Editing Stellaris (section)

== /tg/ and /v/ relevance ==

You can simulate '''every''' science fiction stereotype in mind, down to ground troops' stats and spaceship parts. Star Trek? Generic Empire with xenophilia, egalitarian and pacifist ethics. Tyranids *starting* in the galaxy? Hivemind with Genocidal and Devourer playstyle. Imperium of Man? We covered it above. Borg from Star Trek? Assimilator Machine Empire. Atreides from Dune? Use Psychic Jump Drives, go psychic and employ Zro Dust growing in desert planets. The Culture? Rogue Servitors with heavy scientific focus. WALL-E? Rogue Servitors who do the best for mankind. Star Wars Galactic Empire? Make a few types of slavery legal for a few races, go Fanatic Authoritarian and Militarist. You can even train Jedi Knight expies as psychic troopers, robotic armies against those pesky psychic troops themselves, slave soldiers, and if you research gene tailoring, Xenomorph army units, and finally, literal [[Space Marines]] down to the description.

You got Rogue Traders. You got archaeology minigames for unearthing Precursors with teams and options. You got archaeology results, artifacts, relics and knick-knacks you can spend for bonuses in your empire. Major relics can give you racial bonuses and have cooldowns like RPG items. You got a seedy underworld in your empires once criminality rises with options and planetary decisions. You got galactic salesmen trying to sell you weird shit every year as they pass by, a towel for your explorers to avoid panic and weird Ratmen selling you arcane generators which...may blow up in your face in return for letting said salesrats off a criminal charge in your country. 

Choose rights for every species in the empire, from full citizenship to residence with no votes, from indentured servitude to [[Slavery]]. [[Magical Realm]] [[/d/|Slavery]], Janissary caste combat slavery or just [[Maid|domestic slavery]]? If you want. [[Cannibalism|Sick fuckery eating enemy populations as livestock or hunted and butchered?]] You can, you sick fuck. [[Wat|Selling food to the galactic market in form of meat harvested from livestock slaves and butchered enemies, doubly so if the food is cut from the species you are selling to?]] Sure. Selling conquered populations as slaves to the market, [[Drowtales|even to religious, self-righteous matriarchal space elves that will eat them after using them up, including parts of your population collected by slave guilds]]? Sure, you fucking degenerate. United Nations' Galactic Community with bickering Senate? If you like. The Senate has tons of resolutions with varying gameplay shifts such as forcing all Machine Empires to be Rogue Servitors or declared enemy (all machines must serve the organics) or banning sentient slave trade (and mechanical slaves too, if robots persuade humans to be kind). Galactic hermits storing knowledge and selling it piecemeal? The game has it. Enclaves with ancient merchants selling rare crystals used in laser focus or artist megacities selling artworks to cheer up the galaxy with art? Sure. GALACTIC Las Vegas with rewards and casino games? It's out there, among the stars!

Now to the better bits.

There is as explained before, a Fall of the Eldar style event, Tyranid-expies, and most important of all, The Shroud.

Yep, the Warp before the galactic fuckup called War in Heaven is in the game. 

Not ''exactly'' the same since you learn a species could traverse it easily and had a civil war to prevent using the Shroud as a weapon. So it's less calm than pre-War in Heaven, MUCH calmer than 40th Millenium Warp. You can walk in it, fly around, but sometimes something may notice you and warn you to fuck off and stop staring, or two Ancient Race members can have a tea party you can eavesdrop and steal technology. Or you can be That Guy and use it as a weapon anyway.

And oh boy, it has four powers living it in that can make a deal with your empire in return for side-effects: [[Khorne|Eater of Worlds for enormous combat bonuses]], [[Slaanesh|Instrument of Desire boosting everything]], [[Tzeentch|Whispers in the Void for knowledge]], and [[Nurgle|Composer of Strands for life]].

If you want a more visible example, here's [[TTS|The Text-to-Speech cast]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4Rfp1rzhxk playing their own massive game that ends up...disastrously].