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In the 2,651 hours I've played Stellaris, I have never seen this happen. I didn't even know this was possible. The xenophile FE got subjugated by the spiritualist AE. It even changed their personality!

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Edit: It also changed their Hedonists into Acolytes of the Workshop.
From what I remember, I thought it was impossible for an FE/AE to be subjugated.
 
From what I remember, I thought it was impossible for an FE/AE to be subjugated.
It is, for normal empires. AEs can apparently subjugate eachother and FEs perfectly fine, however, at least when not engaged in the War in Heaven, which can only end in a stalemate or total destruction of all other belligerents.

I've had the stalemate happen on my Devouring Swarm run. I've also seen the subjugation of an AE happen in that same run, shortly after the War in Heaven.
 
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... Are you both devouring swarms? :p
No! o_O
It would make sense if we were, but I'm just a normal empire. Not even a genocidal one.
This is a 2-fold bug.

First off, obviously the Devouring Swarm hate modifier is being applied twice. Not that it makes a difference.

Second, the Devouring Swarm is hating you, a non-Devouring Swarm, for being a Devouring Swarm instead of being Prey. It'd be like if you're fleshy, and a Determined Exerminator has -1000 Murder Machines towards you.
 
Check out my new empire. I call it "Galaxy Command." It is a new and completely original name. (caution: may contain trace amounts of Halo)

(Credit goes to @Gromit for photoshoping in Winnie the Pooh for me.)

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The AI still LOVES building transport fleets, huh?

I should note that three of those fleets seem to belong to dead nations and yet the fleets still somehow exist. :confused:

And that planet? It's that empire's only one and it's, uh, got some problems.

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It turns out that weird and occasionally slightly buggy things happen to the galaxy when you let the Grey Tempest run amok for 100+ years. Who knew?
 
Wow, nearly 900 pops and only 3 criminals. They're doing something right!

Oh, wait. How much of the sheer population exists as part of the vast Orbital Armed Forces? I suppose that is one very extreme form of Police State, and could definitely account for it. That, or it's impossible to steal anything when the entire planet is standing room only.
 
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I have no words.
(Source mod: Planetary Diversity New Worlds)