Hero Quests

In Endless Legend, I greatly enjoyed the Forgotten quest line. It was very focused on the Heroes, if only because the faction was reliant on Heroes for its primary mechanics, being the espionage faction. But it let me get to know my Heroes as characters instead of just pawns with names and faces, even beyond the backstories provided for every hero.

As such, I suggest a bit of a doozy; Hero Quests. These would be tied to a particular Hero or Hero type, much like Population Quests are tied to a Population type. Quests could be as narrow or generalized as the devs need; they could be tailored to each individual Hero and their backstory, or generalized to particular Races or Classes- with Technologist, Primitive, and Scavenger being treated like Races here.

These quests would allow us to invest in a Hero beyond just assigning them to our highest Industry system to crank out ships for a while, with either a Governor or Admiralty objective for each quest; the Governor option provides a new Governor ability, while the Admiralty provides a new Admiralty ability and more ship slots.

This way we can get some additional story in the present, with recognizable character-centric stories, instead of just the sweeping Histories of our empires and the Endless.