Stellarisbound - Starbound Factions in Stellaris

rzrzrzrzrz · Jan 28, 2022

Armok said: ↑

welp, this took me longer to do than I had hoped, but here are my entries for comparison, with some mods thrown in (hopefully my links will embed here):

Here we have the Terrene Electorate, my idea for what the actual Human government is in Starbound, given that the Protectorate doesn't exactly feel like a full government itself (and that the Human flag is notably not the Protectorate one). The Protectorate and Peacekeepers are both just branches under them basically. I've represented the Protectorate here with the diplomatic corps civic, as that seems to be part of what the Protectorate does. They make use the modded machine shipset as it reminded me the most of this mod's take on a Protectorate themed player ship.

Here we have the USCM as they are in vanilla (which I personally prefer to their beta incarnation, they feel much less like an aliens knockoff now). They have the lost colony origin so they can be played in the same game as the Electorate pretty much. Once again I used the machine shipset here, although thinking about it the mammalian ship set would work better here.

The Occasus Cult, pretty self explanatory, I gave them the void dwellers origin to represent the Dantalion, as it's the closest thing to having a mobile (and likely formerly USCM owned) base

The Miniknog with a bit less of a science focus, the shadow council civic is a nod to how I think the Miniknog is implied to actually operate, a group of leaders who use Big Ape as a mask to hide under. I decided not to make any civ for the rebels and instead represented them through the unruly and deviant traits.

The death cult civic added by necroids felt like a good fit for the similarly bloodthirsty and sacrificial faith of the Stargazers, hence it's inclusion here. Warrior culture would make for a good dlcless alternative too.

The Floran if they unified into a single galactic power pretty much, there's no real good way to represent a decentralized power in stellaris unfortunately. The forest planet they call home is modded

Once again, we have the Glitch if they were unified, had to use a mod that enables synthetic empire builds to make these guys, although I since disabled it because it prevents you from playing as machine intelligences. The on the shoulders of giants origin felt rather fitting for the Glitch, if only as a reference to their creators. The ash planet was the closest modded planet type to volcanic available.

We also have my imagining of what the Hylotl civ is like, it's actually supposed to be a constitutional monarchy that has long shifted into a democratic parliamentary system, where the now figurehead emperor or empress is basically a chief philosopher of sorts. Pompous purists felt like a good alternative to inwards perfection, as the Hylotl probably aren't separate from galactic affairs, they just prefer to be left alone. Merchant guilds is a nod to the Letheia Corporation having influence too. I chose the 3 eyed sea slug portrait as it made me think of the Hylotl the most, even if it's not close to their actual species of amphibian. The origin listed here is a modded one, and basically represents the Hylotl-Floran war.

Letheia variant for the Hylotl civ here, consider it an alternate scenario where Letheia completely takes over. Don't let the xenophile ethic fool you, they don't treat non-hylotl workers well, they're just more actively interacting with everyone.

I also went and made civs for the NPC vanilla races too, although frankly they'd work better as primitive civs in stellaris:

The Deadbeat (who for the record, aren't related to Humanity whatsoever), if they re-established their civilization. The reason why they have so many negative traits has to do with how the apocalypse has kinda screwed them over heh

Tried to make the Fenerox not a carbon copy of the Floran here as a stellaris civ, things got a bit touch and go with civics at this point I'll admit

Penguins, pretty self explanatory here, I have a headcanon that they were the result of a science experiment done on Earth penguins, hence their planet's name, modded class, and the origin they have.

This one might be a little controversial, but I honestly much prefer the current version of the Agaran, as pacifists who are naturally related to the Floran, to their beta incarnation, which had them as a universally evil race that may or may not have been the result of some experiment on the Floran, or whatever implications that was being vaguely alluded too back then. Mycelial planet type is a reference to the minibiome they call home, and the thrifty trait is a nod to their merchants. I'll admit I chose Idyllic Bloom as their second civic more for it's look as a placeholder, I don't actually think the Agaran convert things to mushrooms or something.

Decided to lean more into the Alpaca's viking vibes here even if they're rather peaceful in vanilla

The Frogg, I don't actually think they have a megacorp of their own, having them be nothing but individual peddlers makes a lot more sense to me. The swamp planet is modded.

As a final detail, this aquatic robot portrait makes me think of the Cultivator/Ancients a bit. I did briefly consider making a civ to represent them too, but they're simply too mysterious to make anything substantial with, not that I would have them any other way

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"alpaca raiding clans"

have you heard of "marauders", even "great khan"? (requires apocalypse expansion pack iirc)

there are, apparently 3 types of marauders. you can tell by their lines, even the great khan himself

they are: (not an official name however)

-the "cut to the chase": these marauders are just, being "cut to the chase", probably something of being anxious or something.

-the "holier than thou": these marauders often saying "She of the Void" thing as if they praise her or something.

-the "maniacal marauders": they do be an annoying one, as they tend to screaming "HYIIIEEEEEEHH" or so like how they're savage

the great khan will speak in respective manner based on which marauder being mobilized into what they call "horde". guaranteed to have a nightmare if your fleets / defense is not well prepared.

look for a fleet named "Chosen of the Great Khan", which is a ship he himself assumes command. defeat it twice and he will be finished. (depending on which empire's fleet who dealt the final blow i believe) and you'll receive "Great Khan's Throne" relic (if you got ancient relics expansion i believe)

at this point, look for the wiki about marauders because this may be a long explanation. yes it also explains about becoming a "satrapy".

(requires federation expansion pack if i'm not mistaken) also, during these times, you can propose a galactic focus resolution to get some "upper hands" from galactic community. bear in mind that they may focus on killing great khan directly if they can do

"penguin syndicate", the criminal megacorp

expect "expropriation" casus belli for use against them the moment they opened their branch office in one of your colony and good luck for winning the war to get rid of all of their opened criminal branch office. watcha gonna do when your colony become da xeno hood, even "modified zro" lair, anything you could imagine about criminal lair…

Armok · Jan 28, 2022

rzrzrzrzrz said: ↑

"alpaca raiding clans"

have you heard of "marauders", even "great khan"? (requires apocalypse expansion pack iirc)
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yeah, I'm well aware of all of this lol, I have at 1,819.8 hours logged into this game, with all the dlc too.

Dunno why you felt the need to point out how criminal megacorps and marauders work?

rzrzrzrzrz · Jan 29, 2022

thought you don't know

also i like how op liked your post there

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