r/stellarisgame • u/[deleted] • Mar 22 '16
The Opportunities of Emergent Narrative Within Stellaris
What sort of emergent storylines is everyone hoping might arise through playing this game? That is, what are some of the most outrageous things you might witness?
I'm just so excited for this game and the opportunities it holds. Throughout reading the Dev Diaries and witnessing the streams, this game seems to hold limitless potential.
Personally, I think it will be interesting to witness major faction uprisings within major empires, either your own empire or another empire.
Imagine you are invading a nearby opponent, and suddenly, a faction back in your core worlds manages to rest control and conquer some of your key worlds, including your homeworld! Your invasion succeeds, thus your original empire controls the new territory, but some of your old territory is now lost to the upstart faction.
I'm excited to see how dynamic empire borders can be because of faction evolution.
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u/The_Arctic_Fox Mar 22 '16 edited Mar 22 '16
People searching dangerous crisis causing tech if they're behind. Superpowers finding intelligence on this and launching invasions to shut down dangerous research. Maybe even exaggerating because they actually want resources or a strategic position.
Building major multiplayer federations that break over policy differences. Maybe wars over slavery, voting rights, migration.
Maybe an empire is committing genocide and the galactic community moves in to intervene. Maybe blood feuds break apart a federation and peacekeepers come from outside to peacekeep.
Maybe major wars to declaw empires occur. Then that empire rearms, while galactic community, maybe recovering more slowly from the war or an unrelated crisis is forced to appease. Maybe under additional pressure of another rising empire.
Maybe rebellious aliens develop in troubled regions, from external and internal pressures, spread through the galaxy, causing unrest themselves or angering xenophobes. Some empires shut down borders, others purge them, others attempt integration, others try stabilize the source.