"Technically Emperor, it's our World Cracker trainee weapons operator Fred K'thlaax what blew up your Holy World. He's the one that needs humiliating."
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Possibly but it shouldn't even matter if things were working as intended since Colony Ascension is a different scope. Free Haven's Councilor perk + Construction Templates + Lost Building Methods + Urbanist(Governor) are all Empire Modifiers. Urbanist doesn't show on the tooltip because Urbanist technically shouldn't be classified as an Empire Modifier to begin with. However, Empire Size from Districts is "bugged" with Sovereign Guardianship too if memory serves so it might be that they didn't "cap" things to 100% or 0 since they didn't think people could outright remove it. Either that or the Free Haven Councilor Post is the culprit.
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These are religious fanatics who are willing to burn the entire galaxy to the ground to stop people from screwing with their holy worlds, them not responding to even the accidental destruction of one is deeply weird.
Plus it's arguably still my fault for doing archelogy on their holy world, which is something that should probably anger them.
Logically, there shouldn't be any ruins on a Holy World, their whole point is that they are unblemished by other empires.
So if the FE wants to blame anyone, they should blame themselves for not being more thorough when cleansing the last primitives who dared settle on the planet.
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Again, you're probably right, logically speaking anyways.
Issue is, this is a religion thing and religious fanatics rarely even pays lip service to the idea of logic.
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1 - The ruins were there before the FE found the Gaial World, and they decided the ruins were holy.
2 - Intelligent life developed on the Gaia World naturally, and then left or extinguished itself in some way.
3 - That was the FE's original homeworld, the ruins are from their own pre-FTL civilization(s).
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This makes me wonder... If I take "Consecrated Worlds" and consecrate just any random world (10% to be Holy for normal planets) and then keep playing after a Cosmogensis win... does the FE I leave behind in this galaxy protect those holy worlds as the spiritualist FE would do?
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As the saying goes: "Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder."
Yet we may wonder thus:
When we laid that eye on our first atomic structure, wasn't there a moment a conciousness sensed, what nature truly is and how there could never be something that is not considered beautiful.
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Got the Dimensional Dump astral rift, where you find a floating body and if you take them in, the game says they're already an excellent pilot but will train more and join afterwards.
Sure, this seems like a perfectly fine year of pilot training...
Sure, this seems like a perfectly fine year of pilot training...
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They go around the empire telling everyone how fun it is to hive.
Alternatively, for Evangelion appreciators: "do you want to become one with me?"
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Gestalt leaders in individualist empire is weird.
Maybe they should be more Egalitarian? As all gestalt drones are equal.
Or maybe Authoritarian, as all drones are part of a hierarchy.
Or depending on the empire that hired them:
Commanders could be Militarist or Pacifist, as they're all for war or protection.
Scientists could be Materialist or Spiritualist, as they just wanna do science/are a robot or research in accordance of the spiritual guidelines.
Officials could be Xenophile or Xenophobe, as they're all about managing the population by the status quo.
Maybe they should be more Egalitarian? As all gestalt drones are equal.
Or maybe Authoritarian, as all drones are part of a hierarchy.
Or depending on the empire that hired them:
Commanders could be Militarist or Pacifist, as they're all for war or protection.
Scientists could be Materialist or Spiritualist, as they just wanna do science/are a robot or research in accordance of the spiritual guidelines.
Officials could be Xenophile or Xenophobe, as they're all about managing the population by the status quo.
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Actually, that sounds like a good idea for a dystopian Sci-fi movie.
A world where a Gestalt consciousness rules and provides for all of the needs of the people. However, everyone is expected to work and those that can't are "willingly" upgraded until they are more tech than person.
Nothing is wasted and people lack for nothing but have no freedom. Simply cogs in the machine, but few people fight to escape the cage because it's a gilded one.
I think the leaders' with hive alignment in normal society it is fine. It's just too bad they can't start doing weird stuff, like experimenting on their coworkers' or workers' minds in events to achieve efficiency and so on. Or turning the entire planet into a hive just because it's better from their point of view
A previously gestalt leader, but now in individualist empire.
Would be an individualist themselves, no longer attached to the hive or machine intelligence they were attached to previously.
Their radically changed life could have them try to find comfort in the ethics of the empire that adopted them.
Dedicating themselves to a single one of those ethics and maximising it's efficiency
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Ah, human being, you cannot understand what it is like to be part of something greater than the miserable life of a mortal. Your religions, cultures, aspirations, all of them are devoted to catching a glimpse of the Absolute, but all in vain. Even the so-called "community" is just a pathetic parody of a Hive. The only thing that can help you is a small invasive operation to install neural implants, modern science will come to the rescue when biology fails. Come with me to the clinic, friend, and you will receive answers to all the questions you did not even know you could ask...
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"Alright, me hearties, where should we set up to ambush the science ship looking for our treasure."
"How about that border system with the citadel and fleet?"
"A fine idea, Mr. Smee."
"How about that border system with the citadel and fleet?"
"A fine idea, Mr. Smee."
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Eternal Vigilance can create some very funny defence platform names. Why write 14,036 when you can write MMMMMMMMMMMMMMXXVI?
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