Confirmed Stellaris - Pre-sapients being purged despite policy being set to "Protected" (3.8.1 [cdec])

[Dr Pippy]

Description
Pre-sapients being purged despite policy being set to "Protected" (3.8.1 [cdec])

Game Version
3.8.1 [cdec]

What version do you use?
Steam

What expansions do you have installed?


Do you have mods enabled?
No

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
Playing as a driven assimilator with the Pre-sapients policy set to "protected," I've colonized a couple worlds with pre-sapients, only to discover that they're being purged via displacement. That's not supposed to happen, and as a relatively nice assimilator, I find this highly disconcerting.

Steps to reproduce the issue.
Colonize a planet with pre-sapients, then check population window. Not sure how consistently this happens...

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[HallowedError]

I might be wrong but I think they might be hiveminded, which I think will be purged unless you have something from the genetics ascension tree (I think). Hmm, idk how pre sapient hiveminds work so maybe they shouldn't be auto purged.

 

[Meme_Drone [Qloc]]

Hello!

Thank you for the report!

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