Resetting

Empire provides two maintenance flags to help you return the system to a clean state between runs.

Reset

Start fresh without historical data while keeping generated files and dependencies on disk intact.

• What it does:

  • Drops existing data and reinitializes the database schema. On the next start, Empire repopulates default values defined in your configuration.

• What it does not do:

  • Does not delete or modify your configuration files (for example, config.yaml).

  • Does not delete Starkiller or Empire-Compiler.

Example

./ps-empire server --reset

Clean

Completely resets Empire to a pristine state, removing config and all Starkiller and Empire-Compiler files.

• What it does:

  • Performs everything --reset does (drops data and reinitializes the database).

  • Deletes configuration files (for example, config.yaml)

  • Removes Starkiller and Empire-Compiler files.

• What it does not do:

  • Does not uninstall system-level prerequisites (for example, Python, Docker, or database servers).

  • Does not remove your source checkout itself if you’re running from a cloned repository.

Example

./ps-empire server --clean