diff --git a/src/spec/components.ts b/src/spec/components.ts
index 031e4dc..23846b1 100644
--- a/src/spec/components.ts
+++ b/src/spec/components.ts
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ export const components = {
       description:
         'Information about the current state of the empire, returned in the `empire` part of the status block of every relevant request.',
       properties: {
-        essentia: { type: 'integer', description: "The empire's current essentia balance." },
+        essentia: { type: 'number', description: "The empire's current essentia balance." },
         colonies: {
           type: 'object',
           description: 'Keyed by body id (a stringified integer), value is the colony name.',