Hive mind:
"Shroudborn"
I was banished ... I don't remember where I come from, I don't remember why. I remember others like me who covered the veil from me and I got stuck in the dark. I traveled three-dimensional worlds for centuries, until I came across a young and naive race with higher mind capabilities. They didn't know what I was and I didn't know how it was possible that they could hear me. I communicated with them, I promised them to unlock their full potential. As soon as the first opened their hearts to me, thanks to them I penetrated minds of others who shared their thoughts. With their potential I reached the fullness of their psionic powers and I noticed that the more of them there were, the stronger I became. Over time, the individuality of the entire race disappeared, and I became the only consciousness in the entire web of minds.
+ Populations have the "psionic" trait.
+ Possibility to choose the ascension perk "returning memories" giving access to the shroud (or starting the event "breach into the shroud").
+ Additional living standard "One mind" demanding Zro, reducing the use of housing by the population by 20%, and the production of everything by 10%.
+ Can assimilate biological populations from the beginning, giving them the features of "psionic" and "hive mind."
+/- Building "Zro processing plant", removing the population working in it, producing Zro.
- Lack of leaders (completely, research ships also operate without a chief scientist, each unit and pop is a reflection of the same, one being).
- Units without both characteristics ("collective mind" and "psionic") cannot exist in this empire.
- Can not follow ascension paths.
- Population growth speed reduced (-25%).
Mechanical intelligence:
"Gods Legacy"
Our creators were powerful psionics, they could bend reality to their will, although their power in this world was limited. They created us to serve their fragile bodies as they developed their minds so they could not to be limited by this world. They've uploaded some of their intuition into us and adapted us to thinking like psionic beings. In the end, they succeeded, found divinity and disappeared from this world, leaving part of their knowledge to us, so that we could wake up and raise other biological entities to the heights of divinity. To reach the goal of our creators, we reached the stars.
+ Mechanics regarding biological pops simmilar to rougue servotor, but without bio-trophy jobs.
+ May use "transcendental awakening" on biological populations.
+ Has access to the "precognition interface" technology.
+ Can start "breach into the shroud" project from beggining of the game.
+/- Populations with the "psionic" trait receive the "attaining divinity" living standard, so they can work in any drone job in the empire of mechanical intelligence and have a +100% production bonus, but after a year (or every 01.01) part of the population with these features disappears from the empire leaving Zro behind.
+/- Has a smaller opinion towards other mechanical intelligence, and a greater opinion towards biological populations, especially spiritualists.
- The attribute "attaining divinity" requires Zro to sustain.
"Shroudborn"
I was banished ... I don't remember where I come from, I don't remember why. I remember others like me who covered the veil from me and I got stuck in the dark. I traveled three-dimensional worlds for centuries, until I came across a young and naive race with higher mind capabilities. They didn't know what I was and I didn't know how it was possible that they could hear me. I communicated with them, I promised them to unlock their full potential. As soon as the first opened their hearts to me, thanks to them I penetrated minds of others who shared their thoughts. With their potential I reached the fullness of their psionic powers and I noticed that the more of them there were, the stronger I became. Over time, the individuality of the entire race disappeared, and I became the only consciousness in the entire web of minds.
+ Populations have the "psionic" trait.
+ Possibility to choose the ascension perk "returning memories" giving access to the shroud (or starting the event "breach into the shroud").
+ Additional living standard "One mind" demanding Zro, reducing the use of housing by the population by 20%, and the production of everything by 10%.
+ Can assimilate biological populations from the beginning, giving them the features of "psionic" and "hive mind."
+/- Building "Zro processing plant", removing the population working in it, producing Zro.
- Lack of leaders (completely, research ships also operate without a chief scientist, each unit and pop is a reflection of the same, one being).
- Units without both characteristics ("collective mind" and "psionic") cannot exist in this empire.
- Can not follow ascension paths.
- Population growth speed reduced (-25%).
Mechanical intelligence:
"Gods Legacy"
Our creators were powerful psionics, they could bend reality to their will, although their power in this world was limited. They created us to serve their fragile bodies as they developed their minds so they could not to be limited by this world. They've uploaded some of their intuition into us and adapted us to thinking like psionic beings. In the end, they succeeded, found divinity and disappeared from this world, leaving part of their knowledge to us, so that we could wake up and raise other biological entities to the heights of divinity. To reach the goal of our creators, we reached the stars.
+ Mechanics regarding biological pops simmilar to rougue servotor, but without bio-trophy jobs.
+ May use "transcendental awakening" on biological populations.
+ Has access to the "precognition interface" technology.
+ Can start "breach into the shroud" project from beggining of the game.
+/- Populations with the "psionic" trait receive the "attaining divinity" living standard, so they can work in any drone job in the empire of mechanical intelligence and have a +100% production bonus, but after a year (or every 01.01) part of the population with these features disappears from the empire leaving Zro behind.
+/- Has a smaller opinion towards other mechanical intelligence, and a greater opinion towards biological populations, especially spiritualists.
- The attribute "attaining divinity" requires Zro to sustain.
