In my current game, I've discovered two annoying anti-establishment factions. My ethos are egalitarian/xenophile/materialist. With technocracy and free haven as my civics, I've styled my empire as a science directorate. The empire itself was randomly generated but slightly modified.
I'm now in mid-game, about 2330, and two factions have appeared: The Peaceful Progress Party and the Non-Interventionist Party. When they first appeared, I ignored them. My empire is huge, the largest on a large system almost exclusively obtained peacefully. Lucky placement on the map.
This is only relevant because I'm bordered on two sides by Fanatic Purifiers. I admit I was secretly thrilled when this happened. Over the last 100 years or so, they've baited me pretty regularly. I've rivaled both of them after they rivaled me. But that was a long time ago.
Finally, one declared war on the other and I decided to step in and grow my empire. I took a large chunk of one of their empires, including a single small planet.
Obviously, the original inhabitants of that planet are not happy. To make that situation worse, the previous government had colonized them onto a planet that gives them a -40% happiness malus.
But now the two factions above are also unhappy. They're small, constituting on 20% and 7% of my inhabitants respectively. But I want to deal with the problem in a semi-peaceful way if I can.
I've read everything I could find on ways to control governing ethics attraction, but I'm not even sure this would help. Moreover, I just took my second ascension perk and won't get another one for a long, long time - so that route is out.
So here's my summary, and I'm looking for advice on how to handle this:
1. Dealing with the Fanatic Purifiers generally: I could ignore them. I'm big enough they'll never attack me. But they might attack someone else and all those systems will go to them. It would give me a great edge if I could pick them apart myself. I'm justifying my moral decision because they're a threat (and it has nothing to do with not having to make claims.
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2. The ethos of a conquered people. Yes, they will hate me. I wouldn't expect less. But is it worth trying to change their ethos by using governing ethics attraction?
3. Living in peace with my own people: We're a science directorate. We don't have the ethics strength of spiritualism. Is there a way, with my ethos, that I can control this situation - and by control, I mean attract them to my larger, happier factions.
I read through the factions screens, but I'm not sure how, specifically, to attract pops to my core ethos. I know I can grab the perk eventually, but I've read it's not worth it. What's the best way to do this?
Thanks for your help.
Edit: This game is played in version 2.1.3 of Stellaris.
I'm now in mid-game, about 2330, and two factions have appeared: The Peaceful Progress Party and the Non-Interventionist Party. When they first appeared, I ignored them. My empire is huge, the largest on a large system almost exclusively obtained peacefully. Lucky placement on the map.
This is only relevant because I'm bordered on two sides by Fanatic Purifiers. I admit I was secretly thrilled when this happened. Over the last 100 years or so, they've baited me pretty regularly. I've rivaled both of them after they rivaled me. But that was a long time ago.
Finally, one declared war on the other and I decided to step in and grow my empire. I took a large chunk of one of their empires, including a single small planet.
Obviously, the original inhabitants of that planet are not happy. To make that situation worse, the previous government had colonized them onto a planet that gives them a -40% happiness malus.
But now the two factions above are also unhappy. They're small, constituting on 20% and 7% of my inhabitants respectively. But I want to deal with the problem in a semi-peaceful way if I can.
I've read everything I could find on ways to control governing ethics attraction, but I'm not even sure this would help. Moreover, I just took my second ascension perk and won't get another one for a long, long time - so that route is out.
So here's my summary, and I'm looking for advice on how to handle this:
1. Dealing with the Fanatic Purifiers generally: I could ignore them. I'm big enough they'll never attack me. But they might attack someone else and all those systems will go to them. It would give me a great edge if I could pick them apart myself. I'm justifying my moral decision because they're a threat (and it has nothing to do with not having to make claims.
).2. The ethos of a conquered people. Yes, they will hate me. I wouldn't expect less. But is it worth trying to change their ethos by using governing ethics attraction?
3. Living in peace with my own people: We're a science directorate. We don't have the ethics strength of spiritualism. Is there a way, with my ethos, that I can control this situation - and by control, I mean attract them to my larger, happier factions.
I read through the factions screens, but I'm not sure how, specifically, to attract pops to my core ethos. I know I can grab the perk eventually, but I've read it's not worth it. What's the best way to do this?
Thanks for your help.
Edit: This game is played in version 2.1.3 of Stellaris.
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