The Tallest Empire Ever In Stellaris 

I once made an Authoritarian Ring world start. I called them "The Lords of the Ring".

*sees "Republic" in the civilization name* *sees Corporate government* I love democracy...

I can't stop laughing at Guardian of the Arse. Might be because I'm still 12 despite being in my mid 40s.

Felt inspired to try this, spawned in a corner blocked off by a fanatical purifier. Watched helplessly as they slaughtered every other empire I tried to do business with, and finally came for me. All in the span of 10 years. I’ll leave it to the professionals.

Lure unbidden into pulsar.... noted.

Dont be silly… the “rest of the galaxy” is clearly hell as its beneath the great flat plane.

6:50 The Ringworld would indeed look really fucking flat from their PoV. Like the ringworld is about 2.5 times in diameter that the sun is. Assuming that sun is as big as our sun is. That would put the cirumference of the Ringworld at 10,938,240 Kilometers. Or about 273,000 times as big as the circumference of earth. So looking in any direction, you would see nothing but an flat plane until the atmosphere prevents you from seeing any further.

The Space Ottoman Empire. The Spottoman Empire, if you will.

7:02 The delivery of "Flat Ringworld Theory" cracks me up.

Ah yes, the usual "We've investigated ourselves and have found no wrong-doing." Always cracks me up.

1000+ hours in Stellaris and I just learned we can rush agendas. Thanks Montu

I know you cannot do this in a 1 system challenge but when you find Helito and get Sol X as a gift from the Dasha residents it pops into place in the broken section of the ring. Helps you get minerals that are hard to otherwise get with shattered ring.

You didn't trade your pop to the fallen empire but opened a migration treaty letting your pop move to other planets

The strip world is flat, it's only due to the cruving of space-time due to gravity which makes it circular... Perfectly venisian accurate.

I think that might be the only time I hear... "Oh we found the First League. That sucks for us." All the while I have gotten the Yuht three games in a row.

Rival Megacorp? Space Genoa?!

So the Galactic Senate needs to Denounce Space Venice.

"Let's go full distruptors and smoke the bastards" Love it, makes me wanna buy Stellaris.

"...the artillery bombardment is effective!" Really starting to sound like a Dalek now 😂😂

This guy is doing better 40 years into the game than I typically am in the endgame

Watching Montu play Stellaris is like watching an artist sculpt a piece into beauty itself

30:33 ''I call this the Lag Reducer 5000'' I'M FUCKIN DYING

Really hate how paradox decided that starting a megacorp means they should spawn 70% megacorps and hiveminds. NO idea what they were thinking.

Space Venice? finally my city has taken to the stars (appreciate you took the time to research venice :) )

The drawing of “flat Venice” had me rolling.

I love how the randomly created empires so often mirror yours, I've noticed this happens a lot in my games too.

"Is that the Contingency?" Space venice broke the fourth wall

"That still only counts as one!"

I love doing this strategy with a federation for the trade league effect so you don't need to make consumer goods and catalytic processing so you can keep making more alloys by adding a couple farming districts to the ring worlds. Sure you end up needing to buy minerals if you don't make any subsidiaries, but your economy is a lot more stable overall.

There is one thing taller than this. Virtual Birch World!

I can't prove it, but the game must force spawn mega corps if you are one, no?

Crazy part about getting good at this game is that sometimes you don't realize the mistakes you made until like 70 or 100 years later

Your RP/Storytelling is top notch!

Managed to get a determined exterminator to full virtual ascension by having automod + unitary cohesion and the unity society tech in the same time as your habitat guys monty. You only need 6 worlds above size 20 and to start with a machine homeworld so you have all the build slots unlocked. Why not try that one day? It felt much easier since you have tons of resources to build up the worlds. Its even better if you can assimilate a nearby machine empire into your own pops. You do need the assemblys till virtual tho. Then you just need to revamp your government and species to lower empire size from pops and pop upkeep. Traditions to.

It's frustrating that anytime you play as an empire type, you get surrounded by mostly the same empire types. The galaxy should be diverse

The Megacorporation aspect reminds me of China's softpower trying to tall build against everyone...

There are no civilians in the name of reducing lag

I love the goofy world building you pull into your challenges like this

well, the venetians already know they're the center of the flat spherical spacetime, everyone else just needs to learn that fact. Only one civilization can stand at the top of the hierarchy, on the very edge of the universe just beneath the infinite sphere Veneto

This is my first vid and I have to say I’m subbing straight away you put so much effort into your work makes it awesome to watch

I wouldn't mind seeing an overtuned cybernetic run, either hivemind or regular empire.

I love how this is literally just the Imperium of Man and holy terra

Megacorps have quickly become my favorite way to play this game.

Is Corporate Protectorate civic removed from the game? Because I've selected militarist and Shattered Ring but still can't find it.

The sense of humor throughout the video was top notch!

Science time 😎

Shattered rings are so good for tall play. Haven't played in years, but still remember how op it was at release.

guardian of the arse xD

How is it possible to get 200 trade value in 5 years? I can never reach that high following the exact steps.

it's pronounce "Do'jay" with the stress on the first sillable. Funnily enough about three weeks ago I made a most serene republic as well, must have been the zeitgeist.

It blows me away how much more detail and fine tuning there is to do during the game for basically each and every different challenge...but when you master the art of buffs, it really boosts your empire ahead

This was fun to watch! Going to watch more of your videos.

thank you for speaking relatively slowly in your video, this allows the auto subtitles to work quite correctly lol

Well done! Love the idea that space is below, nice bit of lore that actually makes sense here 😂

40:21 - You were barely able to hype up the battle then it was over. I couldn't stop laughing as you panned the camera to follow the floating cube in space then it goes pop. LOL!

"Let's say, 'become the galactic Emperor and enforce galactic wide "peace" ( for a certain value of peace that includes craven servitude to Our Will )"

Lmao, I was hoping you played this, it's absolutely broken

Seemed like an overall pretty happy ending for the galaxy at large.

lol everyone being also mega corporations or hive minds is what happens every time I play as mega corp without fail. Every single time.

8:06 Behold, the Guardian of the Arse!

Everyone always points to the wrong side of the ring to be the 'ground'. Think about it, you fall towards the gravity well (sun).

I have never, and probably will never, play this game...but I gladly watch hour long videos about it on this channel.

It would, in an insane way, make sense for the inhabitants of a broken ring world to believe it's flat - anyone who tried to circumnavigate it and prove it was round would literally fall off the edge as ancient people feared would happen if they sailed too far.

There is nothing I like more than being interrupted every 2 minutes by an ad on a 57 minutes video.

0:40 Boring! Unalived space galaxy for the win.

"Space Veneto" Grande vecio :P

How did you get over 150 pops by year 40? Doing this same build (to the best of my knowledge from the video) im only sitting at around 70 pops by year 35. Am I doing something wrong? Is there something about pop assembly speed im missing? I have almost 1000 hours in this game and there still always things for me to learn apparently!

Man, i remember seeing the "true tall" gag years ago. It speaks for the game that it still holds up!

"Venice, Vidi, Vici" at 53:54. Sheer perfection. Knocked it out of the park.

"Rise my champions" me with my vassals when there is a threat

I really hate the ethics bias in the empire spawns, it's super irritating. As a pacifist you seem to get waaay more militarists, hive minds get other hive minds, megacorps get other megacorps, syndicates and hiveminds... it feels like the game just doesn't want you to succeed at all

After seeing your original arc forge virtualization video, I started playing with shattered ring and guardianship build, but later realized I could get to roughly -95% pop size from pops without guardianship, and instead just be a pacifist. Before anyone says I'm crazy, pacifist (not fanatic) can still militarily vassalize and since I don't care to claim any systems or planets with this build, I don't even feel the war restrictions at all, so it's just -15% to empire size from pops and +5 stability for basically free. Plus when needed, I could make a lifelong friend for my federation in twenty years or so. I was also a xenophile and guardian of the galaxy. Having the 600 federation and 800 galcom fleet size fleets is very helpful, along with my 2500 - 3000 fleet size regular fleets is fun. I did not do it as a megacorp, but without the 150% branch office cost that guardianship gives, you can still be absolute top dog with about 110 empire size (about +1%, science and tradition), but still have tons of systems and branch offices with 6 100% packed and ascended planets. Just have to get lucky to get an actual planet with minerals if you want the > 2k minerals per month.

Me personally, I just neutron bathe the world's and end up with 120 colonies and 35 planets being terraformed.

"we're going to expand the Senate..." Doge" "I *AM* THE SENATE!"

perfect gameplay, really liked the build.. great build up.

I saw the Acheo-engineers perk at the end there. Were you using it for anything exciting that I missed or just filler because there wasn't much else to take?

At first I wondered why the Venetians didn't see the ringworld's true nature when looking out the window. Then I remembered. Geth do not use windows, as they are structural weaknesses.

Truly a moral, peaceful, friendly corporation that doesn't do bad things for the sake of profits, right? Right?

Started out as space Venice, ended up as space Israel

A question! How is it possible to colonise 3 segment already within 15 years? You did not even had 3 Ascension perk. Please tell me:)

watching a guy have a fleet of over 100 ships in 2250 and still not being in a ressource deficit makes me wonder how bad i actually am in this game

Question: Is there a good way to check if I can get rid of a City district because of technology pushing my build slots past the maximum?

45:50 "We are now Egalitarian Fanatic Militarists. Oh, it's BEAUTIFUL."

I've done one system challenges before and they're a lot of fun.

Ah, yes. The playstyle that turns Stellaris in to a Dungeon Core game.

I'm from Veneto and I love you ❤

I love how the like button lights up when you tell me to like it. Lizard brain go brrrr

What a meme, loved it. Great storytelling and roleplay.

The civ 5 reference almost mdde me cry.. venice was my first civ..

I didn't achieve the Virtuality event start by 2270. probably should have saved more Unity. how did you reduce empire sprawl from 162 to 126 at 17:40 ?

Actual fallen empire reawakened

For the Nerds (that u all are! yes, you too!) : If a real Ringworld exists, that challenge is none, because, the mass and surface is more than 3 million times of our earth. The Idea of it is pure madness (and very satisfying)

'Guardian of the Arse'. Yes Thumbs up from me.

No matter what skin you hide in your waifu will find you lizard

Stellaris: Vatican challenge.

Nice call-back to the old One Planet Challenge of before.

Ahh the contingency as in a giant ghost from destiny looking to res a planet lol

E3po's channel has been hacked, anybody can notify him?

I wonder how powerful this build would be if you weren't confined to one system.

45:50 - Fanatic Egalitarian - Militaristic - Oligarchic So, basically the USSR