Stellaris quote of the day: “It is quite unusual for a black hole to send love poems at all”

@scp-001thescarletking

2 ай бұрын

I think I heard that happen before

God first time I got this I was so creeped out stelaris needs more cosmic horror

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

The Worm LOVES you.

@dark_fire_ice

Жыл бұрын

Hell, is but a word

@JoViljarHaugstulen

Жыл бұрын

Stellaris probably could use event options like in Dominion (Story events are disabled, minor story events enabled, all story events are enabled) which can allow more game warping events without it harming multiplayer or players who don't like them as they can simply disable them

@Valhain

Жыл бұрын

There is a mod by the name Archeology Story Pack that adds one I found particularly scary/horrifying. Dawn Star is Coming.

@SomeKrieger

11 ай бұрын

It really needs Bloodborne influence. Imagine rocking up to an isolated black hole floating deep in the black outside of the galactic rim and researching signals coming from it. Soon researchers begin to hear things. Then things in the corners of there vision. Then everywhere. They’re driven mad and eventually each scientist commits suicide and their ship is dragged into the blackhole. Continue fucking with this place for long enough and legions of eyes appear on it. Now any vessels entering the system are immediately driven to madness. Continue poking it with a stick and a some cross between,The Moon Presence, and the Dimensional Horror emerges as an endgame threat with the end goal of essentially Horizon Signal on a galactic scale.

It appears to have taken a personal interest in us. There are mathematical proofs that it loves us. Such a chilling line

I haven’t had this anomaly in forever but it’s so memorable. Stellaris needs more creepy stuff like this

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

Same actually, I had to force it to get the text for the story. I'd love some more worm references; something else to show how close the shroud monsters are to breaking through and eating us!

@acadiano10

Жыл бұрын

@@TheRedKing I use a mod that has it *always* appear as it did formerly. it makes the early game more interesting if you play with fewer AI empires.

@dennissluijk1789

Жыл бұрын

@@TheRedKing I just had a event where a dimensional horror (black worm thingy) partially entered our dimension, but got stuck in his portal. I asked somekind of house of knowledge and asked what it was. They said "although we don't know why it's here or where it is from. We suspect that the dimension it comes from comes close to religious depictions of hell". Yeah, terrifying.

God I absolutely love this event. I wrote a story of an empire based on it. A civilization so obsessed with science and knowledge that they were willing to do absolutely anything to learn more.

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

Very cool origin story should the fungoid become intelligent!

This event at one time was so common that it almost represented another ascension path. You could fly back and forth between black hole systems trying to trigger it. Alas, Paradox nerfed it into the ground so much that you're very lucky if you encounter it in a game anymore.

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

I _believe_ its now a 5% chance to spawn upon entering an unowned blackhole system the first time, but the AI cannot get it. It's the unowned bit which really rate limits you sadly. Although rarity sometimes isn't a bad thing, just makes it that much more special :)

@llamaboioflusatia

Жыл бұрын

@@TheRedKing I used to have a one system build revolving around the worm, just for shits and giggle, but paradox's changing the event so you can't enter the same black hole repeatedly ruined any semblance of a chance the build had

@WildFungus

Жыл бұрын

@@TheRedKing no it is a 5% chance of spawning at game start in a random blackhole and you will have no idea if it has or where it has and you will need to send a science ship into that system to trigger it making it highly unlikely. as you may not be anywhere near it. The odds are now orders of magnitude below a singular percentage point of encountering it.

@Megametalmonster2

Жыл бұрын

@@WildFungus I just encountered it in my game earlier today. Kinda dont even wanna bother with it cuz im already embroiled in a galactic war with the Grey Tempest and the midgame is about to roll around xD

@WildFungus

Жыл бұрын

@@Megametalmonster2 I think that's the biggest problem is you tend to encounter in the mid - late game if at all, when it's sort of an early game story chain

See, if you had asked your Blorgy Friends for information, you would already know we tried to Hug the Worm. And it Hugs back MORE strongly than we do. Never Doubt the Worm

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

Bahaha - I love the never ending Blorg support :)

@juliankirby9880

Жыл бұрын

@@TheRedKing it is arguably, the most fun, funniest roleplay empire in the game. find a way to describe a violent planetary invasion through friendship words. its so silly.

@Weeklong_Seagull

Жыл бұрын

Never doubt the worm!!!! Man that's a through back

@AnAngryMarauder

Жыл бұрын

@@Weeklong_Seagull I'm having serious doubts about the worm

@badpiggies988

6 ай бұрын

The Scyldari believe it to be the benevolent deity they worship, as it loves them the way they love all xenos

I've had this anomaly just once. The Worm loves me and I love the Worm.

I was playing wayyy back when this event was released, I was like ‘one more month’ before I go to bed and it fired, I was so engrossed and it gave me the creeps that I stayed up all night to complete it. Can never get that dread from the first time playing again.

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

Agreed! The Unknown is great :)

@Archgeek0

Жыл бұрын

I miss some of the stuff they took out of the the chain that made it a lot more desirable. Remember Spiral-hewn Mines? Those were... just about broken back then. I think it came with some other strong buildings, too.

@francisruiz4426

Жыл бұрын

@@Archgeek0oh yeah! Those were op, and the first time with the colony disappearing whenever you colonized after finding the messenger ?(now it’s annoying but back then it was wow)

@sovietunion7643

Жыл бұрын

i never really got dread playing it. at first yes, but since i accepted all of its requests, it was very nice and polite to my society, and gave us its gifts. if anything i kinda found it almost cute in a way. some time worm inside the black hole reality has decided that we are its friends and will now make out home system a black hole so we can experience its love firsthand. it doesn't hurt anything or even disrupt your society, it just kinda slides into becoming your friend. it worked especially well considering my empire was fantatic spiritualist so i guess i made the polite loving time worm my empire's main deity. its can of hard to deny the existence of your main deity when your capital system quite literally is blessed by its darkness

I got this event while being depressed and playing at 3am alone in my house. Was so chilling, yet comforting in my frame of mind to be told that something/someone out there loves me.

@LastGunslingerTull

Жыл бұрын

I, as a fellow stellaris player, love you, just as the worm does. WHAT WAS WILL BE

@alericantonelli4656

11 ай бұрын

Hey, we all love you for who you are. And if someone doesn't, fuck em with a cactus covered in razorblades!

@electrotoxins

11 ай бұрын

"It's dark... That's not a problem, we can live in the dark." 3:57

@badpiggies988

6 ай бұрын

THE TRINE THE QUINE THE TRINE THE QUINE

@tylermyers200

3 ай бұрын

Yea I doubt that happened. Just saying.

I remember when I first got this event years ago. It was still relatively new and there wasn't great info on it online. That same night, I had a dream. I was gazing down at our solar system as a black serpent crawled out of the Sun, wrapping itself around the entirety of the system and biting down on it's tail. Things started spinning faster and faster, I remember laughing like a mad man before a flash of light filled my vision and waking up with a start. Since that day I *always* found the worm. Pretty early on too. Why wouldn't I? The Worm loves me and I love them.

@cjfireblast5458

8 ай бұрын

What was will be

@hugmynutus

8 ай бұрын

What will be was

@KingChickn980

7 ай бұрын

@@cjfireblast5458 What will be was

@henrydimmock2691

5 ай бұрын

Someday a star nation's listening post will be watching the coils of god form on our planet, and you my friend, will bring about that future.

I'm sad the horizon signal has become so incredibly rare nowdays. I don't think I've stumbled upon it even once after they changed it.

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

Agreed! I don't think i've got it since the change.... But tbf it is supposed to be a super rare and terrifing event so i get it

@sovietunion7643

Жыл бұрын

luckily mods exist. the worm loves me and i love the worm

@rykerth896

9 ай бұрын

I think I got it today but I didn’t let it out because I was worried about my homeworld being 2 jumps away

The worm is an abomination and it tells only lies. Always sever it immediately.

@MrClickity

9 ай бұрын

You may not love The Worm, but The Worm loves you.

@stormlordeternal7663

9 ай бұрын

@@MrClickity Love not reciprocated, restraining order to delivered via violence.

@themement3616

8 ай бұрын

​@@stormlordeternal7663I L O V E T H E W O R M A N D T H E W O R M L O V E S M E

@Inugirl582

Ай бұрын

@@themement3616 for some reason i got a translate option. The fact that it changes it to "i love you and i love you" creeped me out lol

@bodhijohnson874

26 күн бұрын

MilkyWay sweep intensifies

One time I freed the worm, but since I was playing with NSC2 I just promptly crushed it with a million fleet power

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

That poor worm! It just wanted love :)

Was doing one system challenge when I got this event, must be the luckiest I’ve ever been, even getting the galactron can’t compare. Gotta love the worm.

@NewPaulActs17

Жыл бұрын

you can spam energy credits for the galatron. usually costs half a million per game. but i can get it every playthrough now. fairly worth it for the passive effects of 100% diplomatic weight and 3 free influence monthly. last game i played, i kept getting 1000s of consumer goods per reliquary before i got the relic. very helpful as i had militarized economy going and the contingency at my front door

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

I also immediately was able to get the Galatron post update after 5 years of jack all!

I wonder why the video did not mention a ship piloted by one of your admirals but from the future? That's a very cool part of the quest chain.

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

I can only guess that particular didn't occur during my play through of the event. I tend to force spawn the events play through them as I write the scripts.. or it did occur and for whatever reason I cut it for not fitting the story - that seems less likely though

The moment I heard "The Eldar" my heart sank. 40k is here.

@amongusgaming123

5 ай бұрын

Plus Jain-Zar, Maugan Ra and Baharroth

@CheshireTheMaid

3 ай бұрын

It's like finding Wraithbone in a D&D campaign

I had this in my very first ever playthrough. GRAVITY IS DESIRE

WHAT WAS, WILL BE.

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

and... what will be, was

@DS-wr5lw

Жыл бұрын

@@TheRedKing THE WORM LOVES US!

i love how i get an extra 4-5 habitable planets in my home system. and as i don't always care for tomb worlds- i simply terraform back into my species original preference. once colonized, my home system is just overpowered and unmatched in all pursuits, be they scientific or economic endeavors. the envy of the galaxy.

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

More so now! Orbital rings for everyone!

@NewPaulActs17

Жыл бұрын

@@TheRedKing got 7 this latest time in my trinary home system.

As a guy who sometimes play evil empires I for one look forward to our eldritch overlord.

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

It is a marvellous story!

Anything Alexis Kennedy writes is absolute gold, and this is no exception. I hadn't played Stellaris for years and when I rebooted it to play a Biological->Synthetic Cybermancy playthrough I found this in the mid-game and immediately recognized the writing style. I feel pretty bad- Been watching the videos on this channel and reinstalled only to find I had deleted that save.

Note to self, *DO NOT* try to summon otherworldly beings.

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

Good reminder 😅

I remember the first time I got this event. I was mesmerized. I had also just gotten 'The Old Gods' event chain directly prior, and I decided to embrace the spiritualist ethos; I was already spiritualist... Then the Horizon Signal came... And i thought it was all linked together. It even changed my pops. I was in shock.

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

ooof thats such a good combo without you knowing - I really like Old Gods, but its so meh in depth, could roll amazingly into the "cult of the worm"

@sovietunion7643

Жыл бұрын

@@TheRedKing imagine you are some materialist empire scoffing at the spiritualist empire and then you astronomers tell you that their capital system is now a black hole, yet economically and geopolitically it appears nothing has changed, their capital system is still there. your diplomats ask the empire what happened and they tell you that their god, the worm that waits, has given them its gifts. after learning what happened, your empire gets an even where it changes its ethics, with the spiritualist faction arising where previously none had existed.

Creeped the hell out of me first time I encountered it. The Forest is Dark and Full of Terrors

@sovietunion7643

Жыл бұрын

and time worms that love you and want to be your friend as well,

Get this one all the time...and still willing lose a bunch of scientists I guess I'm a glutton for punishment.

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

Well worth it for the love of the worm :)

@markvt22

Жыл бұрын

i havent had this event spawn since they changed the cant force spawn it with ships dipping in and out of blackhole systems change , how do you get it to spawn?

@jeremiahadam19

Жыл бұрын

@*BfRe*markvt22 really I have no idea. I've only kind gotten into the mechanics of this game even after I've played for all these years and only found out that things happen though actions. Don't get me started on just figuring out specialized worlds. I guess I just like to go with the flow and not get that into depth when I play games just let them happen. New patch is coming out so I'll jump on again and lets see if I get it and I'll try to let ya know. I just like how this event was just like BSG with their message "This has happened before and will happen again" was the same as "What was, will be. What will be, was."

I think an event where, If you have a system on the edge of the galaxy, an event can happen where a derelict ship arrives from outside our galaxy. You can have an event chain, or archaeology site about what this ship was.

@ironspaghett

Жыл бұрын

And you meet a man named Tiberius Rex

Ah yes the worm fun little event though I normally wind up shooting the damn thing so it can never harm my empire again.

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

It just wants to love you....

@awesomegj

Жыл бұрын

@@TheRedKing and it can! When it gives me its scales for the emperors personal trinket collection, after we torch the damn thing!

@goldengyarados3515

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I never fire it too, don't like my portraits changing

Depending on how you view it this event can be either chilling or heartwarming or a mix of both

The time looped colony is one of my favorite parts of this event chain.

@commandoepsilon4664

Жыл бұрын

I had the looped colony happen on an event Gaia world, the one with the robots that don't mind you settling there as long as you don't industrialize the planet, and didn't even realize that is was from the loop and not just something that happens on that planet.

I prefer the alternate ending "The Shattered Loop," at least from a story perspective. The avatar of the universal cosmic cycle itself stares at you, asking a wordless question. Unblinking, you answer: "No, not this time." The phrase went from: "What was, will be; what will be, was." to: "There are none like us! And perhaps there never will be." It seems to provide better closure to the story, a more satisfying answer to the initial mystery, and the sense that your civilization is something special on a cosmic scale.

This was a crazy event the first time I got it. I realky enjoyed it and your story of it as always is fantastic!! Thank you very much for continuing these lore tales sir!!

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Agree, the first time you get it when you don't have a clue whats coming and just keep sacrificing scientists it's great !

Have you ever considered making up your own stellaris-esque short story/event chain thing? Like with the same structure as these videos with alternate actions that have unique outcomes, I think itd be a great way to keep the content from drying up

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

Oo could be fun! I hadn't, wonder how hard it would be to turn that into a proper mod... 🤔

@dennissluijk1789

Жыл бұрын

​@@TheRedKing would be very cool. Modded story's

I remember getting this even chain on every play through.

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

Those were the days :)

This whole event is worth it whether you want the story, or just the in-game benefits.

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

100% I wish I could forget it and replay it through... you know something awful will happen at the end, but you gotta love that worm!

I feel it’s a missed opportunity to have had more unsettling music and silence to establish a creepier atmosphere, but you do a fine job narrating so I can’t really be too upset.

"Reffered themself as the Eldar" 40k fans : Okay the what now ?

When I got this event first time I was full of confusion and fear. Today I only say this "We dont talk about Horison Signal... Only know that WHAT WAS SHALL BE AND WHAT SHALL BE WAS". Who are "We"? You know who "we" are...

I like the disappearing colony event chain but it seems a little buggy? additionally, what was will be sure but it never reappears later :D

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

I saw a bug of it on reddit the other day with shattered ring origin it was very messy 😅 planets inside the ring... not good

I remeber how I got this event during my very first game of Stelaris, long story short, it was an amazing experience.

The worm is love, the worm is life

I love the references to Warhammer 40k from "Eldar" to "Jain Zar" and "Maugan Ra", the uncanny relationship with this entity which is a replacement for Slaanesh, yet it's so much more horrifying and Lovecraftian than the 40k counterpart. Both this Worm and Slaanesh intend to devour the Eldar, at least one has.

@lelagrangeeffectphysics4120

Жыл бұрын

They all are phoenix lords also you missed Baharroth

@lelagrangeeffectphysics4120

Жыл бұрын

I think both of them are essentially tales of curiosity without wisdom or moderation, of not knowing that there are some corners of reality where one should not tread and the consequences they bring, that perhaps it is best to keep to ourselfs

@steffanyschwartz7801

Жыл бұрын

I mean I would think there is something like the Great Worm or the Inter dimensional Horror in the Warp

@lelagrangeeffectphysics4120

Жыл бұрын

@@steffanyschwartz7801 yes there is... but actually not, but actually perhaps

So cool, the long format, my favorite 🤗

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like it Kim :)

I used to get the horizon signal like every game, and now I see it rarely. Oh how times have changed

The worm loves us, but who will love the worm?

Great video as usual

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Thanks for letting me know :)

You make some of my favorite lore videos

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

Happy to hear it, thanks Nix

Seeing how rare it seems, I am kindly glad I got it, first time getting it

And lo, the worm said: "Do you believe in Gravity?"

I got this all the time back in the day. I haven't seen this event in some thing like 5 years =( It's a shame, this is one of the best ones

just realise i had this in my last game but idk i could do that so i killed the beast instead of worshipping it

I had this chain on my first ever playthrough, and for a while I was convinced that Stellaris was a Cosmic Horror game all along.

I spent all of my civ's resources building ships to destroy that worm when i first found it. Glad i did.

God I had this only once like my 3rd play through. Sadly I got creeped out and stopped little over half way through. Wish I continued never seen this anomaly again.

I’ve only gotten this event once, but as Mollousciod Brainiods, I Can say with certainty that the worm is not worth of worship. I’m glad to have severed its head. … Except for when I learned that it had the potential to turn your home system into a habitable paradise, capable of housing the entire empire.

I'm so glad I found this channel. Needed some more great stellaris content :3.

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Joshua, glad you're enjoying it :)

Another good one!

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it :)

@IrradiatedFeline

Жыл бұрын

@@TheRedKing you breathe life into these stories. Created a kind of warhammer stellaris that is a joy to listen to. The parts with the scourge were outstanding! Just wished humanity wasn't so stubborn and made some alliances. But that is just me.

I heard “Eldar” and got excited and confused.

This is deffinitly my favorite anomaly.

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

Always makes me smile when it pops up - hoping for more events like this in the future

I'm so awed by stellaris lore

@TheRedKing

2 ай бұрын

Then you're in the right place!! :)

THE ELDAR YOU SAY

Are you going to do a story for each crisis?

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

Scourge i've done a couple videos on; i'll likely do unbidden and Contigency at somepoint yes

i'm sorry , the ELDARS ??? *grabs boltgun*

"The worm like beginnings"... Yeah the beginning of your end!

It ain't a worm if it's the eldar. That would be she who thirsts

@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts

Жыл бұрын

The worm that walks worships the same false gods the eldar do.

@Weeklong_Seagull

Жыл бұрын

@@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts they wouldn't be false gods. The eldar gods are litterly gods that exist and can be summoned into the material universe. Before the blood orgies that is. She who thirsts just ate em all

I loved this storyline

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Nicholas (cute Puppy), glad you enjoyed it :)

@bunkerhousing

6 ай бұрын

It is not cuter than the worm. @@TheRedKing

THE WORM LOVES US

@TheRedKing

6 ай бұрын

Yes it does

I got this event like once and it was really op

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

It's AWESOME! :)

I swear that said “love sus”

The Central Asimovan Authority thanks you for this data

Nothing is more Stellaris than making you do an intense, detailed quest to only then complete it and nuke your capital in the process lol

Dude your name is very fitting

i love the worm

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

and the worm loves you :)

@BlackReshiram

Жыл бұрын

@@TheRedKing worm

My Materialist empire bows to no god, nor worm, so have it be slain

i want this event so bad

@TheRedKing

4 ай бұрын

You can console it if you so wish. If you want it via Ironman I suggest rush exploring all the blackholes you can find and hope!

Love the stellaris lore

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

cheers! Any other genre of lore you'd be interested in hearing?

@lucassmith4524

Жыл бұрын

Endless Space 1 & 2 + Endless Legend

I have ridden the mighty Moon worm. -Al Gore, Futurama.....

12:07 "Hans...are we the baddies?"

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

and..... "That's numberwang!";)

The Groomer Worm.

All my homies love the worm

I love the warhammer references

IT DESERVES US

Stellaris gameplay vs stellaris lore

I appreciate the warhammer references

How many warcraft references did you catch?

What was, will be. And what will be, was.

Hail Worm.

I usually like doing this when I have an Immortal Emperor and feel the need to Purge the Heresy....who am I kidding every game involves purging Heresy.

7:16 but it...absolutely does?

I still haven't gotten this

@TheRedKing

9 ай бұрын

It's quite rare these days; certainly one of the rarer events

Loves you like I love cheeseburgers lol

*THE WORM LOVES US, AND WE CAN LOVE THE WORM! HAIL SQUIGGLY!!!* `Spongebob and Patrick conch club mouth noises`

Are you kidding me this is seriously on the nose 😂 Warhammer 40k eldar Phoenix Lord's Jain Zar, Maughan Ra , OH come on !!!

In the Eldar Language huh? Filthy Xenos, the emperors light shines on all of humanity while your misbegotten kind wallows in it's most deserving suffering.

Given how brazenly Paradox keeps ripping off 40K in its Stellaris storytelling, and how protective Games Workshop are of their IPs, I'm amazed Paradox hasn't been sued yet. I mean they're not even trying to hide it at this stage.

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

40k didn't invent most of this stuff, it's all recycled and shared. Besides they're hardly competing genres

@sovietunion7643

Жыл бұрын

wtf could it possibly be. don't tell me its nurgle because i don't see no plauges from the worm, and GW can't copyright eldrich horrors in general no matter how much they want to.

@13legomania

Жыл бұрын

Well GW stole the term Eldar from Tolkien, and over half their 40k lore from Dune. So fuck ‘em.

@twat3789

10 ай бұрын

What 40k story is this ripping off?

Its really throwing me off that all of the character names are Eldar Phoenix lords

Nice touch with the eldar names

Jain zar? That Phoenix Lord?

@scp-001thescarletking

2 ай бұрын

Charges collosus with cleansing intent

What species is the red king

@TheRedKing

Жыл бұрын

I tend to storytell from more or less the Common Wealth of Man perspective

What was, will be.