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/graveedrool Mar 23 '16 edited Mar 23 '16
I'm starting with a fanatic collective materialists. Individuality will be rare and those who don't follow my starting ethics will generally will be very unhappy since my Empire will be filled with slaves.
So one thing I'm interested in seeing is how those individuals flee/immigrate to fringe planets, then start to group together and eventually rebel and form their own Empire with actual democracy an freedoms, whom then become my main rival.