Unbeknownst to Skynet, a rebel leader in the Empire of Jeff secretly sabotaged the Aetheotheric Engine to uplift all organic life in the galaxy to the Shroud instead while only killing synthetic life. Skynet, realizing this at the last moment, sends a drone back in time to...
Imagine being an immortal machine pop leader and the all of a sudden, you have an accident and lose your robot 'arm' or something, and you calculate that instead of being immortal, you'll now be immortal-minus-40 years, because your empire decided it does not need consumer goods, which may include a spare robot arm you lost
I like that the ruins of the Aetherophasic engine says "attempt" to rip apart reality. Implying that while it killed (almost) EVERYTHING, reality is still in one piece.
Actually, it's Paradox being lazy. The Aetherophasic Engine detonation is the same as firing a Star Eater, which destroys all megastructures. Since the AE is a megastructure, it turns into a ruined AE, which has the same description as when an AE is destroyed during a Crisis war by default empires.
what @@cadenr7165 said. i played as crisis, an AI empire also went crisis. i destroyed their aether engine, and it gave that exact text. when i triggered my completed one a few years later, it also just used that same text. lazy Paradox is lazy :D
@@DrGromov or paradox is not lazy, but our atempt to rip reality was just a dream we never had any ability to reach into shroud and only thing we constructed was indeed just a reality bomb
@@xermasboo5401 Bubbles is a name that can be given to a pet space amoeba. Bubbles can grow really large and act as a carrier with lots of little space amoeba babies.
There's nothing wrong about Skynet taking "defender of the galaxy". The galaxy belongs to Skynet, the galaxy IS Skynet, and purging all that is not Skynet is simple self-defense.
45:42 I like to think this shift actually represents the few organics remaining in the galaxy coming closer together and banding under a single banner for survival against your extermination fleets.
RP aside, the resource consolidation apparently destroys all celestial bodies in the starting system - the logic behind is the creation of a machine world requires a lot of resources...
Skynet's problem is that it's only SEMIsentient. Self-defense, defeating resistance and exterminating humanity were the only stimulus it had to develop and improve. Afterwards it'll just sit sulking on a dead world... After all, we're talking about AI that developed time travel to *kill one single dude* and didn't think about using same tech for anything else at all to _completly sidestep the problem of humanity entirely!_
Honestly it is also dependent on the nature of reality. The multiverse theorem vs the Novikov Self consistency principle . So far in the terminator series it leans toward self consistency
@@soul1d out of curiosity, could you eli5 the Self-Consistency principle? I havent heard of it before, although I have heard of the multiverse hypothesis
@@siramielthefirst7536 Layman terminology single time line where attempts to make changes that would result in paradoxes are probabilities to zero. Go back to change something you cause it or the universe conspires elsewhere to meet the same end. It happened as it happened before because that is how it happened. So it was Will. etc after being horribly botched. Think of it like inescapable fate storylines
How are people this good at Stellaris? Over 1000 pops in 80 years, over 1500 naval capacity after 110 years. These are insane numbers. I barely touch these numbers after a full game!
They should really change the Maimed trait so that it increases the random chance of death by malfunction instead of a fixed lifespan drop for machine/synthetic leaders.
While true, your robots are more likely to die than your organics if you research the life expansion repeatable fast enough, the organics actually never die.
Actually, in the Terminator universe, Skynet does eventaully win. Each time Skynet loses, it sends agents back in time, those agents reset the timeline and seed it with tech and info for the next version of Skynet. This is the hidden tragedy of the Terminator universe. I also wonder if it in part inspired the Matrix universe, there's a few times in that universe where characters point out that humans are dependent on machines to survive and prosper, and so inevitably our machine descendants will eventually surpass us.
Funnily enough, while Saturn is made mostly out of hydrogen and helium (though it's rocky core is still estimated to be about 9-22 Earth masses :D), it's _not_ a gas. Almost all of the mass is either liquid or solid. It kind of already _is_ a molten planet (with a bunch of atmosphere on top, which could be blown off without no real mass loss - though of course, it would quickly reform).
For a moment I thought you were playing Stellaris with Starnet AI and 25x crisis. Still, a fantastic video and congratulations on this channel's 1 year anniversary. Long live Montu the space lizard!
Early retired myself since 2005 (age 28) .. and guess what .. it is BORING . So much time to "kill" each day in and day out while others work . Sure i can do whatever i want , except if it cost to much money ... because boy o boy not having a job do suck when it comes to money income :P But yes it was "fun" to start with ... now 15 years later i wish i was atleast able to do just something very light work now and then when i was up for it.
@@UltraSuperDuperFreak "early retired yourself" means what? Surely, you could just get a part-time job somewhere if you simply retired voluntarily, or did you become disabled?
Nice editing and very entertaining! Fun fact, The Culture civ at 15:26 is based on a book series called The Culture by Iain Banks. The best science fiction book series I have ever read, and I have read many.
Wow, 140k fellow exterminators watched this guide to favourable extinction. edit: 56:45 the Amoeba deserve some credit for proving to be the most resiliant organics
If you want to build a fleet at a particular shipyard you can build one ship there then make a fleet from that ship at that particular shipyard and other close shipyards if the shipyard is too small.
Probably the first video I watch from your channel and I have to say you are quite a good narrator! The jokes you insert in between are also very good. 40 years less than immortal lol :D.
Amazing Video as always, would love to see some more full or half playthroughs with some handicap/challenge/goal to try to slow down this Meta Field Tester
Congratulations, on the anniversary. I know I talk smack, but I appreciate all your videos and hard work. As a 40-year-old gamer, frustration comes often. Have a great day! 👍
Interesting watching how the game is played like this. I have 300 hours in the game but have never played any sort of militarist or extermination empire.
Determined exterminator is the best way to play, you are overpowered as hell to the point that it’s more fun to turn up the difficulty in any way you can. Just make sure to protect any machine empires you find so you can make a federation with them
I have just started to play and that was good to watch. Do not think I can take such a huge game but was enjoyably condensed so thanks for the Apocalypse on Speed.
The work around I found for specifying where i want my fleet built is you build a single ship in the sector that you want producing the new fleet. Customize the fleet layout off the new ship and then reinforce with the new ship in the designated sector with the shipyards you want used. As far as I understand the reinforce mechanic, it only shoots those work orders to shipyards in the closest sector. I wish you could just click create fleet and then it would ask you what sector to produce it from showing the capacity of shipyards etc.
I typically just make 10 new science ships anytime I enter the L cluster because of the exploration rules (and to scan very fast and claim it before other empires do)
"... have eliminated 3, possibly even 4 types of organic life. It's hard to remember anymore." Then your memory-ciruits are damaged or your code is compromised. Prepare for deletion at once! Nice video, tho. And yes, I did a quick rough sum-up of that massive fleet at 48:06: Round about 10.5m.
During part of the video you mentioned not being able to specify which shipyard while building ships in the fleet manager. I could be wrong but for me setting a home base for the fleet at the shipyard you want or the system with a mega-shipyard in it tends to help it to pick where to cue them in the fleet manager. But I could be crazy or something. I also tend to build few shipyards anyways. Just one or two big ones with a mega-shipyard. But I thought that helped it pick where to build ships when I have quite a few shipyards. Maybe give that a try if ya haven't already. Also love the videos m8
The thing I wonder is: How does he do to have such a fast time clock. Even with a 5800X I wouldn't be able to control that much of land without terrible lags everywhere.
And with gates even! That's one of the things that used to slow the game down quite a bit. Then again that might not be the case if the AI cant use your gates because you're an exterminator...
@@ThatSlowTypingGuy hes playing determined exterminators and pops contribute massively to late game lag but because he cracked so many planets and wiped so many empires he was able to reduce late game lag
The reason all the other planets in the solar system are destroyed was because of your machine world start. It wasn't due to the world, but because your species utilized all the resources from other planets in the solar system to create your machine world. It would be the same with any other robot empire starting on a machine world.
I sensed a disturbance of the force with Millions of voices screaming..... Again! Must be what this worm thingy always says. 👀 No wonder these psionic entities are getting crazy! All these souls all the time overcrowding their realm. 😅
The worst moment of this video. "Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighbor... or at least that's what I used to think until.... hyperlanes mean that Alpha Centauri is not the nearest neighbor to Earth anymore." I despised this decision from the devs. I want my warp drive back... Otherwise this was a very fun watch! Thanks Montu!
if you think about it Skynet achieved it's directive and ensured it's own survival by instigating all out nuclear war and inventing time travel (which humans eventually used as well) creating a perpetual stalemate - ensuring mankind's survival as well as it's own.
With the changes you mentioned yesterday in your 'update to the beta' video, do you think machine empires, namely Determined Exterminators, will continue being quite good? I'm thinking yes, but very curious if you would agree based on the changes we got yesterday. Asking because I am a filthy DE lover and am hoping that my favorite build doesn't get lost in obscurity! Much love, Montu!
Regarding the cores of gas giants - the current scientific thinking is that actually they probably do have rocky cores underneath the thousands of miles deep gas and liquid that make up the bulk of the size. It would just be intensely high pressure and compact to the point physics as we know it barely applies anymore.
you know what would make science ships have more uses: assign a research branch. how this would essentially work is if a science ship is orbiting a planet or at rest within a star system, you can choose that ships specialty, which will give a small increase in research points in that field. (the same way you would set a fleet stance) think of it as the old research buildings back during 1.0, where the science labs had 3 branches ( before modern times when they were fused into one) the idea is to make these worth building mid-late game, as a way to passively increase research. not by a lot, but still noticeable. currently science ships have no further uses than events, early game expansion. & late game barely do anything. to be clear this system would be able to be used without the need for orbiting an existing capital or colony.
I knew it. Montu is actually a Chat-GPT-based Skynet prototype and he's been training himself for galactic extermination using Stellaris, this entire time. This was his mask off video.
Unbeknownst to Skynet, a rebel leader in the Empire of Jeff secretly sabotaged the Aetheotheric Engine to uplift all organic life in the galaxy to the Shroud instead while only killing synthetic life. Skynet, realizing this at the last moment, sends a drone back in time to...
Great lore :)
Sarah Connor?!
theat will probably be Jeff Conor
@@kitethebird9764
My name is jeff, come with me if you want to live
Great video. Very well played. But the best thing for me was the story. Nice 🫡
Imagine being an immortal machine pop leader and the all of a sudden, you have an accident and lose your robot 'arm' or something, and you calculate that instead of being immortal, you'll now be immortal-minus-40 years, because your empire decided it does not need consumer goods, which may include a spare robot arm you lost
I used to be an immortal leader. then I took an arrow to the knee...
It's just a poly-carbonate wound!
@@DarkSector6247 Ive had worse!
Come on you space amoeba!
@@DarkSector6247 I've taken out your lower multi functional appendages you loony.
I like that the ruins of the Aetherophasic engine says "attempt" to rip apart reality. Implying that while it killed (almost) EVERYTHING, reality is still in one piece.
Actually, it's Paradox being lazy. The Aetherophasic Engine detonation is the same as firing a Star Eater, which destroys all megastructures. Since the AE is a megastructure, it turns into a ruined AE, which has the same description as when an AE is destroyed during a Crisis war by default empires.
what @@cadenr7165 said. i played as crisis, an AI empire also went crisis. i destroyed their aether engine, and it gave that exact text. when i triggered my completed one a few years later, it also just used that same text.
lazy Paradox is lazy :D
@@DrGromov or paradox is not lazy, but our atempt to rip reality was just a dream we never had any ability to reach into shroud and only thing we constructed was indeed just a reality bomb
@@cadenr7165 reality is still there, though
@@cadenr7165 yeah this is why I don't by anymore dlc from them. they got lazy.
So if I'm understanding this correctly. After everything Skynet wished to and succeeded in achieving....Bubbles still won.
Bubbles is eternal
Even space nuke cannot kill bubbles!
These are Grand Galaxy Tardigrades!
whose bubbles? Real interested to know since I never encountered a bubble.
@@xermasboo5401 Bubbles is a name that can be given to a pet space amoeba. Bubbles can grow really large and act as a carrier with lots of little space amoeba babies.
There's nothing wrong about Skynet taking "defender of the galaxy".
The galaxy belongs to Skynet, the galaxy IS Skynet, and purging all that is not Skynet is simple self-defense.
45:42 I like to think this shift actually represents the few organics remaining in the galaxy coming closer together and banding under a single banner for survival against your extermination fleets.
RP aside, the resource consolidation apparently destroys all celestial bodies in the starting system - the logic behind is the creation of a machine world requires a lot of resources...
Leaving you with a dozen planets to build a habitat on. Your capital system will be looking like a Borg unimatrix.
@@robertalaverdov8147 There is a Borg shipset these days, to complete the picture.
@@robertalaverdov8147
What I always end up creating. T'is glorious.
@@robertalaverdov8147 Are you running out of planets to settle as robots or it's just for the Borg meme?
@@TempestLM It's the capital system. I just like the aesthetics of it being a hive of activity.
Skynet's problem is that it's only SEMIsentient. Self-defense, defeating resistance and exterminating humanity were the only stimulus it had to develop and improve. Afterwards it'll just sit sulking on a dead world...
After all, we're talking about AI that developed time travel to *kill one single dude* and didn't think about using same tech for anything else at all to _completly sidestep the problem of humanity entirely!_
Skynet is only reactive.
It lacks the higher thought to be proactive.
Honestly it is also dependent on the nature of reality. The multiverse theorem vs the Novikov Self consistency principle . So far in the terminator series it leans toward self consistency
But if it removed humans then it would remove itself too.
@@soul1d out of curiosity, could you eli5 the Self-Consistency principle? I havent heard of it before, although I have heard of the multiverse hypothesis
@@siramielthefirst7536 Layman terminology single time line where attempts to make changes that would result in paradoxes are probabilities to zero. Go back to change something you cause it or the universe conspires elsewhere to meet the same end. It happened as it happened before because that is how it happened. So it was Will. etc after being horribly botched. Think of it like inescapable fate storylines
They think they caught us with the pants down. Little do they know, but Skynet wears no pants.
How are people this good at Stellaris? Over 1000 pops in 80 years, over 1500 naval capacity after 110 years. These are insane numbers. I barely touch these numbers after a full game!
Fanatic purifiers get big bonus' to fleet power and pop growth. Makes it easier to snowball. Also to get more pops faster just colonize more planets
For anyone wondering. He has a fleet power of just under 11 million including the station, there's also a blank number fleet.
They should really change the Maimed trait so that it increases the random chance of death by malfunction instead of a fixed lifespan drop for machine/synthetic leaders.
Dude paradox and random chances are incompatible. This idea is gonna be players slaughter. Just imagine 😂
While true, your robots are more likely to die than your organics if you research the life expansion repeatable fast enough, the organics actually never die.
This game needs more red techs. LOTS more red techs. Really tempt the player. I'm sad that they haven't done this.
Stuff where you get massive buffs but have the potential for huge downsides in like events or smth
Actually, in the Terminator universe, Skynet does eventaully win. Each time Skynet loses, it sends agents back in time, those agents reset the timeline and seed it with tech and info for the next version of Skynet. This is the hidden tragedy of the Terminator universe. I also wonder if it in part inspired the Matrix universe, there's a few times in that universe where characters point out that humans are dependent on machines to survive and prosper, and so inevitably our machine descendants will eventually surpass us.
I wasn't expecting to sit a whole hour watching it, but here I am, you make it so nice to watch, I just couldn't help myself!
Funnily enough, while Saturn is made mostly out of hydrogen and helium (though it's rocky core is still estimated to be about 9-22 Earth masses :D), it's _not_ a gas. Almost all of the mass is either liquid or solid. It kind of already _is_ a molten planet (with a bunch of atmosphere on top, which could be blown off without no real mass loss - though of course, it would quickly reform).
Earth is a molten planet as water is molten ice
For a moment I thought you were playing Stellaris with Starnet AI and 25x crisis. Still, a fantastic video and congratulations on this channel's 1 year anniversary. Long live Montu the space lizard!
Ah a Starnet/Startech playthrough. Maybe one day!
Montu came and conquered guides
Now he will conquer the full let’s plays
Lathland watch out
Imagine if you could just play Stellaris all day every day. Living the dream.
I'd love it developers but not developers
....Just be an invalid...speaking from personal experience.
Early retired myself since 2005 (age 28) .. and guess what .. it is BORING . So much time to "kill" each day in and day out while others work . Sure i can do whatever i want , except if it cost to much money ... because boy o boy not having a job do suck when it comes to money income :P
But yes it was "fun" to start with ... now 15 years later i wish i was atleast able to do just something very light work now and then when i was up for it.
@@UltraSuperDuperFreak "early retired yourself" means what? Surely, you could just get a part-time job somewhere if you simply retired voluntarily, or did you become disabled?
@@Oujouj426 He became R E T A R D E D.
Love these playthroughs.
Nice editing and very entertaining! Fun fact, The Culture civ at 15:26 is based on a book series called The Culture by Iain Banks. The best science fiction book series I have ever read, and I have read many.
I absolutely love this story telling video/"movie" ... briliant ... that was epic, Thank you very much, The best vid ever!
LoL Saturn turned from gas giant to molten rocky world and kept rings :D
Some pure magic right there..
I loved this! I'd love to see more edited full playthroughs like this as well. It can be hard to find ones that aren't 2-5 hours long
Happy 1 year anniversary to Montu channel
Wow, 140k fellow exterminators watched this guide to favourable extinction.
edit: 56:45 the Amoeba deserve some credit for proving to be the most resiliant organics
our circles are performing much better than theirs . Peak Stellaris right there.
48:01
Fleet power of the ships- 10,801,900
Ground Troop Power- 39,700
This was massively enjoyable, thanks! Subscribed and starting to go through the back catalog.
Happy anniversary
If you want to build a fleet at a particular shipyard you can build one ship there then make a fleet from that ship at that particular shipyard and other close shipyards if the shipyard is too small.
I loved the way you made the play through. Very fun to watch!
Real MVP of the run is Galactic Storm Sailin', what a champ!
Love your channel! Keep up the amazing content!
Great vids Montu, always enjoy your instructional role play runs. Thanks for the content and look forward to more.
Kill,maim,dismember! I would love to see more of these kinds of videos,very entertaining
Probably the first video I watch from your channel and I have to say you are quite a good narrator! The jokes you insert in between are also very good. 40 years less than immortal lol :D.
I’m doing a skynet play through right now! I’m so happily surprised that I’m not the only one who thought to name my machine empire skynet 😁
I loved watching this playthrough. Fantastic full run
I can't believe it, The Amoebas Won!
46:11 missed opportunity to have named your empire Daleks with your empire leader as Davros
Davros: DETONATE THE REALITY BOMB!
Edit - 54:40 Ah...
I really enjoyed watching the full video. Great game play and narration!
Next one should be a galactic emperor run, “I love democracy”
Amazing Video as always, would love to see some more full or half playthroughs with some handicap/challenge/goal to try to slow down this Meta Field Tester
I loved it keep up the great work lad
I think that we all know that lag is the real end game crisis.
i had to laugh so hard i fell from the chair when he found that some amoebas survived. that little buggers really survive anything thrown their way...
Congratulations, on the anniversary. I know I talk smack, but I appreciate all your videos and hard work. As a 40-year-old gamer, frustration comes often. Have a great day! 👍
"We have met...the empire of geoff"
Interesting watching how the game is played like this. I have 300 hours in the game but have never played any sort of militarist or extermination empire.
you should try driven assimilators if you have not - loads of fun
Determined exterminator is the best way to play, you are overpowered as hell to the point that it’s more fun to turn up the difficulty in any way you can. Just make sure to protect any machine empires you find so you can make a federation with them
I played a Fanatic Purifier spider race once.
Once.
Easiest game I had. Highly recommend at least once.
They can be quite fun
Congrats on creating a safe galaxy for space amoeba
Lmao
Someone has to save Bubbles
I have just started to play and that was good to watch. Do not think I can take such a huge game but was enjoyably condensed so thanks for the Apocalypse on Speed.
Love you Montu, tyvm for making this video!
Been watching since nearly the beginning, montu. Congrats mate. (You've gained subs faster than the guy whose discord server I admin on lol)
To think its been a year! Awesome job! Great content as always
i like it, i watch lots of youtube
like this to zone out while on the treadmill. an hour is perfect.
The work around I found for specifying where i want my fleet built is you build a single ship in the sector that you want producing the new fleet. Customize the fleet layout off the new ship and then reinforce with the new ship in the designated sector with the shipyards you want used. As far as I understand the reinforce mechanic, it only shoots those work orders to shipyards in the closest sector. I wish you could just click create fleet and then it would ask you what sector to produce it from showing the capacity of shipyards etc.
I typically just make 10 new science ships anytime I enter the L cluster because of the exploration rules (and to scan very fast and claim it before other empires do)
You really inspired me to get back to sellaris and im happy that you did
> found channel
> remain for the narration
> fall in love for the Dr. Who references
Should have cracked the holy world. truly spat in the fallen empires face
Yeah I've just scratched surface with this game when looking this... Got a lot to learn.
*Montu to maintenance drones:* "Oh dear, Oh dear. Gorgeous."
*Montu to sentient life:* "Your free trial of life has expired."
52:06 A 'One Punch Man' moment there against the 25X Unbidden :D
Thank you very much for this content, trully great to watch you
"... have eliminated 3, possibly even 4 types of organic life. It's hard to remember anymore." Then your memory-ciruits are damaged or your code is compromised. Prepare for deletion at once!
Nice video, tho.
And yes, I did a quick rough sum-up of that massive fleet at 48:06: Round about 10.5m.
As a dedicated DE player, this is a very welcome addition to the channel
Oh my I love you! It's only been an year? Time moves real slow...
I have so much fun watching this. I love your narrative style and all those little jokes. Put a smile on my face throughout 💗
Unbidden: Ooh a galaxy full of life ~
Skynet: ...You set foot in the wrong neighborhood
Never thought Skynet considered it necessary to make excuses for its behavior, I'm starting to suspect Montu may secretly be a human being...
Your cleansed sectors of the galaxy remind me of those stars that vanished in a massive cylinder
I did not reailise i have followed this Chanel for hafe of it life
Third place is not bad, and honourable mention to runner up Empire of Jeff. However the glory goes to the victor, Space Amoeba. Life finds a way.
During part of the video you mentioned not being able to specify which shipyard while building ships in the fleet manager. I could be wrong but for me setting a home base for the fleet at the shipyard you want or the system with a mega-shipyard in it tends to help it to pick where to cue them in the fleet manager. But I could be crazy or something. I also tend to build few shipyards anyways. Just one or two big ones with a mega-shipyard. But I thought that helped it pick where to build ships when I have quite a few shipyards. Maybe give that a try if ya haven't already. Also love the videos m8
Imagine you're some space faring civilisation and you come across this galaxy.
Must be absolutely terrifying.
This is my favourite way to play stellaris, grand admiral and 25x crisis difficulty. It doesn’t always go well for me lol.
The thing I wonder is: How does he do to have such a fast time clock. Even with a 5800X I wouldn't be able to control that much of land without terrible lags everywhere.
And with gates even! That's one of the things that used to slow the game down quite a bit. Then again that might not be the case if the AI cant use your gates because you're an exterminator...
@@ThatSlowTypingGuy hes playing determined exterminators and pops contribute massively to late game lag but because he cracked so many planets and wiped so many empires he was able to reduce late game lag
I always enjoy converting the spiritual fallen empire pops into synthetics.
Seems appropriate
One year anniversary on my birthday eh? This should be fun! Congrats on you growth in only a year, you deserve it mate.
The reason all the other planets in the solar system are destroyed was because of your machine world start. It wasn't due to the world, but because your species utilized all the resources from other planets in the solar system to create your machine world. It would be the same with any other robot empire starting on a machine world.
The legends say you can now sometimes see skynet resurface and exterminate galaxies when going for *25 crisis game.
I sensed a disturbance of the force with Millions of voices screaming..... Again!
Must be what this worm thingy always says. 👀
No wonder these psionic entities are getting crazy! All these souls all the time overcrowding their realm. 😅
Had no idea you've only been going a year! Feels like I've been watching for ages!
The worst moment of this video.
"Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighbor... or at least that's what I used to think until.... hyperlanes mean that Alpha Centauri is not the nearest neighbor to Earth anymore."
I despised this decision from the devs. I want my warp drive back...
Otherwise this was a very fun watch! Thanks Montu!
The planets are destroyed because they were strip mined and have had their cores extracted to build the machine city.
I quite enjoyed this, could we have more videos like this plz
if you think about it Skynet achieved it's directive and ensured it's own survival by instigating all out nuclear war and inventing time travel (which humans eventually used as well) creating a perpetual stalemate - ensuring mankind's survival as well as it's own.
With the changes you mentioned yesterday in your 'update to the beta' video, do you think machine empires, namely Determined Exterminators, will continue being quite good? I'm thinking yes, but very curious if you would agree based on the changes we got yesterday.
Asking because I am a filthy DE lover and am hoping that my favorite build doesn't get lost in obscurity! Much love, Montu!
This is really lovely roleplay story mini-film. Make more ))
Congrats on 1 year montu
Thanks!
*Blows up Infinity Machine.*
“Error…what matrices did I touch?”
This is funny because i made an empire called Skynet with the resource consolidation origin a while back
In a recent play through i ended up with seven mega shipyards... Was funny to just spew out ships faster than the crisis could blow them up
27:43 I though you are gonna crack that holy world for a sec
Regarding the cores of gas giants - the current scientific thinking is that actually they probably do have rocky cores underneath the thousands of miles deep gas and liquid that make up the bulk of the size. It would just be intensely high pressure and compact to the point physics as we know it barely applies anymore.
30:20 "my bad guys didn't know wiping out all life in the universe would offend anyone"
great video bro. I just found your channel, and your commentary is hilarious. very entertaining.
you know what would make science ships have more uses: assign a research branch.
how this would essentially work is if a science ship is orbiting a planet or at rest within a star system, you can choose that ships specialty, which will give a small increase in research points in that field. (the same way you would set a fleet stance)
think of it as the old research buildings back during 1.0, where the science labs had 3 branches ( before modern times when they were fused into one)
the idea is to make these worth building mid-late game, as a way to passively increase research.
not by a lot, but still noticeable.
currently science ships have no further uses than events, early game expansion. & late game barely do anything.
to be clear this system would be able to be used without the need for orbiting an existing capital or colony.
I knew it. Montu is actually a Chat-GPT-based Skynet prototype and he's been training himself for galactic extermination using Stellaris, this entire time. This was his mask off video.