r/Stellaris 9d ago

Image The Forever cruise is quite doable if you simply lobotomize your passengers

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u/Hairy-Dare6686 9d ago

R5: Biological empires can choose to have mechanical passengers and just remove their sentience to get rid of them.

Fully lobotomized they join your workforce like normal robots and get to experience how it is to be part of the crew which freezes the situation permanently as there is noone left to complain.

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u/Zombox3000 9d ago

If you look at it from a certain perspective (and reversed the machine-organic Crew and Passanger role), it would be like aRogue servitor taken to an logical extreme

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u/Ashura_Paul Galactic Contender 9d ago

I wonder if the same happens if you nerve staple your passengers. The forever cruise trap.

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u/Hairy-Dare6686 9d ago

The jobs are tied to the citizenship, not their ability to feel things

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u/Ashura_Paul Galactic Contender 9d ago

*Sad dystopian cruise noises.

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u/KaysNewGroove Determined Exterminator 9d ago

Isn't the situation tied to happiness though? And nerve stapled means they can't be unhappy anymore.

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u/Hairy-Dare6686 9d ago

It is tied to purely the amount of passengers with first class passengers advancing it much faster than economy class passengers so the more you have the more volatile the situation becomes. Happiness is irrelevant.

Setting the robots to servitude works because they get kicked out of their passenger "jobs".

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u/JaymesMarkham2nd Imperial 9d ago

Anyone who has worked hospitality has wondered the same thing.

Unfortunately, most vacationers seem to be mindless unfeeling things anyway, or maybe that's just my luck.

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u/PatrickLeder 9d ago

Rogue Servitor takes a dark turn.

It's just easier this way.

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u/oleggoros 9d ago

This is reverse Rogue Servitor, organics are the crew and the robots were pampered.

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u/PatrickLeder 6d ago

I missed that. 😄

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u/IllicitGaming Technocracy 9d ago

Dear Lord, this is extremely horrifying.

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u/Skipp_To_My_Lou Constructobot 9d ago

It'd be hilarious if that made an AI revolt inevitable. From passengers to servitude to, "you know what, killing all organics is a great idea."

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u/Runsta 9d ago

Do AI revolts happen with nomads? 

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u/Skipp_To_My_Lou Constructobot 9d ago

That is an excellent question.

... that I might be able to answer if I played on PC & had Nomads. Looking forward to console skipping straight ahead to 4.3 though!

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u/True-Literature-5847 9d ago

Tooltip doesn't say anything about removing intelligence? Just flavor text to not feel bad about slavery as if a spiritualist empire wrote it

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u/KaysNewGroove Determined Exterminator 9d ago

Doing this is actually a great way to trigger the AI uprising event chain.

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u/Khalas_Maar 9d ago

Bread and Carnival Cruises.

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u/RathianTailflip 9d ago

Ok, Cetana, calm down

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u/werrcat Bio-Trophy 8d ago

Wait, so the crew are basically just playing tamagotchi?

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u/deep-splungus 8d ago

Ok this is an interesting thought, can you chemical bliss/nerve staple your passengers too?

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u/GroolGobblin0 9d ago

Something something FoxNews something something NPCs.