Exploring a broken Birch World - Stellaris Lore [Gigastructures]

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  • @vainthatoneoverhere
    @vainthatoneoverhere 7 місяців тому +466

    > get a birch world
    > look inside
    > no birch

  • @urdadthatleftfouryearsago4835
    @urdadthatleftfouryearsago4835 7 місяців тому +268

    Red king coming in with another certified galactic community classic

    • @TheRedKing
      @TheRedKing  7 місяців тому +28

      I do my best! Hope you enjoy

    • @galomir833
      @galomir833 7 місяців тому +3

      @@TheRedKing and giga is alway nice, and i alway wonder how the dev can put so much lore into it every time, same whit ACOT

    • @galomir833
      @galomir833 7 місяців тому +3

      speaking of which, you couls do a video on the ACOT databank, or the (what was the name again, you know the one whit red powersource, a giant vessel around the star. hmmm a YES phanon), and maybe even on the source of that power whit the purple power, the shroud master

  • @phaeronmd2416
    @phaeronmd2416 6 місяців тому +137

    Other species: Exploring the Galaxy
    Birch bros: You guys explored your homeworld?

    • @MBunn-uf1we
      @MBunn-uf1we 5 місяців тому +18

      very "We'd rather go to space than explore the depths of the ocean."

    • @machematix
      @machematix 2 місяці тому +4

      ​@@MBunn-uf1weyeah but in this case just one rock pool is the size of Jupiter

  • @wanderingdoc5229
    @wanderingdoc5229 7 місяців тому +116

    I just love the way these video starts every time I hear “My Lords.” I know I’m in for some quality content keep it up Red

  • @MoonMorningstar
    @MoonMorningstar 7 місяців тому +213

    The fun challenge is conquering the galaxy and placing EVERY species on this thing as a Authoritarian Xenophile :3

    • @ecogreen123
      @ecogreen123 7 місяців тому +30

      i love to play the rouge service matrix flavor of this concept but i love the way that sounds.

    • @Sundablakr
      @Sundablakr 6 місяців тому +14

      @@ecogreen123 Pampering is mandatory, you will enjoy this.

    • @ecogreen123
      @ecogreen123 6 місяців тому +4

      @@Sundablakr indeed

    • @Ne0c225
      @Ne0c225 6 місяців тому +10

      The greatest challenge would be completing the game with all those pops slowing the game down. 🤣🤣

    • @Aureonw
      @Aureonw 5 місяців тому +6

      @@Ne0c225 Unironically, clamping all pops into a single planet makes the game less laggier

  • @Ace-lp1rf
    @Ace-lp1rf 7 місяців тому +124

    Just lost to the stellarborne in my first ACOT play through. The last of my empire transmitted a universe-wide message to warn others of them and to never open those gates.

    • @RavAlexy
      @RavAlexy 7 місяців тому +7

      The gate dwellers are to powerful for anyone to stop

    • @thorshammer7883
      @thorshammer7883 7 місяців тому +12

      Could a Quasarcraft surffice enough? I seen some videos when one can easily defeat a Stellarborne fleet when some youtubers combined the mods together.

    • @RavAlexy
      @RavAlexy 7 місяців тому +13

      @@thorshammer7883 That might be the only thing I would consider overkill for the Stellarborne. Expect a full sized Herculean

    • @nadirmaalem
      @nadirmaalem 7 місяців тому +2

      @@RavAlexy a what now?

    • @PrethorynPete
      @PrethorynPete 7 місяців тому +3

      Just spam warbarges and phanon ships

  • @Cranberrie123
    @Cranberrie123 7 місяців тому +126

    "and then they all fucking died. The End."

    • @valjamin8456
      @valjamin8456 6 місяців тому +20

      At least they died using the economic might of their Birch to destroy the Blokkat Harvesting Fleet that attacked their galaxy. Their people died as heroes.

  • @spluff5
    @spluff5 6 місяців тому +74

    A Birch World would only have to be 1 ly in radius to have a 1 g surface if it was built around an artificial hypermassive black hole, one that was built by collapsing every star in a galaxy into it.

  • @bearnaff9387
    @bearnaff9387 6 місяців тому +35

    A sphere .5 ly in diameter would apparently have the same surface area as 53 quadrillion Earth-sized planets. And that is _surface_ area, not land area. It would take light 1.5 earth years to travel around the surface of this sphere in a vacuum. I cannot imagine that they are the only sentient species within a couple of centuries travel ate pre-industrial speeds.

    • @cewla3348
      @cewla3348 4 місяці тому +10

      they literally meet other sapients in, like, 5 minutes of the video

  • @PandorasFolly
    @PandorasFolly 7 місяців тому +19

    Reminds me of two scifi stories
    Ring world of course, but in particular the ringworms itself. On the ringworld were several great counterbalance oceans. In one of the oceans for giggles the creators had placed copies of the home world of basically every major life bearing world in the local area of space as they found them looong ago. This included earth and the Kzin homeworld, though earth was inhabited by honor erectus I think. The Kzin fulfilled the species dream of conquering earth by sailing huge ships to Earth's copy. A distance several times the distance from earth to our moon.

  • @azeria1
    @azeria1 7 місяців тому +32

    The new dlc coming will give you lots of lore to go over cosmogenis is super cool

    • @TheRedKing
      @TheRedKing  7 місяців тому +6

      I am going to be very busy!!

  • @thorshammer7883
    @thorshammer7883 7 місяців тому +85

    Had to re-watch this twice to properly understand the storyline. If you think about it a Birch World at it's maximum capacity would be able to produce, manufacture, have access to more resources from a Super Black hole plus a massive industrial output more then all the Imperium of Man's million worlds and the Galactic Empire from Isaac Asimov's Foundation series 25 million worlds combined.
    A Birch World is so massive it may rival even the Forerunner's feats and largest structures they made within slipspace instead of real space. Such as the Forerunner Shield World 006 Trevelyan with is 2 AU in diameter however it doesn't have as much layer depth like the Birch world does and is mainly hollow. Though I did hear discussions about 11th dimensional scaling but due to Halo's interdimensional cosmology being it's own I don't know how accurate that claim is.

    • @TheRedKing
      @TheRedKing  7 місяців тому +25

      It's levels of large its basically unquantifiable I feel, the numbers are just crazy

    • @carlosdgutierrez6570
      @carlosdgutierrez6570 7 місяців тому +30

      Not, a Birch world has a diameter of 1 light-year, a forerunner shield world only 1AU or under 9 light minutes.
      A Birch world completely dwarfs any forerunner construct and all of them combined.
      The only thing that comes closer is the city of Comorragh in the web way of Warhammer for which the dark Eldars need to steal several stars to light up and even it would fall short.

    • @areth2228
      @areth2228 6 місяців тому +2

      @@carlosdgutierrez6570 How do you steal a star let alone several of the them?

    • @carlosdgutierrez6570
      @carlosdgutierrez6570 6 місяців тому +7

      @@areth2228 in the same way that the Imperium of Man move planets around the galaxy, using enormous warp engines to fully transit a planet to a new location.
      The difference is that the dark Eldars use humongous web way gates and gravity manipulation to move the star in the desired direction.

    • @0326jlc
      @0326jlc 6 місяців тому +4

      You don’t need any sort of warp travel to move a star. All you need is an array of mirrors called a Shkadov Thrusters The star will move itself.

  • @Stevie-J
    @Stevie-J 6 місяців тому +12

    First time I've seen someone besides Isaac Arthur mention a birch world. Awesome! 😄

  • @E3_Kruger
    @E3_Kruger 6 місяців тому +34

    I've never played stellaris, but I am an avid scifi reader and writer (just for fun, never published anything) This is genuinely a great concept, and I really enjoyed the narration. Thank you for your retelling of this bit of lore, I really enjoyed it.

    • @TheRedKing
      @TheRedKing  6 місяців тому +1

      Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @thomasator1139
    @thomasator1139 7 місяців тому +46

    Currently a little sick and your videos are so relaxing that I wanna fall asleep to them but too interesting so I wanna stay up and listen. Please help

    • @TheRedKing
      @TheRedKing  7 місяців тому +5

      Hope you feel better soon!

  • @rufussinijas
    @rufussinijas 6 місяців тому +12

    Really love your way of story tellling! This one had a "backrooms" vibe to it, with all those layers. Was really depressing to hear them fall to the blokk menace 😒

  • @needingmorepatience
    @needingmorepatience 5 місяців тому +4

    Sheesh, didn't know Blame!'s prequel would be a footnote in stellaris

  • @casartherandom3010
    @casartherandom3010 7 місяців тому +22

    Love these videos! You make some of the super long drives I have to do on occasion so much more bearable and make the game even more fun! Thank you so much!

    • @TheRedKing
      @TheRedKing  7 місяців тому +6

      Glad to hear it! Enjoy the road trips

  • @camera_man115
    @camera_man115 7 місяців тому +25

    The more I see stuff from the giga structure mod the more I wish I had a pc and wasn’t on console

    • @TheRedKing
      @TheRedKing  7 місяців тому +5

      Mods are a wonderful addition to the game, and Giga is certainly up there!

    • @davidstar2686
      @davidstar2686 7 місяців тому +3

      Yeah that's fair

    • @camera_man115
      @camera_man115 7 місяців тому +3

      @@TheRedKing dam right it is you can turn the centre of the universe into a big cannon come on that’s bad arse

  • @ditlev5154
    @ditlev5154 7 місяців тому +17

    hell yeah, just played this origin as well, top tier timing

  • @lite4998
    @lite4998 7 місяців тому +15

    This is my favorite origin from the Gigastructures mod! It's just a pity that with the recent tech rework it's really hard to progress with the exploration...

    • @jamesallen1563
      @jamesallen1563 7 місяців тому +1

      How is that?

    • @lite4998
      @lite4998 7 місяців тому +7

      @@jamesallen1563 The scaling research cost for every researched tech and the much more severe empire sprawl mean that it will take you on average 40-50 more years to get to megaengineering... And about 100 more years to get to tetradimensional engineering.

    • @TheRedKing
      @TheRedKing  7 місяців тому +5

      I turn the scaling down to 0.5 these days tbh, I used to play on .75 anyway

    • @mharizsaifuddin7059
      @mharizsaifuddin7059 7 місяців тому +1

      @@TheRedKing Does it make it slower or faster ?

    • @TheRedKing
      @TheRedKing  7 місяців тому +2

      @@mharizsaifuddin7059 lower number = faster

  • @michaelchance6125
    @michaelchance6125 7 місяців тому +13

    Gotta love Stellaris Mods Lore. But I'm too deep (all DLC!) on console so unfortunately no mod for me. :'(

    • @Lunam_D._Roger
      @Lunam_D._Roger 3 місяці тому

      To be fair at that point just pirate it on PC you've already paid for it on console anyway

  • @UCannotDefeatMyShmeat
    @UCannotDefeatMyShmeat 7 місяців тому +5

    The amount of materials needed to build this is almost beyond your imagination

    • @lord0fmemes266
      @lord0fmemes266 6 місяців тому +1

      For real, an empire with probably an entire galaxy or at most a few galaxies worth of raw material. A truly unquantifiable number.

    • @0326jlc
      @0326jlc 6 місяців тому +1

      Starlifting.

  • @bgcvetan
    @bgcvetan 7 місяців тому +16

    Our bone boy never fails to impress.

  • @galomir833
    @galomir833 7 місяців тому +5

    i just have one issu whit hte last sentence, "block like alien" meaning it mostlikely the blockcat, and the birch woudn't be standing, it would have been consume
    out of that really nice video

    • @TheRedKing
      @TheRedKing  7 місяців тому +2

      The Blockats *can* lose though!! Glad you enjoyed it

    • @galomir833
      @galomir833 7 місяців тому

      @@TheRedKing true, but the way you said thing was like the entire galaxy got destroyed, and nobody could maintain the birch (which wouldn't have happen if at laest 1 empire was still alive), after it just me and my ussual misendesstanding of thing :)

    • @cewla3348
      @cewla3348 4 місяці тому +1

      @@galomir833 blokkats destroy all other empires -> birch having kills blokkats -> birch having collapses in on itself

    • @galomir833
      @galomir833 4 місяці тому

      @@cewla3348 still need someone to kill the cat before dying out themself, but yes could work (even if the birch have high chance of tanking for a REALLY long time the black hole)

    • @revendax2584
      @revendax2584 28 днів тому

      @@cewla3348 this is what I assumed happened. Basically they beat the blokkats but the overall loses and damage across the builders empire caused a complete collapse of their society. As a result, no one was left to watch over the birch and over time like most things it slowly breaks down.

  • @PJOZeus
    @PJOZeus 3 місяці тому +1

    This is my favourite video on the channel, its not like the others, appreciate the story, its something nice to just turn off and listen to
    Enjoy a good part of the storytelling but also the civilisational development and industry

  • @WildZander506
    @WildZander506 7 місяців тому +10

    Love the videos man! Keep up the great work.

    • @TheRedKing
      @TheRedKing  7 місяців тому +3

      Thank you! Lots of exciting stuff coming, keep an eye out

  • @kinexxona06
    @kinexxona06 7 місяців тому +6

    The origin itself is very similar to a Jules Verne book going to the center of the earth

  • @UnbidenONE
    @UnbidenONE 7 місяців тому +3

    Great video , I love gigastructure engineering mod lore, they are like the expansion story of Stellaris, althought it was mod.

  • @Sundablakr
    @Sundablakr 6 місяців тому +4

    Since this was discovered after the invasion of the Blokkats - and the galactic defenders evidently failed, wouldn't that mean every star in this galaxy is dead/gone and the Birch World and black holes are basically the only thing left? Where did the ones who discovered this story come from?

    • @TheRedKing
      @TheRedKing  6 місяців тому +7

      It could mean the Birch World was destroyed, but the galaxy didn't necessarily lose.

  • @iloveemeralds4622
    @iloveemeralds4622 7 місяців тому +6

    You should release the audio as a podcast like Isaac Arthur

    • @TheRedKing
      @TheRedKing  7 місяців тому +2

      On UA-cam, or another platform?

    • @warcat7156
      @warcat7156 7 місяців тому +1

      ​@@TheRedKingSpotify

  • @retchie7355
    @retchie7355 6 місяців тому +3

    The birch world origin is top notch story telling and it really sparks curiocity. The immense scale and time we are dealing with is incredible, how civilizations upon civilizations was born and wiped out over so meny millenia on a simple shell of a birch world. The structure is a universe in itself.
    Its not really a balanced origin but its very entertaining :)

    • @pride2184
      @pride2184 2 місяці тому

      Should be way stronger as just the size would be larger then any other empire could ever hope if it was fully utilize.

  • @chronicdonut7946
    @chronicdonut7946 3 місяці тому +1

    I misread "Birch" with T instead of the R and I was like "Woah!"

  • @mitchellgurney4390
    @mitchellgurney4390 7 місяців тому +4

    Nice , more lore to listen too and sleep too

  • @stronglow3064
    @stronglow3064 Місяць тому

    Сфера Дайсона, построенная вокруг чёрной дыры - это Мир Бирча. Совсем иной тип астроинженерных сооружений.

  • @daltonthompson7111
    @daltonthompson7111 6 місяців тому +1

    A banger I can't get enough of.

  • @sunkruhmhalaci2592
    @sunkruhmhalaci2592 12 годин тому +1

    It's unfortunate that the writers had such a poor understanding of black holes. The distances they described with regards to the black hole would put the collection equipment layer deep within the ergosphere, where nothing, not even light, can stay stationary relative to the black hole (it's not the event horizon, since things can still escape, but nothing can move fast enough against the frame drag to not get twisted around with it). Due to the structure being so large, and even assuming stellaris space magic let things stay intact, this would result in a fairly significant time dilation effect on lower layers compared to the upper layers. They did nothing with this at all. Nor did they do anything with the concept of gravity gradients. Effectively, they treated it like a very normal large structure, albeit one that was much more easily traversable than should be.

  • @Lindorm482
    @Lindorm482 7 місяців тому +4

    Great video as always

    • @TheRedKing
      @TheRedKing  7 місяців тому +1

      Glad you enjoyed it!

    • @Lindorm482
      @Lindorm482 7 місяців тому +1

      @@TheRedKing I always do. Sometimes when I play I skip ALOT of the story stuff because im seen it all over and over so much. I end up missing something new. so its nice to see lore vids i can catchup on.

  • @vamadgaming6424
    @vamadgaming6424 7 місяців тому +4

    FINALY you did this.

  • @Lord_Retrospect
    @Lord_Retrospect 6 місяців тому +1

    Just finished Matter by Iain M Banks again

  • @pathfindersavant3988
    @pathfindersavant3988 5 місяців тому +1

    But how would constructing a Birchworld affect the trout populations on Ivampa Prime?

  • @opalglass8101
    @opalglass8101 6 місяців тому +1

    Talk about a gut punch, their fate lol

  • @Twist-The-Friendly-Hunter
    @Twist-The-Friendly-Hunter 2 місяці тому

    If i was apart of the ninth expidetion and looked into the black hole...
    That black hole would gain wome more mass... from my back end in the form of bricks.
    They terrify me.

  • @NewbofDooooom
    @NewbofDooooom 6 місяців тому +1

    Pretty video

  • @fawkes.6820
    @fawkes.6820 5 місяців тому +1

    Dammit i asked for you to do this and I missed due to college work...but well its still great though and thanks for doing it

    • @TheRedKing
      @TheRedKing  5 місяців тому

      Hope you enjoyed it 😊

  • @Anom_Anom
    @Anom_Anom 7 місяців тому +3

    Rogue Servitor When?

  • @AgentKrypton_36
    @AgentKrypton_36 6 місяців тому +2

    How long can the imperium of man survive in stellaris?

    • @TheRedKing
      @TheRedKing  6 місяців тому +2

      With Big E leading them? They will dominate the galaxy!

    • @AgentKrypton_36
      @AgentKrypton_36 6 місяців тому

      Just wait until the imperium hears about planet cracking technology...

    • @pride2184
      @pride2184 2 місяці тому

      How dare you question the god emperor power 😂

  • @ОлегЮрченко-ы6ч
    @ОлегЮрченко-ы6ч 6 місяців тому

    I have a bug woth gigamod and UI dynamic overhaul. Planet UI is not modded. It's from vanilla. Did I miss any setting?

  • @Kirovslaya
    @Kirovslaya 5 місяців тому +1

    Nice

  • @LilacMage
    @LilacMage 6 місяців тому +1

    What was that artificial/robot voice? At 19:34 ish.
    This some channel lore, A.R.G, or just wonky audio?

    • @TheRedKing
      @TheRedKing  6 місяців тому

      Nothing sounds off/different to me?

  • @skepticalmagos_101
    @skepticalmagos_101 7 місяців тому +1

  • @ezequielmorales4221
    @ezequielmorales4221 6 місяців тому

    So. No birches?

  • @Fuxy22
    @Fuxy22 6 місяців тому

    That's really not an efficient way of using resources by redirecting it all to your home world... the wierder thing is this automated system failed to the point of not being able to maintain itself... there should have been many contingency systems yet none of them kicked in...

  • @TheContingency25x
    @TheContingency25x 7 місяців тому +4

    Hell yeah, birch. Not as great as a magnificent Ringworld however.

  • @DisgaeMi
    @DisgaeMi 6 місяців тому +1

    Sadly this mod is outdated atm

    • @TheRedKing
      @TheRedKing  6 місяців тому +1

      I'm sure they'll update it, DLCs been out under a week

    • @Alfha_Robby
      @Alfha_Robby 4 місяці тому

      It's been updated already

  • @Imbapiranha
    @Imbapiranha 7 місяців тому +4

    Sorry, but did you record this in a bathtub? Something is way off in the recording.

    • @TheRedKing
      @TheRedKing  7 місяців тому +5

      Can confirm i did not record in a bathtub, it seems fine to me?

    • @YuriXEstelle
      @YuriXEstelle 7 місяців тому +1

      Your voice changes at the @20:00.​ @@TheRedKing

    • @TheRedKing
      @TheRedKing  7 місяців тому +2

      @@YuriXEstelle Yeah, that sadly was due to a mis-record of those few seconds so I had to redo it. Oddly the time of day I record appears to affect my voice and it's hard to get them to match up.