**Minding my own business in late game** "War Declared" **Checks the war screen** **It's the fallen and like 7 other puppets, aka half the galaxy** "Shit" **My fleets are balls deep in another AI empire, opposite side of the fallen with no gateways anywhere near** "Fuck"
Literally my first game I get into war with 4 empires all at the same time and my ally is tiny: hmmm maybe I should make more fleets *Fleet capacity is full* ... Then I closed the game without saving
This is probably the best soundtrack in the game. I'm currently playing a Technocratic Earth game and it fits the game perfectly: A committee of Scientists, Medical Experts, IT, and Engineers ruling their empire with a lust of knowledge and power. Militaristic if their erudite exploration is threatened, xenophile due to their lust of learning from others, and materialistic as they're Technocrats. This song makes it sound like they look to the stars with the eyes of an excited child, exploring the unknown.
I like starting with my own semi-realistic but idealistic generic human empire and seeing what happens to it as the game progresses, how space changes our ideas and in effect changes the empire as a whole. Discovering a shroud world and settling it led to the government becoming a theocratic republic led by psionic priests. Needing to fight xenophobic aliens off in the early game and eventually having no choice but to incorporate them into the empire (can't purge if you're xenophilic) ironically led to humanity taking on a more bitter outlook on their alien neighbors. It's so exciting to see how the game inevitably changes your people as time marches forward! Yes, I do have an overwhelming number of active mods
The first time this song played I had just met my first Fallen Empire (okay technically it was around 1:48 or so) and ever since then this song is kind of stuck in my mind as the Fallen/Awakened Empire theme.
Whenever this track gets played in my game, I just pause the game, close my eyes, take a break from all that space empire building craziness... and just enjoy a good seven and a half minutes of eargasm.
I wouldn't be able to play of I did that for every track I like. Hell, I someone's pause the music and just isten to the ambient humming, because it actually did the gameplay more lol
The section from the start to 1:20 is a haunting resemblance of Homeworld's (1999) soundtrack: The Beginning and the End. It's even in the same key. Sure brings back fond memories and huge goosebumps from the music.
I feel teary, the only and first music that made me cry because of how overwhelming it sounds esp at 1:48, not because that it is related to sadness. I would gladly buy stellaris soundtrack
if this piece had been produced for a Hollywodian cinema masterpiece (and performed with a famous orchestra) it would have probably been awarded for a grammy or similar award, A. Waldetoft is a truly appreciable artist, I would see him well on other sectors too production (cinema, tv, sigle artist), .. this is one of my favorite songs, thanks for your art.
@@moritzwysotzki5401 I never felt metal vibes from 40k, maybe khorne would like that, but the empire literally travels in gothic cathedrals through space, i can totally imagine pipe organs blasting from that shit.
@@davidecapannelli6681 because it is totally normal to run into a pipe organ everytime you go outside, right? Sad that you have to come at people like this because music is all you know about.
With the possible exception of "The Awakened", this is -- by far -- my favorite piece in the entire Stellaris soundtrack. Whenever I hear the organ notes hit around 1:48, I get chills.
7 years old. The game is still amazing. I got it in 2016. I was hooked and amazed along with the soundtrack. Knowing that we are not alone. And what u know mysteries are head. Also pleasing my war mongrel
He had been trapped in this maelstrom for a while now, drawing him deeper into space toward that distant dwarf galaxy. Suddenly, wasn't there something on the long-range radar screen? ... 2364 , the strange journey of imperial fighter pilot Torvan Gundarson
imo, this is the best one out of all of the songs (including DLC)
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A peculiar scene/life event always comes to mind when I hear this work of art. Such powerful sound! (synth violins? Or acoustic French Horns?) TL;DR The scene I see; The its the distant future and our beloved Earth is unstable and dying due to a meteor shower that destroyed the moon and sent continent sized debris straight at Earth. All nations have cast their differences aside and agreed to work together in the effort to leave Earth and preserve our species. A deep space colonial ark was planned. (0:00) The time has come and everyone has now left but a few diehard citizens, choosing to ride the planet till the very end; not wanting to leave their roots, where human life began. Various scenes of the planets ravaged surface due to the first collision of a chunk of the moon which was the size of Texas, in Russia. Earth could collapse at any given moment. A family sits in a meadow with their child who looks to the sky then points to a distant blinking becon. (1:47) The scene rushes past the clouds, through the upper atmosphere to visualize the space colony station and it's incomprehensible size! A testimonial accomplishment of what planet wide agreement can achieve. Housing more than 80% of Earth's inhabitants. The scene pans in on a single window where a couple stand gazing in awe upon their old home; anxious, saddened, and in denial. The wife reaches out as if she could just touch the Earth once more, to charish their once nurturing Mother Earth just one last time. (2:18) The scene pans out and spins 180 to reveal Earth in it's final moments. The impact was severe enough to destabilize Earth's very foundation; the atmosphere visibly blown out, the oceans evaporting, 60% of land engulfed in flames, and incomprehensible sizes of landmass bulking and collapsing. Upon panning the view futher out, the ark is seen slowly drifting away. Past the dead and destroyed moon and onto the cosmos...
@@whatwhy779 aw shucks! :P and holy moly, I didn't know I was getting replies to this all these years xD dangit, RU-vid and your lack of push notifications!
I remembered when 1:54 hit right when I was researching/digging a momentous event, I was looking on my Precursor and found they made the ultimate sacrifice to save the universe and ending their galaxy spanning civil war by sacrificing their species, turning to Zro. I was awestruck and horrified at the revelation and had to just sit there as a war was starting to brew, brewing in the weight of the knowledge of such a tragedy. But I kept moving on, I had to find out where next. Regardless of what was going on, I needed to know how the story ended.
