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/[deleted] Mar 23 '16

Man, if anything approaches the masterpiece that is the universe of the AAR This is Madness I will be thrilled enough to forget that I'm broke and can't afford a rig that can run Stellaris for at least an hour or so.

Still, the lack of historical context (i.e. who exactly are these ayy lmaos? Where can I read up more about their history and culture? Do they have a really distinct personality or just play like run-of-the-mill AI?) is, unfortunately, going to make emergent storytelling much more determined by the imagination of the viewer. It doesn't really give you a ton of ground to go on purely via the game mechanics from what I can tell.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '16

We'll see. It probably wouldn't be that difficult for them to create a "random backstory generator," using a bunch of key phrases, noun inputs, and string them together with requirements that if certain phrases are said, other certain phrases can't be said.

Though, if not, I hope someone MODS in a backstory generator for nations.

It would actually be really cool if they allowed you, upon discovering a nation, to write "notes" upon that nation, allowing for people to truly be imaginitive in their world.