Horizon Signal - Is anything good going to come out of this?

[Marcus]

So far I have been feeding it leaders into a Black hole, which led to my Admiral killing his older self (ok....) then stopped my scientist from turning the population into reverse ethos Psilons, stopped a primitive cult worshiping it and my last colony went from strange to weirder with extra pops showing up, only to be taken clean off the face of the planet (I would say Orz-style, but even those guys had the decency to leave the nuked-out cities of the civilization they abducted behind).

Is today's lesson 'Don't trust the Evil Voices coming from Black Holes' ?

 

[Sibericus]

Trust in the Worm.

WHAT WAS SHALL BE WHAT SHALL BE WAS.

 

[henzington]

You get tomb world preference which lets you colonize every world.

 

[PalmettoExplorer14]

So far I have been feeding it leaders into a Black hole, which led to my Admiral killing his older self (ok....) then stopped my scientist from turning the population into reverse ethos Psilons, stopped a primitive cult worshiping it and my last colony went from strange to weirder with extra pops showing up, only to be taken clean off the face of the planet (I would say Orz-style, but even those guys had the decency to leave the nuked-out cities of the civilization they abducted behind).

Is today's lesson 'Don't trust the Evil Voices coming from Black Holes' ?

Yes that is the correct lesson! I've never had the event pop up for me, but DO NOT TRUST THE WORM!

I wish they would give us a chance to kill the Worm!

But if you have a previous save, then load it before it's too late!

 

[Sibericus]

Yes that is the correct lesson! I've never had the event pop up for me, but DO NOT TRUST THE WORM!

I wish they would give us a chance to kill the Worm!

But if you have a previous save, then load it before it's too late!

You have to follow the questline to the end to kill the Worm. Your own fault if you aren't willing to sacrifice your own people for the greater good.

 

[Riftwalker]

just sail a spaceship into it.

 

[Seon]

Worm is Love. Worm is Life.

It'll be dark, where your race is headed, but fear not. You do not need eyes to see where you are headed.

Believe in the Worm. Trust in the Worm. What was, Shall Be Again.

All those who believe otherwise are enemies.

 

[Slynx]

WHAT WAS SHALL BE WHAT SHALL BE WAS

 

[TwiceAHuman]

So far I have been feeding it leaders into a Black hole, which led to my Admiral killing his older self (ok....) then stopped my scientist from turning the population into reverse ethos Psilons, stopped a primitive cult worshiping it and my last colony went from strange to weirder with extra pops showing up, only to be taken clean off the face of the planet (I would say Orz-style, but even those guys had the decency to leave the nuked-out cities of the civilization they abducted behind).

Is today's lesson 'Don't trust the Evil Voices coming from Black Holes' ?

What's the purpose of trying to pursuit this storyline if you actively sabotage it yourself? Doesn't make sense.

 

[TwiceAHuman]

Also it does give you many boons such as habitability everywhere. Maybe in exchange for your soul but hey, considering your purge inclination it's not like you had one to begin with.

 

[Marcus]

What's the purpose of trying to pursuit this storyline if you actively sabotage it yourself? Doesn't make sense.

If by 'active sabotage' you mean keeping 75% of my Leaders alive and not starting a civil war between my mutated homeworld species and the rest of my empire, then yes, I am trying to preserve my empire (Commonwealth of Man, trust no Xenos or Black Hole Dark Voices) via 'sabotage'.

 

[Slynx]

I am trying to preserve my empire (Commonwealth of Man, trust no Xenos or Black Hole Dark Voices) via 'sabotage'.

but...it loves you
how can you be so cruel?

 

[Augustus93]

Don't be stupid, be a smarty. Come and join the blackhole party! The worm loves you, embrace it!

 

[Marcus]

Also it does give you many boons such as habitability everywhere. Maybe in exchange for your soul but hey, considering your purge inclination it's not like you had one to begin with.

I didn't have to purge, just ragequit when my homeworld turned reverse ethos psilon. Then beat the worm at his own game of messing with the time-space continuum and re-loaded an old save game. Take that, Ancient Old Evil Space God That Lives In A Black Hole And Writes Bad Poetry.

 

[TwiceAHuman]

If by 'active sabotage' you mean keeping 75% of my Leaders alive and not starting a civil war between my mutated homeworld species and the rest of my empire, then yes, I am trying to preserve my empire (Commonwealth of Man, trust no Xenos or Black Hole Dark Voices) via 'sabotage'.

You only need to feed it 3 leaders and said 'mutated' species (which are lore-wise your ancestors, actually) are superior to your core population. The anomaly planet has many boons and the only downside is that it probably needs an exorcism (who cares). Ethics thing is messy, but can be dealt with in time if you focus on suppressing heresy. I just don't get why you would go this far only to ruin it for yourself later.

 

[TwiceAHuman]

I didn't have to purge, just ragequit when my homeworld turned reverse ethos psilon. Then beat the worm at his own game of messing with the time-space continuum and re-loaded an old save game. Take that, Ancient Old Evil Space God That Lives In A Black Hole And Writes Bad Poetry.

It's not bad poetry, it's just rap. Also it's not evil.

 

[TwiceAHuman]

Seriously though, all memes and bs aside, you can sell your soul and get ultimate power. It's as simple as that.

 

[Wolfgang I]

The loop Institute is a great building especially if you have an empire without collectivist, spiritualist or fanatic individualist and ethics divergence is kicking your behind.

The tomb world event can be rather powerful I once got 7 more planets(3 of them 25 tiles) from it. That's rather good and on small maps with a low number of habitable planets it's insanely good. Even on huge maps more planets in a core system are always good(unless you use a mod with more core planets).

 

[WandererRTF]

You can play along the chain and just take the tomb world preference adjustment alongside with Loop institutes and such but avoid any sort of mutated species or ethos changes. Just 'sanitize' the scientist instead of allowing research to the adjusted species to continue.

 

[Malecord]

What I think you did not understood about this storyline is that you are supposed to be manipulated.

It's not like you purposely surrendering your race and whole civilization to an ancient extra dimensional being. The worm is exercising some "soft" mind control on your pops and your leader (the player).

Every time the quest line offers you a choice you can either decide that your leader falls to the worm influence or retains some "sanity" and fights back.

That to say that yes: you're playing xenophobe empire and you are normally supposed to be suspicious when not hostile to entities like the worm. Normally: in this quest you're not "free". The worm is trying to "soft mind control you" ("it loves you") so you only decide if it succeeds or not.

As for what happens whatever you choose you don't lose the game. And yeah: following the worm will only incur into losses in the early steps. Especially because we don't have yet Banks faction system yet. However if you reach the end you also get advantages. The worm is more a symbiont than a parasite and accepting it will result in some enhancements as well.

Assuming you're playing single player, it's your call if this is what you like to happen in your story.