United Terran Protectorates | Stellaris Invicta Season 2
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- Through the patronage of the The Collaborators, mankind was saved and welcomed into a peaceful Galactic Community. Now the time has finally arrived for humanity to prove it's worth and spread the glory of The Collaborators across the stars.
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Can you guys do a video on the whole Enders Game series? Not the movie but the novels.
They are an amazing sci-fi series especially the books following Enders Game, and you guys would definitely do it justice. Love your videos and content!
was it planned from the start to use one of the other possible faction choices as earth in this run? or was it just a happy accident from the map generation? was it possible for Antares to have run into the greater Terran union in a different galaxy seed? I am honestly curious.
Does this mean we will get a video explaining the Eternal Kreventum and Solar Empire? We didnt get any lore about them aside from the tidbits of the introduction videos
@@ShaqNasty557 Most likely no. The reason they made this lore story about UTP is because coincidentally they are one of the civilizations that managed to be part of antares playthrough. So they decided to make the story more interesting by including them too
In the next stellaris invicter you should have a few lost colonies (10) of your empire it makes for a very interesting game .
Man the UTP so devious, they lost the poll and still managed to be an important role in Invicta and get an extra video made about them
Even stranger that they got the least amount of votes with about only 5%, where the 2nd place runner up got 15%, The Eternal Kreventum. I think they’ve sown the seeds to incorporate the best quality of all 4 of the losers. So excited!
Well. The poll was about who is the main focus nation in the current Invicta season right?
So just because they lost the poll, *it doesn't mean they can not appear in the current season as another nation.* ;)
@@mammothmk3355 "Who Is The *Main* Focus"
Still Wanting The Soviet Union To Appear Tho.
@@empireofitalypsstimfromano5025 i was waiting for the USSR from red alert
Well, that fits quite well seeing as their society is structured around a devious lie. I think it was a good choice for Antares to face off against them. Eternal Krevantum and the Holy Solar Empire could work too but the UTP is a more unorthodox choice in my opinion. Humanity was not invaded or replaced or destroyed by itself, no instead they are, technically, prosperous and a powerful force in the galaxy.
They also are opposites to the Confederacy as they are a highly integrated and Unified force that is also a Dictatorship which, from what I can infer from reading between the lines, enslaves aliens. While the Confederacy is a divided, democratic and xenophilic society that believes in equal rights for all instead of having to ‘earn’ citizenship.
Also the UTP’s flag is awesome.
Antares Confederacy: Yo, you see this?
Greater Terran Union: I see it, and I dont like it....
Truth!
lol
Imagine if Antares leads a galactic alliance against UTP but are still having trouble, then the extradimensional invasion begins.
But instead of the Unbidden its the GTU coming in. The took one look at UTP and was like oh hell no and decided to aid AC.
After the war they came to a mutual understanding and GTU decided to retreat back to their space as logistical issues were too severe to maintain a lasting presence.
Antares: Wait, who are you?
GTU: I'm season 1.
@@shadowtheme96 I have predicted GTU crisis a lot of times so I wouldn't be surprised if this happened
Really digging the subtle revisionism in the UTP's account of the Earhart Expedition. I'm sure those history books and museums are all carefully controlled.
Ignorance is knowledge citizen.
Or maybe, just maybe the Earhart Expedition is the villian.
@@SacredGumby unlikely, its evident that earths history has been curated to the degree its validity can be called into question, where as the flotillas historical records were separated for decades amongst disparate and sometimes opposing governments and still appear to collabarate eachother.
Subtle?
Although, ngl, I did start to question who the real liars were until the end.
What an awesome subversion and plottwist it would if the AC were actually the bad guys in a way
It reminds me of the one EU Star Wars book where Rogue Squadron (in disguise) were on Coruscant and went to the Imperial museum.
The Collaborators are much better villains than the Tyrum.
The Tyrum could have been really cool if they'd gotten more personal development and if they ended up being connected to the Prethoryn or something but yeah the UTP is way better as a motivation.
I still like my evil space bugs but damn if this isn't some good sifi orwellian stuff.
What do you mean they’re evil? They’re the saviours of mankind.
The Tyrum were ultimately animals with a voracious appetite, unable to cleanse their hunger. The benefactors are better as they have a more comprehensible human goal, and are ultimately doing things without a known reason (to us.)
They seem so subtle and evil in the mundane.
*Moonlight Sonata starts playing*
"SOMETHING'S WRONG, I CAN FEEL IT."
Hold up!
Listening to everything, it's easy to get fooled without knowing the context. Knowing the "Earhart Evacuation Flotilla" is actually the colonization effort of Antares from the start shows how far back the Collaborators are going to change history and shape things in their favor. It makes one wonder if the Collaborators were the very reason Terra fell to the point it had been when they came along...
It works quite well since I wouldn't be surprised if that was the truth. The earth is presently dying and Elon musk and his rich friends want to run away to Mars despite the corporations that made them rich being the largest contributer to the aforementioned ecological world death. It just so happens in this case the flotilla wasn't all made up of rich snobs.
Considering how deep the propaganda runs, I wouldn’t even be surprised if Terra was doing perfectly fine before they arrived
@@seekingabsolution1907 Who said that they are escaping to Mars????
Musk is doing it for the progress of humanity, space is the future.
@@LordMagnuss You dont know about the cobalt mines, don't you?
@@pokemonfanmario7694 I absolutely condemn the situation, child labor should not be allowed.
That being said, that's the problem of the Congo for allowing it to happen, not Elon's.
The Collaborators: The Earheart Evacuation Flotilla
Me: Hey, wait a minute!
The Collaborators: A great debt must be paid
Me: *HERESY DETECTED*
time to purge some xeno scum...
ALRIGHT FIRE! ( Repeatedly smashes head on the Exterminatus button )
😅
The obvious UTP lies and propaganda in the usual Templin tone is very unnerving. It's like looking into the mind of a sociopath who's increasingly detached from reality. I got chills. Can't wait to see how this ends.
I felt physically sick listening to sections of this video. Like, I wanted to throw up. THAT is good writing and delivery.
@@The_Viscount 7:50 was definitely like that
At the point they talked about the Earheart Evacuation Flotilla, I actually said "Awww, SHIT!" out loud.
This video could actually be believed at face value by somebody who hasn't seen the main season 2 videos. That's some damn good writing.
These aren't lies, our great Protectorates would never lie to us! Those traitors on the floatilla deserved what happened to them! We shall rule the universe!
Yes I'm being sarcastic if you didn't know
"Antares came here to chew bubblegum and kick Collaborator ass. And we're all out of bubblegum."
In the beginning I was so confused, I thought “is this taking place in another universe or something, talking about kingdoms, kings and queens” the evacuation of all the rich people instead of colonists going to another star system. The way the narrator describes them made them seem like good guys but the music was telling me something else, the more he talked the less well intentioned they seemed. Then it finally clicked that it was the same and that I wasn’t going nuts but I was being told a falsified history of humanity’s progress.
I just love how seamless it all is. It really is a masterwork in world building.
I was having that urge that they should do an uprising and break free but at the same time guilty ridden because at that point it seemed humanity had only survived because of them.
The name collaborators should have been a big red flag.
I agree this is great mastercraft worldbuilding.
Every evil empire sees themselves as good guys and spins history to prove it
The first give away was when they said human “kingdoms were dissolved.”
>The Confederacy: *Literally attacked by Hostile Marauders*
>The Galactic Senate: *Ayyy lets vote on some useless law lmao!*
The summary of galactic order imo
Basically yeah.
Yeeees yes it is, when the war in heaven happened the senate decided to debate upon tiyanki restoration matter.
I had the galactic Senate sanction me for not meeting fleet quotas in the middle of a robot uprising that wasn’t even my fault. So I just left because fuck that shit.
@@spaceman8935 I recognize that the council has made a decision, but seeing as its a stupid ass decision I've elected to dissolve the council with plasma fire.
@@suryokai47 was most of the Galaxy divided between the FEs? Because they can only denounce one or both of the FEs and they're not inclined to do that if their loyal.
I think you've set up the Antares Confederates to declare a holy war for the liberation of Earth and destruction of the Collaborators. At least, that's what the fandom's crying out for.
IN THE NAME OF ZARQULAN, WE DECLARE LIBERATUS!!! DEUS VULT, TRAITORS!!!
I mean, considering this story beat already happened in episode one Id say it's pretty strong forshadowing
While I agree that is likely the end game, the issue is on the map both sides are on pretty much on the opposite side of the Galaxy from each other so that isn't going to happen for a while.
@@heero75 THEN MAKE THE SHIPS FASTER MORE POWERFUL AND well I don’t know just get on with it I say to Templin
@@heero75 I really don’t like the idea of humanity on earth being screwed over without us knowing it pisses me off and gets under my skin thankfully those leaders of earth are I think starting to realize what’s happening here as well as the people.
Terra Protectorates: *Being Servile to Space God Race is Great!* -Help Us- We are all free and enlightened
Collaborators: Did somebody called the *Combine?!*
Glad to know I wasn't the only one who thought of them.
@@laurenf.7922 precisely the only pro is these aliens actively let humanity to procreate they need servants afterall
Literally the combine they arrive enslave us use us to conquer new worlds then “re write history to be ‘benefactors’ “(a quote from the Video) I advise you watch the combine video that the institute did I swear these guys are heavily inspired from the propaganda about being a benefactor, the ‘advisors’ and even how a war between earth and it’s benefactors is rewritten as humans being stupid and us saving them we know what happened to earth in season 2 they arrived and pulled a combine down to the letter
@@dragoddas8885 *exactly*
Only difference is they let their subjects to reproduce
Okay Time to rewrite this time line
so presumably the collaborators knew enough about the early settlements in the solar system and the Air heart flotilla meaning we can place their discovery of the human race to say past the 2100s nearly 50 years before the air heart was launched but still when there was colonies in the solar system
Then we can presume that because no records of the collaborators was on the flotilla that they arrived after 2159 or could have directly caused the air heart flotilla to go astray in the hyperspace jump
So we can assume that A) the collaborators knew about the colonies before their abandonment or directly destroyed them
B) didn’t launch their invasion until after the flotilla left
C)they would have invaded in-between 2159 and the standard starting date for a game of Stellaris
We then know by the majority of this propaganda film that:
- they rewrote history to cover up their war
- they have ‘advisors’ and a definitely not Wallace Breen guy who relays all their comands
-they have a way of controlling people probably through propaganda mixed with drugs and maybe a hint of brain chipping
Anyway here it is:
2100-2158 collaborators find earth
2159 the airheart is blown off course
2160-2200 collaborators invade and rewrote history
The obvious propaganda of "the terrans begged the collaborators to stay" actually reminds me of the Vrul "begging" the antares confederacy into absorbing them.
theyre both capable of propaganda guys, dont assume that were getting the whole story
This perfectly shows how Antares is formed after USA and that it uses similar tactics. They are not the super good and innocent Empire and that is why like them.
@@matejkubala7221 yeah, though i feel like space empires based on the USA is sort of trodden ground. It sort of ground my gears when they started just throwing parliamentary terms into what is clearly a republic and not an actual democratic parliament.
All the same, im really digging this. Id just love to see something else in season 3. Still human based, cause I enjoy the speculative future aspect of it, but maybe something a little further out there in terms of social structure.
Or that time they Vassalized the Successor Khanate. While the Video acted like they were still the Hoard.
Wow......just wow......
@@SorchaSublime Republics have parliaments and there are many republics following the Westminster model of Parliamentary Democracy. Germany is another example of a parliamentary republic
I love how for most of the episode, it seems like it is reporting history yet you can really tell just how doctored and altered the history information has been. it really sells the idea that humanity is truly a blind species
It makes you wonder how much of our knowledge of history is really true. You have outright lies and lies by omission to give the wrong impressions of events. I live in the US sometimes find out about horrible things done by the US government within the US and around the world.
@@eitkoml History is written by the victors after all. However, it’s not like we could ever have a truly correct version of history anyways.
@@eitkoml the biggest lies in the real world would be the Allied Nations being the good guys and that's what disappointing
@@eitkoml well, they're not horrible enough to provoke you to any action, so there is nothing wrong from govermental PoV in repeating them a few million times...
@@arghya4NE Uh oh someone smell a bit sus here
*Historian who’s ancestor passed on old earths history before the Antares, to him as he does to his children. After hearing UTP history disheartened falls to his knee and wonders* why? Something is wrong
Kinda feels like 1984 vibes ngl
_"Through the mirror, I see the ancient heartland has been forced to yield;_
_Return of contact has brought upon a disclosure of injustice, that leaves one shaken._
_If unable to by words alone, then by spear, will, and shield;_
_With all thou might shall all sentients be rescued, and Terra retaken."_
Thy might*
You nice pfp bro
@@boldandbrash8431 actually, op works, too... just from a different angle...
"It has come to my attention that some have lately called me a collaborator, as if such a term were shameful. I ask you, what greater endeavor exists than that of collaboration? In our current unparalleled enterprise, refusal to collaborate is simply a refusal to grow--an insistence on suicide, if you will.
In order to be true to our nature, and our destiny, we must aspire to greater things. We have outgrown our cradle. It is futile to cry for mother's milk, when our true sustenance awaits us among the stars.
Therefore I say, yes, I am a collaborator. We must all collaborate, willingly, eagerly, if we expect to reap the benefits of unification. And reap we shall."
Damn it Breen
Half-Life is truly one of the best video games out there.
"They were asked to stay."
That reminds me of that joke in Family Guy about there being no German history between 1939-1945; "Everyone was on vacation. We were invited, punch was served!"
"working together to earn their *eventual* citizenship"
Yeeeaaahhh, I can almost taste the 'freedom'
The UTP are Xenophobes. Aliens will never become citizens.
Reminds me of the text of the indentured assets civic: "This Megacorporation specializes in large indentured workforces. It has little to do with the barbaric practice of slavery - these workers are merely paying off their debts... indefinitely."
@@pll3827
Well, technically the UTP is one of many (although admitedly one of the largest) protectorate working for the Collaborators, so they aren’t that xenophobic, well at least against the collaborators themselves
We work, to earn the right to work, to earn the right to work, to earn the right to work, to earn the right to work,
To earn the right to give, ourselves the right to buy, ourselves the right to live,
To earn the right to DIE.
@@KalashVodka175 no I don't think their are any other Protectorates in-game.
Antares will not yield to Earth's sugar daddy!
Please help me learn Antaren!
Earth you gotta let them go. He ain’t right for you.
Doesn't Antares have a sugar daddy as well?
I bet our sugar daddy could beat up Earth’s sugar daddy!
The GTU: What about the Galaxy's sugar Daddy.
I love how different being "Terran" is in this season versus the previous one
I mean in both cases your under a Authoritarian Galactic Superpower. It's just this time you don't have to Ration Water.
This is what we call foreshadowing
So the Collaborators are like a mixture of the Dominon from Deep Space Nine and the Combine of Half Life and the Tau of Warhammer 40k. Interesting concept.
Possibly some of the Vorlons/Shadows from Babylon 5
@@salvagedude625 oh, _way_ tf more light-up hypocritical Vacuum-squids...
Oh yeah, I'm sure it was the collaborators that wanted to leave and the terrans who begged them to stay.
Most definitely.
Just as much the Earhart flotilla was an Ark for the privileged of Earth.
Not to forget that WE bombed our cities and almost made us go extinct.
I think you overestimate Humanities desire for "Freedom".
You know, these “Collaborators” don’t actually sound so bad.
“Protectorates go to war with each other on the whims of their High Advocates.”
*_LOADS BOLTER_*
Looks like it’s time for another Liberation Campaign....
On Antares, the people are going about their lives as normal
Meanwhile on earth: the plot of XCOM 2 is happening
This gives me such unsettling vibes, just because of the knowledge that it’s all lies
Remember Antares government was the one that had some lies...
“History is written by the victors, history is filled with liars”
Intriguing that this video was done from the perspective of the UTP.
Got a bit of both a 1984 vibe and a Stargate vibe from this episode.
I am indeed curious to see how this will play out both in game and in lore.
Forwards Antares, Terra iterum constituetur.
Wait, what SG faction? Like I got whiffs of Ori and Genii, but... hol up, you don't fucking mean the damn _Ashen_ Cycle...
To quote a blurb on an official novel based on the original 'V' mini-series in the 1980s: "A great compact has been broken. A great trust has been betrayed. Let the invaders beware."
You've done a very good job of making the Collaborators absolute villains. I cannot describe how much I despise them, just from this one video.
@@AndrooUK I was talking about the specific group referred to as the 'Collaborators' in the video.
I can't wait for a grand endgame against the Collaborators! Just imagine it:
Good morning. In less than an hour, spacecraft from here will join others from around the Milky Way, and you will be launching the largest spacial battle in the history of the galaxy. "The galaxy"- That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the Twenty Second of April, and you will once again be fighting for our survival. Not against shortage, famine, or starvation… but against subjugation. We're fighting for our right to think, our right to feel. And should we win the day, the Twenty Second will no longer be known as a Confederate holiday, but as the day when all sentient life declared in one voice: WE WILL NOT GO QUIETLY INTO THE NIGHT! WE WILL NOT VANISH WITHOUT A FIGHT! WE'RE GOING TO LIVE ON! WE'RE GOING TO SURVIVE! *TODAY, WE CELEBRATE OUR REUNION DAY!*
Can't wait for a crazy old pilot to fly his fighter into the titan of the collaborators.
I read this in that actors voice lmao
@@starmada105 there is no other way to read it
@@Tylerjb123100 fair
@@starmada105 Which actor? My brain know the correct passing for this but not clue where from.
The UTP : Everyone must learn of our peaceful ways... *By force!*
"When the orders came to turn our weapons on the Anglian Protectorate, we didn't ask any questions. This was the Advice of the High Advocate, and who were we to question?"
"You slaughtered three divisions in the first day."
"We didn't have a choice."
"Didn't you? These were men and women you served with-- I read your files, Ambassador. Thoroughly. Your Protectorates were both integral in the Tau Ceti 'Re-education'."
"The High Advocates were aligned at the time."
"What changed?"
"I don't know."
"Do you want to?"
"I... I don't know."
"Ambassador... I know you don't think you had a choice in the things you did. Or at least, I know that's what you tell yourself. But I'm offering you a chance to make amends for all your fallen brothers and sisters. Your fellow Terrans."
"We can't talk about this any more--"
"We can. We have to. You and I are both just-- just playthings, toys being thrown across a pit by the whims of our Great Friends. I know you feel the same way. Tell me you feel the same way. Please."
For a long moment, there is silence. Finally, the Ambassador nods.
"Alright, Ambassador. Let me tell you about the Earhart Flotilla."
I would read this fanfiction
Please make this canon!!!!!!!!
I don't know if comments effect how much a comment gets priority, but I am going to give it a go in hopes Templin notices this awesome lore building.
"Alright Ambassador, let me tell you about the Earhart Flotilla and the possibility of contacting an alternate timeline, where mankinds civilization is called the Greater Terran Union!"
@@benjamins3884 if you want to bring in the GTU I suppose the Cortez Colonization Flotilla is a better choice. ;)
I just can't get over the fact that an entire NP was happy about being given to a high advocate like they were some kind of sweet 16 birthday present
UTP Alien 'Protector': "You will tell me your name!"
Antares General:
"I am Maximus Quan-Li Bin Saladin,
Supreme Commander of the Antares Liberation Fleet, General of the Antares Pioneer.
Citizen to a Lost People,
Warrior of a Conquered World,
And Loyal Son to the true rulers of Earth, Humanity!
And we will have our vengeance, in this life or the next!"
Forward Antares!
I like how the human nations in Season 2 have such different relationships with a fallen empire 'benefactor'. The UTP's Collaborators are control freaks, while the Vran simply show up to help along with some gifts here and there. It's like their interactions with humanity is a proxy for a competition between two ideologies (which they are - one is a Fanatic Materialist, the other is a Fanatic Spiritualist) - just like the Shadows and Vorlons in Babylon 5.
It will be definitely something to look forward to as they could be the catalyst for a future war in heaven in this season.
I like how even the artwork looks all benevolent and colorful at first, but then about the time it starts explaining how the civil defense corps keeps the population "secure and protected" you can see just from the imagery what's really going on there...
"Civil defense Corps" To defend the Collaborators from the Civilians. They're probably biologically modified I bet too, just like Combine soldiers or ADVENT I think from Xcom?
I love how even the protagonists have skeletons in their closet. That being said, hearing about the wars between the high advocates plunging entire stellar regions into war or one area being gifted to one as a coming of age present...that sends shivers down my spine.
... well this is brilliant.
I love the use of Moonlight Sonata in this video.
That was a good telling of how revisionist history takes place within the public consciousness. 👍
GTU comes through and interdimensional portal: "hey guys how are things on this si-....." *sigh*
"i guess our work is never done"
They say history is written by the victors. This video shows how true that can be.
History is written by the survivors
History is written with pens and pencils usually
that was literally my first thought.
@@bluenight104 Written by survivors......and opportunistics
@@explosivemodesonicmauricet1597 agreeable
These colaborators sound a lot like the elders, and the UTP as Advent
United Terran Protectorates a symbol of peace and stability. All resources go to war efforts and protectorates fight each other like feudal stats. The double-speak is strong with this one
Antares Confederacy: our war philosophy only lets us launch liberation wars, we can’t just openly attack another nation, let alone another Human nation without cause!!
Cloister Of The Spirits: The United Terran Protectorates has exotic gasses.
Antares Confederacy: **Gets a strong urge to liberate their human companions**
yes
No no no, they totally have weapons of mass destruction!
@@zohaibthebeast9023 no shit, really?
Sounds like they need some real FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY.
@@zohaibthebeast9023 R/WOOSH
The Collaborator sounds like a slaver with extra steps.
I’ve been watching your videos for a good while now and I always wanted to do one. I decided to do my own and base it around the universe I’ve been creating for my book.
Thank you for doing the work you do
Tear down the Veil, reveal the lies! The children of Earth shall free their homeworld, and cast down those who dared to enslave us!
So... The UTP is effectively ADVENT and the Collaborators are the Elders... This should be fun to see how our lovable Confederate protagonists deal with ADVENT 2.0.
Jokes and references aside, great work as always!
So Earth and it's territories exist under a velvet tyranny, one where they are happy to be there because they are taught that the Collaborators saved mankind from itself. I wonder how much of that is true, though. The Collaborators are definitely great villains. Only great antagonists could convince you that they are heroes.
Do you guys have any plans to release more Season 1 lore in the future?
I think it's just a "wait and see" sorta thing
ayyyyyyyyyyyy here we go, commenting before the premier as I can only imagine what is coming
This seems like a future where Xcom's aliens wins. This is incredibly terrific
7:09 I know it fits the theme and all, but seeing the Ark Knights logo broke that suspension of disbelief pretty quick...
I love this.The way you've set up the Collaborators as manipulative pricks is great. And I'm here for it.
Feels like that game in Half-Life but this time, the Benefactors/Collaborators was more sophisticated, subtle and far more successful in integreting humanity into their "community" that is being a subject peoples.
Well to be fair, the combine were just going to get ride of humanity anyhow. They weren’t interested in “integrating” humanity into there empire (save for Synths) so why bother being subtle?
Combine didn't give a sh*t about human from the first place. They literally stop human reproduction, human gonna extinct if not for Gordon.
They just come to steal all resource, DNA for some synths and interesting technology(in-universe teleportation) and then they gonna kill everyone.
I’m really concerned about how those people were given away to that “Coming of age” ceremony.
It just sounds ominous as to what it could be. Did they hunt the human for sport, did they torture them for games, did they treat them as pets?
It’s just interesting to imagine what could of happened.
I think it’s more that each individual protectorate is like a personal kingdom for the collaborators to play with, making them fight each other or create wealth and that one was “gifted” from a larger more powerful relative like you would gift a piece of jewellery or pair of shoes once she got old enough
Feudalism, the word your looking for is feudalism
And in their desperation, they turned to an empire they didn't fully understand.
The "Collaborators" played the Terrans like a damn fiddle.
I will enjoy the day the Antares Confederacy reclaims the homeworld and frees humanity from the prison it is too blind to see.
This feel so weird and creepy like I’m a antarian historian being told the history of earth and seeing something very wrong happened after the colony ship left.
This reminds me of Clarke's "Childhood's End", if the overlords were actually malicious and not just without empathy.
These stories give me goosebumps. How the view on the galaxy from the Protectorates is shown in contrast to the Antares is just amazing. Your stories are so amazingly detailed that you could make a science fiction book series out of them.
Pls, keep up this awesome work.
"Time to bring some chaos into order" (c) Captain Janeway of the Antares Navy.
can i ask a question was this the original plan for Stellaris Invicta Season 2 if the United Terran Protectorates was being chosen instead of confederacy?
my friends we doing an a new episode about the United Terran Protectorates but this time around as part of Antares Confederacy Season 2 of Stellaris Invicta we come full circle gentlemen
Love they were able to work one of the unselected options for Season 2 into Season 2. Clever. Then again with the AC not set on Earth and there being a mystery as to what happened to Earth, it was plausible to shoehorn this in. I like it.
Ooh boy, the hints at just how hellish the UTP is (portrayed as normal or even good, like people being "delighted" at being some alien brat's pets) sprinkled throughout are *freaking unsettling*.
Just...gah. Terrifying.
Can you imagine Antares meeting the utp for the first time and they just stare at each other for a few seconds until the utp says “I thought you were dead”
.... the way this and the "pilot" pitch of the utp .. its the same yet.. darker undertones... so awesome.. it made a shiver go up my spine
I am new to the series and this was a big move! Damn, I really wasn't expecting this situation at all, and I am excited to hear what comes next!
Oooooh I see there has been some history rewritten inside the Terran Protectorate this is going to be interesting
So, I just rewatched the episode on the Combine, and I realized that the combine are referred to as “our benefactors” in propaganda, and they tried to functionally tried to wipe the memory of their invasion. They promised that humanity would become part of a great universal alliance. The Screk seem to have done the same.
The somber tone of the music in this video has such a contrast to the optimistic music of the Greater Terran Union and the Antares Confederacy videos, and it fits really well with the idea of what may have really happened underneath all of that revisionist history. Amazing.
"Bow down before the ones you serve, you're going to get what you deserve"
War of Liberation on the UTP by Antares and the Vrool, the UTP revolts and joins the War against the Collaborators, a galaxy wide War and then The Contingency shows up...
I really feel like they should have been more suspicious when a chunk of the population is given as alien quinceanera present.
I love how the utp acts as sort of a contrasting villain to the confederacy being a semi-democratic, quasi-religious, heavily centralized police state that is still human unlike the secular, democratic decentralised confederacy
Talk about salvaging a good background!! This held great promise back when choosing factions and now it's baaaack!! Yay!
You know, for a minute there, I though the AC game got corrupted and you guys had to start over with a new galactic nation
So basically the Collaborators wiped out human civilization as it existed to reeducate the whole population with their own version of the events. No surprise their ambassadors at the Galactic Assembly keep going "crazy" (or rather sane). xD Really looking forward to the final confrontation!
If people thought the GTU was evil then the UTP and the collaborates are on a whole new level. This is some amazing lore and storytelling a absolutely loving it
The change in the mood of the video is better than most plot twists in multi million dollar movies.
All these years later I just realized the Screk made the Antares Earhart Fleet aristocrats that abandoned Earth is because of all the monuments made to the supposed Earhart Fleet victims. The Collaborators probably thought those people really were rulers, because they couldn't imagine a society honoring anyone except the elites.
I'm getting xcom vibes. "Collaborators"
would you look at the time, better mobilise the Antaries Confederacy Navy to take our home back. while we are at it open a portal to reality 2345 and ask the GTU to help out.
Honestly I hope there will be a GTU reference at some point, after all inter-dimensional travel can happen..
Unrelated but I think now the GTU has colonized a bit of Andromeda
@@HMN134 imagine if the GTU actually lost control of the Milky Way and the "Collaborators" just completely rewrote history to make Humanity look weaker.
Man,i wish Stellaris Invicta 2 gets a full blown series one day
The moment it was said that the collaborators felt there work was done and they were begged by Terrans to stay I knew right away it was all a shame by the collaborators to retain control of a helpless possibly defeated population.
You know the GTU made protectorates but at least it was honest about it and didn't do, well what the Collaborators are doing. These guys sound more like a soft version of the Combine
The sinister aura is strong in this episode.
Well HOLY SHIT THE ANTARES FLOTILA HAS A DARK ORIGIN STORY
Edit: Hmm, I suppose this could be an interesting discussion. Who's story is right, is it that of the UTP, who mentioned that the Antares Confederacy is made up of the leadership of many Earth nations, or is the confederacy's historical account right?
There are many different things to consider, as the UTP accounts of the ships departing to Antares don't seem like they were fabricated and likely date back to before the discovery of the confederacy, while the Antares Confederacy does have a lot of shady politics. I guess the Confederacy is probably right, as the people would probably be aware of their situation when they settled down, and it would take a large effort to hide the truth.
i'm pretty sure it was obviously propaganda. they mention kings when there were very little of those in the 21st century.
Lol the collaborators sound like the Administrators of the Combine.
Terra... ruled over by FUCKING XENOS
IT'S CRUSADE TIME BOIS!
That got dark very subtly, well done.
I like how the history changes from point of view
The idea of my nation being given to some alien for her sweet 16 makes me physically sick.
These villains are immaculate.
I must say this is the best idea you had to combine some Invicta nations in the same plot! Hope you will repeat the experience in season 3 !
Ummmmm.................
This was the single best episode that TI has ever put out. Very well done, y’all. Way to step up your world building game by 1000%.
I’m watching this for a second time as I realized about halfway through that this was revisionist history. I love what y’all did with the declaration that democracy had not come to humanity until the Collaborators gifted it. This was so unsettling and I love how y’all teased it in throughout the greater thread of season two.
Keep it up. Cheers.
PS: the inclusion of Moonlight Sonata was DOPE
This writeup was so beautifully done, I totally had to relisten to it, stopping midway when I realised that there were so many subtle devious false history narratives that I missed, just thinking it was a normal explanation of how the UTP was started. Actually thought the Collaborators were decent until then O_O. Mind blown.
Whoa, this was incredibly well done