A way you could prepare for the endgame crisis is have the Shroud warm them of the danger or something like that so that you can keep in with your lore and prepare
I got an idea for a play through. You choose all negative traits and post apocalyptic. (Potentially fanatic purifiers or fanatic militarist) the species is obsessed with death and war and had nuked themselves to their detriment but they found out that the galaxy had other life in it so they united to spread war and death to the galaxy.
Oh, mighty Speaker of Stone, what a great victory against the heathens and heretics! We will teach them to respect the planets that spawned their unworthy flesh and bring them closer to the divine Ascension. The Gods are pleased, for you have gifted them with the greatest of all presents - a new holy Gaia-world! Freed from the ruthless claws of a stellar demon, this world shall be a sacred shrine to the glory of the Divines! You truly are the most magnificent of all of us! We bow our heads before you, divine Protector of Faith and Planets!
The shielder colossus kind of makes sense, as it makes the world immune to damage from outsiders, and punishes the ones on the planet, mistreating the holy body.
This would mean ultimate protection for our holy world. No heathen or heretic would be ever able to desecrate it with his filthy presence! Very interesting thought, my blessed brother, very interesting indeed...
What you could do is to do 4 out of 5 in Diplomacy, and when the end game crisis appears, you can do some fighting with them and after a few years, you can get yourself Defender of the Galaxy, as you would do it to protect the divine planets and such :3
Well if the home planet is the mother perhaps the new holy world should be sister For mother protected you and you will protect your sister for as long as you have breath in your bodies and ships in the sky, no harm shall befall her.
The psi on if shields are THE BEST shields in the game, making the psychic ascension path pretty strong for military, as you don’t need to even fight an awakened/fallen empire...
I think it makes sense that you use the world shaper ascension perk as your last one, as you could effect the consecrated world outputs, and the general output of your pops. It makes sense lore wise, as the protectors want to perfect the worlds they own...
Gaia world name that expresses either beauty or terror? Why not both? I'm thinking either Siren or maybe a Galadriel inspired name. To quote LotR (from wiki - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galadriel): “(And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely!) In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!” Sounds like a fitting inspiration to me.. On the wiki page they state a few of her denominations, of which 'Lady of Light' might be the best fit for a planet
You can't go master builders. Dyson sphere: 1 constrict a fire divine. 2 block the warmth for the stone divines that go around the fire one. Ring World: Destroy divines as you build it. Black hole stuff: harvest the corpse of a fire divine.
while loooking for a bit of game play on avorion since i like building sandbox games, found your channel. I'm surprised you don't have anything with rising world, space engineers, medieval engineers and 7 days to die though and would highly suggest those 4 for building games. they're all great and give a large amount of building freedom.
You should take Defender of the Galaxy. Considering how far behind you are, it would probably be worth it to get Defender of the Galaxy. You could finish diplomacy to earn the perk slot, then wait for the crisis to show up before you take it, and then you wouldn't have to worry about it conflicting with the RP.
galctic defenders makes more sense than masterbuilders or galactic wonders because the Galaxy is the place of birth to all the divines and has to be defended
If the planets are gods, what are the stars? Are they the planet's soul? Or are they the parents of the divines, they who spun them up from cosmic dust with the loving arms of gravity? The planets may be the place in which we were born, but it is the stars who made the planets the way they are, and hold them in constant motion. And what is the Protector's doctrine towards the moons? Are they not the siblings or children of the divines? What worship are they to be afforded in the divine hierarchy? Given that astroids form from the leftovers of the creation of a divine within a system, or represent the potential to form a divine in the future, should we not also protect astroids and prevent anyone from mass-mining them? On the note of life: if life has progressed to an intelligent state on another world, is it not because that divine has willed it, and shined its soul-light upon them, granting them sentience? If so, then is killing another intelligent race a sin? I do not disagree with the priests in the condemnation of the wasteful heretics and fanatical purifiers, yet I wonder sometimes what place we (who has ascended and are descended from the divines themselves) have in the divine order? For are we not of stone as the divines, born from their sacred crust, and bathed in their soul light? On habitats: to be separated from one's original divine is the greatest penance, undergone by the Protector's many students, who have been excommunicated from their divines by force, when necessary. However, we should be careful as to their overzealous introduction, lest we forget that we were always meant to live upon the surface of our gods. If we, the Protectors, should stray from the path, and begin to lose ourselves to the void, as our scientists and admirals sometimes do when on long voyages, then who shall lead the sermon of the dirt? On the notion of the 'shroud': called the echo of the spheres by some, the shroud is a literal manifestation of the will of the divines, and reaching it has provided us proof that the divines do exist, they were simply beyond our reach. Our greatest priests have spoken to some of the divines, including a particular 'eater of worlds', whose very name and existence draws into question the presence of demons. Some priests (whose names shall not be recorded in this document) have questioned if the shroud is but a separate plane, inhabited by false divines. Did not the the 'Instrument of Desire' push many down a dark path, they ask? Some counter that this too is all in the plan of the divines, and we cannot hope to understand this 'divine plan'. On the speculation of black holes as demons: Black holes are known to devour stars, which scholars have debated as counting as divines, the parents of divines, the souls of the divines, and non-divine entities. Should this be where their omnivourous hunger ended, we should have less to fear from them. However, it is known that some black holes devour Devines! Some scientists have suggested that a machine may be built to extract minerals from these giants, effectively resurrecting lost divines in the process, and interesting idea indeed. Doubtless, black holes serve as an excellent example of manifested sin, a demon who hungers. On the proper worship of the divine: One need not proselytize themselves before every mountain they come across on their travels to properly worship the divine. One need merely attend a temple service if they feel they have committed a sin, and confess before the altar. However, worship itself is not truly necessary for living a devout life. Proper worship is observed everyday, in work, one must strive to be productive and efficient, so as to best use the holy resources granted to us by the divines. In war, we show our respect to the divine by avoiding bombardment, and in peace through the construction of ever more elaborate temples. On the nature of sin: Of all sins, the greatest is to kill a divine, the next is the damage of one, through war, pollution, or even by accident. It is not a sin to use the resources of a divine if doing so is sustainable. It is also a sin to terraform or transform a divine into a so called 'city world' for this goes against the divine plan. Some scholars have posited that it is a sin to build robots, for they do not arise from the divine plan (evolution), just as a so-called 'city planet' does not arise from geologic conditions. This text has been banned under the order of the High Inquisitor, for including mention of stars as 'divine beings'
I found something interesting today and want to warn people about. If you build a habitat over a source of nanites it doesn’t harvest the nanites. I know this because I now have lost one of nanite sources by building a habitat over it. I am on iron-man mode so very annoyed.
You dont want to go defender of the galaxy for a last ascension perk? Like against a crisis this early and strong? Plus it could make sense as you could say the planets have long since known that there is something evil and destructive to come and told you how to fight it so you can be more effective against it
This idea is super weird, but what if you did a playthrough where every choice is random? The empire at the beginning is random. Choosing what ships to make would be done with a random number generator. Whether to colonize planets would be a coin flip. What types of districts to create would be up to RNG. Ascension perks are random. Tech is random. Event choices are random. The only choices you could make would be controlling your army. It would be super weird, possibly even harder than the Max Difficulty playthrough. This idea in its current form is very stupid, but its an idea and its unique.
I don’t think a butcher general is accurate for this play through because they cause collateral damage which creates devastation right? And that implies damaging the planet
Why do people even use Chattel slavery when domestic slavery is a thing? In my recent slaver run I find I had waaaaaay too many slave pops to be under anything but permanent Domestic Servitude. The extra amenities are a massive help and free up 1-2 slots (normally used for holo-theatres) for other buildings. Plus it allows you to rapidly/instantly get new colonies up to 40 pops without needing jobs, at which point you just build the stuff that makes jobs. To be fair though I think I swallowed far more civilizations than a normal person might, so I might have far more slave pops than most people do right now. About half of my population is enslaved. The only time I "prepare for the EGC" is when I'm playing psionic or Gestalt. Psionics would be able to sense a dark future coming, however vaguely, and gestalts are more likely to come to the conclusion that civilizations/species like the crisis factions exist, as many of the crisis factions are gestalts themselves...
You said you wanted something "flowery and pretty" for the name of your new holy world. While that would fit the world, it wouldn't fit your empire or the fact that you had to reignite the star. I would call it Diamond in the Rough.
