Corsair’s Custom Empires: Eldanær Stellar Authority

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Author: corsairmarks

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Do you like to play or fight empires with a backstory? Or maybe you want to have a pre-made empire to bring to your next role-play game? Then this mod is for you! I enjoyed coming up with a backstory for this empire, and I thought that I’d publish it for others to enjoy as well.

Oh, and this mod is also for you if you want a new Colossus weapon – the Necrophagic Spore Diffuser! This weapon can become available for fungoid necrophage empires to research after they have completed the Colossus project. It is based on the Nanobot Diffuser (and reuses the same graphical effects).

The weapon effects are slightly different: all biological Pops are converted to the main necrophage species of the firing empire (normally the Eldanær but the weapon can be researched by any fungoid necrophage) and robot Pops are "conquered" by the necrophaged Pops, which causes devastation based on the percentage of robot Pops that were present. Because the weapon cannot forcibly convert robot Pops, it can only be fired on hostile planets that have more than half of the Pops eligible to be necrophaged (or are already the appropriate necrophage species). Similar to the Divine Enforcer, it can be used on your own planets to instantly convert any biological Pops into your necrophage fungoids (this does not cause devastation or unhappiness in robotic Pops – they are already in your empire).

The Eldanær Stellar Authority is a fanatic authoritarian, xenophobic empire ruled by a rigid and complex bureaucratic hierarchy. It has a custom imperial authority, the Bureaucratic Autocracy, which is the same as a regular imperial authority but the rulers do not use dynastic titles. The Eldanær are fungoid necrophages with a plantoid prepatent species, the K’foori. The Eldanær have a pre-scripted home system (Ræl) with named planets and the Lush modifier on their homeworld (Dærun), orbiting a ringed gas giant with an extensive moon system – it is also available for custom empires to select.

This mod also includes a custom primitive species of lithoids (the Zdremites) that will replace one of the randomly generated primitives for the Eldanær Stellar Authority’s necrophage origin – as long as the number of guaranteed habitable worlds is 1 or higher. The Zdremites are guaranteed to spawn on a high gravity world and dangerous wildlife with lithoid monoliths that can always be cleared into extra Zdremite Pops, but have fewer Pops to start with. Their High-G Evolution origin is available for you to play (although it is underwhelming as a stand-alone origin).

If you play the Eldanær Stellar Authority with both of its species (Eldanær and K’foori) exactly as they are pre-scripted, you will receive a small bonus. At game start, the Eldanær will also receive Natural Sociologists to use their unspent trait point, while the K’foori will have Strong replaced with Serviles as well as replacing Unruly with both Slow Learners and Deviants to more accurately reflect their lore.

The species bios are not visible in-game other than the main empire-level description available on the empire selection screen. This is because the game cannot load localised text for species_bio in either prescripted races or the create_species effect, and also does not support escaped newline characters n. This is reported as a bug here[forum.paradoxplaza.com].

For more information on the species design and their species bios, please see the README.md file in the root directory of this mod. Instructions on how to locate the folder where your mods are installed is available here[stellaris.paradoxwikis.com].

There is a new diplomatic personality, the Cautious Autocrats, that I re-weighted slightly to try and represent the Eldanær Stellar Authority. Unfortunately I can’t find a way to get them to prefer opening embassies with other species. There are events to try and prompt the AI to set the preferred slavery types on the K’foori and Zdremites, but the AI seems to be able to change slavery policies even if they are on cooldown.

The bulk of the scripting is to support game setup and the new Colossus weapon. Have fun necrophaging entire worlds!

Built for Stellaris version 3.7 "Canis Minor." Not compatible with achievements.

All of the mod’s changes are fully custom-scripted, so it should play well with most other mods.

This mod can be safely added to your savegame after the game has started, but not removed. This mod adds a technology, associated ship components, an origin, a species trait, and other types of object to the game. All of these things will alter your savegame.

Planetary Modifier Enhancements is used to apply the "Part of an Extensive Moon System" to the homeworld.

I’ve made a few enhancement mods that were inspired by things I found in the code as I scripted the Eldanær Stellar Authority. These affect game areas that the ESA uses and will improve your experience.

• Pre-FTL Conquest & Infiltration: Enhanced ensures that primitive planets you convert with the Necrophagic Spore Diffuser are properly given existing infrastructure as if conquered
  
  • Meshes with the primitive-conquering style of Necrophages
  • Because the Zdremites are lithoids, it is useful for avoiding farming districts being generated on their homeworld
  • Helps Necrophage AIs more fairly set up their starter primitives, should the ESA or any other necrophage be randomly selected to spawn
• Special Leadership Privileges for Battle Thralls and Bio-Trophies will allow you to use Battle Thralls as military leaders if you so choose. The role-play for the Zdremites is that of "honored protectors" so this allows them to serve in (military) leadership roles.

Because gov_bureaucratic_autocracy is not a built-in type of government, it doesn’t have a matching special message for when space pirates first spawn. The game will display a default fallback, but log an error like this:

See Change Notes

Hosted on GitHub[github.com]

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