Stellaris - Horizon Signal Mechanics

something out there loves us therefore for tonight I present a time-travel horror story to the midnight society bag on the 5th of December 2016 we got a free update called horizon signal written by Alexis Kennedy writer renowned for games such as fall in London and sunless sea and he is kind of known for writing pseudo horror stories with a rather Lovecraftian twang to it and this is very similar horizon signal is a time travel horror story within the confines of solarz now before we actually start this off unless you seriously want to mess up your species don't do a horizon signal it does really mess up your species but there are some pretty big bonuses that you can get out of it now it's difficult to trigger I've never had it actually trigger for myself in-game so if you want to play along all you're going to do is open up the console punch in the event akx point eight eight eight eight and make sure that you have a sine ship selected at a black hole they should trigger the event and you can play along with this video as your scientist arrives at the black hole you're greeted with an event called hole Rises and signal you get the option to analyze the signal and this will take twenty days and they requires a level two scientist this immediately followed by gravity is desire there's two options here you can start the event or it's a trick and move on and get a bunch of physics for it it's between 200 and 500 and this ends the event change I've this wasn't free physics research this is basically a good way to do it however if you go and start the event let's go down the rabbit hole because we're through the looking glass let's start a rising signal this is immediately followed by the worm event in the warmer vendor your ship will go towards the coordinates from the previous message where your science officer goes into a tirade about the worm all transmissions end no trace of the or ship will ever be found and no transmission or debris can be found at this location what happens well you'll be presented with a new event chain called the worm in waiting signals within your event Diary get ready because here we go after a little while the black hole becomes active again in the reprise event the black hole is requesting a couple things first off you can send your scientists into the black hole or at least to the exit point as it so refers to this this kills the leader you can also send to the leader in there but rig the ship to explode if you do this you will also lose a leader however you will find a piece of research on top of that and you get the entropic incursion technology will get 10% out of it and has got a base cost of 4,000 you can buy a build the spiral feed power hub once you finish this with the terrible powerup it's basically a powerup - that just reduces happiness by 5% so it's not particularly great then you can also ignore it and this will end the chain or at least it won't end the chain but it will stop events for now if you did decide to send your scientists through you're presented with the I am through event where your scientists once again goes through delirium and says things about the loops being whole and that they are through of course its kills a scientist this destroys the ship but you will get a three of options to take off from here this is horrible this is regrettable and this is fascinating guess what they all do exactly the same you're being railroaded for now after a while you will be presented with the trying the coin the trine a event where the black hole or at least something beyond the horizon is writing love poems for one of your lead is the same as last time basically you can send that leader towards the exit point or you can set the ship to explode or you can just ignore things what happens here is basically the same thing as last time either it explodes you get recursion technology or you can just let it go if you send a scientist through however you will find yourselves with a brand new ship named the foundling as the ship from the previous leader ascent through pops back out out of the horizon with one message in the log saying what was shall be now from this moment onwards you can stop messing around with the black hole because scientists on our homeworld have discovered something the loop temple signs in the stone as archaeologists have found a forgotten temple and remote highlands of your capital world with a mobius like serpent consuming its own tail at least that's the imagery that's inside of it tender this either merits study or it is ominous beau vents basically do the same thing once this is done you'll be presented with the loop temple time and stone where you can open the temple up to the public and this gives you a 5% flat happiness bonus to your capital world and also gives you a 20% additional research upon a new technology called doctrine strange loop you can also get at the reserved temple for academic study which also gives you a flat 20% bonus towards doctrine strange loop and doctrine strange looping generalism produces for social science it gives you a 5% ethics divergence reduction and planetary happiness plus 10% yeah you can also get between 300 and 2,000 society research here if you're going to go for the academic study option we can say there is something wrong here and and the chain make sure you do start researching the doctrine Strange Loop and the incursion technology because you're going to need that later and let's put it this way there are some rather annoying things coming up now at this point this could be the end of the chain if you don't know where to go from here well good thing you got me because I'm about to tell you what happens next all you got to do is put an admiral in one of your fleets and jump it to a random location what happened now is is that you will find yourselves in the rendezvous event where the admiral hails you from another ship whilst also leaving your fleet so this is the ninny event our rendezvous your Admiral will be presented with himself or herself from another timeline or at least something that appears to be them they will get a series of communication events where you can get a bunch of additional science and also a discussion about the worm and the worm that will be or what was it will be and what will be was in this event are you original but also a small ship go to Zig Ziggy is that you will need to destroy and all of a sudden the Admiral realizes that they've destroyed themselves your Admiral will now get the four doomed to a rendezvous trait I'm not actually kind of sure if this thing works because I've never actually managed to find the actual trait it doesn't pop up on the character itself it doesn't really do anything all it does is that the captain is four doomed to kill himself or themselves in the future we now enter into the second act of horizon signal where represented with is a messenger something in space is found it is an escape pod you can research it it appears to be old and obsolete however there is remains found inside remains that are strangely similar to your own anatomy once you've done researching this you will find the messenger possibilities as what is found inside is a ancestor or a variant of your species perhaps a subject of genetic manipulation by a precursor who knows however one of your scientists gets the option to do some more extensive research you can come give permission to continue you can release the funding or you can stop old research I highly suggest that you give permission to continue as soon as this is done you will get the messenger Unleashed where after some intensive research your scientists find that this species is indeed your own however it is a older variant and sadly enough it has significantly better cognitive abilities then you would have at this point which is kind of sad the scientists agree so they decided to retroviral change their biology to more reflects the alien species involved and now you have the option to execute them you can execute them and destroy their notes or you can give them better science equipment to continue their studies I highly suggest you continue their studies because you've gotten this far so why not get even further shall we well after a while you're presented with the messenger a new light where the scientists have now designed a Geno phage a retro file agent that transforms anything that gets in touch with it into the new species or at least the old species because what was will be and what will be blows you can get the option to control the outbreak as they have released it into the atmosphere this purges every single pop on your capital world or you could embrace the chain bring me a sample of the agent and convert the entire species to something else this is by far the most interesting part of the event chain because what was Shelby means our entire species is converted this changes both your portraits it lights your ethos it makes you resilient it makes you the least messenger which means obviously your portrait changes it may add a fanatic militarist or fanatic pacifist depending whether or not you are either or it adds the individualist ethic and that is pretty much it except for all your base ethics that you already have now we get to the part of the chain where things can potentially get rather boring because you should by this time have both research the recursion technology as well as the stranger loop doctrine the thing with this is is that there is a third technology and the problem with it is is that it's a rare technology so there's a chance that it doesn't pop up for a while so I hope that you've managed to run this event fairly early in your campaign because some of these text well it has a base of 4000 which is pretty high so you'll have to run potentially through a few texts in the physics tree before Omega Theory becomes available Omega Theory like I said has a base of four thousands in physics allows construction of the Omega alignment it's a Empire unique building and produces eight physics whilst you're waiting for this technology however there is a bunch of events that can happen and those are calling events there is the waiting world where your colonists arrive finding that there are already buildings there or at least they are mothballed you can decide to demas ball them and put them to use you get a bunch of free buildings including the loop farm and on top of that a follow up on this is the shadow in the walls where people are afraid of the buildings because something may lurk inside of them or their security systems are active you can decide to tear down the buildings at this point or continue on if you decided to tear them down then you will get a happiness malice welcome to the final stage of the event chain the end in the beginning the worm loves us or it is not safe either or it doesn't really matter because he will begin construction on the worm entry and as soon as this is done he will be presented with two options the heart and the Sun yes you will embrace the worm for what was shall be and what shall be was this changes every single planet within your home system into a tomb world now originally this included gas giants this is no longer the case and it got nerfed into the ground however it also adds to world preference to your species effectively your capital system we can become incredibly overpowered it doesn't add any additional bonuses to you the plans themselves you don't get any energy of mineral modifiers on the ground but you do get an enormous amount of additional tile that you can directly control it also includes moons and barren worlds etc if you decide not to do this you can go for the shattered loop what this does is it responds a dimensional horror by your main star destroy it you earn 3000 energy and 8000 physics both events finish the chain because what shall be what she'll be was well this was interesting to you and yes I am aware that there is a bunch of additional events involving the techno sphere or infinity sphere as some people are referring to it it doesn't really add all that much to be honest it adds a bunch of additional interactions with the sphere itself and in all honesty it's not really that interesting you play it a bunch of energy and a bunch of minerals and stuff happens and that's pretty much it really we can dig into that a little bit later if we want to however I haven't had the worm happen in any sort of galaxies where the sphere also spawns so that is basically my excuse on this one I hope that you enjoyed this I hope that you have a little better of an idea of what horizon signal does it is free you can just download it if not it should already be downloaded into your steam directory anyway just trigger the event it's a KX point eight eight eight eight make sure you have a sine ship selected at a black hole that is within your territory and let's let loose because so much for watching until next time take good care of yourselves and shudder

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Keywords: Stellaris, Paradox Interactive, Grand Strategy, 4x, ASpec, Genetic Engineering, Tutorial, how to, AI, Uprising, Dangerous, Technology, Synth, Unbidden, Crisis, Syth, Synthetics, Droid, Robot, a.i., Prethoryn Scourge, Prethoryn, Scourge, Invasion, mechanics, tutorial, Terraforming, AI Uprising, Enigmatic Fortress, Dimensional Horror, Stellarite, Horizon Signal

Id: 3ngi1_meP-U

Length: 16min 36sec (996 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 04 2017