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Author: Rytex

May 2nd 2018 at 8:28:40 AM

[[AC:Video Game]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}''' ''Utopia'' expansion, you are able to take on Ascension Perks (special modifiers that grant you a huge boost in certain aspects, such as a massively-increased military limit, or a boost to border size).  There are six ascension perks, split up into three groups of two that are mutually exclusive to each other and are available based on one of your civilization's Ethics (namely, the Materialist vs Spiritualist ethics), that fill this purpose.
** Psionic Theory fills magic ("Mind over Matter" and "Transcendence"), allowing Spiritualist civilizations to gain telepathy and other supernatural abilities, which allows them to communicate with the otherwise-unintelligible endgame crises, as well as pierce the shroud and gain powerful modifiers.
** Gene Tailoring ("Engineered Evolution" and "Evolutionary Mastery") fills Strength, allowing you to modify your primary race to remove negative traits and replace them with positive ones, with the second-tier Ascended Trait giving you enough Trait Points to add the best of each category.  This may be selected by either Spiritualist or Materialist civilizations.
** Droids ("The Flesh is Weak" and "Synthetic Evolution") fill tech, as materialist civilizations may choose to convert their entire citizenry into synthetics/robots, meaning they will never die of natural causes, and do not need food to survive, giving you one less resource to have to worry about.