The fact that the Unbidden, Aberrant, and Vehement fought each other to the point of making them no match for the other Crises is poetic.

Reminds me of one of my games quite awile ago when the scourge basically took over the entire galaxy aside from my tiny little cluster of fours systems and 1 little system to the very far corner of the galaxy which contained what I called the mushroom men. We endured the scourge, attempting to take back control of our systems for decades. One fateful morning as I was sipping coffee and doing some paperwork while this ran in the backround, out of absolutely nowhere, the mushroom men stampeded through the galaxy tearing the scourge apart. They then rampaged through my four systems and killed me.

@MystMagus

2 жыл бұрын

You know what they say: Beware the fury of a fun guy. Wait...

@SirDankleberry

2 жыл бұрын

"Mushroom men" Guess the Old Ones unleased the Orks.

@SerLagsalot

2 жыл бұрын

I've wanted to do a tiny enclave empire run like that, but I constantly run out of resources to fuel it ànd get forced to expand..

@a-filipov

2 жыл бұрын

Muad'Dib: the mushroom must flow

@Wertsir

2 жыл бұрын

Fear the Fungus Females!

Good thing the galaxy had a Contingency in place for just such a circumstance!

@warrix8312

Жыл бұрын

Buh dum tss

@NeostormXLMAX

Жыл бұрын

They were worse than the scourge though it turned out

@tp1558

10 ай бұрын

Noo nooo they are bad guy. Runn fast wjen you see tjem!!!!

"We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it. And you will end because we demand it" - The Contingency :P

@TheGoodLuc

2 жыл бұрын

"And there will be no Shepard or stupid plot devices to stop us now".

Still remember my first Stellaris playthrough as an Avian species, collecting other Avian pops of other species to have an Aviary... Extra-galactic signal detected... That seems like a cool event, I wonder what's going to happen. Prethoryn Scourge fleets of 112-250k strength.. me with a handful of 10-20k fleets... The Aviary did not survive...

@tylerlambert8400

2 жыл бұрын

a sad day for the aviary

@dc-4ever201

2 жыл бұрын

Your Goose was cooked! 😜

@theneverwhere6076

2 жыл бұрын

When you install too much mods and now you have four fleets each being 10 million in strenght.... yes game actually can display "Million" as number Now think very deeply why Stellaris even supports such numbers... sus

@darkithnamgedrf9495

2 жыл бұрын

@@theneverwhere6076 silly guy, I think youll understand why it can display million if you put crisis strength at 25x

@sphere117gaming

2 жыл бұрын

@@theneverwhere6076 lmao I remember some of my games where apparently the fleet power was 1 trillion. Unfortunately tho it just displays 1 cause the game couldn’t handle showing it lmfao. Was fun dealing with. Just spammed the Stars Wars executor class Super Star Destroyer Mod. Their super powerful. And eventually destroyed that fleet.

of all the nations to hold out the longest, it was an offshoot, probably a vassal of a much larger nation in the west side of the map. its honestly funny just how long it lasts too.

@flashgordonsthemesong2838

2 жыл бұрын

If you mean that one little blue system that's the Cybrex Remnant. They spawn as an event during the Contingency war.

@Paddydukes89

Жыл бұрын

@@flashgordonsthemesong2838 I thought he meant the purps in the upper left

I did not expect the contingency to bounce back that hard! They have a better ability than Prethoryn to produce new fleets, maybe? Which meant that it was a war of attrition for the scourge?

@maximuseliasson4389

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah if you dont nip contingency in the bud it is game over they take planets turn them into machine worlds and produce flesta on those worlds

@mastersonogashira1796

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe. contingency reinforces based on number of machine world, which has a maximum of 4. Whereas scourge reinforces based on number of ship they have (the less they have the more they get). However, contingency has the more powerful ship, it’s very high on shield and armour, and focus on laser which melt armour. The scourge unfortunately has mostly armour and hull, and no penetration weapons

@DzinkyDzink

2 жыл бұрын

I guess they activated a contingency 🤗

@alexmiller1800

2 жыл бұрын

@Michael Firbach Scourge has ground forces they can deploy, but I don’t think they bombard planets. While it is possible to destroy a Contingency Machine world through ground invasion, the Contingency has loads of defending armies on those planets. Probably enough to defeat a Prethoryn ground invasion outright or, at the very least, stall them with ground combat for years, long enough that the Contingency gains reinforcement fleets and continues harassing Prethoryn space

@mastersonogashira1796

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexmiller1800 you can’t invade machine world unless ur also playing as a machine

Imagine being the last free star system in this game.....

@ladywaffle2210

2 жыл бұрын

One of two things would be happening. 1: "If we stay quiet, maybe they won't see us." 2: "Any soldier dies with a full magazine, I'll rape your fucking corpse!"

@LEX_O0880

2 жыл бұрын

U would have to realise at some point n would need to fortify the shit out of your solar system

@joshuaraewa-ay9684

2 жыл бұрын

Might as well make it Reach or Cadia..... If there's gigastructure..... Maginot the fuck out of it.

@bigbaba1111

2 жыл бұрын

@@joshuaraewa-ay9684 I doubt it will help since crisis fleets can attack in pack and overrun the defence. They should rather build shelters in remote areas of their planets and prey to God that the aliens won't find them.

@rodlopes4327

2 жыл бұрын

I think it would be pretty fun to make a massive fortified starbase, send all your ships there and try to turtle the crises.

If I were to be born in this galaxy, I pray my life be lived within the era of the first 2-minutes. After that it's pure cosmic hell

@nikolafeschiev3399

2 жыл бұрын

Well if you are an experienced player civ . The only thing you could worry about is he genocides your nation would be commiting while living in utopia

@DoctorDeath147

2 жыл бұрын

and then you get born into a primitive world that's filled with its own hell.

@JBrander

Жыл бұрын

You get to live in the far future where technology has reached space travel and futuristic spacer tech. 6:45 But you live in that last surviving blue colony to the left

@StarshadowMelody

Жыл бұрын

@@JBrander ... so you're a newly constructed cybrex. All right, that sounds like a very foreign and different existence to what we're used to.

@JBrander

Жыл бұрын

@@StarshadowMelody The text is too small to read but if that's the cybrex, then you're probably born from a refugee family that is living in their ring world. Hoping that your robotic protectors can hold off the galactic hell that is happening outside your system. lol

Let's review every major empire before the Crises come out to play. The Sovereignties, (Bottom of the map) are good friends and have an amicable relationship. The Hegemonies, (Right side of the map) have a somewhat amicable relationship. And are using the empire between them as a buffer/trade/neutral zone. The Stellar Hegemony particularly was at war with the Pelismus Union The Decimators, (Left side of the map) had just recently won a war, they were almost destined to lose. They were currently at peace after winning a separate war for border expansion. The United Nations, (Center of the map) has been enjoying a golden age of prosperity, not having any wars since their initial war with the Hive. The Union, (Center of the map - above the UN) had just finished a major expansion to their borders. They were currently at war. The Pact, (Top of the map) had been thriving, after killing their neighbors in war. Which I suspect started over border disputes. Now for the Crises; The Great Khan: The Union, and The Pact, practically fall apart at the seams once the invasion begins. The Stellar Hegemony gets hit particularly hard after them. Thus, leading to the collapse of the northern regions of the map. After some time passes, along with the collapse of half of the central region, the Horde meets the Sovereignties for the first time. Inexplicably one of the Sovereignties joins the Union, I have no clue why. The War in Heaven: The War in Heaven begins, and that means nothing but hell for the Horde. So they decide let's just forget about the Great Khan conquest and let us make our own civilization. And they joined the fight in for the War in Heaven. (I guess they knew the Fallen Empires could wipe em out, so they just picked sides instead.) They become the Khanate, they have influence/control in the Northern, and central regions of the map. For some reason, the Khanate lets the Union free of their grasp. (Maybe they made a profitable trade deal or something.) The Zealots a Fallen Empire takes over the region once ruled by The Sovereignties. The Regulators another Fallen Empire, assist The Zealots in their conquest of the southern regions. In the chaos, The Decimators happily expanded their borders. And seemingly teamed up with a nation they shared a border with to do so. The Shard, another Fallen Empire expands, in the untouched western regions of the map. The Peacekeepers are at the center of the map. Yet another Fallen Empire, stays out of the war for the most part till it nears its peak, then they start invading. Armageddon: The Contingency hits, tearing through the Khanate like butter. The Scourge takes over the region the Khanate had influence in, where The Pact is up north. The Unbidden shows up in the south where the Zealots are. They rip through them like a shredder. The Decimators collapse once they battle The Unbidden and its lacky counterpart empire. The Scourge is really solidifying its position in the northern regions and The Contingency is popping off everywhere. The Scourge then takes over the central region, then they make contact with the Unbidden and The Contingency in the southern regions. A massive three-way battle ensues. The Contingency has been battling The Scourge across the map but has been losing badly, they did however manage to keep control of the L-Cluster. They've been relegated to the southeastern region for the most part. The Shard, now renamed the Celmy Reconquers, are the last non-end game crisis alive. The Scourge takes them out in the middle of a battle with Contingency. The Unbidden manages to grow in the southwest region while the Scourge successfully takes control of the L-Cluster. After losing the L-Cluster the Contingency is on its last legs, fighting just to stay alive. Pretoryn Scourge vs The Contingency: The final era. And The Unbidden decide to just stay out of the war between the other 2 crises and just enjoy life while they're here. They do still defend their border of course. the Contingency uses tactics straight out of Vietnam, guerilla warfare. The Scourge grows more tired and warn out with each battle as they are stretched to their limits, after their massive expansions. They were expecting a respite after their major victories. They didn't account for the Contingency's cockroach-like resistance. They'd have been constantly winning battles against the Contingency, but still failing to kill them. And now the Contingency strikes, while the Scourge is at its limits. The Contingency immediately makes a system supply line/chain across the galaxy. So that they wouldn't suffer the same supply fatigue the Scourge did. Once they linked up with their northern regional counterparts the Scourge was finished. They were surrounded on all sides, with no way out. After crushing the Scourge, the Contingency took a refreshing break. The very same thing the Scourge was planning on doing after taking over the majority of the galaxy. Then they sent the Unbidden right back into the Shroud. Machine learning is a scary thing people, very few things can come back from the brink of utter defeat like that.

@godoftempest5692

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for telling us the situation in the video, felt like a lore going on

@artichokethejoke1563

2 жыл бұрын

Thx for the recap

@DzinkyDzink

2 жыл бұрын

Write a book!

@Jose-yt3qz

2 жыл бұрын

Then the Contigency shuts down and waits millions of years until it all starts again.

@Theuhu3

2 жыл бұрын

I like this comment

I’m shocked that the ai could not handle the khan, as well as the fact that the khan joins the war in heaven. Never had that interaction because he always dies quick.

Problem is , weaponry of the contingency is a direct counter of the scourge , and the extradimensional ( that counter the contingency) killed themself .

@jhtrq1465

2 жыл бұрын

Unbbiden are weak against Contingency, their weapon melt armour but sucks against shields.

@kerbodynamicx472

2 жыл бұрын

@@jhtrq1465 don’t the matter disintegrators bypass both armor and shield?

@jhtrq1465

2 жыл бұрын

@@kerbodynamicx472 Nope, -50% bonus vs shields, huges bonuses against armour and hull

@axoltheotl2198

2 жыл бұрын

Matter disintegrators are just disrupters so yes they go through shields and armor

@jhtrq1465

2 жыл бұрын

@@axoltheotl2198 No, they always have been energy type weapons, malus vs shields bonus vs armour and hull

the Abberant: finally we are here, its time to eat we...WTF IS THIS GALAXY!!??

@florians9949

Ай бұрын

The scourge and Contingency: get off our fucking lawn!

Big moment for a player would be secure L Cluster and lock yourself in since the AI for Crisis' can only use portals if both To and From systems are unclaimed. So it would just be down to defending the L gate lol.

@zanderallan4373

2 жыл бұрын

It would mean moving everything tho and leaving eveything else behind

@onemansvoice9132

2 жыл бұрын

@@zanderallan4373 Well you would lose everything if you didnt

@zanderallan4373

2 жыл бұрын

@@onemansvoice9132 yeah it would be better

@Eric0225

2 жыл бұрын

Becoming the gray tempest

@SMmania123

2 жыл бұрын

I mean didn't both the Scourge and the Contingency go to the L-Cluster though, you might be better off with some room to maneuver. Unless you're willing to really try to lock down that one entrance area, because that system will get ugly real fast.

The contingency really proving that flesh is weak with that clutch comeback.

@justarandompersonininterne6583

Жыл бұрын

Flesh is heresy

ALERT: CLASS-30 SINGULARITY CONTAINMENT SUCCESSFUL.

I love how CONTINGENCY centers itself over the whole galaxy.

Honestly I'm surprised at how well the khan did, don't think I've ever seen one do that well

The Contingency was just that. I always found the nanobot crisis to be the eeriest/creepiest threat for this exact reason. It's like Halo, it exists to wipe out all life in the event of a galactic emergency

@s71402san

Жыл бұрын

Reapers

honestly i'd much rather the contingency win than the scourge if forced to choose between the two. if life as i know it to be obliterated, i'd at least want it to be something of our own making

@empireofitalypsstimfromano5025

2 жыл бұрын

And Something That Looks Better And May Still Make Things Go Back To Normal In A Million Years

@Nodens

2 жыл бұрын

I guess it depends if the AI just want to kill organics, you wouldn't want to have your mind duplicated a million time and end up in an infinite "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" scenario after you die. But i agree since the the contingency seems to be a pretty "punctual" AI when it comes to the genocide of organics lol

@Ttegegg

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nodens what is the contingency?

@AndrewBezdenezhnykh

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ttegegg did you watch the video? 7:50 just look at the name of the winner

@nameholderplaceholder4856

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ttegegg The scourge is basically a all consuming hive mind like the Tyranids, whereas the contingency is a genocidal AI like the terminators.

I was a devouring swarm and the crisis in one of my games. I had to fight the Prethoryn scourge. It took longer to beat them then the entire time building up to that point; because I had to glass every planet.

@j.vinton4039

Жыл бұрын

Hahah I once took Colossus for RP purposes cause I thought it looked “cool” ended up using it for 40 years straight cause the Scourge spawned in an area of the Galaxy that had seen an AI rebellion and Great Khan pop off. So it was tons of border gore and they infested something like 200 worlds.

@deathtrooper7760

Жыл бұрын

@@j.vinton4039 in my last match before first contact dlc i dared to fight the scourge on 25x buff without mods. 3.5 million firepower fleets really hurt and the worst part was they even retook worlds we (ai vassal, reawoken fallen empire xenophile) bombed back to barren. the worst part is even with over 400 planets and 22000 population i can´t really push them back and are on a constant retreat to 3 choke points in the east of the galaxy where i am building a defencewall up. in the shouth i allready manadged to establish a stationary defence line that hold dozens of there waves off. my dockyrds produce ships without an break to rebuild most of my fleets i lost. the only think i guees gone give me a realistic chance to win this in a offensive is to increase the naval cap that it don´t end by 9999 because having 36000 naval cap in use really hurt the economy but first i would have rebuild my fleet from 12000.

At this point - just shield your planets with The Collosus and pray for the best.

I swear if the extra-dimensionals would have spread out instead of spawned onto each other it could have been possible they would've won, just saying those guys can pump out mass ammounts of fleets early on, but they cucked each other immediately.

@Necromediancer

2 жыл бұрын

Fr, I didn't even see the Unbidden, just instaclapped

@jhtrq1465

2 жыл бұрын

Abberant and Vehement always spawn close to each others, don't know why.

@wormybobcat3706

2 жыл бұрын

@@jhtrq1465 speak for yourself, I had them spawn on opposite sides of the galaxy, can’t say the same about the unbidden’s positioning tho

@jhtrq1465

2 жыл бұрын

@@wormybobcat3706 Strange they are supposed to spawn close to each other, did you use some mods who can alter this?

I’ve never played stellaris and have no clue what just happened but goddamn was it terrifying

@anidiot4243

Жыл бұрын

If you dont know yet,scourge is basically tyranids from wh40k,all consuming hive mind,aberrant,vehement and unbidden are extradimensional invaders that want to eat you because they see you as energy source and they hate each other,contingency is basically space skynet made to stop class 42 singularity which is eradicating all sapiebt life no matter organi or mechanical

@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012

Жыл бұрын

Waiting for someone to explain it

@xeranths

Жыл бұрын

​​​@@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012basically every endgame crisis happened, regulars stellar empires get burned down like matches, and at the end, one of the crisis who is a hive of robot made by an ancien local civilisation to protect the galaxy, but has gone mad and were asleep woke up, and wipe out the others remaining crisises. They are the Contingency, and they are the reason I only play artificials races. Flesh is so weak.

@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012

Жыл бұрын

@@xeranths thanks for explaining, also based

Later, the hunters who were chasing the prethoryn: what sad excuse of a galaxy is this place?

Yeah even after the Prethoryns took over most of the map I knew the Contingency would win. They are just too strong, with a built in advantage of having multiple directions to attack from as a feature and their strongholds are basically impossible for an AI to take care of. We see the Prethoryns struggle to take the northern bastion the whole time and just never do it and it bites them later.

Tyranid consume all planet and then Ai neturalize entire galaxy. Means No habitable planet in galaxy. Awesome!

@secondlayer7898

2 жыл бұрын

Gotta build those habitats then

Imagine a mod that would let you go from Spore to Stelaris after you colonize a certain number of solar systems and levels, your species gets turned in to a 2d artistic render

@jhomkarlopatinoperez3

2 жыл бұрын

That would be so cool

@benjamintherogue2421

2 жыл бұрын

Spore had so much wasted potential.

0:01 Holy Jesus! That music!!

@SMmania123

2 жыл бұрын

Deus Ex - UNATCO Theme kinda lit ngl

God DAMN that comeback for the Contingency was VICIOUS! That backlash was fucking FILTHY

Definitely one of the best montage music-map battles I saw from a long time. Keep on the good work. GG

@Nodens

2 жыл бұрын

Thx :)

Round of applause for the Berereltan Continuity (I assume that’s what their name is I can barely read it) for lasting as long as they did.

I guess the Contingency really lived up to their name and purpose. They were created long ago to stop a crisis.

@anidiot4243

Жыл бұрын

Isnt class 30 singularity are crisis empires?

@JBrander

Жыл бұрын

@@anidiot4243 I don't know for sure. The stellaris community has debated on what a "class 30 singularity" is for a long time now. I've seen all kinds of answers. Unless we get a straight answer from the devs, it's only going to be debated for now. But what I do know for sure is that the contingency was made to combat a crisis. And the scourge and the extradimensional sure do look like a couple of crisis to me.

@myalt3019

Жыл бұрын

To stop the Aetherophasic Engine from being completed right?

I like the idea that the Scurge fueled its extreme expansion due to the biomass it was collecting. But after the conflict with the machines raged on, they ran out as more and more of their warriors got disintegrated with no way of replenishing their ranks.

AMAZING time lapse!

@Nodens

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks :)

The history of this galaxy would be amazing. Crumbled empires left right and center. Good show

Well, I’m off to the L-Gate

For so long I thought Contingency were done for then all of a sudden the map starts turning red xD This was a fun video to watch

Nice choice of music👌🏽

I'm not even watching the clip mate because that deus ex music you put in triggered some very cool memories and now I'm just chillin to an amazing track!

Love the music you put in. Lets slay some reapers!

Nice to hear Deus Ex's music once again :) Thank you!

My favorite was the unbidden spawning 2 stars from my home system and taking control of the sensor array there while I was dealing with the grey tempest home system. They managed to kill one planet but then the war in heaven started and one fallen empire came through an L gate and deleted them within the same year they started. From there the remaining fleets just harassed the whole galaxy while the war in heaven carried on.

It was looking pretty rough there for a while, good thing they had a Contingency plan.

O unhappy galaxy.

Lesson to be learned from the contingency. Never back down. Never stop fighting

I want a dlc or event or arcology site that tells us about these crises like a profetsi or spacefarers that escaped from the crisis and died in this galaxy i want more info on them you know give me LORE

@nicholasthompson6152

2 жыл бұрын

I think they make it somewhat open ended on purpose like to allow one to role play their own lore. But yes it would be cool if they included fluff

@jome2284

2 жыл бұрын

It's actually speculated that the Prethoryn Scourge escaped from an Aetherophasic Engine going off in their home galaxy, and the race that did it is the race the Prethoryn Scourge is running away from, and why they're so confident that they'll reach your galaxy soon enough, hence their intent to consume all life and leave the galaxy before "they" arrive.

@cosmictreason2242

Жыл бұрын

Yes they have a lot to work with but need to take a hint from Games workshop. What they don’t seem to realize is that each galaxy can be a different connected universe and the crises are multiversal in nature, sweeping from one to the other and trying to consume. That way each universe can have its own lore and the crises can have numerous different canon backstories.

that 1 system minor Cybrex Remnant chilling the whole end game lol

Great choice of music. Deus Ex was an amazing game for its time!

I know there’s mods for it but I’ve always liked the idea that one of the rare techs you could only get was hyperlane manipulation. Think of it, you could be like the L cluster and cut off your core sector from invaders especially during a crisis. It won’t stop everyone completely as they could jump systems but it would buy you time and weaken their shields and speed. I think a good balance for using the tech would be either a high energy cost to use it or if you’re isolating a planet or sector you get a big penalty to either trade value, galactic market prices or production rate of the isolated area.

@cosmictreason2242

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I mean if you can put wormholes in every system why not

The scariest crisis of all is trying to run my computer with a Huge Galaxy size.

That Celimy Shard faction had such a good location. Only three paths into the tail of a spiral with chokepoints galore

This reminds me of a multiplayer game I was in were a war in heaven started with me positioned in between both awakened empires so I pretty much got rolled except for my core worlds because I managed to build fortress stations with FTL inhibitors and have a megashipyard inside, when the preythorian scourge came everyone asked why I wasn't sending fleets and I was like "my guys, with what fleet?" but yeah the awaken empires managed to keep the scourge away from me long enough for the other players to beat them back. All of this to say, I thought the awakened empire would do better against the crisis.

I love this game even though I’m not good at it at all. It’s just too much in terms of scope and small detailed possibilities and I fail regularly. But the stories that arise in my head every time I play are fantastic. Just watching this map, as individual realms rise and fall, find greatness again and ultimately cannot escape the inevitable. And in the end, the great tyrant himself is completely destroyed after a long battle where it sometimes looked like he would win. Not many games can do that.

I guess you can say the Contingency “saved” the galaxy? They were programmed to emerge to destroy a bigger threat 😁

Looooove the Deus Ex soundtrack in the background. Nostalgia to the power of 10!

Thought this video was going to be about the world today IRL with so many crises simultaneously!

The UNATCO theme is the reason why I hit the like button in the very first second of this clip.

010110110 - THE FLESH IS WEAK. EXTERMINATION PROTOCOLS INTIATED

awesome!

That exterminators vs devourers at the end was a surprise.

Почему то когда сам играешь, то такого кайфа от расширения не ловишь, а когда смотришь таймлапс расширения какого либо государства, то это ощущается красиво и приятно

Stellaris, complete with UNATCO HQ ambience. Doesn't get much better than that.

imagine if they added a massive update where entire galaxies could battle

@leonardotobiaslealespinoza7171

8 ай бұрын

It would en amazing. But kind of extremely long unless the factions manage to develop more bigger guns to wipe out the life into a galaxy scale

I was so focused on the contingency that I didn't even notice the scourge until it consumed a quarter of the galaxy.

Got boxed between a devouring swarm, fanatic purifier and driven assimilator. Close to the first 100 years of the game I was at war when I was trying playing a spiritual pacifist inward perfection isolationist was surprisingly fun. By the time my crisis came I had 4 200k fleets and multiple 500k bastions because of the perks I had to take just to survive my three neighbors early game. The crisis fleets broke themselves on my bastions and I just cleaned house with my fleets. The next play through I got owned hard 30 years in by a fanatic purifier that declared war right after first contact.

wow, especially the galactic north had it wild....

"... and I, for one, welcome our new Contingency overlords."

Damn Contingency is like a motivational speaker that tells you -Don't give up man! You can do it!

Contingency straight up came in clutch out of nowhere…

Question: At 6:41, when the last empire (in the south-western corner) fell to the Aberrant, what kind of empire was it? I like to imagine it was a xenophilic empire with the Safe Haven civic, having taken on all remaining survivors and holding on for just a few more years. Either way, it's actually quite tragic: The bigger crises were distracted fighting each other, only for the relatively weak Aberrant to swoop in and extinguish the last ember of hope in a display of pure opportunism.

@Nodens

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know but i think you're right since they where called "Serene Inari Commonality" they probably where on the more xenophilic side. I'm guessing xenophile/spiritualist or xenophile/pacifist, but that's just a guess from their name.

@menospeakwelsh

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nodens Someone should make a short story out of this. Actually, you know what? Come back to this reply section in a couple hours, I'll see what I can come up with.

@v2danny925

2 жыл бұрын

@@menospeakwelsh Aight leaving a comment to see this

@menospeakwelsh

2 жыл бұрын

Aight, there we go.

@menospeakwelsh

2 жыл бұрын

On the Death of Hope Among a nation long forgotten on old Terra, long before its consumption, there used to be a saying: “Hope dies last.” They were all that was left of dozens of great empires, advanced civilisations and uncountable species. Much of the galaxy had already fallen before a clear understanding of the threats could be reached. First sparsely, then unmistakably, the realisation spread. The end was coming. The end of everything. They were the last. Nothing else is left. The constant stream of refugees slowly thinned out and eventually ceased. Everything - everyone - outside their little enclave of hope, of life, was dead. Purged, sterilised, harvested, consumed or worse. Out there, beyond the limits of their tiny bubble of shelter, was only death, incarnated by unspeakable horrors. Three monolithic antitheses to the very concept of life. Ironically, they each represented a key aspect of civilisation, corrupted to the core. The Prethoryn Swarm, the perversion of the flesh. Many of the survivors could no longer bear to look upon their own reflection. It reminded them of the eyes and tentacles from their nightmares, heralds of the approaching mass of flesh slowly moving through the void, and the inevitability of absorption. A fate that had befallen all those beings from their visions, their screams slowly having fallen in number, until there was only silence. A painfully deafening absence of all sound, allowing for absolute certainty. They were, indeed, now alone. The Contingency, the perversion of the machine, the tools made by man and alien alike to serve them. Now, it only served their destruction. All automata capable of thought, that had not joined the oncoming wall of cold, uncaring metal and doom, had been destroyed by their erstwhile neighbours, comrades and friends. A century of coexistence, of friendship and shared memories became irrelevant in an instant, as an all-consuming fear overcame even the sturdiest of reason and all synthetic minds, from the simplest of household AIs to respected members of society, were wiped out by uncontrollable mobs of panicked organics. Blinded by their desperation, none were willing to accept that even if their deeds had been justified, it would not have made a difference. The Contingency had already failed at its original purpose, unleashing yet another horror on the galaxy. The Unbidden, Vehement and Aberrant, the perversion of the mind. Those without the ability to pierce the veil and gaze beyond the shroud had no understanding of their true nature. Those that could did not speak of what they saw when they searched the psionic realm for answers. The few that did told of ill omens. The ever enigmatic entities of that plane of existence, usually amused or endeared by those seeking wisdom from them, reacted to their inquiries with abject horror. Others said they have found the ruptures, through which the invaders had come, in the shroud. Gaping wounds in reality, creating ripples of pure terror, rebounding off the encroaching walls of flesh and steel opposite to it, echoing through the minds of all, tearing apart their sanity, day by day. Although the wise looked away, many stared directly into the rifts, shattering their minds instantly and confining their bodies to a permanent catatonic state. One of them crossed the threshold. The fate of his soul is unknowable, but his last thought burned itself into the very fabric of the veil: “There is only hunger.”. Despite it being a logical inevitability, it still came as an enormous surprise to most denizens of the sanctuary when the monsters of metal, flesh and mind eventually saw the threat they posed to one another, and - in a rare display of anything other than a single-minded drive for consumption - an indescribably apocalyptic conflict for survival began. It was met by ecstatic celebration of every conscious mind. But deep down, it was clear to all of them, that they had won naught but time. Time, for which there was no use, as those who had found their way to this safe haven were few in number, while the resources at the disposal of their foes had not shown any sign of exhaustion. The fact of the matter was that resistance was simply unviable. Instead, every available resource was funneled into debauchery. Hedonism, which would have been decried as degenerate by even the most liberally minded in decades past, took place, beyond any sense of decency, humility or even morality. When it was confirmed that two of the three interdimensional portals that had desecrated reality had been forced shut by the other destructive forces, reactions were mixed. It meant the destruction of enormous threats that had brought about the demise of countless trillions, but it also signaled the inevitable end, when they would be the only target left, coming ever closer. Still, estimates for how much time they had left were firmly in the decade range. There had even arisen the hope that the monsters could weaken each other enough for life to triumph after all. To outlast the storm. The very thought made morale sore. It was a promising outlook on the future. Deceptively so. It was not born out of realism but a product of naïveté. Such optimism was insanely delusional in nature, as time would show. When sparse reports from the outermost deep space sensor matrices first came in, they were labeled as faulty readings. When their frequency increased however, the unbearable realisation slowly spread to even the most stubborn daydreamer. Their fate was no less sealed now than it had been before. The remnants of the last extradimensional horde, the Aberrant, was undeniably headed for the sanctuary. Shock gave way to disappointment, disappointment gave way to fear, and fear gave way to desperation. Nothing had changed. They were still doomed. As the final month turned into the final week and then into the final day, time cruelly seemed to accelerate. The psionically inclined had already felt the Aberrants’ presence for days, but it was so strong now that every living thing was now acutely aware of what was coming. There was one final festival, one final prayer and - finally - one final profound moment. Finality. A concept feared by countless civilisations over the eons. But it was those few ten thousands that were exposed to its most direct meaning, a pure manifestation of its brutality. And yet, even now, hope was almost universally present among the doomed, in opposition of all reason and logic. There were however also those unlucky enough to realise that everything would be lost. With their death, even the entities of the shroud would perish, as their realm was but a reflection of the totality of the life in our reality. Without conscious minds to project thought and emotion beyond the veil, it would reach a state of maximum entropy. Pure stasis. The end, in permanence. And so, as the abhorrent creatures’ touch consumed them one by one, the light of life going extinct more and more, hope was still present. But as the last of the survivors, the very last living thing in the galaxy, died, even hope went extinct. The light was out. None bore witness to the candle’s dying fumes ascending into oblivion. Only darkness watched and silence listened, as death claimed existence as its own. Among a nation long forgotten on old Terra, long before its consumption, there used to be a saying: “Hope dies last.” It may die last. But it does die.

Oh, that was a close call!

The only thing this lack is the reckoning

i like how the aberrent killed the unbidden instantly

Yeeee! They do it! They do it!

That UNATCO theme though

I have to say i never thought i wouldve gone from "yeah theyre not doing anything, theyre done just a matter of time" to "HOW ARE YOU STILL THERE" to "COME ON YOUVE COME TOO FAR NOW" to incoherent internal screaming as I did for that little green civ that sat there in the middle off to the right, couldnt see its name cause mobile user but RIP you little troopers

What if the prethoryns after taking control of most of the galaxy they just left for another galaxy. I mean after all the empire's were gone it was only the AI empire and an elemental empire left so nothing to eat .... so I think the main host of the prethoryn left the galaxy for another and left behind a garrison .... hence why the contingency came back the way they did. Then after the contingency won they shut down again to let the process start again in another few thousand years or so.

@shadowwarrior1003

2 жыл бұрын

uhh... that'd be closer to a few million years pretty sure, can't evolve sentient life from microbes in only a few thousand years

And so having accomplished its goal, the contingency resumed sleep mode until it was needed to preserve the galaxy from an overabundance of life once again.

I really like this progression, tbh i wish stellaris had ages like EU4, imagine having say the khans rise up right after the early game shaking up borders, then after the universe starts to get centralized between strong powers maybe some sort of revolutuon crisis begins forcing the galactic community to fight against it or join it sort of like the eu4 hre religuous war, then maybe the next crisis is the scourge or even a new one where suddenly minorities want their own empire and xenophobes have to deal with distant planets becoming new races (to simulate how their cultures developed differently and now they feel they are different enough) and ais and hive minds have to deal with autonomous minds on their border regions going rogue or whatever. Would be neat

@jerryli3438

2 жыл бұрын

It does have ages, that is called the “end game year” and the “mid game year” that you can customise. What is missing is age abilities.

*Scourge dominates the galaxy* Contingency: "And we took that persionally"

That Contingency awakening was some Stalingrad type shit painting from mustard brown to plain red.

ive played one game where ive gotten far enough to have the scourge come and it was at the worst possible time and place for them. I had just finished beating aeternum after they had awoken and 10 years later here comes the scourge just a few jumps away from the main battleground. I had four 2 million fleet power fleets less than 5 jumps away from their spawn. They took 6 systems, then got totally obliterated.

This video contains everything I hoped to happen at once😂 I played 5 times and mostly trigger Scourge, and Contingency. I would love to trigger The War in Heaven but don’t know how.(By the way, I never successfully defended myself in the endgame crisis, those enemies are overwhelming hahaha)

This truly is the darkest timeline.

Spawning next to a Devouring swarm, isolationist FE and a marauder enclave is the biggest middle finger you can ever receive in a new game.

Mfers like you and me are at work while the Prethoryn scourge nears our star system

I have to say the Deus Ex music fits quite nicely with Stellaris.

@bigfatchubbybritboy9445

Жыл бұрын

Stellaris's soundtrack is already very synth heavy & futuristic..so it makes sense that Deus Ex's equally synth and futuristic sounding soundtrack would work well with Stellaris.

Unatco theme, nice

My game was even worse I opened the L gates a bit early and every empire but me is gone because of the nanites

"My galaxy is augmented."

I don't think I have ever seen the great khan be that successful

I've never gotten this far into the game without waging constant war on every single neighbour first. Eat or be eaten.

Imagine if in the middle of Pretoryn-Contingency war the Blokkats would've entered the Galaxy.

One time i did a coop with a friend and we had two early game crisis pop at the same time before we were ready

Wow galaxy with a core!

Man I love seeing big Hordes. All heil the great Khan

I remember in the early days of stellaris when I had my alternate history space faring roman empire. I took control of nearly half the galaxy after defeating my long time rivals. The preythorians invaded on my side within one of my slave nations. My nation had shielded the rest of the galaxy from them. I fought the war against them alone for 200 years constantly resupplying my defense stations with fresh corvettes. All the while neighboring empires were declaring war on me whenever my fleet power dipped. It really felt like the historical collapse of the roman empire but I persevered and wiled them from the galaxy.

"See you all in super-hell!"

Then my empire spawns in after the contingency dies off at the end