It didn't awaken in one of my playtrought during the unbidden invasion ( they did help me save my home system but not much after that ) Needlessy to say, I didn't take that well
@@jonathanredacted3245Well, they let you join their posse for a price, and then they let you beat up other empires. So they aren't 100% *PURGE PURGE PURGE*
I actually had a game with the Gigastructures mod where I owned a bunch of black holes on my borders. Awakened Empire stepped into those systems and I blew one of my Penrose spheres and took them all out. Their last remaining planet was an easy kill.
@@handlesarecringe957 scorched Earth. I've had games where I've destroyed my own system just to turn the tide. Any threat to humanity is a threat of extinction. And we will not go quietly. We will fight. And should we perish it will be by our own design and no one else's. FOR THE SELECTORATE!
MyDuck IsOnQauck I would assume it went like this *puts on sunglasses* America wins again!!! *badass guitar solo plays* and it’s like that song and clip from squidbillies. But instead of a sexist, xenophobic, inbred, hillbilly squid person singing the song; it’s a Blorg.
Benevolent Interventionists: Hey man, why don't we just all get along? Doctrinal Enforcers: DEUS VULT DEUS VULT DEUS VULT! Watchful Regulators: Hippity Hoppity, your tech is now my property. Jingoistic Reclaimers: Hippity Hoppity, you are now my property.
Awakening fallen empire: at least we will reclaim the galaxy! Technologically advanced federation that covers half the galaxy and overwhelming devouring swarm that controls the other half: oh really
There are other events that can trigger an instant awakening: When an endgame crises happens, the xenophile fallen empire can awaken to protect the galaxy. This can also happen during a war in heaven, so it's possible for 3 fallen empires to awaken If you blow up a holy world with a colossus then the spiritualist fallen empire will send you a very threatening message and instantly awaken
Green Pony yea the xenophile are pretty chill there the only empire I don’t wipe out as they have nothing against me and nothing against them lol plus they actually like my empire usual so there friends and I have to use em to fight the crises lol
Because of that you can theoretically have 5 at once (Mats/'philes awaken and rival the 'phobes, this starts the war in heaven wake-up timer, the contingency spawn and wake up the 'philes/Mats and Carers, the 'phobes wake up, you crack the Spirit world. If the war in heaven starts before the contingency wakes up a guardian, they'll stay asleep. A rarer way for a 5 way wakeup is 'phobes and spirits being rivals [~1.67%] and both mats and 'philes becoming guardians [10%] and carers getting woken [100% if contingency w/ 33% to be berserker]) For some extra fun you can open the L-gates to get the tempest and watch the first and (hopefully) last galactic free for all.
Yeah it's somewhat annoying how AE events, and Crisis events can fire off at the same time. I was leading the none aligned powers to victory, and doing rather well until the Prethoryn Swarm decided to spawn on my rim systems where I had zero defenses. So now I have TWO AE's to defend against plus the Crisis to fight entirely by myself.
One of my almost end game games was pretty much lost this way. i was the strongest AI empire in the galaxy (and basically could hold against both awakened empires pretty easily) and decided to role play as drones that are interested in researching only and pretty much not get involved. so naturally i went neutral. after they kept crashing a few fleets in my choke points i decided its time to put an end to their bullshit and charge. went a bit streched but was killed one of them and forced them out of the war. meanwhile my federation ally was having troubles with the other AE so i decided to send my fleet to help them. Problem is fucking contingency spawned and not only did it spawned during a 2 front war against 2 pretty strong opponents its spawned RIGHT IN MY FUCKING RING WORLD CORE WORLDS. and i didn t have the fire power to take them down with just one fleets (since only 1 fleet wasa vailable the rest were pretty far. and pretty much got shrekt and lost.
Lol there was a time where the unbidden was fighting a AE for my game. It was fun to see the unbidden get scorched then the other 2 showed up and was like a 3 way war. The AE got wiped out and the other 2 invaders nearly wiped themselves out and left the scraps for me to take care of
Combined fleet strength of 40k? I have single fleets with 40k. Problem is, literally every single ai is listed as "pathetic" in my current game, so I'll be the only real participant in any awoken fe events
@@Sereze001 Am i doing something wrong? Sorry im a beginner. When my War of Heaven fired i had combined strength of 50K, and the fallen empire is just rolling through my empire
@@vivalafelix681 see guides on how to develop your economy in the early-mid-late game while balancing your empire sprawl. it is entirely possible to get 1m+ total fleet power by the year 2400, when the fallen empires start awakening on default settings.
The first awakened empire i encountered was way weaker than me. For some reason they still thought i was weaker than them, then died because of that. They were my next door neighbor.
Oh god I remember when this first happened to me, I was losing on both fronts against the ghost signal and then they declared me the head of the federation,I only had 2 fleets left, I was curbed stomped, I was losing all my resources and I didn’t have the resources to make new ships
I love how the War in Heaven (and the fallen empires in general) is basically a homage to Babylon 5. They even lifted some of the text for the event directly from the show. Stellaris is a love letter to Sci Fi, tbh
Goddxmnit! Now I have to go listen to deathclock! Curse you Aspec, you magnificent, glorious bastard! Edit: thanks for the heart less than 2 minutes after posting!
To be honest I hoped for more in-depth look at their mechanics. For example you didn't even mentioned about decadency (and related to that mechanics). Another thing not even mentioned (though this one is rather minor thing - still, I feel it should be mentioned if you plan to talk about Awakened Empires) is reaction of Spiritual Fallen Empire on destruction of one of their Holy Planets. One more thing that was not mentioned is their ability to wake up with arrival of Crisis and how they may see themselfs as protectors of the galaxy (and how Xenophobe will never do such thing). But please, don't get me wrong - really nice video, and I watched it with pleassure.
According to the Stellaris Wiki, a normal empire needs to have above 50k, that the awakening event can happen. You have to outlaw AI now, if you are a subject under the spiritualists, the materialists no longer demand that. This is not updated in the wiki. You could have also mentioned the Guardians of the Galaxy mechanics. In the War in Heaven, you can also pick the option to be completely independent, not even in the League of Non-Alligned Nations. That means, you are not in the war, but will potentially get attacked afterwards from the winning side.
First playthrough, a fallen empire awakened, the benevolent interventionalists, a few years later the unbidden came along. Didn't know much about the game so ignored them at first seeing as they were across the galaxy realised the unbidden were an endgame crisis when they popped up in the galactic senate as someone to gather against. I went to check back and saw 2 fallen empires just stomping them back into oblivion.
At the begging of the video I was thinking about how the Fallen Empiers were like the Vorlons or Shadows, and not a minute in, we get the Babalyon 5 joke. I approve.
I mean, the whole thing is a blatant reference, the “giants in the playground” comment, telling them to get the hell out of your galaxy, and the achievement you get for leading the league of non-aligned worlds to victory is “last, best hope”
*Empire wakes up during crisis* Me: Alright, we have a chance now. *Does absolutely nothing and only goes to war with shit AI who don’t think.* Me: ..................
In my last play through I actually got a war in heaven event, I chose to go it solo and declared war on both immediately. Within 10 years the capitals of the FE had been bombarded to tomb worlds. Humanity first!
Let's see, let's see... Dethklok and B5 jokes are out of question straight away, someone more than likely shouted somewhere in the comments about awakening their masters... Well, one option left with all that thrall-talk. Bring back lots of minerals, Captain. And radioactives. Our rave pa... I mean war effort could really use them. ------ Why did you have to do that to me, Aspec? I like Star Control 2 as much as the other guy, but it's not like there are that many oblivious places to attach it.
In my most reacent playthrough i have around 10 million fleet power, the year is 2320... (its pretty heavily modded, but still) And im a determined exterminator, so i think ill just MURDER everyone if the war in heaven starts, thank you very much.
@@josephcola9662 the problem with that is that i would STILL win without even trying against the rest of the empires in the galaxy, including fallen ones, combined they all have around 1 million fleet power and my economy makes it so that i can double my fleet power in a couple of years...
This video gave me and idea for an end game Crisis. The Pact: Millennia ago, the Fallen Empires where locked in a terrible war with each other. After centuries of stalemate they agreed to a pact. They would all return to their core systems, and if any of them ever left they would all immediately go to war again. Now with the new powers growing new opportunities arise and the fragile peace is broken. ( All FE awakens at the same time, and start an all out war against anyone who wont become a vassal.) Could be amazing!
I had the fun startup where I had enough repeated tech for my star bases to quarantine the fallen empires. They went to war, but were unable to leave their respective areas.
I appreciate the Dethklok opening. It was one of my 2 favourite Dethklok songs too! Anyway, what happened during my first War in Heaven was that the empire of my vassals and mine completely surrounded both Fallen Empires, and I did not yet have the fleet power to hold them back. So if I were to pick a side, the other FE would immediately crush my empire. Likewise, if I would oppose both of them they'd both just crush me. So I had to stay out of it completely. However, this did cause a small problem: I could not end the War in Heaven event without completely destroying every party involved. You see, after I dealt with the end-game crisis that spawned in the middle of the War in Heaven, I tried eliminating one of the FEs to end the war. That did not work, because upon destroying the FE their side's leadership was just passed on to one of their vassals. So I destroyed all the vassals. Nope, that didn't work either. Sure, the actual war was over, but the War in Heaven event itself was still running. And considering that every empire but mine picked a side in the war, this meant that I literally could not end the event, and thus win the game, until literally every empire but mine was destroyed. That took a while.
Materialist AE vs Spiritualist AE presents an interesting dynamic for spiritualist empires (and gestalts). Basically, submitting to the Spiritualists makes you become F Spiritualist and authoritarian... and the materialists make you ban AI and and pay some science... a spiritualist who's already authoritarian will have no problem joining the Spiritualists, but an individualistic spiritualist empire may not want to change ethics and may in fact find it better to side with the materialists if they don't mind the loss of science... Gestalts, especially MEs may, ironically, be more tempted to join the spiritualist AE since the ethics don't change, and it essentially means no loss besides independence... So what would make sense thematically... doesn't actually make sense thematically, because most spiritualists will join the Materialist AE, and a lot of gestalts, including ME's would benefit more going with the spiritualist AE... This is a really interesting dynamic... and one that doesn't occur for Xenophile AE vs Xenophobe AE... food for the thought...
Your overlord awakening as a Scion: *pillarmen theme starts playing* AWAKEN MY MASTERS! Awakening a spiritualist FE via World-Cracker: Wake up you wrinkly sack of hallowed dung, either you die or I die
what if you open the l-gate and unleash the grey tempest and retreat into one of their systems to create a ringworld while keeping the tempest alive and swarming the galaxy there usually are systems in the l-cluster that have only a single hyperlane that you can hold and then you build a ringworld for your civilization and then you can just watch the galaxy burn and basically gtfo
I got the message today that my grandmother has passed away. Looking to clear my head a bit, I clicked on this video. I was instantly reminded of Clair de Lune and went on to listen to that for a while, then came back here doing better. So thanks Aspec
"There is a storm coming, a black and terrible storm. We would not have our knowledge lost or used to ill purpose. From this place we will launch ourselves into the stars. With luck, you will never see our kind again in your lifetime. I know you have your orders, Captain. Detain us if you wish. But I cannot tell you where we are going. I can only ask you to trust us."
In my experience its pretty random which of the 3 sides an empires chooses and not linked it its ethics. I once joined the FE with my ethics (materialist), and all other empires joined the other FE LOL
Awakened empires rebuild planets with their special buildings; if you are able to, take down a fallen empire and leave them 1 planet. This makes it easy to decide which systems you will give them once they awaken so they can build them up for you with tech you just don't get. From there it's a game of containment.
fun fact: if your currently at war with one of the awakened empires while being the head of the league of non-aligned systems, and the war in heaven event to bring the league into the war hasn't happened yet. the event won't fire. this lets you beat up one empire while not being at war with the other. leave them at 1 planet and peace out then wait for the event to fire and now you can easily finish off the weakened empire and only have to fight 1 at a time.
Neutron swept on a Holy planet of a spiritual asshats and later ended up wiping them out. Later felt so bad that fallen empire, millennia old knowledge gone.
I had 4 or 5 fallen empires as I was playing Extermination machines. None of the empires awaken, even with my fleet power, combined over 500K, actually I had 16 fleets with each one, almost reaching 100K with 5 being 100K... Well, Fallen Empire mistakes.
First game after buying most of the dlcs and The war in heaven has started by ~2420, half the Galaxy joined one side, the other half went neutral, my economy is in shambles from my new overlord taxing me for everything I have, and on top of all that, the crisis is soon to appear in the middle of all of it. Fun game.
Playing as a scion origin:
*AWAKEN MY MASTERS*
*aggressive posing intensifies*
*Pillar Men theme intensifies*
*JOJP REFERENCE INTENSIFIES*
It didn't awaken in one of my playtrought during the unbidden invasion ( they did help me save my home system but not much after that )
Needlessy to say, I didn't take that well
*ultimate being intensifies*
So basically:
Spiritualists->DEUS VULT!
Materialists->The Google to your Yahoo
Xenophobe->The Schoolyard Bully
Xenophile->The Helicopter Parent
Replace the third with *PURGE THE XENOS* and the fourth with "toriel but a space empire" but yes
@@jonathanredacted3245Well, they let you join their posse for a price, and then they let you beat up other empires. So they aren't 100% *PURGE PURGE PURGE*
@@bookshop7337 so pre heresy imperium then
Oh for the greater goods sake
What about the xenophiles
When a xenophobic doomblob appears in your capital system but you pull a Stalingrad and destroy your own sun.
I actually had a game with the Gigastructures mod where I owned a bunch of black holes on my borders.
Awakened Empire stepped into those systems and I blew one of my Penrose spheres and took them all out. Their last remaining planet was an easy kill.
@@handlesarecringe957 scorched Earth. I've had games where I've destroyed my own system just to turn the tide. Any threat to humanity is a threat of extinction. And we will not go quietly. We will fight. And should we perish it will be by our own design and no one else's. FOR THE SELECTORATE!
@Matthew Chenault in what regard were you the United states?
@@handlesarecringe957 OVER KILL ALERT I REPEAT OVERKILL ALERT!
MyDuck IsOnQauck I would assume it went like this *puts on sunglasses* America wins again!!! *badass guitar solo plays* and it’s like that song and clip from squidbillies. But instead of a sexist, xenophobic, inbred, hillbilly squid person singing the song; it’s a Blorg.
Benevolent Interventionists: Hey man, why don't we just all get along?
Doctrinal Enforcers: DEUS VULT DEUS VULT DEUS VULT!
Watchful Regulators: Hippity Hoppity, your tech is now my property.
Jingoistic Reclaimers: Hippity Hoppity, you are now my property.
Stop 🤣🤣🤣
I love xenophile fallen empire, they are so cute
@@yimingwang8037I went to war against the benevolent interventionists because fuck them I’m space America 🇺🇸 🦅
Awakening fallen empire: at least we will reclaim the galaxy!
Technologically advanced federation that covers half the galaxy and overwhelming devouring swarm that controls the other half: oh really
Let's make this a threesome then
Endgame crisis: UwU whats this?
@@sugoistalin7809 *Oh boy*
@@sugoistalin7809 The End of the Cycle: *ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF*
At last*, you meant?
There are other events that can trigger an instant awakening:
When an endgame crises happens, the xenophile fallen empire can awaken to protect the galaxy. This can also happen during a war in heaven, so it's possible for 3 fallen empires to awaken
If you blow up a holy world with a colossus then the spiritualist fallen empire will send you a very threatening message and instantly awaken
Green Pony yea the xenophile are pretty chill there the only empire I don’t wipe out as they have nothing against me and nothing against them lol plus they actually like my empire usual so there friends and I have to use em to fight the crises lol
Because of that you can theoretically have 5 at once (Mats/'philes awaken and rival the 'phobes, this starts the war in heaven wake-up timer, the contingency spawn and wake up the 'philes/Mats and Carers, the 'phobes wake up, you crack the Spirit world. If the war in heaven starts before the contingency wakes up a guardian, they'll stay asleep. A rarer way for a 5 way wakeup is 'phobes and spirits being rivals [~1.67%] and both mats and 'philes becoming guardians [10%] and carers getting woken [100% if contingency w/ 33% to be berserker])
For some extra fun you can open the L-gates to get the tempest and watch the first and (hopefully) last galactic free for all.
What is message give message
Also, if the Contingency awakens, an Ancient Caretakers fallen empire can go berserk and try to destroy anyone near them.
@@roboticintelligenceunit1a652 (planet name) was a holy world. You do not know the true extent of your sin. Not yet.
FE: *awakens*
Me, staring at them with over 6M fleet power and the Colossus: Decrepit fools.
You slept too long old man.
Does picking either option do Anything at all?
@@CS_Mango no
@@theapexsurvivor9538 how many times do we need to teach you this leason old men
As i jump in with a stellar systemcraft
The future is now old man
Awaken my master!
*Pillar men theme plays*
Ayayayayayayaya
Whammu!
"This is so surreal. Am I on drugs?" -Man-Emperor of Mankind
*_STOP SMEARING OIL ALL OVER MY PALACE_*
Ora ora ora ora ora ora ora ora ora ora!
Other empires: NIGERUNDAYO!
*Laughs in endgame firepower*
*Laughs is Collossus and five 100k+ fleets*
What about zinth of the fallen empire Mod?
@@kanoslayer2735 whats that mod?
@@chairmeme6231 here you go : steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1317022177
Laughs in Driven Assimilators with 700k fleet power and colossus that means I don't have to wait 3 years fighting on their homeworlds.
The Unbidden emerged during the War in Heaven, and now I’m fighting them all alone :(
Yeah it's somewhat annoying how AE events, and Crisis events can fire off at the same time. I was leading the none aligned powers to victory, and doing rather well until the Prethoryn Swarm decided to spawn on my rim systems where I had zero defenses. So now I have TWO AE's to defend against plus the Crisis to fight entirely by myself.
I know the pain
Happened to me too, I ended up quitting because my fleets were far af away from the unbidden and were busy fighting a fallen empire.
One of my almost end game games was pretty much lost this way. i was the strongest AI empire in the galaxy (and basically could hold against both awakened empires pretty easily) and decided to role play as drones that are interested in researching only and pretty much not get involved. so naturally i went neutral. after they kept crashing a few fleets in my choke points i decided its time to put an end to their bullshit and charge. went a bit streched but was killed one of them and forced them out of the war. meanwhile my federation ally was having troubles with the other AE so i decided to send my fleet to help them. Problem is fucking contingency spawned and not only did it spawned during a 2 front war against 2 pretty strong opponents its spawned RIGHT IN MY FUCKING RING WORLD CORE WORLDS. and i didn t have the fire power to take them down with just one fleets (since only 1 fleet wasa vailable the rest were pretty far. and pretty much got shrekt and lost.
Lol there was a time where the unbidden was fighting a AE for my game. It was fun to see the unbidden get scorched then the other 2 showed up and was like a 3 way war.
The AE got wiped out and the other 2 invaders nearly wiped themselves out and left the scraps for me to take care of
AWAKEN, MY MASTERS!
WAMMU
Ahhh yayaya!
I command you to Rise, Rise, RISE, RISE!!!
*HAAAYAAYAYAIIII*
But the War in Heaven is going to save the Templin Institute.
maybe
H'on the GTU!
Combined fleet strength of 40k? I have single fleets with 40k. Problem is, literally every single ai is listed as "pathetic" in my current game, so I'll be the only real participant in any awoken fe events
Fallen Empire: *awakens*
Me: *laughs in 6 fleets of 100k*
@@Sereze001 Am i doing something wrong? Sorry im a beginner. When my War of Heaven fired i had combined strength of 50K, and the fallen empire is just rolling through my empire
@@vivalafelix681 It was merely a very lucky game for me.
I had a lot of territory early on as well as less then competitive neighbours.
@@Sereze001 I see. For me, the war of heavans wiped my run because AI is much better at attacking you then defending you haha
@@vivalafelix681 see guides on how to develop your economy in the early-mid-late game while balancing your empire sprawl. it is entirely possible to get 1m+ total fleet power by the year 2400, when the fallen empires start awakening on default settings.
Fallen Empires: *_"WAKE ME UP INSIDE!"_*
*Fallen empire being invaded*
Fallen empire : ***”SAVE ME!***
Xenophobe FE that wasn't picked for a war in heaven: *CAN'T WAKE UP!*
"Achieves erotic fullfilment upon hearing Babylon 5 reference"
Ahhhhh... Mr Morden...
@@marsar1775 What do you want?
The first awakened empire i encountered was way weaker than me. For some reason they still thought i was weaker than them, then died because of that. They were my next door neighbor.
Howdy neighbor...some nice land ya got there, you won't mind if I...take it, do you?
(Awakened empire) *gulp*
When you're a Fanatic Spiritualist and the Spiritualist Fallen Empire awakens:
"AWAKEN, MY MASTERS!"
*Pillar Man theme starts playing*
Oh god I remember when this first happened to me, I was losing on both fronts against the ghost signal and then they declared me the head of the federation,I only had 2 fleets left, I was curbed stomped, I was losing all my resources and I didn’t have the resources to make new ships
Losing is fun ^-^
I only had one victory
Then let's turn that one victory into an overwhelming avalanche of decisive victories.
ASpec HUZAH! To Victory!
Just got back from another game, I was subjugated while my forces were away and the endgame used my Gateways against me, I am quite perturbed
>be me
>space faring civilization
>just chillin in space with my friends
>fallen empire awakes to conquer galaxy
>mfw
Yeah this game only STARTS normal the endgame is Star Wars on crack
I love how the War in Heaven (and the fallen empires in general) is basically a homage to Babylon 5. They even lifted some of the text for the event directly from the show. Stellaris is a love letter to Sci Fi, tbh
I tried to form the non-aligned faction and ended up going to war with everyone. Really shot myself in the foot there.
aggressive neutralism
You will alwasy going to war against evrybody
No one is neutral in this war
@@potato88872 Sweden sweating nervously
@@Airsickword the swiss: PAX FORTRESSIA
"The future is now, old man."
Goddxmnit! Now I have to go listen to deathclock! Curse you Aspec, you magnificent, glorious bastard!
Edit: thanks for the heart less than 2 minutes after posting!
tick tock is the sound of the dethklok
To be honest I hoped for more in-depth look at their mechanics. For example you didn't even mentioned about decadency (and related to that mechanics). Another thing not even mentioned (though this one is rather minor thing - still, I feel it should be mentioned if you plan to talk about Awakened Empires) is reaction of Spiritual Fallen Empire on destruction of one of their Holy Planets. One more thing that was not mentioned is their ability to wake up with arrival of Crisis and how they may see themselfs as protectors of the galaxy (and how Xenophobe will never do such thing). But please, don't get me wrong - really nice video, and I watched it with pleassure.
Under no circunstaces the xeno must be trusted
According to the Stellaris Wiki, a normal empire needs to have above 50k, that the awakening event can happen.
You have to outlaw AI now, if you are a subject under the spiritualists, the materialists no longer demand that. This is not updated in the wiki.
You could have also mentioned the Guardians of the Galaxy mechanics.
In the War in Heaven, you can also pick the option to be completely independent, not even in the League of Non-Alligned Nations. That means, you are not in the war, but will potentially get attacked afterwards from the winning side.
But what about the machine empire? The corrupted one that puts random restrictions on you at times?
It took me 4 months to realize he said John Sheridan and to connect War in Heaven to Babylon 5
Hey ASpec, would you mind doing a video about the Wanderlust event chain? I haven’t seen any other channels that have posted one.
First playthrough, a fallen empire awakened, the benevolent interventionalists, a few years later the unbidden came along. Didn't know much about the game so ignored them at first seeing as they were across the galaxy realised the unbidden were an endgame crisis when they popped up in the galactic senate as someone to gather against. I went to check back and saw 2 fallen empires just stomping them back into oblivion.
War in heaven: starts Smaller empires: *chuckles* I’m in danger
Amazing intro...just so perfect.
That opening made me click subscribe so fast. I lurked the channel for too long, but finally sealed the deal.
At the begging of the video I was thinking about how the Fallen Empiers were like the Vorlons or Shadows, and not a minute in, we get the Babalyon 5 joke.
I approve.
I mean, the whole thing is a blatant reference, the “giants in the playground” comment, telling them to get the hell out of your galaxy, and the achievement you get for leading the league of non-aligned worlds to victory is “last, best hope”
*Empire wakes up during crisis*
Me: Alright, we have a chance now.
*Does absolutely nothing and only goes to war with shit AI who don’t think.*
Me: ..................
My Necrons look forward to the war in Heaven event XD
*Foolish meatbags*
Marcus heresy detected
In my last play through I actually got a war in heaven event, I chose to go it solo and declared war on both immediately. Within 10 years the capitals of the FE had been bombarded to tomb worlds. Humanity first!
Stellaris is the gateway drug for 4x games. The story events make all the numbers less scary. Learning the game didn't feel like a chore.
Ya but it still takes a while to learn all mechanics
The five dislikes are from the Awakened Empires.
Let's see, let's see...
Dethklok and B5 jokes are out of question straight away, someone more than likely shouted somewhere in the comments about awakening their masters... Well, one option left with all that thrall-talk.
Bring back lots of minerals, Captain.
And radioactives. Our rave pa... I mean war effort could really use them.
------
Why did you have to do that to me, Aspec? I like Star Control 2 as much as the other guy, but it's not like there are that many oblivious places to attach it.
That was not just a Dethklok, that was Batmetal.
In my most reacent playthrough i have around 10 million fleet power, the year is 2320... (its pretty heavily modded, but still) And im a determined exterminator, so i think ill just MURDER everyone if the war in heaven starts, thank you very much.
You should challenge yourself, and declare war on all 3 factions simultaneously in a massive extermination crusade, spearheaded by a colossus.
@@josephcola9662 the problem with that is that i would STILL win without even trying against the rest of the empires in the galaxy, including fallen ones, combined they all have around 1 million fleet power and my economy makes it so that i can double my fleet power in a couple of years...
*Me: Time to colonize that far far away habitat planet, just incase*
I never thought abt that I'm gonna make a super secure one world somewhere far away with like 500k fleet just sitting there
This video gave me and idea for an end game Crisis. The Pact: Millennia ago, the Fallen Empires where locked in a terrible war with each other. After centuries of stalemate they agreed to a pact. They would all return to their core systems, and if any of them ever left they would all immediately go to war again. Now with the new powers growing new opportunities arise and the fragile peace is broken. ( All FE awakens at the same time, and start an all out war against anyone who wont become a vassal.) Could be amazing!
John Sheridan - yeah, some B5 love!
"Now get the hell out of our galaxy!"
Enjoying this channels great content
Deathklok at the start made me laugh lo loud, I immediatly liked just for that AWAKEN/10
That was not just a Dethklok, that was Batmetal.
I had the fun startup where I had enough repeated tech for my star bases to quarantine the fallen empires. They went to war, but were unable to leave their respective areas.
I appreciate the Dethklok opening. It was one of my 2 favourite Dethklok songs too!
Anyway, what happened during my first War in Heaven was that the empire of my vassals and mine completely surrounded both Fallen Empires, and I did not yet have the fleet power to hold them back. So if I were to pick a side, the other FE would immediately crush my empire. Likewise, if I would oppose both of them they'd both just crush me. So I had to stay out of it completely.
However, this did cause a small problem: I could not end the War in Heaven event without completely destroying every party involved. You see, after I dealt with the end-game crisis that spawned in the middle of the War in Heaven, I tried eliminating one of the FEs to end the war. That did not work, because upon destroying the FE their side's leadership was just passed on to one of their vassals. So I destroyed all the vassals. Nope, that didn't work either. Sure, the actual war was over, but the War in Heaven event itself was still running. And considering that every empire but mine picked a side in the war, this meant that I literally could not end the event, and thus win the game, until literally every empire but mine was destroyed. That took a while.
That was not just a Dethklok, that was Batmetal.
MY MASTER AWAKEND MEEEEE!
Made my day with that Dethklok at the start lol
Scions be like: AWAKEN, MUSTAKRAKISH! THE LAKE TROLL!
Fleets : " OUR MASTERS HAVE AWAKENED US !! "
HOLY HELL, THAT BABYLON 5 REFERENCE AT THE BEGINNING!
Man, you are my fucking hero for that
+1 for the B5 shout out.
All we need now is the FE to start asking “Who are you?” And “What do you want?”
Materialist AE vs Spiritualist AE presents an interesting dynamic for spiritualist empires (and gestalts). Basically, submitting to the Spiritualists makes you become F Spiritualist and authoritarian... and the materialists make you ban AI and and pay some science... a spiritualist who's already authoritarian will have no problem joining the Spiritualists, but an individualistic spiritualist empire may not want to change ethics and may in fact find it better to side with the materialists if they don't mind the loss of science... Gestalts, especially MEs may, ironically, be more tempted to join the spiritualist AE since the ethics don't change, and it essentially means no loss besides independence... So what would make sense thematically... doesn't actually make sense thematically, because most spiritualists will join the Materialist AE, and a lot of gestalts, including ME's would benefit more going with the spiritualist AE...
This is a really interesting dynamic... and one that doesn't occur for Xenophile AE vs Xenophobe AE... food for the thought...
Sounds plausible. If you are a believer yourself, you can cope better with unbelievers than with people who adhere to the wrong faith. HERETICS!
God it's fucking nice to hear Dethklok, I'm glad to see you're a man of culture as wlel.
That was not just a Dethklok, that was Batmetal.
2 years after the video was released i get around to watch it and dear god i did not expect a babylon 5 reference
Simply a fantastic intro
Could have saved 9 mins by just saying this is the plot to babylon 5
Not that im complaining. Now i can be Sheridan
Play as a Scion, call it Awaken my Masters
Let me write it before you ask music at the beginning is Clair de lune
AWAKEN MY MASTERS
Your overlord awakening as a Scion: *pillarmen theme starts playing* AWAKEN MY MASTERS!
Awakening a spiritualist FE via World-Cracker: Wake up you wrinkly sack of hallowed dung, either you die or I die
Load up on swedish meatballs and turn on the jump drives, Aspec is standing between the candle and the star on this video.
Clair de Lune from Debussy is a masterpiece
"Both of you, get the Hell out out of this Galaxy." Babylon 5, Vorlons versus Shadows War
Fallen Empire : Awakens and demands my stuff
The one route into my stuff that I’ve turned into Cadia.
“Hmm… I’ll watch”
what if you open the l-gate and unleash the grey tempest and retreat into one of their systems to create a ringworld while keeping the tempest alive and swarming the galaxy
there usually are systems in the l-cluster that have only a single hyperlane that you can hold and then you build a ringworld for your civilization and then you can just watch the galaxy burn and basically gtfo
The good ol galactic lifeboat.
In claster start you can have claster of stars with one connecting hyperline.
B5 reference! You ROCK, Aspec!
I got the message today that my grandmother has passed away. Looking to clear my head a bit, I clicked on this video. I was instantly reminded of Clair de Lune and went on to listen to that for a while, then came back here doing better. So thanks Aspec
You're more then welcome, my sincerest condolences.
@@A_Spec Thank you, it is very appreciated. Also, a very quick response. Impressive.
"Giants in the background"
They can be much more scary then a crisis
What is the name of the song at 0:27
"There is a storm coming, a black and terrible storm. We would not have our knowledge lost or used to ill purpose. From this place we will launch ourselves into the stars. With luck, you will never see our kind again in your lifetime. I know you have your orders, Captain. Detain us if you wish. But I cannot tell you where we are going. I can only ask you to trust us."
AWAKEN
FALLEN EMPIRE: "AT LAST WE AWAKEN TO....Wait, where is everyone?
DEVOURING SWARM: "*BURPS*...Pudding?"
I'm a simple man. I heard dethklok, I like.
That was not just a Dethklok, that was Batmetal.
Ah yes the war in heaven. Its been 3 weeks of trying to win and theres still noone. oming out of this galactic world war
Get the hell out of our galaxy quote has made my day. Thanks aspec.
Awaken my masters!
War in heaven: *starts*
Me, with the L-gates ready to open: "If this galaxy can't be mine, then it'll be noone's"
Once I had a fallen empire awakened. They invited me into something,so that I was under their protection. Was great :D
"Now get the *hell* out of our galaxy, *both* of you!"
This event just happened with a spiritual and a materialistic awakened Empire. I probably gonna go non aligned
It’s 2021, I’ve had the game a week and I just wanted to come here and appreciate the funny Intro 😂
Nice choice in music for Clair de lune to dethklok awaking lmao
In my experience its pretty random which of the 3 sides an empires chooses and not linked it its ethics.
I once joined the FE with my ethics (materialist), and all other empires joined the other FE LOL
did you cleanse the galaxy of the infidel afterwards?
materialists are just spiritualists for robotics
@@SarenSoran I sure did
YES DETHKLOK REFERENCES BABYYYYYY. I will now be referring to all awakened empires as “musta’krakish”😂😂😂
Awakened empires rebuild planets with their special buildings; if you are able to, take down a fallen empire and leave them 1 planet. This makes it easy to decide which systems you will give them once they awaken so they can build them up for you with tech you just don't get. From there it's a game of containment.
fun fact: if your currently at war with one of the awakened empires while being the head of the league of non-aligned systems, and the war in heaven event to bring the league into the war hasn't happened yet. the event won't fire. this lets you beat up one empire while not being at war with the other. leave them at 1 planet and peace out then wait for the event to fire and now you can easily finish off the weakened empire and only have to fight 1 at a time.
Neutron swept on a Holy planet of a spiritual asshats and later ended up wiping them out.
Later felt so bad that fallen empire, millennia old knowledge gone.
That reference to Babylon 5 caught me off guard
AYAYAYAYAY
Yo showing off music from the Legend of 1900 you dog you!! I love that movie.
I thank you for this Video now if only I watched this vid before the fallen empire woke up
I had 4 or 5 fallen empires as I was playing Extermination machines. None of the empires awaken, even with my fleet power, combined over 500K, actually I had 16 fleets with each one, almost reaching 100K with 5 being 100K... Well, Fallen Empire mistakes.
Loved the Dethklok song haha, it fit well with this.
First game after buying most of the dlcs and The war in heaven has started by ~2420, half the Galaxy joined one side, the other half went neutral, my economy is in shambles from my new overlord taxing me for everything I have, and on top of all that, the crisis is soon to appear in the middle of all of it. Fun game.
the first time i built up enough fleet power to steamroll an awoken empire was the best feeling ever
loved the intro :-)
AWAKEN AWAKEN AWAKEN AWAKEN
TAKE THE LAND THAT MUST BE TAKEN
AWAKEN AWAKEN AWAKEN TAKE THE SPACE THAT MUST BE TAKEN!!