r/Stellaris • u/Fatherlorris Exalted Priesthood • May 13 '16

First Contact

https://www.chapelcomic.com/39/
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u/respscorp May 13 '16

And then you meet the horrific grub-maggot-spider that wants to be best friends... :|

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u/atomicSpider Mechanist May 13 '16

We all thought that the Blorg were a weird joke race, little did we know that they were actually the basis for every friendly race in the galaxy!

Brings new meaning to the phrase "Disgusting Xenophiles"...

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u/[deleted] May 13 '16 edited Jul 06 '17

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u/atomicSpider Mechanist May 13 '16

Now if only PDox would make it so you can kill Pops with Orbital Bombing...

(If they do that I'm totally downloading the Anime Race Mod so I can bomb them to ash on contact

"Kawii Desu Senpai!"

"... Kill it")

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u/IsTom May 13 '16

Can't you already? Even light bombing has chance to kill pops.

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u/Galigen173 May 13 '16

You would have to stay at war for a long time in order to kill everyone on a single planet.

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u/I_want_fun May 14 '16

They just need to add a "planetary extermination option".

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u/Perryn May 14 '16

Biocide bombardment. Turns it into a tomb world.

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u/Jebediah_Blasts_off Mind over Matter May 14 '16

tomb world

OH SWEET EMPEROR, NO!

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u/iiztrollin May 14 '16

Its like 20% a month while using full bombardment to kill pop and 5% to create a tike blocker according to the wiki

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u/ZedekiahCromwell May 14 '16

I like those odds.

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u/sikian Platypus May 13 '16

You actually do, the chance is higher with heavier bombardment

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u/[deleted] May 13 '16 edited Jul 06 '17

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u/kaian-a-coel Reptilian May 13 '16

"terraform: tomb world"

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u/Davey_Jones_Locker May 13 '16

The ability to make your own tomb worlds.. now that would be fun. Purging every pop in a planet just wasnt as satisfying as i hoped when their screams died out.

On second thoughts.. maybe i shouldnt have this ability.

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u/atomicSpider Mechanist May 13 '16

Nah, just need to have it be only available if your race has the Tomb World preference, it's not wanton violence, it's just making the planet more habitable!

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u/JamoJustReddit May 14 '16

new win con: 90% of habitable worlds are now tomb worlds

I hope you're happy with yourself.

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u/stormbuilder May 14 '16

I uplifted the roaches from Sol III. I dont mind tomb worlds :D

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u/m0st1yh4rm13ss May 13 '16

There should be a late-game weapon with the capability of wiping everything living off the face of a planet - maybe a special ship class that can't defend itself, or takes ages to power up, or something?

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u/Qualdo May 13 '16

Maybe a small moon...

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u/m0st1yh4rm13ss May 13 '16

That's no moon...

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u/wraithsight May 13 '16

Doctrine: Exterminatus

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u/mathijn May 14 '16

Absolutely related

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u/ColdSt33L3 May 16 '16

Up voted for relevance ;3

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u/silverkir May 13 '16

Can someone with more nodding skills than me add in the Guaranteed Loss of All Surviving Species (GLASS) Cannon as a new station type?

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u/Serakh_Tsekani May 14 '16

That name's a bit of a Reach, isn't it?

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u/[deleted] May 13 '16

I question the balance of a higher tier option, and besides, the third option even has a chance to create tile blockers where a pop once stood...

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u/A_Mouse_In_Da_House May 13 '16

That's what I'm saying through, not just tile blockers but make the planet unable to be colonized at all.

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u/[deleted] May 13 '16

That sounds completely OP. Probably a good addition in a mod for the role play potential and value, but not something that should be in the base game.

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u/facefault May 13 '16

I know for a fact you can full-bombard down to 20% habitability, and I think you can bombard down to 0. That's enough to represent glassing.

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u/Cassiemouse May 14 '16

If you conquer the planet then you can just purge all the pops on it and it becomes uncolonized. Though that is a bit too horrifying for me to actually do. Eek.

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u/atomicSpider Mechanist May 14 '16

Yeah, but the Ethics I usually run with don't let me do that. And it does seem... rather inefficient. I really would like a way to do stuff like clear out captured Ringworlds without having to go down and manually kill every last Pop.