victorious	Win the game through any victory condition.
Voight-Kampff	Develop the means to prevent nefarious infiltration.
What Came Before	Find the home system of a precursor empire.
What Was Will Be	Close the loop, or don't.