I want to be a Xenophobic Isolationist.

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Haldan

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What do you want to accomplish with your game?
 

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What Traits, Ethos and Government would I go for to best emulate such a species?
Just spitballing here, but I'm thinking fanatic xenophile.

In all seriousness the only necessary ethos for that build is xenophobic, everything else is fair game. An isolationist empire could be militaristic to ensure they can enforce their borders, they could be materialistic because they just want to be left alone to explore the scientific mysteries of the universe, they could be spiritualists that believe their worlds to be incredibly holy and therefore must not be sullied by alien presence.

Same goes for governments. The US was an isolationist democracy for a long time. North Korea is currently an isolationist dictatorship. Do whatever sounds fun.
 
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Repugnant - People won't want to live with you. Suits you fine.
Adaptive - So you don't need other races to settle on a wide variety of planets
Rapid Breeders - fill up planets without any Aliens
 
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Repugnant - People won't want to live with you. Suits you fine.
Adaptive - So you don't need other races to settle on a wide
Rapid Breeders - fill up planets without any Aliens
Good traits. For Ethos, I would say either:
Fanatic Xenophobe
Materialist

or

Xenophobe
Militarist
Materialist

Individualist also works instead of Militarist. Materialist is a good way of ensuring you have a good tech output with a large population from rapid breeders, and better tech means better ships and army to keep enemies at bay (hence why militarist is an alternative).

Government form? I would say Indirect Democracy. You get more core worlds, so you can focus on micromanaging them and development rather than warring or diplomacy.
 

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repugnant would be a given, unless you intend to keep a lot of alien slaves.
sedentiary might be a good idea too, unless you're going to expand a lot.

On the other end, charismatic would just be a waste.
 

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Isolationist mean peacefull/don't agressive.
So i'm going to play with peacefull/fanatic xenophobe or xenophobe + spiritual/materialist.
So you basically play peacefull without anyone. So adaptative and rapid breeder would be good choice for spreading among galaxy being isolationist/alone.
 
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