What happens if you Nerve Staple a species and then liberate/vassalize them?

[Emraldis]

Venerable, Repugnant, Solitary

Aw, that's too bad. I wish it was more lenient. I made a race of starfish who saw it as a slight to their honor if you weren't friends with them, and would launch "befriendification wars" to change other empires clearly misaligned views. I'd imagine they would be fanatic befrienders, but those traits don't really align with how I envisioned them...

 

[Sheriff Godwin Law]

Nope. The Defaults are Hegemonic Imperialists and Federation Builders.
How did you even got to the idea Honorbound Warriors would be a default?

Because they are. When a race fails to meet the criteria for any personality, Honorbound Warriors is selected as the first on the list. It used to be despicable neutrals as the back of the list, but a code tweak forced a selection even for people who don't qualify.

Test it out sometime, make a race that only has the single pacifist ethos. That'll miss all the existing personality types. Lock them in as one of the races in game. Use the console 'observe' command to reveal the entire galaxy, let it play through a day and find them on your diplomacy log. You'll see that they become self hating honorbound warriors despite having an ethos directly opposite the requirements.

 

[scaper12123]

Nope. The Defaults are Hegemonic Imperialists and Federation Builders.
How did you even got to the idea Honorbound Warriors would be a default?

Honorbound Warriors needs Fanatic Militarist plus Spiritualist or Individualist.
While HI can cover odd stuff like Collectivst/Fanatic Xenophile and Fanatic Individualist/Xenophobe.
High base weights are reserved to odder Personalities, so that those AI that do fit the requirements will land on that. Rather then one of the other more common ones.

I recall reading that on the game's wikipedia. Maybe i misread it or the info was out of date

 

[Diezy]

I suspect it'll be nothing different!

But it would be a funny flavor thing, that whenever the rulers end up being from a Nerve Stapled species, to end up with that Despicable Neutrals AI during that reign, as some overriding rule, no matter what ethics they have! No strong feelings, one way or the other. 0 opinion, 0 trust, until the reign ends.