Propose a new type of ascension - the transition to pure energy

[Anton1978]

Ascension can be improved, why are there only three? Let's add the fourth.
Let's add two bonuses:
1) Didn't come up with a name, let it be "become a ghost" - all creatures become ghostly. All icons pop, are replaced with ghostly ones. They receive a bonus to ground invasions and no longer consume food. Why do ghostly creatures need food?
2) The second stage, let it be called for example "Transition to readable energy". All pop icons are replaced with energy ones. Gives you a bonus in developing an energy and science , and the opportunity to COLONIZE STARS !!!
It makes sense that energetic beings can live on the stars. There will be no special quarters on the stars, for example one quarter can accommodate 1000 people. And let there be a lot of quarters themselves, about 50. Well, stars are bigger than planets.

It is possible to make the old empires so and let the ships be like those of the invaders from another dimension - semi transparent.

You can even go further and, at the moment of transformation into pure energy, remove all priests from the planets and resettle them to the nearest star. It will become more mysterious - he flew into the system, and there all the planets are abandoned and there is some strange activity on the star.

 

[Nexus Entity]

Ascension can be improved, why are there only three? Let's add the fourth.
Let's add two bonuses:
1) Didn't come up with a name, let it be "become a ghost" - all creatures become ghostly. All icons pop, are replaced with ghostly ones. They receive a bonus to ground invasions and no longer consume food. Why do ghostly creatures need food?
2) The second stage, let it be called for example "Transition to readable energy". All pop icons are replaced with energy ones. Gives you a bonus in developing an energy and science , and the opportunity to COLONIZE STARS !!!
It makes sense that energetic beings can live on the stars. There will be no special quarters on the stars, for example one quarter can accommodate 1000 people. And let there be a lot of quarters themselves, about 50. Well, stars are bigger than planets.

It is possible to make the old empires so and let the ships be like those of the invaders from another dimension - semi transparent.

You can even go further and, at the moment of transformation into pure energy, remove all priests from the planets and resettle them to the nearest star. It will become more mysterious - he flew into the system, and there all the planets are abandoned and there is some strange activity on the star.

Here is a mod that does this, Project Gestalt.

I like this Mod of a Celestial Body: Ancient caches of technology

There can appear fractured mutants. Equally do we have the mostly useless shroud world, it would be nice to have a way that living on such a specific planet like, fractured and shroud, follows into a change of your population, as result you could get what you ask for.

In my signature are some topics in this degree. In your example one could go over a gas giant to a star civilisation etc.
Terraforming and textures to a new detail level (v0.9.0)
Planet construction (v0.9.5)

But I think it would be more interesting to relocate planets, gas giants, build planets and finally relocate stars and later collide them to make out of two or more red dwarfs a G or K type star. So one can compress the territory you own and build defenceable star systems. Later on one could chose a star system modifier to optimise like on planets alloy production.

But planets are to important for mineral production at the moment. I would like a more stellar approach of mineral mining, like topic: Some economic suggestions

 

[WeeBigTerd101]

I like this and I also think that this should come out with an "Aberration" species pack

 

[HFY]

Your idea is good, and I'm upvoting it.

However I do want to point out that there is already a way to "transition to pure energy" in the game.

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XT-489 (pointing to Grid Amalgamator): GET IN.

 

[A2ch0n]

A state of living energy (in a kind) is something the unbidden already archieved. So maybe it's a logical third step for psionic ascension if this would be a thing one day?

 

[mial42]

Please no colonizing stars. The last thing we need is more habitable space.

 

[GOLANX]

I feel like the transition to energy would be like the Ancients from stargate, once they do it they stop caring about the physical plane and ban their members from interacting with it, would be cool if AI players could do it and their empire dissapears, allowing other empires to fill the gap

 

[Colonizor48]

Just make this the 3rd phase of psionic ascension.