Stellaris Meme Thread

[Vladisi]

"Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war... well, war and feudal obligations. And infighting between vassal states. And aristocratic titles. And levies to use when fighting enemies. And genocide against aliens. Oh, and religion that worships the emperor as a god. Except he's also a feudal lord, but he's dead. Except he's not really dead, but entombed on the Golden Throne, and the empire is really run by his vassals. Except when it's not and instead run by the religious authorities. And that doesn't count the tech priests of Mars who have their own faith that is only kind of resembles the main faith. And they have all the technology, but their not allowed to look into some kinds of technology, because our feudal society only came about after a massive war from millennia ago that involved an AI uprising.

Look, what I'm trying to say is that in the grim dark future, things are really damn confusing, and you should just create a new civilization using the megacorp civic." - Attributed to the Primarch Horus before his death during the Horus Heresy.

(He's really just misunderstood, the poor sod, but it was technically heresy to suggest swapping to the megacorp authority.)

But Horus was very, very dead by the time the Emperor was entombed on the Golden Throne. How could he have said that?

 

[Secret Master]

But Horus was very, very dead by the time the Emperor was entombed on the Golden Throne. How could he have said that?

Because magic! And magic is heresy, so...

 

[Harlot]

This job really do be like that sometimes.

 

[The Founder]

But Horus was very, very dead by the time the Emperor was entombed on the Golden Throne. How could he have said that?

Because magic! And magic is heresy, so...

Causality and the Warp do not mix:
"One particular example from one of the novels: in Desert Warriors, a regiment of Imperial Guard is sent to a far-flung world to investigate the "mortis-cry" of an astropath, which amounted to "Help, I'm dying!". Because Hyperspace Is a Scary Place, where weird things happen, they arrive before the signal is sent. The book's epilogue makes it clear that the distress signal they were sent to investigate is their own

"The most common way of FTL travels utilize a kind of hyperspace known as the Warp. It is a parallel dimension where there is no time as we understand it (so one can reach destination hundreds years into the future — or into the past), [...]"

"For bonus logical headaches, there's a story about accidental time-travelers who were responding to a distress signal (also sent through the Warp) from a ship that was surrounded by enemy vessels... when they popped out, the ship they were aiding was nowhere to be seen, but they were in the middle of an enemy fleet, so they sent out a distress signal..."
from TV Tropes.


Or they mix as well as lighter fuild and a spark.

 

[Ridixo]

Causality and the Warp do not mix:
"One particular example from one of the novels: in Desert Warriors, a regiment of Imperial Guard is sent to a far-flung world to investigate the "mortis-cry" of an astropath, which amounted to "Help, I'm dying!". Because Hyperspace Is a Scary Place, where weird things happen, they arrive before the signal is sent. The book's epilogue makes it clear that the distress signal they were sent to investigate is their own

"The most common way of FTL travels utilize a kind of hyperspace known as the Warp. It is a parallel dimension where there is no time as we understand it (so one can reach destination hundreds years into the future — or into the past), [...]"

"For bonus logical headaches, there's a story about accidental time-travelers who were responding to a distress signal (also sent through the Warp) from a ship that was surrounded by enemy vessels... when they popped out, the ship they were aiding was nowhere to be seen, but they were in the middle of an enemy fleet, so they sent out a distress signal..."
from TV Tropes.


Or they mix as well as lighter fuild and a spark.

Just like the Ouroboros event, funny event

 

[The Founder]

Just like the Ouroboros event, funny event

What was, will be. What will be, was.

 

[Sigma 582]

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I stumbled over this when creating an Imperium of Man (Warhammer 40k) as AI-opponent for our next multiplayer session...

This combination fits perfectly the Imperium of Man (regarding my limited knowledge). Purge every Xeno you can find and basically have the planets in your vast empire as vassals.

But in Stellaris gameplay it's of no use at all. You would have to purge the universe of the aliens you find. Settle your people on their planets and release them as vassals to make use of that civic!

you just gave me an idea for my next playthrough
not sure if FP can release vassals, but I hope I can mod it in.

 

[The Founder]

you just gave me an idea for my next playthrough
not sure if FP can release vassals, but I hope I can mod it in.

Here is the entry in 00_rules.txt from the current beta:

#Root = planet
#This = country
can_release_vassal = {
    custom_tooltip = {
        fail_text = default
        NOT = { has_valid_civic = civic_fanatic_purifiers }
    }
    custom_tooltip = {
        fail_text = default
        NOT = { has_valid_civic = civic_machine_terminator }
    }
    custom_tooltip = {
        fail_text = default
        NOT = { has_valid_civic = civic_machine_assimilator }
    }
    custom_tooltip = {
        fail_text = default
        NOT = { has_valid_civic = civic_hive_devouring_swarm }
    }
}

They can not release vassals, but it is easy to change that.

 

[The Founder]

Looks like I found the earth Rick Shancez is from. It is already true level!

 

[The Founder]

Thanks for pointing that out!
Then the combination of fanatic purifier and feudal society shouldn't be possible, since you are not getting rid of fanatic purifier and cannot have vassals by any means.
@grekulf

While you can not get rid of the Civic, it can become invalid. Just change your Ethics so the requirements are no longer met.

All scripts check for "has_valid_civic" rather then "has_civic" for exactly that reason

 

[Harlot]

Created thanks to the combined efforts of Stellaris' Twitter and Facebook.

 

[Saviour of Galaxy]

Fanatic Xenophile should be Captain Sweden.

 

[Methone]

Beautiful...

 

[The Founder]

Created thanks to the combined efforts of Stellaris' Twitter and Facebook.

Nearly none of them work. I mean how is Kirk not the Fanatic Xenophile?
Both Bender and Nuke Gandhi are anti-examples. With the first one being based on a Underflow bug.
Materialism has not been about wealth since Coroporation Civic was introduced. And even before it was rarely or more on the side of Egalitarian too.

And comparing Thanos to any Empire means calling them Mass Murderes on Galactic Scale.

 

[Harlot]

Nearly none of them work. I mean how is Kirk not the Fanatic Xenophile?
Both Bender and Nuke Gandhi are anti-examples. With the first one being based on a Underflow bug.
Materialism has not been about wealth since Coroporation Civic was introduced. And even before it was rarely or more on the side of Egalitarian too.

And comparing Thanos to any Empire means calling them Mass Murderes on Galactic Scale.

I'll spoil it a little and admit that the method here wasn't 100% scientific.

 

[Devanor]

And comparing Thanos to any Empire means calling them Mass Murderes on Galactic Scale.

One could argue that Thanos is a true egalitarian since everyone (aside from himself) in the universe is equally insignificant in his eyes

 

[Methone]

Both Bender

The Bender one actually works. The scene where the picture comes from has Bender saying "I say the whole world must learn of our peaceful ways... by force!" as a reference to Liberation Wars.

 

[Secret Master]

Created thanks to the combined efforts of Stellaris' Twitter and Facebook.

Vic2 as the Fallen Empire was a stroke of genius.

 

[Harlot]

Vic2 as the Fallen Empire was a stroke of genius.

Felt almost guilty, but couldn't resist!

 

[The Founder]

One could argue that Thanos is a true egalitarian since everyone (aside from himself) in the universe is equally insignificant in his eyes

Or a true Authoritarian, because everyone but himself was equally insignificant.

Felt almost guilty, but couldn't resist!

But Fallen Empreis Awaken after a long time. Does that mean we have wait 200 years for "that wich shall not be named in the twitch chat"?