Xenophobic transformation

[GuyInTheSky]

What do you think about a mechanism that would allow Xenophobes to transform pops into their own population?

You could think of this like conversion or cultural shift in EU4. The purpose would obviously be to form interior stability of their empire. This could be seen as an atrocity by xenophile empires. The mechanism to do this would be unlocked through some rare tech.

 

[Anaeri]

Seems dubious. Xenophobes would be much more likely to just purge the pop and let a national pop grow in its stead.

 

[PG908]

Perhaps modifying them genetically to make them more suitable, not unlike some experimentation done by the nazis.

 

[acidsun]

Seems dubious. Xenophobes would be much more likely to just purge the pop and let a national pop grow in its stead.

That's really relative. Such an idea of xenophobia is a strict one: too focused on race and purity. There are a lot of other ways you can be a xenophobe that not an homogeneous and excludent one.

Considering one can engineer other species to serve as minions, I see genetically engineering similar species to assimilate them into yours a similar step.

And it's a sci-fi trope that of the "alien race and absorbs other races, turning them". See the Zerg in Starcraft. I wouldn't call them exactly xenophiles.

So, with the right ethos and tech, I think that's a good idea, but should be limited to species of the same clade (Mammals into mammals, birds into birds, etc). Unless there is also some other ultra-advanced tech that allows you to turn Blorg into Human.

 

[ParagonExile]

I'd prefer if species remain as they are for the duration of the game, no BS about turning them into aliens or going native or anything like that.

We already have a "purge" option that works wonders for replacing pops though

 

[Surimi]

Isn't this the purpose of the the "enslave" button.

Again, I think this is a problem with people reading xenophobe and thinking "raaargh raaargh purge the xenos", what it seems to mean going by bonuses and description is that the dominant species in the empire believes itself to be superior to all other species and seeks to protect its society from outside influences. Other species can totally be part of a xenophobic empire, they just have to be on the bottom and stay on the bottom.

I mean, you could purge them all and repopulate them with your own species, which would effectively be the same thing as "species conversion", but what a terrible waste that would be. What are you going to do when you encounter the horrible itchy desert world of especially irritating sand, colonize it with real pops.. ugh, the indignity.

 

[aitaituo]

You can't turn a dog into a human, Doctor Moreau.

 

[Exemplar Voss]

You can't turn a dog into a human, Doctor Moreau.

But you can do the opposite, and some will even pay you for the experience.