Spore: The Grox | Rebalanced

This is a simple mod that adds The Grox from the Spore Galaxy into Stellaris.
(Mod) V4

The Grox are a sapient species of cyborg aliens that are undeniably the most hostile race in the galaxy and the main antagonist in Spore. They are feared by every alien for their philosophy and an archetype.

Feared and hated by every empire in the galaxy, The Grox as a species are extremely delicate and weak having survived only due to their incredible technological advancement over other species. They are an ancient race, having been spacefaring for eons while nearly all other races weren’t even sapient yet. Although their minimal senses and strength have been enhanced by cybernetic implants, they’re still among the most feeble sapient lifeforms in the galaxy, but make up for it with their devastating military might, and the ability to prosper on barren planets.

“The Grox are machines with absolutely no sense of humor! They destroy entire races and never offer an explanation of what it is that ticks them off!” – Blocks of Chance

The Grox are ‘toxic’, as exposure to conditions survivable to other life forms causes them to disintegrate. This ‘toxicity’ is shrouded in mystery, but it does indeed tie into how the Grox Empire is viewed by other civilizations, as an abomination. Unlike most land creatures, Grox are intolerant of conditions survivable to other life forms. As such, they can only survive on T0 planets.

Almost all philosophies hate the Grox. Scientists and Diplomats don’t actively hate The Grox, as Scientists are somewhat admiring and are curious about them (possibly because of their technological achievement), while Diplomats regard them as a powerful potential ally. Bards think of them as "no fun at all" and accuse them of "not explaining what ticks them off." Warriors and Knights view them as the ultimate challenge and rivals, Traders regard them as enemies of universal happiness, Zealots hate them for not believing in Spode, and Shamans and Ecologists say they are unable to reach harmony due to their murderous hatred of nature. They are also disliked due to their ownership of the contested Galactic Core, desired by all (except possibly Bards, who say "we never wanted to go there anyway", although this may just be a case of sour grapes).

"It is extremely hard for any empire to defeat the Grox since their amazingly vast empire spans 2,400 systems with more than 5,000 planets."

The Grox will attack systems tens of thousands of parsecs away in their war on all fully organic life, and once attacked the receiving planet of the Grox raid always seems to be too shell-shocked to communicate with the player’s ship.

Additionally, The Grox have genetically bred armies called The Dronox. The entire race of Dronox is seen as cyborg-like: organic bodies with mechanical attachments to the tissue. Almost their entire bodies are covered in mechanical armor, and mechanical enhancements mostly for combat purposes. Physically, the Dronox come in two different forms: Conquix and Insectrox.
– Spore Wiki

IMPORTANT: Make your Empire flag purple so that the ship streams are purple, essentially this makes your Empire’s colour purple just like The Grox from Spore! 🙂

• Grox species portrait

• Grox species trait

• Grox government civic

• Grox shipset

• Grox/Spore flags

• Grox origin

• Grox rooms

• Dronox army (Includes The Insectrox and Conquix thus making it a bit powered but it is costly)

• Grox cities

• The Grox can ONLY inhabit bitter/tomb worlds due to their toxic nature

• The Grox have increased survey speed, so you or an AI Grox Empire will be bound to be have vast mighty territory just like in Spore.

• The Grox have a higher Administration Capacity, so you are able to govern a bit more territory than normal.

• The Grox can terraform planets into Tomb Worlds from the very start -their (99%)only inhabitable planet type.

• Planetary Diversity compatibility!! 😀

• Grox State government type (really just cosmetic)

• I did NOT make them Machines because of a few things… Firstly they are cyborgs, not robots, mammals with machine enhancements mixed in. A lot of times when the game refers to The Grox they call them machines, but this is merely for their efficient emotionless mechanical-like nature, not their bodies. "They will attack systems tens of thousands of parsecs away in their war on all fully organic life" – Spore Wiki

• The Grox can inhabit Gaia Worlds because Gaia Worlds are optimized to *EVERYONE*, this is something that I CANNOT change with my skills with modding Stellaris, so I suppose then these worlds are also suitable for The Grox too! Think of it as Gaia Worlds having toxic elements as well :>

• I have overhauled the stats in their Trait and Civic to be less insanely OP and make more sense to The Grox, and not require a bunch of civics to use all the features so that means you have FULL freedom to do with The Grox as you like… Well except that you have to have the Fanatic Xenophobe Ethic, but aside from that one detail it is more customizable now. Furthermore I allow *anyone* to modify my mods and upload them, the least I ask for is a mention of credit 🙂

• I have fixed the horrendous cityset for The Grox at last! Now it looks great I think :).

• Grox namelist does not work as of now, working on it :P, if anyone who is good with coding these things and is interested in helping with the namelist code problem, add me and help out, i’ll give you credits and even make you an author/creator because I have tried many things myself 🙂

• Grox flag category is still just "FLAG_CATEGORY", same level of bug as the namelist ^ :/.

• Trait description.

• New mod which is about the Second Galactic Federation[spore.fandom.com] from Spore. ALL information including ships to port from Spore are included on the webpage.

Chocice75 For porting The Grox ship into a readable language for modeling software.

虚空雪狐 莎兰 For translating The Grox ship’s files into a readable format for the game’s coding.

LordZarmack For various coding help and advice when I was stuck.

Xorgius For his help/advice and portrait I used from HIS Grox mod, which inspired me to gather these lovely individuals to help put this mod together 🙂

chicken head For thumbnail art and various other artwork via Photoshop.

cbshing For his coding regarding terraforming worlds into Tomb Worlds

notthew4y For bug testing 😀

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https://spore.fandom.com/wiki/Grox
https://aliens.fandom.com/wiki/Dronox
Grox Archetype Mod 2018[www.davoonline.com]
Tomb World Creation
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