LuminaryExpanded
An overhaul mod for the Galactic Paragons DLC’s Luminary origin in Stellaris.
Luminary Expanded overhauls and expands the Galactic Paragons DLC’s Luminary origin. It adds new events, situations, council agendas, and expanded player choices. You can save your heir from certain doom and ultimately max out the Luminary trait through more milestones, granting a final bonus effect. Plus lots of smaller changes to make the origin feel better to play.
- Choose your Luminary’s start ethic
- Choose your first heir’s (Imperial government) ethic and leader class
- New Luminary traits are picked by ethic alignment instead of randomly
- The 40 Year Plan now lets you choose its bonus
- Forgotten Situation events have more options
- Reduced time to ascend the Luminary after completing an ascension path
- You may ascend the Luminary if you were forced to make the apparatus and have since completed an ascension path (works retroactively!)
- Reformist situation has a new "Convince Reformists" decision — a softer way to remove the Democratic Tendencies modifier from planets
A bidirectional situation that adds a major narrative event chain when the Luminary’s heir falls ill. Replaces guaranteed heir death with a situation that runs alongside the Reformist one.
Three Approaches:
- Palliative Care — Accept the heir’s death. +10% unity, -25% egalitarian attraction. No healing progress.
- Medical Treatment — Standard treatment. +10% doctor upkeep. Doctors workforce scaling applies.
- Radical Intervention — All-out effort. +15% doctor and biologist upkeep. Both workforce scalings apply.
Workforce Scaling: Every 100 healthcare or biologist workers gives +0.1 monthly progress.
Disease Progress: The illness worsens over time, up to a capped negative progress.
Random Events: Setbacks, breakthroughs, and four duty dilemmas balancing the heir against speeches, council work, colony visits, and navy inspections.
Two Outcomes: Recovery (+1 Luminary, less delusion) or death (-2 Luminary, more delusion).
Six new speech events triggered by major empire accomplishments. Each grants +1 Luminary.
- A Monument to Progress — build a megastructure
- The Beast is Slain — defeat a guardian or leviathan
- A Homeworld Claimed — conquer another empire’s homeworld (repeatable)
- The Pillars of Culture — fill all tradition slots
- Echoes of the Ancients — complete a precursor event chain
- The Crisis Averted — defeat a mid- or end-game crisis
Winning a war or vassalising another empire are now repeatable for +1 Luminary each.
- Expand Armada — 2000 alloys, upgrade all starbases, next starbase + ship tech
- Harness Star — boosts home star output, adds a special resource, unlocks Dyson Swarm tech (Machine Age DLC)
- Strategic Resources — adds deposits of all three strategics, unlocks each mining tech
- Living Metal / Dark Matter / Zro — adds one deposit and unlocks the matching mining tech
The Luminary trait now caps at 20, triggering "The Legendary Luminary" event. Grants a bonus skill level and small bonuses to the Luminary trait and ascension traits.
Increases (+):
- Colony Monument (Rich/Residential): +1
- Become Imperial: +1
- Made a Federation: +1
- Became Overlord: +1 (repeatable)
- Won a War: +1 (repeatable)
- Built a Megastructure: +1
- Became Custodian: +1
- Became Emperor: +2
- Defeated a Guardian: +1 (repeatable)
- Conquered a Homeworld: +1 (repeatable)
- All Traditions Filled: +1
- Precursor Completed: +1
- Crisis Defeated: +1
- Forgotten Crushed (No Rebels): +2
- Forgotten Crushed (Blood): +8
- Heir Cured: +1
- Ascension Path Trait: +1
Decreases (-):
- Lost a War: -2
- Became a Vassal: -3
- Forgotten Escalation (free option): -1
- Order Restored (fallback option): -1
- Heir Died: -2
- Designed for Stellaris v4.3.* and above
- Requires the Galactic Paragons DLC
- Compatible with most mods that don’t alter the Luminary origin events
- Overwrites events/origin_events_paragon.txt and common/traits/10_paragon_traits.txt
The mod is fully written in English. AI-assisted translations are provided for: Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish. Corrections welcome.
- Mod Author: Chickenboy
- Original Luminary Origin: Marek Kozlowski, Linus Dilen, Haig Morrison (Paradox Interactive)
