So has Paradox ever addressed this? Like if they'll ever expand on this with DLC or something? Please don't "blue ball" folks like Sins of a Solar Empire did. Pay off the tease, I beg you paradox.
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So has Paradox ever addressed this? Like if they'll ever expand on this with DLC or something? Please don't "blue ball" folks like Sins of a Solar Empire did. Pay off the tease, I beg you paradox.
So far no, they haven't. Or at least i think they don't. More than a plot line thing that is more to justify the migration of the Prethoryn. They are based on the Tyranids of WH40.000. On the lore of that game the Tyranids are also escaping of something. As on Stellaris that something hasn't been revealed. There is another event, not a Prethoryn one, in which a scientist discovers a gravitational anomaly and following it finds a portal or tear on that originates the anomaly. When they examines it finds dark colossal towers on the intergalactic void. Those towers were making a gravitational pull to drag the Stellaris' galaxy toward them. Later the scientist reports that the anomaly has concluded and the tear has been closed, not by them. That is another event that could get some expanding, but they are either references to other series that inspired Stellaris or Stellaris 2 materiel
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So far no, they haven't. Or at least i think they don't. More than a plot line thing that is more to justify the migration of the Prethoryn. They are based on the Tyranids of WH40.000. On the lore of that game the Tyranids are also escaping of something. As on Stellaris that something hasn't been revealed. There is another event, not a Prethoryn one, in which a scientist discovers a gravitational anomaly and following it finds a portal or tear on that originates the anomaly. When they examines it finds dark colossal towers on the intergalactic void. Those towers were making a gravitational pull to drag the Stellaris' galaxy toward them. Later the scientist reports that the anomaly has concluded and the tear has been closed, not by them. That is another event that could get some expanding, but they are either references to other series that inspired Stellaris or Stellaris 2 materiel
I'm sure they are preferences, but hopefully also material that they build upon in the future. Like the "Level 30 Singularity" thing as well.
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How would that realistically happen though? That sort of stuff is so very much out of scope with the actual gameplay, that I can't really see how they could ever be connected.
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It could have been the End of the Cycle, if this event wasn't the total garbage it is in game. On a more recent scope, the class 30 singularity could be the BtC ascension with the aetherophasic engine. Btw, the engine could also explain why the galaxy vanishing in the prethoryn event did so. Each star collapse into a black hole, making it invisible.
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I don't find this particularly convincing. If the aetherophasic engine was a class 30 singularity, why doesn't the Contingency activate to stop it?
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The Contingency is clearly concerned with artificial intelligence; the Class 30 Singularity would be some kind of computer godmind. Anyone who knows the backstory of Eclipse Phase knows what I'm talking about.
The event clearly states in order for the whole galaxy to be dark, every star would have had to have vanish ALL AT ONCE. Or, something so supermassive, that it's blocking the entire galaxy from sight. The Engine only destroys 1 star at a time, so you would be able to see the galaxy get progressively darker as the light from each star progressively reached us.
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How is it out of scope, if we don't even know what those things are? they have to first be identified in order to determine that.
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Well they weren't looking at it while it was darkening. They use to see a galaxy there and now they don't. If they didn't record the time between then they will have missed their opportunity to ever know what happened (excet time travel which is in game).
It only take a few in game years to pop the whole galaxy as a crisis.
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Eh? No, the engine turns the whole galaxy into black holes at once when it is finished.
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Because Contingency was released before Nemesis
The thing is, there is no real consistent lore in Vanilla, so anyone can connect things together as they see fit. The Hunters thing and the hole in the void are just a copy paste from 40K tyrannids with no real aftertought. With some console commands tricks, you can make the Contigency fire once you build the aetherophasic engine, abd you have your class 30 singularity
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I could also make it fire once I renamed a colony "Class 30 Singularity" but that doesn't make it make any more sense.
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There mysteries are there in the game to fuel speculation, wonder and a feel of mystery. Explaining everything away kills that feeling.
Stellaris has plenty of mysteries that one can encounter that never get explained. It's part of building an impression that the universe is grander than what we know. Some mysteries get elaborated on later (e.g. Cybrex, Zro). Others are left to be forever unknown (how the heck the scientific buoy got kidnapped for ransom by a fleet of aliens from a race that does not exist anywhere in the galaxy?).
Stellaris has plenty of mysteries that one can encounter that never get explained. It's part of building an impression that the universe is grander than what we know. Some mysteries get elaborated on later (e.g. Cybrex, Zro). Others are left to be forever unknown (how the heck the scientific buoy got kidnapped for ransom by a fleet of aliens from a race that does not exist anywhere in the galaxy?).
Plenty of things make no sense. Like when you meet that alien science ship that gets duplicated. The aliens on it don't belong to any species present in the galaxy. Where did they come from?
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Indeed, lots of people in here presuming to have the answers to very unknowable topics. Oh well, human nature I suppose.
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Wait, what? I feel like you think the game world somehow assume that the game world exists outside the imagination of the game developers and players.
There is nothing to identify or determine here. The galaxy you are playing in isn't real. There is no way to investigate it.
There is no "grand design" that someone spend 50 years writing before Stellaris was released. If the devs choose to add something they will, if they don't they won't.
It's all made up on the fly as design teams change. There is like a third team by now. Each one with their own ideas. The first team specifically did not want to include any set backstory to the galaxy beside the precursors. It was the second team that started to add stuff based on hints left by the first, but they added their own staff, not parts of the "grand design".
It may come as a shock, but the makers of LOST did not have a "grand design" when they released Season 1 either. When The Force Awakens was released they did not have any concrete idea what to do with the characters.
The only case where this kind of thing exists is Game of Thrones, as the book's author had an idea of where he wants the story to go, before the series was made.
This is another case of something that was deliberately vague, so that the players may interpret is as they see fit.
There is no "grand design". There is no 60-pages long backstory that a hired writer made for the "Class 30 singularity".
It is a vague term that the players may interpret as any of the atrocities they can unleash or see unleashed on the galaxy or even as something that is never meant to happen, because Contingency is mad and is speaking nonsense.
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Pretty sure someone had asked that in a Question and answers session and from what i remember blue ball it is.
So has Paradox ever addressed this? Like if they'll ever expand on this with DLC or something? Please don't "blue ball" folks like Sins of a Solar Empire did. Pay off the tease, I beg you paradox.
You are wrong on that part, the star eaters detonate one star at a time but once the engine is done every star explodes at the same time. So yes it could be a possiblity but the prethoryn mentioned they have been chased for eons. I dont see what an "asceneded" race would want with the prethoryn to chase them so much.
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It's also a loose thread that the devs can use if ever in the future they choose to add "post-endgame" crisis.
But wouldn't an event that blacks out a galaxy 30 million light years away have happened 30 million years ago anyway?
So it'd be ancient history by the time the event fires in the game.
So it'd be ancient history by the time the event fires in the game.