STARTING as a FALLEN EMPIRE in Stellaris

You've played against many Fallen Empires. But have you ever played AS the Fallen Empire?

This is my first video in a long time, so I'm really excited to know what you think of it! Thank you for all who have stuck with me for all this time!

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro & Rules
01:15 Early exploration
02:53 Worrying discovery
03:20 Prikkiki-Ti
06:38 2nd Invasion
07:09 Reforming the Xenophobes
08:12 Galactic exploration
09:14 Dragon
10:02 Year 2400
10:20 Crisis
12:44 This is the end
14:20 Outro

[grottoguru]

It's kind of fitting that there was a second empire that came before everyone else and you don't like them. It mirrors how a pair of fallen empires can hate eachother in normal games.

[Kevindp]

Wanted to play as fallen empire. Ended up becoming a precursor event.

[Stargate]

It’s pretty appropriate you had the Prikki rise up as the War in Heaven was partially between a fanatic purifier empire and a guardian empire. So in a way, you’re recreating the war in heaven

[StarboyXL]

Reminds me of one of my Dark-Elves-in-space playthroughs. The Scourge was too powerful for me and the galaxy, but I had a completely isolated, starless star system that I Jumped into and built a habitat in. I moved my capital there last minute, along with my final Shroud Avatar to act as a sort of moon for the habitat to provide light.

My Dark Elves then waited in the darkness between the stars for two hundred years until they were strong enough to rebuild their armada with better technology and take the galaxy back from the Scourge, system by system, over another two hundred years of war. Then I spent the next two hundred years watching the next generation of primitives discover the hyperdrive, join the Galactic Community, and fill the galaxy with life again.

It was such an awesome campaign.

[cringelord]

Declaring war on the prikkikiti makes sense because fallen empires will declare war on an empire if they are too genocidal

[its_clover]

i like the idea of the prikki guardians taking down the contingency in honor of the people who helped them see the light.

[DzinkyDzink]

Come to think of it this looks like a more plausible scenario than usual Stellaris run:
1. Challenged by the dread of the galaxy's emptiness one species chose to become it's gardener another became paranoid with the Dark Forest idea to the point of embracing genocide.
2. Those two species go to war with each other and the good guys win.
3. Dark Forest proves to be true as Contingency activates right after a sufficiently advanced species becomes more active than usual.
4. The galaxy is reset to default by the Contingency - all is right with the universe.

[dthknghtmcgee]

"im not going to intervene in galactic affairs"

Prikki: "Lets introduce ourselves"

[killman]

I think "existential threats to the galaxy" is a fair exception to the cannot declare wars rule.

[kottadragon]

Honestly, you probably could've kept the Prikki Guardians as a vassal, destroyed a bunch of the outer outposts instead of handing them over, and treated them like a Scion Empire. Would've even been thematic, since you just had a big war to prevent the cleansing of the galaxy.

[shatteredanam]

Fantastic content as always

May bubbles live on in our memories

[unknowndane]

Lovely to see you do a more challenge like run
(Also attacking the Prikki is completely valid for the purpose of your run)

[unknowndane]

For the Prikki Guardians, I would probably have attempted to make more sectors (if possible) and then make multiple nations rather than 1 large one.

[davidthor]

"The Finnish names sound ancient."

- The Wolf with the Dragon, 2023

[pwryllryn]

this is so funny that out of all the events in this massive game, the prikkiki-ti spawned.

[Nerd_Detective]

Variation: select the Remnant origin for flavor. Delay the crisis starts to give the foundlings a chance to grow. Spawn in *one* advanced start genocidal empire (guarantee it to spawn) as your nemesis somewhere in the galaxy. Your goal is not to destroy them, but rather to thwart their plans.

Your role: to shepherd as many primitives as you can before the galaxy is swallowed up by threats, then recede and only involve yourself in galactic affairs as needed when an urgent threat presents itself. No subjugation or vassalization or conquest, no blocking them in, etc. You enlighten each civilization, pull away to give them room to grow, and hope this generation of children will be able to face the threats that loom over them. And if not... only then do you step in to even the field.

[Lucasiano]

The most underrated stellaris youtuber is back

[skeletalobserver]

Tech/unity rush for mega engineering would be a godsend for a second attempt at this run. Would love to see that

[thealdoc]

sith the scaleless looking race trying to protect the galaxy from a bunch of geckos made me smile

[src]

I think a precurser war against your ideological nemesis would be reflective of the "war in heaven" in the lore, so should be allowed.