Primary species rebellion question

[Sinister2202]

I have a question. If a primary species secede from your empire after revolting, and player conquers them, would the game consider them as aliens? I've noticed that this game, just because a species have same name and portrait, doesn't consider them as same species if they started from 2 different empires.

 

[Tatterhood]

They'll be considered the same species. The game is able to keep track of that. (Probably it has an internal ID number for each species, or something of the sort.)

Also, even if name and portrait isn't enough, it is possible to have two starting empires that the game considers the same species. Most easily tested with the two default human empires, but it's not restricted to them. In the starfish stream the game is definitely able to tell that Wiz and Cknoor are playing as the same species. (At one point Wiz noticed that his pops were becoming xenophobic because a foreign empire was oppressing starfish...namely, Cknoor was oppressing his own pops.)

 

[Sinister2202]

They'll be considered the same species. The game is able to keep track of that. (Probably it has an internal ID number for each species, or something of the sort.)

Also, even if name and portrait isn't enough, it is possible to have two starting empires that the game considers the same species. Most easily tested with the two default human empires, but it's not restricted to them. In the starfish stream the game is definitely able to tell that Wiz and Cknoor are playing as the same species. (At one point Wiz noticed that his pops were becoming xenophobic because a foreign empire was oppressing starfish...namely, Cknoor was oppressing his own pops.)

Thank you. How do I go about making same species? Do I need to modify some files to do that?

 

[Riftwalker]

portrait, name, and traits.

Had a custom human empire get recognized as human by the xenophobic human default empire that spawned. Told me "you are human, but clearly have been influenced by the xeno" or something like that.