Galaxy Devouring CATS - Ultimate Crisis! | Full Modded Playthrough | Stellaris Gigastructures

greetings sir ansarettes and welcome back to stellaris with me alathrix and of course welcome to part two of this full playthrough where today we're gonna hopefully defeat or at least survive against maybe not lose horrendously against the endgame crisis which is being introduced in the gigastructural engineering model in the last video we built these beautiful system craft we currently have two of them available i am going to be building at least a third i'm going to be naming them after a certain few favorite things of mine for instance this one over here is gonna be called corn the other one's gonna be called nurgle we're gonna have slaanesh and zinch so if we get four that'll be great if we only have three that's still pretty good now these are incredibly powerful but i have been told countless times that the endgame crisis which is going to be added essentially a post endgame crisis the blockades or whatever they're actually called are like i said horrendously difficult so we do need to still really really prepare i think in the last playthrough i wasn't really aggressive enough there was so much stuff to look at and just just try and get uh the hang of that i kind of neglected inviting everywhere so a little bit too light for that now it's gonna be a little bit too light to really colonize these worlds to get them up and running properly we could still do it and because we are synths we could always assimilate things into our collective consciousness just making loads and loads of sims everywhere so i may do that but the main focus right now is just getting more of the system craft online so this system for instance has been completely devoured we can then move on to one of the other systems try and get at least one more system craft and then a load of the behemoths so we have this system craft over here now where are our worlds and we have at least one planet craft there we go because that's gonna make up the bulk of our navy the planet crafts the moons and the system craft then we just need to build some more ships now before we get into all of that though there is something i need to look at so first of all with this i do need to install some mods so i can seal this properly i will be doing that the next time i do a full play through this first full play through i just wanted to use the mod itself and nothing else next time i've actually been given some advice from the creator of the mod as to what i should be downloading so i will be looking into them uh very soon but yeah turns out i missed all of this because the system craft are yenno entire solar systems we can have specialist things here so we have continental farms we have extra shipyards we can have things which increased orbital bombardment damage and ship fire right slightly um extra hull points and all of this but the big thing there being the daily armor regen look at how much armor this thing has you can imagine that's pretty good and probably better than a lot of the stuff we have currently so um and yeah more shields as well so i'm thinking is is there any point of those shield capacitors now these use a lot of energy but we do have a sun we have a star which we've kind of grabbed so we have 29 000 power to spare so yeah really shouldn't have these we should have better stuff now do the behemoth planet craft also have some of these stuff uh no so i think it's just the system craft but yeah so the system graph currently is not optimal and i need to make it so before we fight the end or at least make it more fun i like fun fun is fun fun is fun so where should we start building new system craft and we also need to start building then more of the behemoth planet crafts more of the um just more of everything and i'm also going to fully upgrade our brain yeah lots of stuff i'll skip ahead until most of us happen because there is so much to fix vessels upgraded okay so just upgraded the system craft essentially everything now is either the armor version or the shield bonus so we should have loads okay you can't actually see the stats annoyingly but yeah this thing now has a lot of regeneration both in its shields and its armor and it just has more shields now and all of the new system craft will go with that so this one now is the corn class which they're all going to be the corn class but they will be renamed things this one will just be called corn for now or the school throw you know what you're going to be called the skull throne there we go so i'll name them something to do with it instead that makes sense our units upgrade as well thankfully it's instant so yeah these are now going to be a lot scarier because they can heal very quickly with their ridiculous amount of health okay so we actually have two more of the behemoths already on the y this will be the next solar system which is consumed if i can find it there we are hey everyone as is tradition with these full playthroughs it is i future lathrix just here to chill for the video itself because these videos take an immense amount of time to put together i was recently on a hiatus for a week sorting out real life stuff i came back so naturally the first thing i wanted to record was this which then took me about three days more than i originally thought it would it took a long time to get this footage but it was so enjoyable this mod is utterly insane there's so much stuff i still don't cover in this video and there's so much more stuff i do cover it so i really hope you do enjoy these videos and if you do then please consider leaving a like leaving a comment it's the reason why i can make these type of long form videos which really are poison to the youtube algorithm unless there is a lot of interaction and honestly you guys are amazing at that every other one of these gets the most likes and the most comments and it's humbling i love making these i really hope you enjoy the rest of this one because we finally get to face off against the ultimate post endgame crisis and mini spoiler we also get to fight the normal in-game crisis because i completely forgot they can also spawn in so with that back to the video itself this one gets really big when it comes to numbers numbers and explosions which naturally make me very happy and lots of lies too well i suppose you'll be called anathrax one of the demon worlds of nergal and let's go to war with the nations uh do you have any defensive pacts no yes you do who with i'm guessing guys up here and the state okay it's kind of annoying because i don't know why i don't have all my borders shut with you guys but i don't at the moment so let's get you guys out of my territory otherwise you'll instantly take some of these systems it'll be super annoying there we are uh if you can't tell i'm going to go on an all-out war with pretty much everyone nearby so i'm just going to get a few smaller fleets in position so we can grab everything that comes our way and then the planet craft will just go through and destroy everything along with anathrox meanwhile i'm actually not destroying these worlds i've decided instead we are going to simply invite them we have lots of ground forces nearby so we're inviting them we're going to leave them as they are for now just so they can instantly get to work and we're going to build more of our machines i actually had more attack moons and such and i remember i had two more planets and one more attack moon just waiting around um yeah it may say one fleet power here but buddy it sure is a lot more yes we're just going to take over everything we can see thank you very much most of the galaxy at this point and i don't think they really stand the chance when whole solar systems wish to devour them whole yeah you just get over there to block that uh we're going to send us more flight no let's send you over there the other fleets can re-route over here just to block that for now we have the gateway there in the wormhole you move over there i'll make some more fleets in a second yeah our normal fleets are really tattered not all that strong it's ooh what's with this thing then why is that a different color oh and it has one of the primordial pill i still don't know what those are what are you your weird thing no matter how strong these things are sometimes corvette swarms are just the way forwards so we have corvette swarms going to pretty much every choke point now since i did forget about a couple of them we're inviting the obliterators here from both sides they're going to be gone soon the union is completely blocked off i think they can just about get here but yeah we have a small armada here and a second one on the way and then over here we're just slowly wiping them out with the planet craft and anathrox probably gonna start skipping a bit more in the editing i imagine well i found seoul so this was originally earth either got renamed or the humans here hadn't yet oh perhaps humans hadn't grew here at all who am i currently fighting over here oh the obliterators then yeah i don't know there's a good chance to just kill the humans there if there were humans to begin with that's really annoying so yeah lots of little forces around here it's really irritating i'm trying to take out all the stations first but there are just so many of them thank you please continue to follow this lovely thing [Music] yep a great i mean even those around you were gonna crush you you know what good luck i mean i admire that level of dumb yeah i admire that how did you get past me either way i admire that level of dumb it's a good look horde i would have completely ignored you otherwise and may still do him can you please get off my ring world that'd be fantastic oh that just everywhere okay going towards so many this early was very silly well so early well obviously very light game i mean before i prepped and got some small fleets everywhere but still as you can see we're just slowly flooding everywhere and taking over everything we could potentially have a wait why does this one give me excellent here's 7 000 unity and 20 influence oh grandiose giving me 21 000 unity and 60 influence obviously grandiose hello there little fella how are you here's the question does the strike command or a stack i doubt it does but that'd be really good considering how many strike craft we have on our um well pretty much every one of the larger craft so that's pretty neat in fact you can go and start dealing with these by yourself this little island of nothingness okay you're about to take over that which is irritating but fine even our small stations are actually getting a little bit buffed up now uh yeah you can start pushing that away you're already there and just should just continue doing what you're doing yeah this has been like the last half an hour just constantly doing little moves making sure we're not being taken back too much because there are just fleets everywhere and yeah we are just taking over everything steadily so a few things first of all our nicole dyson beam is now on its next stage is slowly getting towards full completion which is going to be a minor version of the super weapon you can build in the very center of the galaxy on top of that we are almost at the point where the obliterators are well obliterated there's some worlds over here i think and that may be the last set so when they're done with that's fantastic although i'm gonna lose all this territory in the middle which will look ugly as soon that's fine we can always grab that later if we really need to now you may notice that currently my economy is looking dreadful there's a well there's two reasons for this first of all i have far too many starbases which is making everything far too expensive but also i am now assimilating all of my populations they are all being turned into the synths which means at the moment we have like 2 000 populations which are not currently working so yeah the economy just completely tanked but thankfully selling alloys has been keeping us just about level although even that now it seems to have finally run dry so yeah it's a bit dreadful at the moment but it's fine we'll finish off the obliterators and honestly i think i may start suing for peace soon how'd the corporation get that back i just grabbed that well that's just weird oh well that's the bad timing of me currently assimilating all my populations good positioning though for them to be in so the unbidden are here apparently i have a gateway over here don't i for a quick travel okay um skull throne you're over here aren't you okay school throne we get to test you versus the unbidden apparently not exactly what i was originally intending to oh i can actually jump straight into the up into the gateway here right now yeah but that's gonna be all of their force all at once no i think i'd rather get you here and um i don't know who's close to a gateway that's an l gate there as well well you're both about to hit an l gate i wonder how long it take you to get from an l gate into a normal gateway to jump there then is the question waiting for the two system craft to reach that target in the meantime we are continuing to upgrade this one currently the planet craft aren't here one of them is but the others are trying to deal with some of the fighting because well again the unbidden [Music] okay here we go through the gateway again makes me laugh every time one of those huge things gets through a tiny little gateway i'm hoping that the jump is currently off cooldown cause otherwise a lot of its damage is removed whoa okay so that's the main station oh how did i remove the dimensional portal i i have to remove the anchors first the love anchors right apparently that is how strong the system gravity or struggling to get through the shields the unbidden now the other system craft is about to warp in hello ground invasion force has seized a planet it's like we're taking no damage though i mean look at the health and the yeah sure the damage wasn't as great as i would have hoped but all this main fire was focused on the uh anchor and then the portal and 99 shield one percent real damage and remember these things are replenishing their shields incredibly quickly so yep the new job of these fellows is just to slowly mop up the unbidden which will be very slow because i'm being far faster but now that they don't have the portal warping in any reserves that's pretty much all we need now let's see what's the warlock to do what's about what the warlock does uh the warlock sublight speed plus 15 is actually fantastic and then we can increase our jump drive range that's actually pretty good because the system craft do rely a lot on their jump drive because of how slow they are welcome to our galaxy unbidden yeah it's definitely the problem with the system graph too many of its weapons lock onto a single target against i imagine other um planet craft and stuff that would be just devastating but that's a lot of wasted damage if it split them better because it is just a one shot kill on anything even looks at but it's not looking at enough things oh how much shielding ever got left on this thing pretty much still maxed out yep it's it's recharging like five percent of its shield per day and it's got a ludicrous amount of shield so it's just gonna sit there slowly attacking that now i'm hoping with the blockers it's not gonna be loads of swarms but instead it's going to be okay move once i'll jump i'm hoping it's going to be just a few very powerful things because then we might have a chance if we stack up all of the behemoth planet craft and of course our soon to be three system craft it's so difficult to see anything that's going on technology secured oh beautiful okay so gonna ignore this fight for a second okay apparently i can't just jump over to it yeah we are defeating fleet after fleet is really just a matter of them being more of a nuisance and actual threat to us so that's the final stage 125 000 we'll get that soon enough i believe that also gives us a research percentage bonus yep plus 15 we also build robots faster i believe so that is awesome and it's just 12k tech so i'll save it for that don't decide for too long in fact we could do now we start building a new forge there is one here we do have the influence for it we already have control so you know what yep let's build a new forge also increases our armor and everything else so there's loads of reasons to build this let's build the tiny version first and i'll build the other one actually i can build both at the same time if i just get another construction vessel over and the beam is almost finished as well okay the reavers and obliterators are now gone so all the purified species are gone there are currently two other empires of the nurse which make up the last of oh no there are five i guess yeah the state and some of the weaker stuff could please send a small force over there just to grab that thank you i thought i already had control over this apparently not so i think i'm going to end the wars in a second once i'm completely done over here we have defeated the great calm that's gone we are now finishing off the unbidden they keep on respawning over here for some reason so i am just having to have one of the system crafters sit there the other one is slowly wiping out all this so the unbids are basically dealt with no more purifier species the last two other empires sorry last five other empires are very very weak i'm going to take over the main elgate section as well then i'm going to stop the wars because there's really little else i want from them any new worlds is just so little compared to what else we can do and then we just focus on making more of our planet craft more of our attack moons and we should hopefully get one more system graph so this one's definitely going to be completed if we're lucky we might be able to get one more so we'll have four system crafts just before the blockets are here so does this need uh oh yeah the 40 populations thing that's absolutely fine as usual to take it from entropy's promise which always lags out every single time there we are and that's the final one monthly upkeep is nothing for our current income now that most of our people are synths our economy is very very good so i guess i should really start building the next system craft do i care about this nope in that case i'll take over this system okay so rather than going straight for the system craft what i'm going to do is focus more on making sure i have enough of the world which i need so loads of the behemoth worlds and everything else and the attack moons because honestly this is the system craft itself is pretty fast to build the worlds even with all of the extra five percent i've been adding over and over again with the repeatables to our speed we can actually build the uh mega structures is just so incredibly slow to build so yeah just converting every world we can into more of these and plus what it means is if the endgame crisis starts and we don't have well i guess the post endgame crisis start so we don't have uh the next system craft up and running we will at least have loads of worlds moons which are all very powerful in their own right they're nothing in comparison to the system craft but they are very powerful the achievement is simply called pew pew and we now have the dyson beam operation how do you work target hostile target oh who do i even want to target um could fire at the unbidden i suppose from what star type um okay good so we can still be select uh let's go for this one so what type of star is that that is a class b this is tirami tear them all target the system okay okay let's just move you there so they should act like by the looks of things the same as the mega one just less intense technology securely just destroy the whole solar system oh i like how it's like not super quick that's very pleasant meanwhile oh hello oh i wonder how long the cooldown is on that thing yes i assume that the blockers are completely immune to this thing oh wait we can turn things into pulsars that's a pulsar right because if so does that mean we can make like unlimited forges oh i wish i knew that why sooner though too far i did make the uh the beam as fast as i could yeah so cool that okay so it's a 600 day cool down that's pretty brutal but that's really good to know kind of slowed down myself here but that's wanted to make sure it worked in a way i thought it worked did you stick up yeah check out that okay you deal with that as per usual you're just sitting there because i keep on respawning we're almost done here ah someone didn't spawn about you know what let's go there do that do that please hurry up over here um never had this one happen before this is the third one night what have you done a mobile weaponized solar system all right this is it we surrender you've won i mean that's fair uh yeah welcome to our side oh was it because i was at war when i created the system this time whereas last time i wasn't at war when it was created i can't quite remember either way we have our third fully operational system craft glory to the bug faces the invasion has been defeated so the unbidden have now been completely destroyed the last of their systems is over here over in the lgate and now we have the choice of continuing this war which is just against a few very weakened broken states or do we just stop that now allow them to rebuild and our control of the galaxy is still pretty much complete we could even save up and become the galactic emperor but that is very very expensive loads of influence i mean honestly i kind of wish did that way earlier now i could have done it early and i kept on thinking is it worth the influence cast to keep on getting all the things passed because once you're the emperor you get a huge influence bonus per month and i think it would have been definitely worth it but now we only have 12 years left i don't know that's definitely a mistake i might i kept on second guessing that and then i just took too long and yeah it's a problem so for now honestly i don't see the point in this war so i'm going to stop this and i'm just going to focus on building the colossal worlds and i'm going to try and swap these worlds uh yeah i've got loads of normal worlds as well now thankfully almost every one of them is just constantly getting to the state where there's unemployed but you'll see there's only a couple on each world and that's because they're constantly being shipped over to our ring worlds which have an absurd amount of jobs each because some of these are the really really big versions like this over here so that's kind of where they're all being moved to automatically so it's not too bad but it would be nice to have some of the worlds a little bit more functional though i don't really know what i even need now um all my influence is going to go into the planets do i bother building a normal fleet i mean i guess i should and that's really it so we have 12 years to prepare for the scariest thing ever the beam is off cooldown can i fire at a target which currently isn't at war with me i'm assuming that if we can do this it's going to instantly declare war on us which of course makes sense i'm about to obliterate its home system because i'm just that kind so the class k star i'm assuming this will class as neutral then yep and this is the who are you again you are the corporation class k and it is that one target the system now i am really curious about this i just had a break this is a new recording session so instantly of course i want to start it off with something fun okay we fire all right let's go back over here because it's always more fun when it's all nice and shiny there it is warping it and goodbye to the system and is it because they're currently at truce with us they're not at war with us that's interesting so we can very slowly obliterate these targets without actually going to war again i do love the fact it leaves a neutron star behind oh yeah we still need to check out the neutron star over here oh it's still attached to a gateway so can i just move someone there via a gateway huh well that is interesting i guess i could potentially build multiple of these it should be interesting the weapon but again i assume that the blockets are actually immune to these things otherwise i'd just yeah i'd have focused on trying to make a multiple of these if you even can still really cool so now we need to wait for its golf cool down again we'll slowly obliterate targets because it's more fun that way at last i have a brain okay the brain is finished a glorious day for our species so with this it's producing 12 000 of east research which is fantastic i'm actually moving a lot more towards tech at the moment anyway so let's see what happens in the month uh 68k now 93 research pretty darn lovely we also get plus 25 unity not that any matters plus 25 research speed which is insanely good plus 15 robot output oh it's output i thought it was oh i thought it was construction speed that is significantly better population size also we have a moon so [Music] does that also count towards synths that's the question oh by the way since that last clip i spent like 80 000 minerals just sorting out all these worlds it took me a good 15 minutes just for one round of sorting out worlds it is getting a bit insane at this point but okay let's have a quick look anywhere i have my lovely synths which are these fellas so these getting a bonus from that and there's the robot from buildings empire boat okay the empire bonus is 282 ur282 it looks like they are getting the bonus from it that would explain why tech went up by so much no it's 12 page either way yep um people could probably just look at the other the other resources to see how much went up by we're almost at 20k alloys per month and we're not even finished with the next of the forges and i'm about to move one of my construction vessels over here so we can make one more forge since i believe yep that's just normal neutron star not that we really need another forge honestly it's more for the other bonuses because these give other bonuses like extra armor and stuff it's essentially just an extra repeatable it is pretty insane how much tech we've got at the moment the blockers are gonna be powerful but i feel like we've done well enough that we're at least gonna put up a good fight but again first time seeing them i could just mess up i am really nervous so i'm being really rambling but yeah super nervous apparently it's going after home systems right now i think next time i will be targeting a planet specifically won't really be able to see what happens this time just to see if it has a shorter cooldown because the cooldown is pretty brutal in this thing though i guess i shouldn't complain too much we are just obliterating entire solar systems entire star systems i could say yep there we go so that's the homeworld gun again now spending influence on gateways which is really sad to do could be spending it on more flying moons and such or adding to this lovely collection but no it has to be spent on gateways because at this point we really need to be able to get around quickly and the behemoths and everything else and the system crafted are so slow we need to at least have decent coverage we have a gateway down here with a gateway now in the middle of a gateway up here we have at least one wormhole over here which actually connects pretty closely so we can do a jump i'm building a gateway in fact no that is a gateway so if we control that that's fine we can use that jump we're about to build a gateway there and we're also about to build a gateway here mostly to collect all this trade value so we should have okayish coverage then the rest of the influence we continue to build more and more of our main fleet which of course is planets in the meantime though we are building up these battleships which i swear a second ago had higher fleet power maybe something expired i don't know but yeah building up loads of battleships as well just we have some normal fleets there's always so little to say when everything's just managing worlds and sorting things out but we do have the next hyperforge now fully operational giving us more alloys army damage ship weapon damage on the whole points and ship whole points um armor hit points rather it's getting very light now so yeah just one more of these beautiful things being mined for everything it has so i think at the end of the month it's probably gonna hit over 20k now for our alloys in fact i'm certainly will and we've just hit over 100k now in our research so we are getting repeatables done at a truly ridiculous rate which is obviously very useful yep 23k alloys per month now when it comes to making normal fleets we are just flying through it now of course remember each of our system craft does in fact have 20 shipyards installed so if i ever get so many alloys i don't want to stack things up i can start producing ships over here as well there's one more planet craft now on the way over which just got created i have two moons in the works so i could build a system craft but we only have seven years i don't think i can make it that fast so i am glad i didn't start building it because i simply wouldn't have quite been able to finish it since i still have some of the parts which are being constructed for it so that's that really it's gonna be a matter of build up loads of fleets make sure we have a decent gateway coverage make sure all the worlds are up and running so if we lose a section the work the others can keep up for it because now we can control almost everything there's no real good place for the crisis to spawn i guess over here and maybe over here but even then it's so close to us with everything being so connected we're going to be fighting really quickly so being next to this gateway is really important targeting a planet this time rather than an entire system so we're going to melt the planet's surface which produces a rare resource which so far i haven't actually had a use for yet so let's see what happens we're going to be firing at this oh it's a habitat well i'm about to find out what happens when you fire a habitat anyway technology secured will it still work oh well it's going to be this one made us declare war interesting it must have been because of the truths then you can destroy systems without going to war straight away station okay but i really wanted to check though was is that a shorter cooldown yes it is because before it's 600 so targeting a planet specifically uh triggers a shorter cooldown well now we're at war all i'm gonna do is force a status quo so when did you grab that guy that's very annoying it's very irritating indeed also why do i call oh they're called seven swapped yeah um they don't have the jump drivers yet which is of course very silly uh just send an attack moon over for the fun of it i guess as soon as we can status quo i will i don't really care about their spice uh whoops well i finished off one of them i'm staying actually over here a bit less of a mistake more just be nice and easy there we are it's difficult to see but the skull throne just turned one of these worlds into a nice barren wasteland this system is wonderful it's like a little nursery for planet craft absolutely loads of them one's already left we have two being built we just built a moon as well which lines away we have another planet craft currently moving into position we have four here so we have five planet craft currently three on the way and we have three attack moons at least actually now we have one over here as well now the attack's over we can bring that back there we are and we have our systems craft here all making their own little baby fleets which consist of half a million fleet power battleship fleets ah actually we're gonna thought well almost half a million what is rounding you know try two at melting the world this time it's not a habitat also i'm keen to see what happens if we go to war or not we currently have a truce so will the truce be stronger than the doom laser [Music] [Laughter] there we go so now it is in fact a molten well is that slightly different than usual molten worlds it looks more intense am i going mad well either way that was there most inhabited world yeah let me find just a molten world in our territory there we go no i think it is the same i'm just projecting my hatred of worlds apparently so that now should have quite a short cooldown again right yep only 336 days i'm very slowly killing the corporation just one planet at a time also only three years until the potential invasion of the blockades so i'm really hoping this one actually affects his combat effectiveness i don't think it works it still has a lot of stats i mean 606 000 armor and such but yeah the fleet power now is 24 000 for this attack moon also i don't know why each attacking moon is different oh because that's different leaders okay that makes sense but yeah a little bit worried there that's all the overflow and the insane number of stats i'm just hoping it doesn't actually make them weaker because normally it kind of sticks at one it kind of breaks and it simply says one fleet power and they're normally perfectly strong at that apparent one level so i'm nervous here because i've definitely gone to i think a mill and back a few times now it's very odd yeah a lot of bonuses there as you can see and that's only going to increase technology secure i'm hoping that my normal fleets won't become our main force all of you just chill now they've jumped to 116. i think the main bonus they're getting is because their mind weapon is an energy weapon which does absurd damage per shot and i keep on focusing on the attack speed of it so it's hitting so many times whoa that's a glitchy looking attack moon but yeah so uh firing all these faster obviously is pretty darn fantastic that should be the same for the system craft as well their main super weapons all energy banks i think the main weapons are all energy based let me have a quick look see here you're energy right yeah your energy technology secured okay only one month now until the blocks can appear now i have been given the commands and everything just in case they don't spawn in they should be fine but i can forespawn them if everything goes wrong oh there's lag interesting now of course they weren't going to probably spoil day one like the normal crisis it can be after that it does stay close to that close to the date specified so i'll give it a couple of years at most um i've just activated on my edict so i've lost all my influence at the moment uh just to add some more stability to my worlds all of these lively planets are all on their way in the beautiful behemoth nursery in fact you're really close construction complete so loads of worlds there's another world over here being created obviously we have all the ones over here we are very powerful and if it can beat this that'll be fantastic either we break the blocks the blocks break or so we both gloriously break each other which is definitely the more fun option well i'm assuming this is it and we also just got one more planet graph ready just in time a mundane survey of our galaxy's immediate galactic neighborhood has spotted an intriguing occurrence an unusually high concentration of mata has been discovered roughly a million light years away from the edge of our galaxy revealed to our tachionic instruments by the fact light and space curve significantly in the proximity of the object its exact nature is currently unknown but it appears to be highly energetic most likely a rogue micro quasar passing through our local group interestingly it is emitting recurring patterns of electromagnetic radiation cohesive with the rapid rotation of a massive and active celestial body perhaps the most intriguing part of it is the object appears to be moving faster than light but the intense curvature of space-time surrounding it precludes accurate velocity measurements further observations will be conducted but it seems unlikely to be anything of major interest yeah i'm sure technology secured okay let's move our next planet craft into position with all the rest oh the game is lagging a lot now [Music] bring on the blocks [Music] a changing course well undertaking a prolonged study of the gravitational anomaly discovered a few months ago our intergalactic measuring instruments revealed that the object wasn't moving a straight line but was actually following a gentle curve relative to our galaxy placing it on a firm escape trajectory of our local group that is until the object suddenly came to a complete halt with an intergalactic space bleeding off every last bit of its speed within less than a second after standing still for a couple of hours it then instantaneously sped back up to its original speed in yet another physics defying move adding to the initial shock of this seemingly impossible occurrence revised trajectory calculations have shown that assuming it doesn't suddenly change its trajectory again this intergalactic bolloyd is now on a direct collision course of our galaxy a myriad of theories have sprung up to explain how and why it altered its trajectory so suddenly ranging from a natural ftl drive made of a black hole white hole pair feeding into one another to the idea that it may be a rogue quasar traveling on a sort of intergalactic hyperline often theorized in studies pertaining to the plausibility of intergalactic travel regardless of the objects the object's actual nature it is currently just about a million light years away from us and updated velocity measurements estimated to be moving at roughly 100 000 times the speed of light well that's a showing off at this point meaning we should expect to meet this intergalactic visitor within the decade a special project has been established to keep track of it all okay then let's have a look at that some of the unknown content nope that's just the ocean which talks to us which is pretty normal in the uh galaxy of stellaris there we are the intergalactic object oh you actually see the tick down that's really neat i like that now before i forget i've named the third of the system craft magnus of the red of the zinc so we have magnus red we have anthrax and we have the skull throne really not exactly the most unified naming scheme here other than just chaos things but still um we have loads of our behemoth worlds here we have loads of the moons which are now up to 600 i think they may have won over again currently i'm just allowing tech to auto research and i have stopped production of robots and populations on a lot of the worlds because the lag is getting pretty bad when it's not paused so if i unpause now you can see the stuttering and everything here it's not great and i want to make sure i can at least fight the blockades will they kill me will i kill them don't care just want to be able to fight them so you also have battleships all over the place and then over at our mega shipyard we have loads of battleship fleets all ready to go so that's really it right now i am still building a few things i am actually building the system craft construction site over here since we have so many spares i think i might as well start maybe we'll get the fourth one before they get here maybe during but yet we are going to go for icelandic system craft as well she who thirsts so we wait intergalactic collision sites the intergalactic object is now less than 300 000 light years from us you know just 300 000 light years absolutely nothing and as such we have been able to more accurately determine the future trajectory and where it is likely to impact our galaxy based on its current trajectory and barring any sudden changes the system should make contact with our galaxy in the tepanx system tepank i don't know how to pronounce that however assuming it ends up de-accelerating like it did within the integrated space it is estimated that the subspace recoil from the sudden fdl deceleration will end up completely destroying the system oh that's interesting if the system is in drag control it would be wise to evacuate any important assets so this system here right down it all right like one of our gateways they'll probably want one that close so this system is doomed doomed okay you guys are i'll get rid of you guys later um right now do we have a construction vessel yes we have one building a gateway literally right now over there that's kind of where i'm spending my influence at the moment i would like another gateway probably somewhere closer though yeah let's go on over on this world here and use this as a bit of a fortified bass since it can only go from one direction probably want to start moving all of our fleets there then i imagine actually i don't know are they immune when they enter are they not what happens if i destroy that system i mean i can't actually no yeah what if i attack this system with the beam and knock out the hyper lines i'm assuming the blockades can get around this if they land here they can still escape but yeah if i fire my beam here it wouldn't completely destroy the system but it would knock out the hyperline connections similar to what happened over here that might be the smart thing to do that's not what i want to do because i want to just fight them um and honestly i don't know if there's a smart thing perhaps they can get around that i know they can get around a lot of other stuff okay so at very least let's move the system ah i really don't know i really don't want to do right now how long have you got okay i've got a while to decide and because right next to a gateway we can basically get there straight away um we're also building the next system craft that's gonna need some more worlds and everything else which are being built over here still there's still a few left to be built i really don't i really don't know what to do um i think the school throne wants to go there to fight so school throne take a few of the worlds with you and take a couple of the full fleets get over there and i'm going to build a citadel there mostly for the percentage bonuses and i'll make sure to get some proper animals with these fleets as well we're almost there now all three of my lovely system crafter here i have gave up building the extra ones because i don't think of enough time because we only have 50 000 42 000 light years now it's too off just in case i need to remake them i am still building more moons and planet craft so i can sacrifice some lighter it really does look like this solar system has just been attacked by multiple other solar systems and they've brought friends so i mean these are full fleets of battleships like 700k now but look how tiny they are like this is the moon this is the planet craft and then there's these boys and boy do they want to find something big and scary i'm really nervous on the upside as well if there is something some mechanic where i can't attack the blocker straight away because i know that they're immune to certain things i don't know how it works again going in blind right now i can escape very quickly i do have the gateway right here and i have gateways all over the galaxy our two main points to defend are over here which actually is the furthest away from from a gateway so still not terrible though and of course over here everywhere else is just collateral if it gets destroyed uh it's annoying but we'll live i mean the people on the planet won't live but we'll live that's the important thing today oh it's laggy as well i'm really looking forward to this 38 000. i just can't see how they're going to win that's why i'm so scared because people keep saying they're going to win but look how strong i am this will just defeat any any normal crisis multiple times over here we go the arrival after years of anxious anticipation the intergalactic object has finally entered our galaxy just as expected right as it entered the system it proceeded to instantaneously decelerate causing a subspace recoil which utterly obliterated the entire system when the resulting subspace distortion finder cleared the object's nature was finally revealed to us and just like some expected and many more feared it is indeed a colossal spaceship or rather a possibly quite alarmingly a sort of gigantic intergalactic fleet and yes i'll take a look after reading this it seems to consist of a humongous central vessel resembling a triple ring world arranged around an artificial black hole camera looking forward to seeing this now like singularity surrounded by several large crafts themselves escorted by an array of smaller vessels the purpose of these vessels is not yet known and their esoteric designs forbid us from properly understanding their intentions regardless it seems whoever is manning the vessels has transmitted a powerful subspace signal to the entire galaxy as a way of presumably introducing themselves to us oh hello there you're cool you're really cool look at you harvester [Laughter] lovely oh you're like the nanites but creepier that's a yep that's a block cap that oh it move oh look at that portrait it's so neat oh that is really cool i'm not focusing on the ships anymore okay apparently 30 fleet power i'm assuming as per usual we've got an issue there of yeah just oh my god look how much hull it's got that is nine million hull okay admittedly that's all the ships combined but still nine million how much does my system craft have before bonuses again uh system where are you there we are oh never mind we're still still ridiculous but i don't know it's weapons maybe it's again i don't know what bonuses has let's talk to them look at me jiggle oh who's a jiggly boy you're a jiggly boy surveying immediate surroundings analyzing potency of native galaxy civilizations analyzing energetic density of galaxy assessment viable harvesting candidate jiggle jiggle greetings to whoever it may concern the block at vesta and its surrounding fleets have made contact with your galaxy we shall make ourselves clear as approximation and mystery breed and efficiency we have come to your galaxy in search of pure raw energy and athlete shall harvest every last bit of matter vacuum fluctuations and background radiation from it if this inconveniences you your civilization may leave the galaxy and we shan't pursue you pursue you rather pursue you rather do not attempt to slow us down as this whoa boy only accelerate your demise that's not good blockets the block at subspace broadcast leaves no room for creative interpretation of their goals these beings are evidently going to be attempting to aggressively dismantle our galaxy to fuel their own industrial needs regardless of our admittedly justified concerns although the exact method of which i will employ to do so is not yet known long-range scans have already undertaken uh sorry have already been taken on their colossal mothership currently parked in the void system to access their current strength unfortunately for us and the rest of the galaxy these scans results paint a decidedly grim picture as indeed the mother ship is seemingly surrounded by a colossal vortex of energy forming a shield approximately two quadrillion times more powerful than what yeah that's a hat a big number than what any known star system shielding device could manifest into existence as it stands their mothership and everything within the ceramic system would be completely invulnerable to all forms of damage regardless of the source or intensity the shield only extends to the mothership system however meaning that any ships venturing to neighboring systems would be able to be destroyed with sufficient firepower hello sufficient firepower hopefully but for now further analysis will have to be urgently conducted on the mother ships humongous shield if we are ever to strike it down and stop the blockers from entirely consuming the galaxy okay i think i need some science vessels over here then right why do i have a random armada over there can you move over there as well uh yeah just um any science vessels i can can you just move over we do have the gateway here now so traveling to this little bastion is quite easy i wonder how strong these things are yeah he doesn't even give me a number on them apparently they're very old though they're maximum skill which is interesting they are psychic interesting very interesting indeed i mean it doesn't look too scary but obviously again i haven't seen them fight okay so acknowledged points of interest yeah we know that oh current location so it can move well bugger uh you guys gonna move anywhere then let me see currently all just sitting there technology secured i'm assuming you're going to move soon i guess it gives you a few seconds for fully active oh yep yep all the ships have now split properly oh they move that way i thought it's gonna move that way um let's have a look at you guys oh you guys are neat oh i want the ship design uh okay this is going everywhere like they're some are going that way some are going this way doesn't matter i think we should just try and intercept them unless okay so it's size we're going to get some like research or something i'm tracking our map case it moves i'm trying to think what's the best plan of action here see we do the gateway there so we can instantly get all of our forces very quickly through this gateway and then ambush the group moving there or we could wait for them to split up further i'm assuming they'll split up further than that and then we could try and go after one single thing at a time so we have one harvester going there already we have at least one of these escort groups oh that's problematic cool attacks let's see what happens this little 6k fleet wow who'da thought it got devastated yeah that removed their stuff instantly the gateway's still there though right we didn't just demolish the gateway well that's annoying so they can actually destroy gateways [Music] how did you get there i'm guessing they can warp i mean it'd be silly if they couldn't really wouldn't it um i can move really quickly as well okay uh everyone follow magnus the red let's just get them more into position i guess yeah the scout boys are spawned in here um that's pretty quick also no one's following which is just great follow not enter or did i press enter orbit last time if you enter orbit when you go to a new system they tend not to follow oh poop all the bad words i don't want to say out loud no no no no no you get off my bloody solar system you blocky buggers wow they're let me know you're just a mortal aren't you system craft oh so a lot of ships died there but we have lots of ships as well there's only a scout group by the way it's even called scout oh look how it dies it spins jiggle that you bugger and moon tanks flight you know okay it's one down one tiny little scout fleet no it's not an escort fleet it's tiny everyone move into position please ooh things following the recent engagement with the block at fleet our warships have have successfully terminated some of the blocker's mysterious vessels in a daredevil move they have managed to acquire some debris left over from destroyed ships in the form of blocked scrap naturally this block of scrap is of incredible scientific value as it provides us with an opportunity to properly study the blockage engineering from up close and perhaps even understand how their terrifyingly powerful weapons actually operate our scientific advisors believed that we could acquire more of the scrap by destroying additional blockade vessels in combat the amount of scrap we've currently stuck pile can now be viewed in the bottom right of the blocket research bureau a new okay how does one do the bureau how how does bureau how does bureau a lot of stuff is normally here that's not bureau how does bureau how do oh yeah i can talk to these fellas i love how they jiggle our harvesting operations are proceeding splendidly anything we can do for you what is the purpose we have a vision a plan an ambition you see and realizing it requires energy how much energy you ask all of it can't we co-exist whatever deal your species could propose is ultimately going to be inferior to simply harvesting the energy ourselves if our approximations inconvenience you you are free to depart from the galaxy we cannot leave that is unfortunate oh i like him i do i've got a soft spot for this pure uncaring evil that's fun okay so here's the research bureau itself then um okay there's a lot to unpack here so these are the tasks to get knowledge currently to study which is this i suppose then we can use the scrap got some from the fight a second ago this will increase our damage against the blockades and research boosts and stuff like that but the looks of things we have zero currently so we need to do this one apparently it's several quadrillion times more powerful than what a ship of the size of a block investor should be able to generate this is a special project technology secured okay that's actually not too bad um considering our science is so good so i guess i'll just grab that i'm actually gonna back off a bit here until i see just a small group on their own i don't know how strong this thing is but the fact is giving us so many bonuses making me actually really worried so i'm just gonna back off to here let them come to us i might destroy one of these assists no i can just jump it doesn't matter if i destroy a system using our beam i mean i guess i could just jump here instead now i like it here okay i'll go to there i think i will build the final system graph just because i feel like this is going to be well i don't know how long to last but honestly looking at it i feel like this is going to be a very long time we only need a couple more system craft over here so to send over some of our worlds a couple of our moons the blockers have reached and subsequently obliterated that colony so i guess this one over here whoa wow okay so this generates blockers in quietitude interesting sorry so it's gonna cost influence to suppress the fact just lost many people and a system i don't really know what that does but look at that i mean that's neat can't click on anything to zoom in properly here can i maybe there we go okay uh i'll spend i guess and i assume if we had any craft here it would have just destroyed us this one here is powering up and about to just do the same and i'm guessing that's about that yeah the system was bold definitions completely gone if you'd like to fully read this then feel free to there's a lot of text at the moment and my dyslexic adult brain is struggling a bit gotta be honest see what i mean too much text okay so let's read the important bit there so it starts at zero and increases by one every time the blockers consume one percent of our galaxy up to a maximum of 100 it will decrease stability and increase crime on our worlds as the looming threat of the blocker annihilation closes in on our civilization but we'll also increase the productivity of our researchers significantly as they seek ways to fight back against the blockades any of our pups getting consumed but the blockets will also increase the inquisitude that's one of those words i never hear out loud so i'm pronouncing it weirdly but anyway can be managed from the intelligence bureau oh yeah there it is we can bolster it oh research speed interesting i'm guessing we're going to get repeatables or something soon it's really hinting that so you can only just get there yeah uh i was going to see i feel like i attacked this and this thing fully powers up three two one boop i assume we would have lost that people oh i should have moved that people off before but back cost influence can't really do that yeah i assume we would have lost our ships in that system similar to when a system is normally destroyed by like the super gun or something so i'll just i could just get them all here i haven't got anything repeatables i feel like they're gonna move now here like that and i don't know how strong those destroyers are i feel like trying to be a bit more careful and just seeing if we find any escorts or anything is probably the way to go until we have some of the bonuses sorted i just don't know how strong they are and i'm going to play it safe i think okay so the bull walk apparently uses the fourth dimension um i just read it through it quickly so we are going to need to do the tech and everything in order to bring it down [Music] new blocker research tasks are now available again feel free to pause it and read it if you would like but i'm not going to be reading it completely just because there is so much to read huh okay so we need interesting so apparently once we get 10 knowledge we can start building a giga structure against it or a mega structure for sure a theoretical mega structure capable of emitting a focus beam of energy through high higher dimensional space in order to destabilize them okay so we need to do these then so engineering physics and obviously society i guess i'll do that first research option okay you know auto for a second please yeah unlocks physics repeatables and gives us plus one knowledge okay yeah i feel like playing passively for a while is gonna be the way to go so i definitely should build that fourth system craft remember the system craft is far stronger than some of its parts and is so difficult to kill with its passive regen having a fourth nam zinch wouldn't be a bad thing oh why'd this pop up oh you're on the move and you're immortal at the moment so i'm glad i moved i wish you would see where they were going okay i've decided to let this happen and i don't know if it's the right call okay he's hoping they do hit shields all of our forces versus one of these we have no bonuses currently from the research i just saw a whole squad available lovely battleships go away them diminished okay the armor of the minecraft is being obliterated i'm assuming from our system crafts main attacks i love how these things die vessels destroyed vessels destroyed yes take that way too happy about that i was so bloody nervous there thank you systemcraft you deadly deadly things athletes have successfully crippled and destroyed one of the blockers colossal block dismantlers operating within the system the humongous vessel underwent a catastrophic detonation following the complete failure of defensive systems putting an end to the blockage harvesting operations within the system for now gives us three knowledge straight away that's fantastic and a large quantity of scrap and has lowered that okay lovely absolutely lovely now now dismantle the dismantlers the rest of them now there are some over here there are some over here so it could potentially go after this but if this is charging again i have a feeling that tonight's going to be a good night no but i have a feeling that if this thing sets off the star it will destroy everything in the system because that's how every other thing in this game has worked so far with this mod with system destroying weapons oh look how many battleships we've lost okay that was a great victory we've lost most of our fleets and i imagine the enemy focused on that no that's a gateway system oh i need that gateway system so desperately econ and research vessels oh and i've only just got there as well so we have more time oh don't do i risk it okay let me have a look at my system craft how well did you fare okay the system craft look at full health so i do think that the battleships acted like a meat shield there and they took the brunt of the damage whereas our uh three system craft and a couple of our um i lost one of their planet craft i don't know and i think yeah and our planet craft managed to just deal that bulk damage because remember they have ridiculous damage and we have been doing repeatables to strengthen them for a while so yeah i think that's it wait what do i have so many planet okay i moved too many planet craft over here trying to decide what to do here i think you all move there yeah i think i will go after this song because it hasn't yet got to the star to start dismantling so i'll try and save this one then i'll see what happens after that yeah yep it was over there wasn't it yep yep that went boom there it is i utterly obliterated that attack moon oh i can repair it zero g construction missile destroyed still worried yeah can everyone please get right there rich jump first block investigation reports hyper dimensional engineering as expected the higher dimensional engineering is extremely prevalent within blocker civilization to the point that every single piece of block of tech uses in one way or another so it can hold loads of cargo because of this and it's exploiting different dimensions oh fantastic so do actually get repeatable from this again feel free to pause if you would like to read it i'll probably say that several times at this point so that's what we want to do then just keep up ooh mega structure builds me cool so probably just want to get these repeatables up and running about 12 months i'm 121 k tech at plus 244 percent jeez i thought that's so powerful um what are these then so yeah these are the tasks to get more knowledge at least 10 and for this we need to get all of those okay i think i think i'm getting it now so next we'll do the engineering one it's a shame you can't do them all at once can you no you can't okay can't system craft get into position oh it's powering up can we beat it 152 days i don't know let's just try to read this a bit more uh so increased research speed granting permanent increase to all block at research speed a temporary version which is stronger permanent damage so really that's what we want then that goes 50 scraps so what we want is to finish all that and start using the scrap to give us a permanent damage buff oh this is so risky but um yeah i'm going in again what about planet craft lagging behind do i have all the bonuses up and running i mean i should do right yeah and obviously that's some cool down now i've done the bonuses up and running still for our extra shield oh my god is it more vulnerable when it's doing that maybe or it just got hit by the system crafts main weapon god i am powerful system craft man you've come to the wrong bleeding galaxy we can eat the energy well guess what we have lasers okay there's no chance we're gonna save that but it might move here the problem is that also might move there but if we say a bad jump if we risk it it's actually not too bad because what can happen yeah they have completely destroyed the gateway again that's very irritating so if he if they if it moves here then we can still start the jump i've just got to be careful what i'm hoping is yeah i'm not going to risk that even though we did just destroy that instantly i'm not going to risk that um yes if that moves there we jump if that moves there we can obliterate it i'm not supremely confident so i don't know if more things are being spawned in this is just like the first wive and we are losing a lot of fleets each i mean look at how many of our leaders died from that that seemed like an instant win right dead dead dead dead dead dead dead dead we lost a ton of ships and i do think that's what's protecting the main system craft is the swarms so i need to do oh god i have plus 30k energy now because how many swarms have died what i need to do is using our minions using our system craft we need to start producing swarms so i'm thinking just corvettes corvettes everywhere just to bite some of the hits technology secured oh no he didn't fire the right target oh thank god i got really scared there oh wow oh so i think i've lost all the normal fleets but still yeah there's one more they just meant let's go a planet flies great i have no idea where i built that actually okay there is uh oh man system crafts are awesome system craft are the best thing okay that's moving uh jump you can't jump yep your old designs move so i still can't fight that though that's the thing i still can't fight that now i can do this so i guess now i should just keep on doing those every single time i can so once i get that then i have 12 currently this is what i need i need the mega structure to actually win requires 10 knowledge analyze salvage this will start giving me these bonuses but i don't think they've already got many things now have they other than that look i don't know how they're created so oh yep you didn't get to run the well as soon as i can retreat you i will because you're going to be utterly a blitzer oh my god oh no they just keep on rebuilding them they should not rebuild more disasters what they started with okay i thought i was winning but apparently that's not maps might not be the case okay thankfully our tech is still awesome um so we can get these done nice and quick um i'll do i haven't got any left for that i need to start okay i'm gonna max my worlds a little bit for a second i'm gonna focus completely on tech we don't need it we just don't need energy right now so these commercial worlds are worthless to us so i could also get science vessels over but with the lag and everything i'm just gonna settle with with this okay otherwise i'll go mad make sure everyone's moving into these worlds i didn't i just didn't realize tech would be so important i know it sounds silly but i didn't can take a while for them to get there okay so although they can jump they don't seem to use gateways and i doubt they'll use the el gate it's not there's one close by anyway so i think it's gonna take a long time for them to get to it two very important areas and in that time we should also have the fourth and final of the system craft up and running what i meant to spend my influence on i don't i don't know what to do um i'm just gonna have you know what i'm gonna start rebuilding battleships they might they may die almost instantly but they have worked so far technology secured okay give me a second this may be a huge mistake i just yep i just jumped these in which means they're half strength but yet there we go dismantlers destroyed as soon as the system craft targets it it wins the system crafts are just unbelievably strong okay there's something curious about let's see about the actual civilization about blockers this one i may read completely a thorough analysis of the various subspace frequencies emanating from the blockade vesta combined with the remote observations of their spaceships has yielded invaluable data regarding the blockades and their civilizations contrary to our initial beliefs the blockades are not in fact a hive mind but rather a species of individual synthetic beings like us each of these beings possesses complete free will but they are regardless connected to one another by a colossal information network hosted within a higher dimension and connects all blockers together this effectively enables the instantaneous transfer of data from one blocker to another regardless of distance further study of this information network which is apparently dubbed the block work behind the blockers themselves has worryingly revealed that the blockers in our galaxy are actually an extremely small part of the complete civilization who apparently operate at least 2 000 such motherships in various parts of the universe the blocker's actual goal is not yet clear but their transmissions indicate the harvested matter from all motherships is sent back towards an unknown central location it is quite evident that our galaxy is not the first one to be targeted by their harvesting fleets and it is unknown just how many civilizations have fallen victim to the blockades widespread blockade archives notably mention the destruction of an intergalactic biological hive mind by blocking fleets so the destruction that construction leaving the hive mind scattered remnants to flee through the universe wait is that the scourge they're talking about the scourge right because the scourge of fleeing an invader as scientists believe we may be able to further crack the encrypted block work to retrieve more block knowledge fantastic so obviously i'm going to keep on doing that as much as possible and i want all of these reactivated now if you would be so kind i actually don't need that i don't use any physical weapons that's fine ooh didn't even look at these research grants blockers research speed but it hurts everything else that's actually not bad oh but we need more of the fear to do these interesting i'm probably gonna get that over time anyway so there's no bother there okay um once you're done with that can you move a little bit away again the system crafts are carrying us so much okay so this is all to do with the mega structure after research associated okay oh engineering that's what i meant okay there we are even though the blockers seemingly exhibit little interest towards nativisation a particular phenomenon which seems which seemingly goes against their usually disinterested behavior has occurred on several of our worlds over the past few months well originally mere rumors thought to have been born from blocker introduced paranoia is recently confirmed that individual blockers have been cited on several of our worlds according to reports the various worlds where sightings took place they are not aggressive and simply vanish into thin air when confronted or threatened the exact purpose of these enigmatic visits is not yet known but given their passive and sometimes almost nonchalant attitude the most likely answer is these blockets might may just be visiting but these visits have been conjured up to somewhat insane sounding idea within the block at research bureau what if we could capture them a new blocker research project is available the capture device okay we're already doing that one though but yeah please if 13 research we can do that straight afterwards ah stop doing that where are you even gonna go next we can't keep jumping as well they actually did say they took out some of our planet craft this time it's only at a matter of time if they start taking out the system craft that's about to destroy that so goodbye to the system okay we're about to start building the giga structure to actually fight the blockers they just rebuilt stuff and i can't jump right now so we are going to lose i would imagine this whole section thankfully nice and far away from over here though the system craft is on its way and i'm now researching into how to use the scrap which is good because i really want the research speed probably more than other stuff but the extra damage of course would be lovely but i don't think i need that it's just i need more research speed i need to get those research points up and running as fast as possible so i can unlock everything yep while monitoring the myriad of heavily encrypted signals emanating from the block of vesta without within real space the research bureau has made an intriguing discovery indeed a very specific pattern of data is seemingly being repeated and relayed constantly by the block of mothership which has only intensified since they've reached the galaxy so many different bits of research like which one's best currently i'm doing the scrap one but yeah so repeating signal okay we need to do this one don't we yeah that's what we need to do to focus on the weapon to to destabilize the main shield of the mothership that's what we need to focus on i think the others seem fun but i need that done before i forget again there we are special project complete fantastic okay so this here is from the repeating signal it turns out that a piece of scale didn't take research directly let it say the block at knowledge i should say so i eventually realized that actually clicked on it through a thorough analysis of the block work our blocket research bureau has managed to partially decrypt the mysterious reoccurring block transmission their conclusion is that the transmission is explosion is centered around a set of coordinates and while the transmission remain far too encrypted for us to truly comprehend anything the rest of the message is apparently intended to carry a worrying or even fearful tone while some of the more supremacist elements of our civilization believe the blockers might be talking about enterprise promise this myth was quickly dashed when the further decryption of the system employed by the blocks to keep track of locations revealed oh i remember you there's the um they're the psychics right okay so we need to go to the psychics and say hello i remember you from another run um well i'll go and find them and send a science vessel right now okay so they're shrouded now they are indeed shrouded very interesting indeed taking out the small fellas it's really difficult for these guys there we go uh can the planet craft try and hunt down these i mean just give me a nightmare the planet crash but still attack oh another system about to go bye-bye i think it's a slowly devouring everything thankfully it's a bigger it's a big galaxy so it's gonna take a while uh you probably best to move back over here now because that's what's gonna send out the destroyers again the world is now surrounded by devastating energy they may know more about the blocks eight hundred thousand to just simply attempt to breach it right i mean eight million no i know i hundred thousand i can't even i don't have that much possible i'll just keep on focusing on what we're focusing on i mean i could try and start stockpiling more uh everything needs a resource silo now apparently which i kind of already done um yeah i haven't done the repeatable enough to increase our maximum capacity that's going to be insane trying to get that much energy feed me more we should give me knowledge of them to scrap that i've got to be honest there's 20 research right now and all of our tech's going towards i'm actually starting to bolster i'm trying to bolster this just to get some more research output but yeah it's difficult it's really difficult because if someone kill these things it removes some of them got loads of scrap though just don't really need it right now just need more tech so i'm trying to do is to get the long term block at scrap analysis every time it pops up this will increase our knowledge by a little bit but also increase the research speed for everything else i'm also going with the temporary bonus every time i can which gives us another plus hundred percent i'm also building resource silos on every world i can at the moment to see if i can maybe breach this because i'm interested in it but yeah it is very difficult okay the last system craft is complete this one is in the name of slanish i don't know where to put this one honestly um the three are doing just fine at the moment having an extra one makes it more vulnerable uh i think i'm gonna keep this one near a gateway and when it's needed i'll send it so we do get one knowledge for simply getting the science vessel to one of the desolated systems so that's good technology now going to be increasing our damage permanently i'm still going for the permanent buffs as well to tech though it turns out what you need to do each and every time is purchase this so you don't just get the repeatable forever every time you click it you get one of the repeatables that's simply it so i misunderstood something and when it comes to this it turns out you don't actually lose the knowledge when you choose one of these so i now have started to conceive the capture device because it wouldn't remove the 10. i only noticed that a second ago when i uh went with this so now we have the next stage of the megastructure to kill the blocks which i'm building here no that's our new yeah i am trying to build a new system crap it's not going to happen but i had spare influence it's this one here yeah this is going to be the super weapon which is very pretty and that apparently cost 20 it didn't we just required to have 20 so yeah we might as well choose everything we can so now i'm going to wrestle back control of that system which is annoying because now i've got a trade value very irritating uh but other than that if it's fine thankfully i managed to kill off their rebellion forces because i don't know why but once they claim the system like the ai always does it sends out its main force it's got some protection but nowhere near enough to fight off all of mine so i'm gonna recline my home system yeah i should have dealt with that a bit earlier but i was hoping i could just ignore it until the end and then talk about it that was the plan but no okay we have slowed them down so much i think we're doing okay in the meantime though i am building two more of these lovely brains i won't be able to completely finish them but our build to be that moment is insane so already getting a little bit of tech from them i'm just hoping to get some of the percentage bonuses because that's really all i care about right now so the next step of that i mean i haven't even finished the first one yet but at least now i have the tech for it so first stage we're about to start the sex the second stage as soon as i can ah you please stop moving in the direction i don't think you're gonna move i still have only eaten this little section though so i think we're okay this is really a journey but there we go next whoa okay then i now have three of the brains uh currently being built now thankfully every time i destroy one of these uh dismantlers we get a huge chunk of alloys which is basically paying for everything i might not be able to get there fast enough uh no well that's fine so destroy that then run back essentially i don't ever want to be one jump away from this because this constantly moves seemingly randomly and that's gonna just constantly take um i'll take out anything so obviously we can't hurt it right now enemy presence don't know what else to do i could try and make another system craft but i don't have the alloys to do all the science as well so i'm just really putting everything into this i am building some some fleets again just in case but uh yeah that's really it almost everything's going into just more and more tech and making sure these things will survive we're now at a passive plus 75 damage versus the block boys and 150 research speed that's without the temporary bonus online the system graphic is farming the destroyers over and over and over again well i finally saved up enough to uh try and pierce the shroud here and it instantly summoned this thing yeah okay uh yeah attack moon and behemoth world can you please go and try and fight them that would be great i think one of the obliterators is about to spawn in here at least move because if it just repaired it there so it should send one over there it goes then once again we move back this is essentially what i've been doing each time it moves and i move at least two back normally but this time i know exactly where it's going to spawn and then just wait and fight oh it just dodged me completely see sometimes it is completely random like i thought it would be oh never mind no it's not gonna be random it's because it's like that oh wait no they make their own attachments it's weird but i'm getting used to it i haven't died yet at least let's uh let's see if we can just to see if we can continue the whole not dying thing that'd be that'd be lovely now wouldn't it almost lost the attack moon but then the big brother finally appeared and goodbye to that i thought he'd attack him we could handle it by itself oh wait no he's lost his shield no and most of his hull wow that was close so now what then do i need a new science vessel maybe okay now i need to try and establish what's going on had to run away then almost got caught ah this is so agonizingly slow getting it all sorted so this seems to be the final one so what this will allow us to do is bring down the shields for a brief time in which we need to destroy the enemy now i do have a gateway here i'm about to climb that's kind of one of the reasons why we're at war at the moment along with us the borders being annoying so do the gateway here we're gonna have four of the system craft we're gonna have some of the behemoth worlds and we're going to have a good chunk of fleets all near 1 million each all of which can attack at once i don't know how strong this thing is i know it can kill ships because i jumped a few weak ones and see what happened i'm assuming it's multiple times that of which we've been destroying so far but as long as it isn't being protected so all of the main weapons all hit this thing at once i think we're gonna be okay so i was just now doing the whole dive into that world thing but instead we're going to swap straight away and get this sorted the final things is now being built so now the only tech i'm going to be focusing on to do with the block people is of course the extra block damage so each of these increases the damage we do to their faction by 15 as well as increasing all damage we do by five percent it's very similar to the research one gives plus 15 research speed plus an additional five standard so you also want this the temporary so make sure we have scrap beforehand make sure we have enough influence to activate the main relic we have increasing either armor damage or shield hopefully damage again because i think just brute forcing it would be the easiest way here okay so i've just destroyed you you're not on the move yet no not activated yet so i can move you around to go after this one because i have sadly got them two of these now up and running i think we can protect the gateway for long enough i don't know i might need to move my forces in just so they're here so oh keeper of secrets greater demon of slash i need you as well right now move there move up okay yes let's just pop you over here so you're close but not in the direct firing line so i can just forget about you same goes for all of the battleships and i'll quickly give you all some generals admirals okay then so the grand money after months of carefully trudging through the thick sonic fog surrounding the planet our expedition has finally breached the cloud's lowermost layer and has now arrived on the planet proper they were greeted by the sight of thousands upon thousands of the species partaking in some sort of collective transcendence some of them seemingly frozen in place or constantly discharging vast quantities of psyonic energy into the planet's atmosphere others were constantly patrolling the planet as if supervising the whole operation the species did not seem to notice or care about our expeditions which navigated through the entranced crowds towards a colossal spotlight building near the planet's northern hemisphere interestingly the planet's surface does not seem to have been drastically altered and its verdant planes would be quite the hospitable place if it were not for the crushing quantities of psionic energy is currently swirling around the world upon getting close to the spire the ship's crew reported that sort of esoteric apparation manifested itself within their very consciousness quickly determined to be none other than the grand money herself the matriarch and protector of the species attempting to communicate with us hello that is creepy i bring greetings to you foreign travelers so you have managed to breach through our psionic shield i must say that i am impressed and yet your appearance is not that of the blockades nor door no do you seem hostile to us what reasons might your kind have to try and contact my kind of such further the blockades are nefarious creatures devoid of moral concerns and only focus on their own gains this is how they have always been ever since the start of our great conflict thousands of years ago the palouses i should probably call them by the name rather than just species but you know mean words and i are currently pooling our sonic potential in order to repel any of their potential intrusions into our world who are you okay i'm gonna start summarizing now so she is the guardian of the place and if anyone ever threatens them too much you can collapse the planet and everything into a single crystal but if you were to be struck down during the slumber then it might be permanent okay then i'm afraid this tactic won't work against the modern blockage either they undoubtedly possess the necessary knowledge to complete to endlessly obliterate them okay so who exactly are you that's that one the guardian so thousands of years ago they could actually fight the blockades but they have basically lost so she has to have a great slumber otherwise just goes and that last attack happened while the slumber happened and the shield is i'm going to assume yeah it's just for protecting themselves against the blockades oh as well as just making themselves seem stronger yeah they're basically uh a puffer fish at this point then can you help us so i can go to the archives apparently a deal the grand buddies willing to let us access the grand archives but our impromptu breaching of the sonic shield has according to her compromise the safety of the people as such she wants 2 500 energy per month to help bolster the barrier the energy transfer will not be able to be canceled until we are done with the archives which might take at least several years uh i mean sure let's just go with it anyway the grand archives oh okay so it's an archaeological site then well get to work hopefully i'll give us some bonuses against them and not just research because we don't need the research at this point uh where are you gonna move next you've been there for way too long fine let's move here but i'm being very careful i'm gonna pay attention this time 100 days remain until the giga structure is up and running and honestly the enemy is in the perfect position all of our fleets are here it's a direct run up to it i don't know where these are going to go but they're going to leave the system soon i'm really hoping we just activate it straight away because we are again in the perfect position now i had to jump to get into position because they moved at the worst possible time but i think i'm gonna give it a go right now just as soon as i sell all these minerals which i really should have been selling every month but i had so much other stuff to deal with i just kind of forgot come on let's give us the extra armor that'll be great thank you don't need that nothing's using kinetic there it is activate technology secured for the love of potatoes okay fine let's just make sure we have enough energy then that's fine is it done love to know if it's done or not oh hello okay the bulldog falls go in the name of me uh how much stuff just felt you know what don't get it go three worlds will be a bit late that's fine system craft is all i really need there we are oh that okay that's the only dented shield but then the main weapons fired we're done nurglekorn zinch and slanesh thank you very much for your very very shiny lasers bereft of its esoteric shield and subjected to prodigious quantities of high energy fire the blockade vesta begins to falter at first unnoticeable the cascading failure of its layered defense systems is rapidly intensifying by the sheer intensity of our weaponry before finally hitting the point of no return within moments the hyper-dimensional structures surrounding the vessel within higher dimensional space violently unravel before promptly crashing down into our reality the block investor unequipped to deal with such catastrophic levels of damage collapses into itself as the very laws of physics buckle under the immense quantities of energy poured into the vessel's ruptured frame the resulting dimensional shockwave disrupts the intricate hyperdimensional components of every blocket vessel within the galaxy obliterating them in mere instance by the way that's a dyslexic not loving some of these some of these blocks of text gotta be honest the rapid disassembly of the craft is punctuated only by a myriad of ftl trials heading into heading into extra galactic space presumably individual blockers hurriedly fleeing the unexpected catastrophe befalling their seemingly invulnerable armadas it takes some time for the flood of energy emitted by the disintegrating blockade vessels to stop flooding our sensors but when it finally subsides the outcome is undeniable it is over the blockades are no more the destruction of the blockers vesta at the hands of the bug-faced spoilers has caused the destruction of every other block of vessel within the galaxy and those who might have survived have rightfully so have fled into intergalactic space it has taken years of arduous research and more years of dangerous construction but at last the blockades have been evicted from our galaxy using the combined might of the super bug face variations scientific and military prowess is that name currently yeah i think that's our synth name isn't it kept changing as i upgraded everything yep that's just us whilst there is still a chance that another block at vesta impacting a galaxy in the distant future should they ever come back we shall be ready fortunately our ability to ps their precious shield should most likely dissuade them from ever attempting to harvest our galactic matter ever again but it is not without sacrifice and the galaxy is now marred by the scars of the blockades harvesting operations as huge swathes of once vibrant star systems now lie as empty as intergalactic space perhaps in time we shall learn how to heal the wounds suffered by our galaxy but for now the sapiens of our galaxy are finally free of the looming blockade threat claim dismissed oh we haven't even really got too scary block convicted so that is that also um we are about to become the galactic custodian so we've just won they can't possibly help photos so we've won in every way how many brains do we have now so that one's a central process so that one's a full brain so a full brain over there we have a full brain over here we have a new one that's about to be merged over there one over here so we have almost 200k research a ludicrous amount of research speed if we go to this it goes up to almost 600 percent wow that was i serious journey that was honestly i i honestly found it a bit overwhelming i really did because there was just so much to read as well i mean just look at this i i've purposely ignored the grand archives because oh my word there is so much law here i appreciate how much effort has gone into this but at this point my eyes are going to melt gigastructures continues to amaze me and i really do think it's one of those mods you need to play like 10 plus times to really understand everything because it seems like with the buns the little rabbits over here the grand money and everything uh they may have caused the war at least really really really contributed to it so i'm gonna let that finish off to see what the bonus we get so if i've got energy weapon damage and loads of extra um knowledge but look how much stuff there is you know what yeah let's just let that finish and then we'll say our goodbyes this galaxy a stabilizer can i be used for energy or for a monument it is a monument to our glory producing vast quantities of research kept running out of consumers near the end because i've made everyone um have social welfare so our world stopped being completely unstable because there's just too many of them i have stopped growth on most of the world but yeah it's difficult so there's the final stage we get a ludicrous amount of research unity and influence so it does seem like at one point they both shared a world there was a war and the blockades got cast out then they tried to return only to meet the grand bunny who then defended it's all over the place with this so i would recommend actually using the mod and um seeing this for yourself because it is a very very very long story but that is pretty much it so feel free to read that last little bit in fact if you'd like to hello we do also get one last little bit of tech it's a good look see what that is then extra damage to the blockers i mean that's great that's a fantastic one there but with that it is the end of the episode i can only imagine that editing this is gonna be a real annoying task for future laughtrix because i expected this to take honestly another day of recording to get all the footage together but it has taken almost four it's been all over the place though and that was with me skimping on micromanaging the worlds everything else just getting through everything just making sure i understood how everything works and wow that was so incredibly detailed um for those who like to read every last thing and really get immersed i think this is fantastic i i honestly can't fault it it was incredibly fun i think if i do go with this mod again do a full play through which is unlikely at this point i think i will check out certain things like for instance we do have this thing still to check out and lots others like the cat mid game crisis um i think i will have the default settings for population growth or at least a lot um tone down as to what i have currently which is just allowing population growth as it used to be before it got changed i think i'd have a smaller galaxy as well i think this would make the endgame crisis more difficult along with reducing a lot of the lag in the mid light game although honestly it ran a lot better than i expected so kudos to that but that is me done so if you have enjoyed today's video as i certainly have enjoyed recording it then of course likes favorite shares comments all that good stuff helps out me helps out the channel and most importantly shows that stellaris is a series you wish to see continued in the future this has been a serious experience and i'm so happy we've got all four of our lovely lovely system craft [Music] oh there goes the uh the sciatic shield psionic shield rather oh dear so the ground force is even stronger before wow they really are there's the grand bunny i'll leave them alone they've been through enough so thank you for watching have a lovely day do take care and until next time a goodbye and thank you to the four of our system craft

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Published: Thu Nov 11 2021