Playing CoM: Can Earth be Anything Other Than the UNE?

[CrusaderJoe]

Haven't played this game for awhile and I was wondering if Earth can spawn as anything other than the UNE if I pick the CoM? For example, could it be a tomb world, a primitive world (maybe post-apocalyptic but not devoid of life), Custodian, etc? Thanks in advance for any answers.

 

[Quinzal]

The Lost Colony origin guarantees that your actual homeworld is always an Advanced Empire, though it will have random ethics.

Additionally, the wiki states:

• If the Lost Colony spieces uses the Human portrait, the randomized Advanced Empire will be created on Earth.
• If playing the Commonwealth of Man or a Lost Colony edited from the Commonwealth of Man preset, the Advanced Empire will always be the United Nations of Earth.
• If the Advanced Empire should spawn on Earth, but the Sol System is already used by a different Empire, it will not be generated.

that's not my typo, the wiki spells it spieces​

So, if you're CoM, then your daddy will always be UNE, unless in the rare case another empire already took the real estate.

 

[CrusaderJoe]

The Lost Colony origin guarantees that your actual homeworld is always an Advanced Empire, though it will have random ethics.

Additionally, the wiki states:

that's not my typo, the wiki spells it spieces​

So, if you're CoM, then your daddy will always be UNE, unless in the rare case another empire already took the real estate.

Ah, Thanks!

I doubt they'd do it since this game has been out for some time but I think it would be interesting if they had more options for UNE/CoM interactions. Like if each had the chance to spawn as a tomb world and then you figure out what went wrong in your homeworld/colony through an event chain, etc. etc.