Notice: I will be leaving for Hawaii in a couple days so this wont happen until after I get back


So I've been playing and loving Stellaris lately, a game in which you craft your own interstellar empire and try to forge your way through a randomly generated galaxy (of your type choosing) with however many other alien empires you chose to spawn in with you (up to a max of 40 empires including your own). While playing it I came across the console command of "observe" which takes you away from the control of any empire and situates you in a spectator seat while an AI takes control of whatever empire it was you chose to play as. This gave me an idea. What if I placed a whole bunch of sep7 created empires and set them loose in a galaxy with each other?

So this is where you guys come in. I'd like each of you to craft a single empire from the options I give below so I can let this happen. When I'm back from Hawaii I'll start up this thing and give periodic updates on it (basically leaving the game up and running in the background while I do other stuff) so you guys can see how your empires are doing.

For those of you who don't want to make your own and just want to do everything either post saying you want to be part of it and I'll randomly generate something in your name, or post the stuff you care about and I'll fill in anything you didn't post for your race/empire myself. Priority will be given to those who put more work in the unlikely event that this fills up.

Now lets get crafting.

Step 1: Choosing your race

http://www.stellariswiki.com/Species Wiki's don't normally let you embed stuff from them so just post the race type and portrait id if its giving you trouble.

Note: I do not have Mammalian Massive #16 and Anthropoid Massive #14.


Step 2: Naming your race
Self explanatory

Step 3: Picking your traits
http://www.stellariswiki.com/Traits
If you don't want to do any sort of number crunching you can post an idea of what you'd like your races traits to be and I'll try the best I can to represent it with the options available to me.

Step 4: Picking your first ruler
The first ruler will be named after you.

Step 5: Pick and name your Homeworld + star

Pick from one of 7 Planet types and name it. The planet types are as follows.

Continental, Ocean, Arctic, Tundra, Arid, Desert, Tropical

Step 6: Pick your city type
This is just aesthetic and offers no gameplay bonuses. Choose from Mammalian, Avian, Reptilian, Anthropoid, Molluscan, and Fungoid.

Step 7: Pick your government and ethos

Now we can do this a couple different ways. You can either build one with information gained from the wiki. http://www.stellariswiki.com/Government_types http://www.stellariswiki.com/Ethos#Militarist_-_Pacifist

Or you can describe the kind of government you want and I'll try to work with it.

For reference here are the categories. You can either pick from the left or the right side in each category and can have a total of three points allocated to ethos. Fanatic ones are worth two and regular ones are worth one.

Fanatic militarist - militarist ———-- pacifist - fanatic pacifist

Fanatic collectivist -  collectivist ————- individualist - fanatic individualist

fanatic xenophobe - xenophobe ————-- xenophile - fanatic xenophile

fanatic materialist - materialist ————— spiritualist - fanatic spiritualist


Governments are dictated by ethos so if you just want a specific government type and don't want to dabble in ethos you can just post that and I'll try to ascribe the necessary ethos to have it.

Military Dictatorship
Divine Mandate
Despotic Hegemony
Enlightened Monarchy
Despotic Empire

Military Junta
Theocratic Oligarchy
Science Directorate
Peaceful Bureaucracy
Plutocratic Oligarchy

Military Republic
Theocratic Republic
Direct Democracy
Moral Democracy
Indirect Democracy

Step 8: Pick your flag
http://www.stellariswiki.com/Flag_modding
post color and flag ids

Step 9: Pick your starting weapon

Mass drivers, missiles, or lasers

Step 10: Pick your FTL meathod


Warp, Hyperspace, or Wormhole

Step 11: Pick your ship aesthetic
Mammalian, Avian, Reptilian, anthropoid, Molluscan, or Fungoid


You're done.

Ok links are fixd, for some reason it really didn't like me naming the hyper links.

so many military governemts this is going to end well.

it should be fun to see what happens though

Quote from: LC on May 18, 2016, 08:33:17 PM

Quote from: Comet on May 18, 2016, 06:25:58 PM

so many military governemts this is going to end well.

it should be fun to see what happens though

so will this be in the same format as the X-COM thread? im not sure how stellaris plays i havent even seen a playthrough yet

probably not quite the same since i wont be actively watching or playing it, i'll be stuck in observer mode and having it run in the background only to occasionally check up on it to see what's happened.

So expect screenshots of the galaxy and a write up of anything interesting that's happened when i do updates.