Can you invade primatives?

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There's a spot where I need a world. But these Late Medieval fellows occupy it. Can I drop a couple of assault armies on them somehow?
 

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If policies/ethics permit, yes. Just select your transports, right-click the planet, and select invade. You'll have to pay influence as you would with a colonization as well.
 
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Just select your transports, right-click the planet, and select invade.

Thanks. I was looking for a way to declare war and couldn't find it.
 

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Be warned though that invading primitives may tick off other empires, and the planet will have issues for some time. There will be a culture shock malus placed on the populace, limiting output as well as preventing them from being used in colonization. This is all in addition to the -25% happiness suffered from being conquered.
 

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Be warned though that invading primitives may tick off other empires, and the planet will have issues for some time. There will be a culture shock malus placed on the populace, limiting output as well as preventing them from being used in colonization. This is all in addition to the -25% happiness suffered from being conquered.

Not that that matters if you just wanted the planet and are planning to purge them.

Well, the 'ticking off other empires' might. It really ticks them off a LOT.
 

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Every time I see primitives during early game and I have a surplus of influence, my main reaction is "Hey a free colony". When the primitives like a different climate group they aren't even purged. I think of myself as a good guy.
 

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Every time I see primitives during early game and I have a surplus of influence, my main reaction is "Hey a free colony". When the primitives like a different climate group they aren't even purged. I think of myself as a good guy.

This, so much this. You will not believe how much a boost invading primitives gives to you. It expands your borders heaps, and you didn't have to spend that much time and energy into getting it started up. They are also so easy to invade due to there technology level.
 

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My current play-through I invaded the first primitive world I found just in order to get some slaves. They have served my Empire well now for hundreds of years as the dominant slave-species :)
 

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I tend to be Individualist/Militarist, not running slaves. Does this affect the idea of invading primitives?
 

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Every time I see primitives during early game and I have a surplus of influence, my main reaction is "Hey a free colony". When the primitives like a different climate group they aren't even purged. I think of myself as a good guy.

Even if they are the same climate group, if you use slavery, limit slave reproduction and allow resettlement, you usually can use them as farmer for your population, even if useless at everything else due to been stone/bronze age primitive slave in stellar shock.

Now that make me think, I never actually played a theocratic oligarchy.
 

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How long does the shock last?