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@calebmcallister4289

4 ай бұрын

What dlc is this event chain from

@TheRedKing

3 ай бұрын

plentiful fossils is base game, for psionics you need utopia I believe

@thegamerguy1790

3 ай бұрын

Got utopia

@BadWalmartCustomerServiceCom

3 ай бұрын

@@TheRedKing I

Honestly I would love a mid game crisis where one of the AI Empires, made the covenant with the End of the Cycle. And now the rest of the galaxy has to deal with it.

@TheRedKing

4 ай бұрын

Yeah agreed sounds marvellous, and make the creature that comes out at the end far stronger than it currently is

@tbotalpha8133

4 ай бұрын

It's possible already. Any psionically-ascended AI empire can make such a covenant. But I think they're coded to always pick the first covenant they're offered, and the End of the Cycle is the rarest option, so it's rare for the probability to line up properly.

@vi6ddarkking

4 ай бұрын

@@tbotalpha8133 I know that's why I mentioned it as a proper mid game crisis.

@archmagemc3561

4 ай бұрын

Only problem, End of the Cycle needs more hull. Its very easy to take out with disruptors.

@bleflar9183

3 ай бұрын

@@archmagemc3561 Or give it 100% shield hardness.

The End of the Cycle is what I believe to be the Class 30 Singularity that the Contingency are meant to stop from happening. Since only organics can touch the Shroud and forge a covenant with the End of the Cycle, and the Contingency's stated goal is to end all the organics due to them being the ones that can cause a class 30 Singularity, it adds up to me at least.

@bgcvetan

4 ай бұрын

class 30 Singularity - Chaos god or C'tan being led loose in the materium. Makes sense.

@u.a.perfectace7786

4 ай бұрын

Always thought the Aetherphasic Engine was the Class-30 Singularity. Maybe the End and The Engine both count? I'd imagine a scenario that the End of the Cycle could not be stopped and one Empire fires the Engine out of sheer desperation to stop it.

@eclipsesunmoon4959

4 ай бұрын

I think the class 30 singularity is an intelligence singularity, where once a species or multiple species gets smart enough and technology progresses to a certain extent, the contingency activates to stop those who are too advance, mainly sentient robots since those are the common triggers for it to choose the contingency and mainly affects robot civs, from finding out the truth of the stellaris universe, its all a game and to stop them from making a game in a game repeatedly, causing a chain reaction and ultimately destroy the universe, that's also why I think the robot fallen empire got targeted so much and had their processing ring destroyed which stagnated them stopping them from creating a singularity. But even if this is not the case then why is the contingency so focused on sentient Ai like the ghost signal corrupting AI empires including the fallen one. All I know is that the contingency knows, and their not revealing all the truth due to hardware malfunctions from lack of proper maintenance, but its just a theory.

@Harbinger10892

4 ай бұрын

But the Contingency doesn't exclusively target organics - it also kills synthetics.

@commandoepsilon4664

4 ай бұрын

I doubt the class 30 singularity is the End of the Cycle, it does say that it targets organics, but also non-compliant machine intelligences. The machines will obviously never cause the End of the Cycle.

Stellaris is a low key horror game and no one can convince me on the contrary

@brandonashby6206

2 ай бұрын

Their bad been so many time in playing and my scientists disappears with a deathly haunting scream. Get me every time.

While tales abound of empires who pacted with this entity and didn't know or thought they could skirt the risks, what I find far more interesting is the possibility that an empire took this deal by choice, knowing the consequences, in order to save the galaxy from a different crisis. Who saw the Scourge or the Unbidden or the Contingency ravaging systems and decided that they would sacrifice themselves to try to prevent The End.

@matiasrodriguez7408

4 ай бұрын

If they made a pact with the end of the cycle, it is obvious that they did not know what they were doing You cannot destroy a poison by introducing a much stronger poison into the galaxy, it will also seek your destruction

@AnonimatosTM

3 ай бұрын

What if that empire didn't fight the contingency but in fact created it. The Contingency states that their creators "self-terminated". To a machine that's not far to "died by the consequences of their own actions". Maybe such an empire made a covenant with the end of a cycle in desperation and when the conflict was over created the contingency so that whatever they faced wouldn't be a threat to anyone ever again.

And yet in Game the Shroud is super OP but cannot heal meaning as it goes on a rampage it eventually accumulates damage until it dies. 😤

Dr. A Grant at "Plentiful Fossils", I see what you did there

My favorite thing with the end of cycle is when those exiles still manage to come back to defeat the avatar and reclaim what was lost though personally when i try that it normally ends in failure

On the other hand, me: destined to never encounter the EoTC

@TheRedKing

4 ай бұрын

got to play organic, psionic my dude

@1650th

4 ай бұрын

But you do fail to update

@mememachine3963

10 күн бұрын

The chance increases if there is a level 5 crisis empire on the map. Normally it's a 2% chance, but goes up to 10% when that happens

ROUGE SERVITOR WHEN

@6thhistory

4 ай бұрын

Nah we need Cyan Servitor first

@TheRedKing

4 ай бұрын

Green servitor first!

@zalophuscalifornianus5457

4 ай бұрын

Clearly we need the purple servitor first

@Anom_Anom

4 ай бұрын

Red servitor is the priority

@drewstillexists

4 ай бұрын

The most important Rogue Servitor lore is that it's spelled "Rogue"

It’s interesting how double production would work; do you build a rocking horse, finish it, look away, then bam, a second one appears. Thanks EoTC.

@FlameDarkfire

3 ай бұрын

I’m thinking the day before you could build one rocking horse, now after the covenant was made you could make two rocking horses in the same time frame and energy expenditure.

Another great slice of lore with a spice of OC. I really like how the choice of music and the images really adds to the immersion.

Hi Red King, I played stellaris years ago but your videos have got me back into the game. Perfect universe to make lore videos about, great stuff.

@TheRedKing

3 ай бұрын

Glad to hear it! Happy exploring!

I never summoned "The End of the Cycle" entity but I did consider it a backup plan in an event that I fail to destroy the galaxy with the Aetherophasic engine frame. One way or another I'm destroying the galaxy if I'll cost mine species extinction. Edit: I love the music around the near ending if the video it's beautiful & gives of tragic villain vibes to the race that doom both there people & possibly half of the galaxy.

When will Xenos learn, you can't negotiate with a Tiger when your head is in it's mouth!

It essentially fattens you up for consumption later

man that choice of music really elevated that event chain.

"Tenfold" means to multiply by ten times it's value. So, at 10:28 it would mean that this advanced civilization could only maintain a max of 1 starbase without penalty lol.

@TheRedKing

3 ай бұрын

Yeah it's actually +10 starbases, but that's a little awkward to say in this format, so tenfold.

Been checking snippest of this channel while passing by and i absolutely enjoy your intro, simple yet makes you stand out.

@TheRedKing

2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

I've only ever used it to steam roll when I know I'm gonna win within those remaining turns 😅

Been trying to get this on my Lovecraftian death cult RP race for the longest time. EoTC, Worm in waiting, gate dig site, opening L-cluster ASAP, basically anything and everything that is self destructive, and or unleashes roaming death and chaos on the galaxy.

@TheRedKing

3 ай бұрын

Best of luck!!

i wonder why this isnt a candidate for the contingency singularity thing, i mean, assuming it coerced the zoroni we could assume the contingency was created to counteract the expansion of the blackhole, maybe the singularity is the end of the cycle shroud being, also maybe the end of the cycle is the shroud entity that provides knowledge/schematics to crisis civilizations, considering its connection to level 5 crisis civilizations (increases odds of getting end of the cycle), so the Aetherophasic Engine and the End of the Cycle could be the singularity simultaneously assuming the Aetherophasic Engine was designed by the end of the cycle.

@TheRedKing

4 ай бұрын

It will sadly or not, depending on your perspective be unknown until Paradox expand upon it. It certainly has legs for an expansion imo, be it a psionic crisis/invasion type event. We could do with another crisis! Or perhaps a reason the Fallen Empires "fell"

@TheContingency25x

4 ай бұрын

This cannot and is not in any case the class 30 singularity. If it was, I would spawn upon someone making a pact with the end of the cycle. A class 30 singularity is nothing you as players have seen before.

@DragonKingSkye

4 ай бұрын

I currently believe that the End of the Cycle is the Class 30 Singularity, because the stated goal of the Contingency is to kill organics, because organics are the ones that can trigger a class 30 Singularity. Only organics can be psionic and form a covenant, so it makes sense to me.

@TheContingency25x

4 ай бұрын

@@DragonKingSkye That is wrong, both synthetics and organics are capable of reaching a class-30 singularity, if this wasn’t the case there would be no reason for me to kill machine empires. My goal is to prevent a class-30 singularity it isn’t solely to “kill organics”. Also due to a reason I stated in another comment above, a class-30 singularity cannot in any case be the end of the cycle, if it was so, I would activate to sterilise the galaxy which I do not. Therefore, a class-30 singularity is far stronger than anything the player has ever seen. Not only this but a class-30 singularity has the power to rip apart the fabric of the entire universe, there is no evidence to suggest the end of the cycle can do this.

@cassidepowers7006

4 ай бұрын

​@@TheContingency25x First, they didn't say only organics can make a class 30 but that only organics can be psionic. Second, it literally destroys an entire civilization, how is that not powerful. It consumed trillions of people, ruined dozens of worlds, and destroyed entire fleets in 1 second, 1 second dude. Imagine a civilization that encompassed the entire galaxy (meaning owning every star system) taking the End of the Cycle pact. The entire galaxy would be consumed. Plus it creates an entity that can consume entire worlds in only a few days. How is that not class 30? Plus if you follow the first comment about the Aethrophagic engine (that can literally destroy every star) and the End of the Cycle being connected (which makes since) how is none of that class 30? What would it take dude?

Sounds oddly similar to the fall of the Aeldari Nice video

@orctrihar

11 күн бұрын

Source ?

Imagine if it said "2 seconds" "Wait, WHAT?" *Poof, all gone*

Love these lore stories! I came across your channel a while back while I was looking for something to listen to while I make a 12 hour drive. Love stellaris and love lore so this totally worked for me!

@TheRedKing

4 ай бұрын

Happy to hear it!!

Classic Eldar moment

@dr.garretsshow

4 ай бұрын

More like Malal Moment

"Click the video to learn more about the scroud" Video: "We got scammed in Stellaris"

I don't even play this game but goddamn the ending to this beautiful video gave me goosebumps.

Great presentation as always. Keep being awesome.

@TheRedKing

4 ай бұрын

I shall do my best!! Thank you Varyell, you too!

There is no peace in these stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter and the hideous laughter of ever thirsting gods

When you look at these gods and their traits; all I see is Khorne, Nurgle, Slaanesh, and Tzeeztch.😮😮😮

in 8k hours i have never in my life been able to get this event, its just impossibly rare im sure at how much ive played ive experienced every event this game has to offer but this one single event eludes me

@TheRedKing

4 ай бұрын

Got to spam organics, go psionic and roll those dice!

@StarboyXL9

4 ай бұрын

8k hours here as well. Got it maybe twice or three times naturally. The rest was all console!

@Dollt28

4 ай бұрын

150hours total playtime, this was literally my first shourd event in my playthrough, only on wiki found out that its supposed to be extremely rare with smth like 2% chance or smth lmao

This channel inspired me to write about the great machine crusade

@TheRedKing

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, that's cool! Where can we find it?

@Mxdsleazy

4 ай бұрын

@@TheRedKing well when I'm finished and it's probably gonna take awhile I'll probably link it in this comment here or I not fo you have a discord server?

@TheRedKing

3 ай бұрын

I have a discord server, see video description, there is a fan-stories bit or a self promotion bit, take you pick :)

@Mxdsleazy

3 ай бұрын

@@TheRedKing probably self promo but I don't really mind, I'll probably summarise it then send it so you have an idea bc I'm ngl it could be bad

The editing is great

@TheRedKing

3 ай бұрын

I shall pass the message on :)

AYO The Red King (I called my first Herculean after you, and I’ll do this in every modded playthrough) dropped a new video! Also, will you cover ACOT’s lore one day? I have some clues through the Shroud-master and dialogs with Sophia-D but that’s not enough

@TheRedKing

4 ай бұрын

Honored! Regarding ACOT, check back on Wednesday evening ;)

@ultraflopp2802

4 ай бұрын

@@TheRedKing:D

"What is the 'End of the Cycle: Metagaming Edition" An obscure Crisis that got powercrept to hell and is now hardcountered by Outposts.

Idea, end the cycle -> cosmogenesis it can't find you when you are not there

@TheRedKing

7 күн бұрын

It does find you :) the ending is the same as the other shroud gods

@Lordblow1

7 күн бұрын

@@TheRedKing That is kinda funny actually. Cause you still don't die in this version. Though the galaxy you leave behind might

still waiting on that Enclave/Caravaneer video.

This was pretty good. Compared to other threats how powerful do you think the End of the Cycle manifested entity is compared to the greatest fleets and the most powerful ships, structures, and creatures whether they are crisis or not? It's all fun and games for the End of the Cycle. Until something the size of a Birch World shows up.

@TheRedKing

3 ай бұрын

It's actually kinda weak in game sadly Thor. I wish they buffed it

@thorshammer7883

3 ай бұрын

@@TheRedKing That's a big shame. For something that is supposed to be the manifestation of a powerful multiversal scale deity into a galaxy. Can the fleet power of the End of the Cycle entity reach 2 million fleet power atleast?

@TheRedKing

3 ай бұрын

Indeed! I'd be shocked if it can reach 200k tbh. It's supposed to scale on pops destroyed but you can defeat it very easily.

Sucks ens of the cycle aka Malice never got an update like the other 4. He really deserves one.

@TheRedKing

4 ай бұрын

Agreed!!!

@inquisitorthomasdefinitely536

3 ай бұрын

Things like self regenerative ability and increased power would be needed for to get anywhere during the time he is normally spawned

maybe the real end of the cycle is the friends we made along the way

@TheRedKing

3 ай бұрын

Semi related but check out the mod ancient empires it expands upon the zroni

@TheRedKing

3 ай бұрын

I shall take a look

Well, well... I think, we might get in trouble with Black Library at this rate... Five "gods" and description of them basically mirrors certain... universe :D Seems fandom hijacked Paradox

Dr grant woooo love me some dino err.. easter* eggs

are you planning to expand the lore for contingency ? what if they are right ? because if you check opinions via console commands you can see they have perk "defenders of galaxy" . i dont know if this is well known or not but myself i think they might be right.

@TheRedKing

4 ай бұрын

mmm I suspect they are "right", after all they were built to protect the galaxy, but activate in error rather than for whatever reason they were supposed to.

@TheContingency25x

4 ай бұрын

Of course we are right!

@batuhanozer5273

4 ай бұрын

@@TheRedKing maybe the error make them use deadly force instead of idk maybe a peaceful guide? just like the mechanist story line on automaton dlc for fallout 4

I need more necron

@TheRedKing

3 ай бұрын

it would be cool for a stellaris and homeworld crossover

@weirdochristoffel5285

4 ай бұрын

like everything is there the empires the mysteries and stuff

@TheRedKing

4 ай бұрын

Homeworld 3 is out soon, I intend to check it out

@weirdochristoffel5285

4 ай бұрын

also those atmosphere destroying weapons the "taidani" had would be cool to see in stellaris being capable to destroy colonoies without destroying the system or planet it self@@TheRedKing

Always love your videos, but consider tagging the AI images. There's a ton of great fan art for this game, and I bet the artists would love to be featured. If their work can be AI generated... then so can yours

@TheRedKing

3 ай бұрын

Tagging them how? Yeah I agree, i'd be very happy to use fanart and/or stock videos, or even commission my own, but it does all come at a $ cost. I try to balance between trailer footage/ game footage and ingame screen shots, sometimes that's not easy. In anycase the next few videos will have 0 AI art in them as I didn't need it to fill in blanks :)

Comments for the algorithm gods

@TheRedKing

3 ай бұрын

Blessed be the algorithm, and thank you

Was this a actual digsite event or just some modded story?

@TheRedKing

4 ай бұрын

Plentiful fossils digsite combined with End of the Cycle :)

@weirdochristoffel5285

4 ай бұрын

DLC?@@TheRedKing

@TheRedKing

4 ай бұрын

Base game

@TheContingency25x

4 ай бұрын

⁠@@TheRedKingend of the cycle does require utopia though, because psionics.

@TheRedKing

4 ай бұрын

oh true, good catch, the plenitful fossils site is base game

It's such a shame. This thing is so cool and ominous but in-game it's a total joke that will unceremoniously die shortly after spawning.

@TheRedKing

3 ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more

Star Trek video when?

@TheRedKing

3 ай бұрын

Nothing's on the list, got any suggestions?

@sgman9058

3 ай бұрын

@@TheRedKing Perhaps a look at Star Trek Infinite or either of the two large Star Trek mods for Stellaris. Could be fun to talk about their unique events or parallel universe stuff, or maybe your thoughts on how well they achieve the Trek theme using a Stellaris engine. I can tell you're a Trek fan based on some references you've made in previous videos. I love your content!

how about no...

I wish there was a way to survive with a least one planet and try to rebuild from there.

@TheRedKing

3 ай бұрын

You do get one planet after the 50 year date, so it's possible to come back. But you are obviously in a pretty weak condition!

***Toxic God enters chat***

While you were busy becoming a powerful psychic I was making my foxes submissive and breedable. we are not the same.

@matiasrodriguez7408

4 ай бұрын

Ok, furry

@TheRedKing

3 ай бұрын

There is no correct way to play, you do you :)

That deal definitely isn't worth it.

@OnlyDeathIsEternal

3 ай бұрын

Only worth it if you also go to Becoming the Crisis and manage to activate the Athrophasic Engine before the 50 years would expire.

@FireOccator

3 ай бұрын

@@OnlyDeathIsEternal Does it even offer the deal in that scenario? Because if it does, then it would be like outsmarting the devil.

@OnlyDeathIsEternal

3 ай бұрын

@@FireOccator I have actually no idea if it would work together or if the devs made some steps to prevent to form a pact with the End of the Cycle while you are in the last stage of Beconing the Crisis. But I think its something to worth to test out.

Stellaris is the bestest of the rest of Strat games 💯🤌✌

@TheRedKing

3 ай бұрын

Agree, except maybe Aoe2.. but i'm still playing Stellaris so who knows