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* For obvious reasons, Gestalt empires are excluded from this WMG.
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* For obvious reasons, Gestalt empires are excluded from this WMG.WMG.
[[WMG: The Jackson after which Jackson's Planet in the Deneb system is UsefulNotes/AndrewJackson]]
Andrew Jackson in real life is known for his policy of Manifest Destiny, which included displacement and extermination of Native Americans, fitting the Commonwealth of Man's Hegemonic Imperialists AI personality and xenophobia.
[[WMG: The Jackson after which Jackson's Planet in the Deneb system is UsefulNotes/AndrewJackson]]
Andrew Jackson in real life is known for his policy of Manifest Destiny, which included displacement and extermination of Native Americans, fitting the Commonwealth of Man's Hegemonic Imperialists AI personality and xenophobia.
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** Boosting this is their fleet loadout, to a degree. Prethoryns are all hull and armor, have ships highly effective against shields, and somewhat effective against hull and armor. The Unbidden are all shields and armor, but their weapons are highly effective against hull and armor, giving them somewhat of an edge over the Prethoryn.
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** This, incidentally, means the Shadow Council civic is a two layered version. The conspiracy everyone "knows" about, and the conspiracy they don't
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[[WMG: The Unbidden are [[VengefulGost Vengeful Ghosts]] left by the activation of the Aetherophasic Engine.]]
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[[WMG: The Unbidden are [[VengefulGost [[VengefulGhost Vengeful Ghosts]] left by the activation of the Aetherophasic Engine.]]
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* Half Jossed, half confirmed: while Shroud related shenanigans can destroy the Galaxy through using the Aetherophasic Engine, anyone that's neither Xenophile, Pacifist nor Rogue Servitor can do it.
[[WMG: The Praethoryn are a Devouring Swarm that decided to run away from the Aetherophasic Engine...]]
Thus explaining why their galaxy is missing.
[[WMG: The Unbidden are [[VengefulGost Vengeful Ghosts]] left by the activation of the Aetherophasic Engine.]]
Their deaths and subsequent long-lasting haunting has severely damaged their sanity. This would explain both their fear of the Shroud, and their ethereal, otherwrodly nature. Plus, the End of the Cycle has already established a precedent for vengeful ghosts.
[[WMG: The Praethoryn are a Devouring Swarm that decided to run away from the Aetherophasic Engine...]]
Thus explaining why their galaxy is missing.
[[WMG: The Unbidden are [[VengefulGost Vengeful Ghosts]] left by the activation of the Aetherophasic Engine.]]
Their deaths and subsequent long-lasting haunting has severely damaged their sanity. This would explain both their fear of the Shroud, and their ethereal, otherwrodly nature. Plus, the End of the Cycle has already established a precedent for vengeful ghosts.
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* Jossed, since the Aetherophasic Engine's purpose is to rip a hole into the Shroud and allow the species who constructed it to ascend to the Shroud as gods. The destruction of the galaxy is mentioned to be something of a side effect.
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* Jossed, since the Aetherophasic Engine's purpose is to rip a hole into the Shroud and allow the species who constructed it to ascend to the Shroud as gods. The destruction of the galaxy is mentioned to be something of a side effect.effect.
[[WMG: The player represents their empire's [[GovernmentConspiracy Deep State]].]]
* While the populations mostly sort themselves out naturally, some NoSuchAgency operatives are running behind the scenes to ensure the government runs according to their own designs. Far from all powerful, they can nevertheless take some... Counterintuitive decisions should they want to change the course of an entire star nation. Sending hapless colonists on an UriahGambit to get Purged by an enemy to stir up xenophibic grudges? Negotiate with crime syndicates behind the backs of the population?
* For obvious reasons, Gestalt empires are excluded from this WMG.
[[WMG: The player represents their empire's [[GovernmentConspiracy Deep State]].]]
* While the populations mostly sort themselves out naturally, some NoSuchAgency operatives are running behind the scenes to ensure the government runs according to their own designs. Far from all powerful, they can nevertheless take some... Counterintuitive decisions should they want to change the course of an entire star nation. Sending hapless colonists on an UriahGambit to get Purged by an enemy to stir up xenophibic grudges? Negotiate with crime syndicates behind the backs of the population?
* For obvious reasons, Gestalt empires are excluded from this WMG.
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[[WMG: Alternatively, the Prethoryns are TheRemnant of a Devouring Swarm running from a Crisis Empire]]
* When it was becoming increasingly clear that the Crisis Empire was winning and about to build the Aetherophasic Engine, they decided they overstayed their welcome in their home galaxy and ran. The Engine activated, and every single star exploded into a black hole...
* When it was becoming increasingly clear that the Crisis Empire was winning and about to build the Aetherophasic Engine, they decided they overstayed their welcome in their home galaxy and ran. The Engine activated, and every single star exploded into a black hole...
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This would explain why a huge amount of dark matter is needed; believed to have properties different from normal matter, dark matter may very well be exotic enough to be able to interact with the Shroud
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This would explain why a huge amount of dark matter is needed; believed to have properties different from normal matter, dark matter may very well be exotic enough to be able to interact with the ShroudShroud.
* Jossed, since the Aetherophasic Engine's purpose is to rip a hole into the Shroud and allow the species who constructed it to ascend to the Shroud as gods. The destruction of the galaxy is mentioned to be something of a side effect.
* Jossed, since the Aetherophasic Engine's purpose is to rip a hole into the Shroud and allow the species who constructed it to ascend to the Shroud as gods. The destruction of the galaxy is mentioned to be something of a side effect.
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* Its possible that the Shroud and its entities [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm change according to the perspectives and beliefs of their observers]]. To the spiritualists, the Shroud appear as a realm of spirits inhabited by god-like creatures whose consciousnesses alter the physical universe, much like their ethics say is possible. However, to the materialists, the Shroud appear as an alternate universe governed by transcendent aliens who are able to affect the physical universe via as-of-yet undiscovered technologies, making them NotSoDifferent. The true form of the shroud and its entities could be much more alien than it appear.
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* Its possible that the Shroud and its entities [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm change according to the perspectives and beliefs of their observers]]. To the spiritualists, the Shroud appear as a realm of spirits inhabited by god-like creatures whose consciousnesses alter the physical universe, much like their ethics say is possible. However, to the materialists, the Shroud appear as an alternate universe governed by transcendent aliens who are able to affect the physical universe via as-of-yet undiscovered technologies, making them NotSoDifferent.not so different. The true form of the shroud and its entities could be much more alien than it appear.
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Is because your Empire see her as their mascot, and thus your navy soldiers feed her exotic gases treats, outfit her with totally cute armor plates, and totally cute Focusing Arrays to make her the prettiest.
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Is because your Empire see her as their mascot, and thus your navy soldiers feed her exotic gases treats, outfit her with totally cute armor plates, and totally cute Focusing Arrays to make her the prettiest.prettiest.
[[WMG: The Aetherophasic Engine mentioned in the Nemesis DLC will merge the physical universe with the Shroud upon completion.]]
If the purple color scheme isn't a dead giveaway (guess what realm of spirit is purple), consider that the screenshots in the dev diary mentioned the event chain of the soon-to-be-the-sixth-crisis showing interest in studying the Shroud and the effects that mass suffering in the physical universe have on it, starting its [[StartOfDarkness path of darkness.]] After gaining enough menace to become [[BigBad an Existential Crisis]], the player gains access to a device known as the Aetherophasic Engine that can be built in stages using copious amounts of dark matter harvested from stars killed by the new Star Eater ships until it is completed.
Now take a closer at the word 'Aetherophasic'. While it may appear on the surface to be nothing but word salad, it actually makes sense. 'Aethero-' is related to the word 'aether', which is often translated to 'void' or even 'spirit', two things that come to mind when one thinks of the Shroud. Phase is a term in physics that pertains to how much different wavelengths overlap. Given that Wave-Particle Duality states that particles in both radiation and matter also exist as waves, the Aetherophasic Engine will most likely meld the Shroud and physical reality together. This will end all life in the galaxy as the universal laws allowing organic physiology and machine processes to function are torn asunder by the Shroud, assuming that everyone aren't simply dumped into a [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace hell many lightyears in dimension with no way to escape]], preyed upon by hungry spirits.
This would explain why a huge amount of dark matter is needed; believed to have properties different from normal matter, dark matter may very well be exotic enough to be able to interact with the Shroud
[[WMG: The Aetherophasic Engine mentioned in the Nemesis DLC will merge the physical universe with the Shroud upon completion.]]
If the purple color scheme isn't a dead giveaway (guess what realm of spirit is purple), consider that the screenshots in the dev diary mentioned the event chain of the soon-to-be-the-sixth-crisis showing interest in studying the Shroud and the effects that mass suffering in the physical universe have on it, starting its [[StartOfDarkness path of darkness.]] After gaining enough menace to become [[BigBad an Existential Crisis]], the player gains access to a device known as the Aetherophasic Engine that can be built in stages using copious amounts of dark matter harvested from stars killed by the new Star Eater ships until it is completed.
Now take a closer at the word 'Aetherophasic'. While it may appear on the surface to be nothing but word salad, it actually makes sense. 'Aethero-' is related to the word 'aether', which is often translated to 'void' or even 'spirit', two things that come to mind when one thinks of the Shroud. Phase is a term in physics that pertains to how much different wavelengths overlap. Given that Wave-Particle Duality states that particles in both radiation and matter also exist as waves, the Aetherophasic Engine will most likely meld the Shroud and physical reality together. This will end all life in the galaxy as the universal laws allowing organic physiology and machine processes to function are torn asunder by the Shroud, assuming that everyone aren't simply dumped into a [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace hell many lightyears in dimension with no way to escape]], preyed upon by hungry spirits.
This would explain why a huge amount of dark matter is needed; believed to have properties different from normal matter, dark matter may very well be exotic enough to be able to interact with the Shroud
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Is because your Empire, seeing her as their mascot, your navy soldiers feed her exotic gases treats, outfit her with totally cute armor plates, and totally cute Focusing Arrays to make her the prettiest.
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Is because your Empire, seeing Empire see her as their mascot, and thus your navy soldiers feed her exotic gases treats, outfit her with totally cute armor plates, and totally cute Focusing Arrays to make her the prettiest.
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Theory is simple: The Kuur found the Contingency relic on one of their hidden core worlds and used that technology in creation of their own AIs. The malfunctioning "evil" Cybrex tried to eliminate all life because of Contingency corruption, the "good" Cybrex were driven by their Laws of Robotics programming and they won in the end. This is the reason why Cybrex ships and portraits look like pallete swaped Contingency. It also explains why do they have the knowledge and combat bonus against Contingency and why they aren't corrupted by their "ghost signal".
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Theory is simple: The Kuur found the Contingency relic on one of their hidden core worlds and used that technology in creation of their own AIs. The malfunctioning "evil" Cybrex tried to eliminate all life because of Contingency corruption, the "good" Cybrex were driven by their Laws of Robotics programming and they won in the end. This is the reason why Cybrex ships and portraits look like pallete swaped Contingency. It also explains why do they have the knowledge and combat bonus against Contingency and why they aren't corrupted by their "ghost signal".signal".
[[WMG: The reason Bubbles benefits from the resource edicts despite being a domesticated SpaceWhale...]]
Is because your Empire, seeing her as their mascot, your navy soldiers feed her exotic gases treats, outfit her with totally cute armor plates, and totally cute Focusing Arrays to make her the prettiest.
[[WMG: The reason Bubbles benefits from the resource edicts despite being a domesticated SpaceWhale...]]
Is because your Empire, seeing her as their mascot, your navy soldiers feed her exotic gases treats, outfit her with totally cute armor plates, and totally cute Focusing Arrays to make her the prettiest.
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[[WMG: Cybrex are reversed-engineered Contingency tech made by Kuur]]
Theory is simple: The Kuur found the Contingency relic on one of their hidden cores and used that technology in creation of their own AIs. The malfunctioning "evil" Cybrex tried to eliminate all life because of Contingency corruption, the "good" Cybrex were driven by their Laws of Robotics programming and they won in the end. This is the reason why Cybrex ships and portraits look like pallete swaped Contingency. It also explains why do they have the knowledge and combat bonus against Contingency and why they aren't corrupted by their "ghost signal".
Theory is simple: The Kuur found the Contingency relic on one of their hidden cores and used that technology in creation of their own AIs. The malfunctioning "evil" Cybrex tried to eliminate all life because of Contingency corruption, the "good" Cybrex were driven by their Laws of Robotics programming and they won in the end. This is the reason why Cybrex ships and portraits look like pallete swaped Contingency. It also explains why do they have the knowledge and combat bonus against Contingency and why they aren't corrupted by their "ghost signal".
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[[WMG: Cybrex are reversed-engineered reverse-engineered Contingency tech made by Kuur]]
Theory is simple: The Kuur found the Contingency relic on one of their hiddencores core worlds and used that technology in creation of their own AIs. The malfunctioning "evil" Cybrex tried to eliminate all life because of Contingency corruption, the "good" Cybrex were driven by their Laws of Robotics programming and they won in the end. This is the reason why Cybrex ships and portraits look like pallete swaped Contingency. It also explains why do they have the knowledge and combat bonus against Contingency and why they aren't corrupted by their "ghost signal".
Theory is simple: The Kuur found the Contingency relic on one of their hidden
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Theory is simple: The Kuur found the Contingency relic on one of their hidden cores and used that technology in creation of their own AIs. The malfunctioning "evil" Cybrex tried to eliminate all life because of Contingency corruption, the "good" Cybrex were driven by their Laws of Robotics programming and they won in the end. This is the reason why Cybrex ships and portraits look like pallete swaped Contingency. It also explains why do they have the knowledge and combat bonus against Contingency and why they aren't corruted by their "ghost signal".
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Theory is simple: The Kuur found the Contingency relic on one of their hidden cores and used that technology in creation of their own AIs. The malfunctioning "evil" Cybrex tried to eliminate all life because of Contingency corruption, the "good" Cybrex were driven by their Laws of Robotics programming and they won in the end. This is the reason why Cybrex ships and portraits look like pallete swaped Contingency. It also explains why do they have the knowledge and combat bonus against Contingency and why they aren't corruted corrupted by their "ghost signal".
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After the Cybrex decided to stop their genocidal campaign against organic life, they knew the organics would come for revenge. Either that RingWorld was set up as a decoy from the start, or it had been a staging area for their exodus towards Cybrex Beta. Whether it started as a decoy, or was turned into a decoy when the Cybrex escaped to their true destination, an empty Ring World made to still look occupied was the perfect decoy, as the organic nations who remembered their campaign would, the moment they figured out whom it belonged to, likely nuke it from orbit, as it would be the only way to be sure, thereby cleaning up the evidence for them.
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After the Cybrex decided to stop their genocidal campaign against organic life, they knew the organics would come for revenge. Either that RingWorld was set up as a decoy from the start, or it had been a staging area for their exodus towards Cybrex Beta. Whether it started as a decoy, or was turned into a decoy when the Cybrex escaped to their true destination, an empty Ring World made to still look occupied was the perfect decoy, as the organic nations who remembered their campaign would, the moment they figured out whom it belonged to, likely nuke it from orbit, as it would be the only way to be sure, thereby cleaning up the evidence for them.them.
[[WMG: Cybrex are reversed-engineered Contingency tech made by Kuur]]
Theory is simple: The Kuur found the Contingency relic on one of their hidden cores and used that technology in creation of their own AIs. The malfunctioning "evil" Cybrex tried to eliminate all life because of Contingency corruption, the "good" Cybrex were driven by their Laws of Robotics programming and they won in the end. This is the reason why Cybrex ships and portraits look like pallete swaped Contingency. It also explains why do they have the knowledge and combat bonus against Contingency and why they aren't corruted by their "ghost signal".
[[WMG: Cybrex are reversed-engineered Contingency tech made by Kuur]]
Theory is simple: The Kuur found the Contingency relic on one of their hidden cores and used that technology in creation of their own AIs. The malfunctioning "evil" Cybrex tried to eliminate all life because of Contingency corruption, the "good" Cybrex were driven by their Laws of Robotics programming and they won in the end. This is the reason why Cybrex ships and portraits look like pallete swaped Contingency. It also explains why do they have the knowledge and combat bonus against Contingency and why they aren't corruted by their "ghost signal".
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. All potential candidates must be approved by the thread first before they can be labeled as a Complete Monster.
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The Unbidden aren't simply aliens from another dimension. They are a remnant left after a particularly vile and horrifying End of the Cycle. The entity from the Shroud granted them the usual boons, and the species in question ended up [[WowingCthulhu impressing it by]] [[CompleteMonster being so vile, horrible and warfare-happy]] that they ended up slaughtering the entire galaxy all by themselves, leaving nothing for the End of the Cycle to harvest. Maybe not even themselves.
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The Unbidden aren't simply aliens from another dimension. They are a remnant left after a particularly vile and horrifying End of the Cycle. The entity from the Shroud granted them the usual boons, and the species in question ended up [[WowingCthulhu impressing it by]] [[CompleteMonster [[AlwaysChaoticEvil being so vile, horrible and warfare-happy]] that they ended up slaughtering the entire galaxy all by themselves, leaving nothing for the End of the Cycle to harvest. Maybe not even themselves.
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As a result, the entity from the Shroud decided to uplift them into its servants instead of just consuming their souls and using their soul-mass as blobs. The reason they are afraid of the Shroud isn't because they can't figure it out. It's because they know very well what it's capable of, and are afraid of their true master.
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As a result, the entity from the Shroud decided to uplift them into its servants instead of just consuming their souls and using their soul-mass as blobs. The reason they are afraid of the Shroud isn't because they can't figure it out. It's because they know very well what it's capable of, and are afraid of their true master.master.
[[WMG: The Cybrex Alpha system was a decoy or a staging area.]]
After the Cybrex decided to stop their genocidal campaign against organic life, they knew the organics would come for revenge. Either that RingWorld was set up as a decoy from the start, or it had been a staging area for their exodus towards Cybrex Beta. Whether it started as a decoy, or was turned into a decoy when the Cybrex escaped to their true destination, an empty Ring World made to still look occupied was the perfect decoy, as the organic nations who remembered their campaign would, the moment they figured out whom it belonged to, likely nuke it from orbit, as it would be the only way to be sure, thereby cleaning up the evidence for them.
[[WMG: The Cybrex Alpha system was a decoy or a staging area.]]
After the Cybrex decided to stop their genocidal campaign against organic life, they knew the organics would come for revenge. Either that RingWorld was set up as a decoy from the start, or it had been a staging area for their exodus towards Cybrex Beta. Whether it started as a decoy, or was turned into a decoy when the Cybrex escaped to their true destination, an empty Ring World made to still look occupied was the perfect decoy, as the organic nations who remembered their campaign would, the moment they figured out whom it belonged to, likely nuke it from orbit, as it would be the only way to be sure, thereby cleaning up the evidence for them.
