Alice II: “Mother, where are you going? Alice I: “Oh, hello. I know we haven’t spent much time together with how busy I am, but I’d rather die than extend my life and be around you.Bye!” *1000 years later* Alice III: “Mother where are you going?” Alice II: “Oh, hi. I’m going to retire to spend the last 200 years of my life doing what I love. Being away from you and saddling all my duties as Empress onto you.Bye!” *10,000 years later* Alice IV: “Mother, where are you going? Alice III: “Oh, hello…person I don’t know. Alice IV: “I’m your daughter!” Alice III: “Really!? When, how, and why would I have a child while being so busy running the galactic cluster and getting ready to be a God Empress? Anyway, bye!” *100 years later* Alice V: “Mother, where are you going?” Alice IV: “Nowhere sweetie. After your grandma died, and I saved what was left of our people, I realized the most important thing in the Universe was to keep those you love close and safe. Alice V: “I love you!” :) Alice IV: “I love you too.” :) *And thus the Aeternium Empire fell into decline and stagnation* The moral of this story is NEVER LOVE YOUR CHILDREN or they’ll grow up to become LOSERS!!!
For those interested in the "true utopia" vibe of this story, there's a book series called "The Culture" that's similar to this, and is about the crazy projects that such a race would go on, like organizing strategy games made of entire galaxies
@@calmkat9032 there is this series of amateur written short stories about how humanity has reached that level of existence, and they genetically English orcs and elves to play DnD on crafted planets. Humans of this story are so powerful that they transcend wars of conquest. Everybody just wants to be ruled by then instead since they are so great. Then an intergalactic species comes over to conquer and they are forced to fight armies made of fantasy creatures, clones of geniuses past. Imagine fighting an army made entirely out of Nikola Tesla.
Imagine if it were an entire “perfect species”. There used to be a second human species in Europe, before we showed up and then r@p3d and murdered their entire civilization out of existence because we were stronger and more violent
That moment when you realize the a mod team has put more effort/thought into a species'/faction's lore than some AAA games put into their entire settings (looking at you ME: Andromeda). Feels... wrong somehow.
There are only three things that irritate me about this lore. 1. The world is completely hermetic and static. Pure fatalism, disgusting and... boring. 2. Most civilizations are super-centralized and the story is not so much about the civilization as about the rulers who supposedly created everything the empire is proud of - as if there were no people there at all. 3. All the civilizations there (except Compound) turned from "Alien" into some kind of furry community. Disgusting.
@@Unit-3475 Hey it's me the lore's author. 2. and 3. are valid (although 3. is why you can change the Blokkats' appearance in the settings) but I don't understand 1. can you elaborate?
@@Elowiny Hello! Wow, small world! Since you asked - here's what I meant in short: The thing is that this world is completely separated from everything transcendental. It is completely fixed in its state and nothing can change it. This world will be destroyed and collapsed anyway - and you won't be able to survive it anyway (unless you are a great Kaiser). You can't even go to another universe, although they exist, but the transition between them is completely closed. I understand that it must be difficult - I remember the Boulder Ring, but "completely inaccessible"? All manifestations of this in Stellaris - astral rifts, Unbidden, cosmogenesis - are reduced simply to "special cases of "Deep Shroud", and nothing more." Although I really like the concepts of "Local Shroud" and "Deep Shroud", I don't like when something large-scale and great is reduced to the most local. And in general, any attempts to go beyond the limits are cynically doomed to failure. Other worlds are closed. Cosmogenesis is a failure by definition. Aetherophasic Engine is always a trap. Again, I would understand if most of them - but all of them? (Aetherophasic Engine installation could be both a trap and a weapon - literally the embodiment of the ideas and aspirations of the civilization that created it - a machine-antithesis against the forces of Shroud. A device - where even the shape of individual parts and the order of assembly have a symbolic meaning. If assembled correctly, it will ascend the species to the "Terraformed domain in Shroud", leaving an empty shell of the galaxy, but if the process is disrupted or the thoughts of the creators are clouded - the consequences will be catastrophic). Even Pushkin, having ascended, turned out to be a wingless penguin. Any attempt to achieve something, to become better is doomed to failure by definition. In this world you will live as if in a felt-lined cage. You will beat against these walls all your life for nothing, because you literally have nowhere to go. Then, you will die, a new cycle will begin and you will continue to beat against these walls. And over. And over Even Xeelee Sequence does not look as grimdark as this Infernal Timeless Cage. This is about the world as a whole, but the above is also reflected in the narrative plan, during the game. There is a feeling that the game begins to limit you. The original Stellaris always leaves room for imagination, the world is built - but the boundaries are always blurred. Here, as I already said, there are too many 100% statements. There is no understatement, no mystery, and no exceptions (except for Kaiser, but he is unique and inimitable) - everything is fixed, cemented - the player has nothing to add, he has to act exclusively inside the timeless cage. That's what I meant. P.S Despite the statement above - I really like the mod, as well as the customization menu. I really like strong and detailed crises that require more than just "fleet spam". Among the new features, I want to mention Faust - you managed to make a reference to a show that makes me break out in a rash - in one of my favorite crises (and planetary systems too). The only thing missing is Stellaris-style portraits, like with Kaiser and the Blokkats. Also, Compound - these guys deserve more, and better. Anyway - I'm very glad I met you! I'm extremely intrigued by what else you can add. I would be very happy to finaly see Nebularia. P.P.S Still waiting for the Kaiser Moon page on the wiki.
@@Elowiny Hello! Wow, small world! Since you asked - here's what I meant in short: The thing is that this world is completely separated from everything transcendental. It is completely fixed in its state and nothing can change it. This world will be destroyed and collapsed anyway - and you won't be able to survive it anyway (unless you are a great Kaiser). You can't even go to another universe, although they exist, but the transition between them is completely closed. I understand that it must be difficult - I remember the Boulder Ring, but "completely inaccessible"? All manifestations of this in Stellaris - astral rifts, Unbidden, cosmogenesis - are reduced simply to "special cases of "Deep Shroud", and nothing more." Although I really like the concepts of "Local Shroud" and "Deep Shroud", I don't like when something large-scale and great is reduced to the most local. And in general, any attempts to go beyond the limits are cynically doomed to failure. Other worlds are closed. Cosmogenesis is a failure by definition. Aetherophasic Engine is always a trap. Again, I would understand if most of them - but all of them? (Aetherophasic Engine installation could be both a trap and a weapon - literally the embodiment of the ideas and aspirations of the civilization that created it - a machine-antithesis against the forces of Shroud. A device - where even the shape of individual parts and the order of assembly have a symbolic meaning. If assembled correctly, it will ascend the species to the "Terraformed domain in Shroud", leaving an empty shell of the galaxy, but if the process is disrupted or the thoughts of the creators are clouded - the consequences will be catastrophic). Even Pushkin, having ascended, turned out to be a wingless penguin. Any attempt to achieve something, to become better is doomed to failure by definition. In this world you will live as if in a felt-lined cage. You will beat against these walls all your life for nothing, because you literally have nowhere to go. Then, you will die, a new cycle will begin and you will continue to beat against these walls. And over. And over Even Xeelee Sequence does not look as grimdark as this Infernal Timeless Cage. This is about the world as a whole, but the above is also reflected in the narrative plan, during the game. There is a feeling that the game begins to limit you. The original Stellaris always leaves room for imagination, the world is built - but the boundaries are always blurred. Here, as I already said, there are too many 100% statements. There is no understatement, no mystery, and no exceptions (except for Kaiser, but he is unique and inimitable) - everything is fixed, cemented - the player has nothing to add, he has to act exclusively inside the timeless cage. That's what I meant. P.S Despite the statement above - I really like the mod, as well as the customization menu. I really like strong and detailed crises that require more than just "fleet spam". Among the new features, I want to mention Faust - you managed to make a reference to a show that makes me break out in a rash - in one of my favorite crises (and planetary systems too). The only thing missing is Stellaris-style portraits, like with Kaiser and the Blokkats. Also, Compound - these guys deserve more, and better. Anyway - I'm very glad I met you! I'm extremely intrigued by what else you can add. I would be very happy to finaly see Nebularia. P.P.S Still waiting for the Kaiser Moon page on the wiki.
@@TheRedKing Ah, Kaiser Kattail. Unbelivable person. Hero of endless cycles. The first one who lived. The one who found the gap. Its arrival is expected at approximately 01/01/2200. Just in time for the start of Phase Two. The last time he reported that he had finish the ultimate strategy. But he didn't got in touch again. However, we believe in his abilities. Earth prepared the necessary data he requested and secured the Jublio system from attacks by hostile forces, to wait his arrival. The threat in the Jupitwo system has also been neutralized. In another 75 years we will begin to collaboration. Then we will finally get rid of the infernal forces that have filled our realm. And then we will break through their temporary blockade, which has turned our universe into a timeless cage.
What we can learn from this? Aeterneeze did not love the Worm, and thus the Worm did not love them back. Only by embracing the Love of the Worm, may our people prosper, as it was always ment to be. What was, will be. What will be, was.
@@ultraflopp2802 The Loop only came through with an avatar, just imagine if that thing you saw was merely an avatar, what the real deal would and could potentially be. Since the Worm is regarded as The Worm, it's not out of the question for them to be the same worm.
The thing that this reminds me of more than anything is the Architects from Subnautica, beings who were created by combining and hybriding different species together and who possessed immense technology but were ultimately undone by a biological monster. In that game's lore, it's also the case that one such architect, in his hubris, allowed that biological horror to escape its containment.
I always loved the Aeternum because the idea is more awesome and unique to the mod. The closest thing in gameplay is the mercenaries that wake up with the khan.
I recently had a run against the max difficulty Aeternum with the ancient cache of technologies and acquisition of technologies mods and it was a blast. 9 Maginot Worlds (3 at each of the Galactic Core entrances), 15 Planetcrafts, 26 Attackmoons, 20 Jugurnots, 12 Warbarges and about 500 of the Precursors largest ship types. They caught me mid transition to the Alpha techs and I still only won by using the fact that the Maginot worlds FTL inhibitors prevented them from going in between the core exits, So I could pick one or two fleets at a time. After trying to destroy The Massive Fleet that spawns when they awaken. I was reduced to 1/5 of my forces and they only had 6 Planetcrafts and half of the Massive Fleet left. As I was building up to finish the rest of their remaining fleets. They triggered the fails safes on two of my maginot worlds. Destroying the rest of The Aeternum Fleet. I took their Birch World soon after. Also Fleets destroyed by the Maginot World fail safe do not leave wrecked Planetcrafts behind.
Truly a Fallen Empire, even safer from the rapidly-snowballing player empires than the younger, insignificant ones due to being in such an isolated and completely-overlooked part of the galaxy.
Honestly, a No Man's Sky type game on a birch world with a species loke the Aeternum would be pretty sick. Just millions of procedurally generated worlds all in the damn near infinite living space of a birch world's habiats would be neat. There's also the infinite looks of the species as well. Is that a space deer or is that a fellow player that gene edited themselves and is waiting for the perfect moment to grief me?
Makes me kind of wish we got to or would get to talk to Divinity in some way about Aeternum and its people. Most likely when they awaken again to try and start their endless crusade of the universe once more... or if they are succeeding quite quickly after re-awakening. It makes me want to see it in some form or fashion within the game and the mod itself considering it seems like such an integral part of Aeternums lore. As well as something that would likely refuse to allow their rise once again. This also makes me wonder what truly became of Alice the second, and if she is still somewhere within the psionic realm where you would think you could contact her.
Question: is the history of the Aeternites( probably spelt that wrong) explained in the mod or is this your personal narrative? They are a interesting nation, but as a console player, I can never ever access this.😢
This part of the lore is available via the giga structures wiki. There are more events once you meet them ingame, which I hope to cover at some point. But no it's not my personal narrative, this one is exclusively from the Giga lore wiki :)
a grand side mod to go with this lore wise is galaxus essentially your species lucks out and finds a way o make a gateway bewteen galaxies that is instant in its connection and not gigastuctural in resources reuirements which would allow so many opertunites to succede where the aeternum failed.
Whould you make a lore video about the Katzen's origins from Gatzo and how they got to Flusion? That's what I putted together myself if I'm right, but not sure.
Since i've not heard of literal planets being turned into spaceships in 40k I think they'd be just fine. The Birch World is as big as our solar system I believe, it's insane. Oh and remember these guys have travelled between galaxies, something I don't think happens in 40k?
@@TheRedKing It doesn't happen in 40k that much. The only two factions who did travel between galaxies are the Tyranids and the Necrons. Population wise 2 Quadrillion residents is going to be a pretty big population to draw manpower from. Even by the Imperium's largest population estimates 2 Quadrillion inhabitants are going to be enough to keep up. And I doubt the Imperium and Chaos can draw enough resources and weapon fire power to actually destroy something as huge as a Birch world. Only the Necrons could possibly do so. Nevermind all the defenses each system has. If we assume naturally the Aeternum inhabitants would be highly resistant to the influences of Chaos and because they have pretty much everything they ever wanted already the Aeternum are pretty secure on the mental attacks territories. And with all the likely industrial capacities the Aeternum would have I think they will be a huge powerhouse in the Warhammer 40k setting.
hummm they are psychic, so they would now connect the the 40k version of the shroud.... witch is the warp.... i don't think they survive for long, Slanesh would LOVE them.
@@mathieutechno I think it is possible they might be naturally highly resistant to the mental forced influences of the Warp and to the Chaos gods. As with their experiences I think it's not too hard to imagine they might be pretty naturally resistant to the Chaos gods. The Shroud entities operating on a greater scale may have helped them on that front dealing with a smaller more local galaxy version of the Shroud that the Warp is. Though the Chaos Gods are alot more proactively aggressive then the Shroud deities I don't think they will have as much early success as they may desire to get influencing them. Aeternum have had all the power and pleasures they have been content with for hundreds of thousands of years. Personally I don't see the Chaos gods being as impactful as some may think. So I think it's okay to explore that if. Now the Aeternum suck alot at sensory technology so that's one thing that could help Warhammer 40k galaxy but the Warhammer setting has it's own problems with sensors and communications. Logistics are a nightmare for factions normally. So the Aeternum are not that bad in comparison.
It makes you wonder in your Stellaris chronology how the Contingency and Unbidden dimension factions were even able to launch any successful long lasting potent campaigns with the Aeternum around and the Crisis factions unable to adapt to their level technologically and in power. And really you made the original Aeternum look like teddy bears?
Aeternum is only active for around a hundred thousand years. The rest of that time was spent being recluses in the galactic core, and before a million years ago they literally didn’t exist. So the best explanation is simply that these crises weren’t active at the same time as Aeternum and as a result never came to blows. Same for the other precursors, with most of them massively predating, or slightly postdating, Aeternite activities.
you should do one about when aternium is chosen as being destroyed and either owned by another empire or its just empty or make one about the weapon thats in their if you choose it
let's gooooo!!!! gigastructure lore. never actually fought them entierly cause gigastructure causes way too much lag for me. here's hoping to more mod lore, who knows, maybe we'll reach one of the anime mods one of these days.
@@TheRedKing neat. I know there's a few extra precursor mods out there (Precursor story pack XVCV and more precursor by kroun, there's also Guilli's planet modifier who adds in some cool precursor worlds who have a unique digsite that'll usually give you an ancient relic.) who are all fleshed out enough to give you enough content for at least a few episodes.
Ancient cache of technologies is the only other large mod I use other than GE and has some fun stories to it, also pairs well with this one, but be prepared to take a minute to load if using both!
This is what absolute centralization leads to. If one can rule, one can destroy. As powerful as this empire was, they squandered their potential by creating their own death point.
13:06 this art is beautiful, it looks like the empress of the interstellar psionic empire should look like, I wish I was able to draw something complex to make something like this but with my CK3 Scandinavi-Greek empire which possible future I play in Stellaris, I’ve currently build a QSO and fighting of Galaxy. In the next attempt I’m going to try fight Blokkats, not sure about Aeternum cuz I want to build QSO, whilst Aeternum require peaceful core. I’ll overthink this…
Ok, noted. Should I happen to become emperor of a highly advanced civilization that's able to build birch worlds but wants to be left alone, I'll just move a black hole a bit outside of the galaxy and cover it up, so nobody accidentally looking in my direction will recognize it. Everyone is looking into the galaxies core, but beyond the rim? Why should they.
I find it deeply silly that they called it a Dyson Swarm. The galaxy's first Dyson swarm? Certainly. Likely not what the nascent Eternites would've called it, though. Maybe an Alice swarm? The Empress's Star Crown? Though it _is_ amusing to consider they had someone named Dyson themselves.
Fighting the Aeturnum is not fun...how many death stacks i lost on the hardest setting. I can atleast remember having over 15 fleets stacked with spine weapon battle ships. All of them battle ships. Just taking the first three planets i lost 12 entire fleets... thankfully i had juggs in the rear pumping ships out. Next play through With a couple more mods i was able to switch the battleships with the more affordable Mobile tactical units mod glad to say that the MTUs were just enough that i was able to have atleast 7 fleets survive the slaughter. 😂😂😂 And the ground battle was brutal so many clones gone with the winds.
Which makes it all the sadder when a by comparison booty cheeks empire defeats the aeternites because they nerfed their ships movement speed and kills them with a fleet of crude systemcrafts
Ah! It seems I had accidently deleted a "t" ... it should be working now? or you can find it here: www.patreon.com/theredkingyt - thank you for letting me know!!
Hey, I am a bit confused. How long can they live? Didn’t they say the construction of the birdch world take 10,000 year! Can the daughter of that person live that long naturally? It seem like this take thousand generations, which they seem to take only two
Why is that a Mod?!? Why are the Makers of this Mod Not hired by paradox?!? Why do we get no more new megastructures at Dyson sphere size?!? I have so many questions!!!
I feel like this is what Humanity could become if we just stopped killing each other over stupid nonsense like skin color or personal beliefs. The question answered, for we’d know for certain- _There are Gods among us._ _And they are Us_
Dont know why but that does not sound like a utopia, more like a dystopia... I dont know why it feels like that... Being gods... free of doing anything... yet being chackled by too much freedom
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The aeternum is the perfect example of why Paradox makes it impossible to do all accession paths. Gene edited Psi-Borgs are too overpowered.
Haha yes, 100%
Mods go brrrrr
There’s a mod to have all ascension paths at once
On this subject; why have I seen the AI alter pops to have cyborg AND psionic? How the fuck do they do that??!!
meh but i want psi-borg
Alice II: “Mother, where are you going?
Alice I: “Oh, hello. I know we haven’t spent much time together with how busy I am, but I’d rather die than extend my life and be around you.Bye!”
*1000 years later*
Alice III: “Mother where are you going?”
Alice II: “Oh, hi. I’m going to retire to spend the last 200 years of my life doing what I love. Being away from you and saddling all my duties as Empress onto you.Bye!”
*10,000 years later*
Alice IV: “Mother, where are you going?
Alice III: “Oh, hello…person I don’t know.
Alice IV: “I’m your daughter!”
Alice III: “Really!? When, how, and why would I have a child while being so busy running the galactic cluster and getting ready to be a God Empress? Anyway, bye!”
*100 years later*
Alice V: “Mother, where are you going?”
Alice IV: “Nowhere sweetie. After your grandma died, and I saved what was left of our people, I realized the most important thing in the Universe was to keep those you love close and safe.
Alice V: “I love you!” :)
Alice IV: “I love you too.” :)
*And thus the Aeternium Empire fell into decline and stagnation*
The moral of this story is NEVER LOVE YOUR CHILDREN or they’ll grow up to become LOSERS!!!
I had a good chuckle at this, thank you 😅
Genghis was an orphan just saying 🤷
And Romulus was sent down a river
Stellaris: So, which ascension path do you want to go down? Psionic, genetic, cybernetic, or synthetic?
The Aeternites: Yes
The Worm: No
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For those interested in the "true utopia" vibe of this story, there's a book series called "The Culture" that's similar to this, and is about the crazy projects that such a race would go on, like organizing strategy games made of entire galaxies
Thanks a lot!
I think this is just a plain reference to that series.
@@simonx760 I think it lacks gravitas.
Don't F with The Culture
@@calmkat9032 there is this series of amateur written short stories about how humanity has reached that level of existence, and they genetically English orcs and elves to play DnD on crafted planets. Humans of this story are so powerful that they transcend wars of conquest. Everybody just wants to be ruled by then instead since they are so great.
Then an intergalactic species comes over to conquer and they are forced to fight armies made of fantasy creatures, clones of geniuses past. Imagine fighting an army made entirely out of Nikola Tesla.
"The perfect organism"
This always goes well
It was much more merciful than the rest
Imagine if it were an entire “perfect species”. There used to be a second human species in Europe, before we showed up and then r@p3d and murdered their entire civilization out of existence because we were stronger and more violent
Yea just ask DIO
That moment when you realize the a mod team has put more effort/thought into a species'/faction's lore than some AAA games put into their entire settings (looking at you ME: Andromeda).
Feels... wrong somehow.
Passion trumps profit
There are only three things that irritate me about this lore.
1. The world is completely hermetic and static. Pure fatalism, disgusting and... boring.
2. Most civilizations are super-centralized and the story is not so much about the civilization as about the rulers who supposedly created everything the empire is proud of - as if there were no people there at all.
3. All the civilizations there (except Compound) turned from "Alien" into some kind of furry community.
Disgusting.
@@Unit-3475 Hey it's me the lore's author.
2. and 3. are valid (although 3. is why you can change the Blokkats' appearance in the settings) but I don't understand 1. can you elaborate?
@@Elowiny
Hello! Wow, small world!
Since you asked - here's what I meant in short:
The thing is that this world is completely separated from everything transcendental.
It is completely fixed in its state and nothing can change it.
This world will be destroyed and collapsed anyway - and you won't be able to survive it anyway (unless you are a great Kaiser).
You can't even go to another universe, although they exist, but the transition between them is completely closed.
I understand that it must be difficult - I remember the Boulder Ring, but "completely inaccessible"?
All manifestations of this in Stellaris - astral rifts, Unbidden, cosmogenesis - are reduced simply to "special cases of "Deep Shroud", and nothing more." Although I really like the concepts of "Local Shroud" and "Deep Shroud", I don't like when something large-scale and great is reduced to the most local.
And in general, any attempts to go beyond the limits are cynically doomed to failure.
Other worlds are closed.
Cosmogenesis is a failure by definition.
Aetherophasic Engine is always a trap.
Again, I would understand if most of them - but all of them?
(Aetherophasic Engine installation could be both a trap and a weapon - literally the embodiment of the ideas and aspirations of the civilization that created it - a machine-antithesis against the forces of Shroud.
A device - where even the shape of individual parts and the order of assembly have a symbolic meaning.
If assembled correctly, it will ascend the species to the "Terraformed domain in Shroud", leaving an empty shell of the galaxy, but if the process is disrupted or the thoughts of the creators are clouded - the consequences will be catastrophic).
Even Pushkin, having ascended, turned out to be a wingless penguin.
Any attempt to achieve something, to become better is doomed to failure by definition.
In this world you will live as if in a felt-lined cage.
You will beat against these walls all your life for nothing, because you literally have nowhere to go.
Then, you will die, a new cycle will begin and you will continue to beat against these walls.
And over. And over
Even Xeelee Sequence does not look as grimdark as this Infernal Timeless Cage.
This is about the world as a whole, but the above is also reflected in the narrative plan, during the game.
There is a feeling that the game begins to limit you.
The original Stellaris always leaves room for imagination, the world is built - but the boundaries are always blurred.
Here, as I already said, there are too many 100% statements.
There is no understatement, no mystery, and no exceptions (except for Kaiser, but he is unique and inimitable) - everything is fixed, cemented - the player has nothing to add, he has to act exclusively inside the timeless cage.
That's what I meant.
P.S
Despite the statement above - I really like the mod, as well as the customization menu.
I really like strong and detailed crises that require more than just "fleet spam".
Among the new features, I want to mention Faust - you managed to make a reference to a show that makes me break out in a rash - in one of my favorite crises (and planetary systems too).
The only thing missing is Stellaris-style portraits, like with Kaiser and the Blokkats.
Also, Compound - these guys deserve more, and better.
Anyway - I'm very glad I met you!
I'm extremely intrigued by what else you can add.
I would be very happy to finaly see Nebularia.
P.P.S
Still waiting for the Kaiser Moon page on the wiki.
@@Elowiny
Hello! Wow, small world!
Since you asked - here's what I meant in short:
The thing is that this world is completely separated from everything transcendental.
It is completely fixed in its state and nothing can change it.
This world will be destroyed and collapsed anyway - and you won't be able to survive it anyway (unless you are a great Kaiser).
You can't even go to another universe, although they exist, but the transition between them is completely closed.
I understand that it must be difficult - I remember the Boulder Ring, but "completely inaccessible"?
All manifestations of this in Stellaris - astral rifts, Unbidden, cosmogenesis - are reduced simply to "special cases of "Deep Shroud", and nothing more." Although I really like the concepts of "Local Shroud" and "Deep Shroud", I don't like when something large-scale and great is reduced to the most local.
And in general, any attempts to go beyond the limits are cynically doomed to failure.
Other worlds are closed.
Cosmogenesis is a failure by definition.
Aetherophasic Engine is always a trap.
Again, I would understand if most of them - but all of them?
(Aetherophasic Engine installation could be both a trap and a weapon - literally the embodiment of the ideas and aspirations of the civilization that created it - a machine-antithesis against the forces of Shroud.
A device - where even the shape of individual parts and the order of assembly have a symbolic meaning.
If assembled correctly, it will ascend the species to the "Terraformed domain in Shroud", leaving an empty shell of the galaxy, but if the process is disrupted or the thoughts of the creators are clouded - the consequences will be catastrophic).
Even Pushkin, having ascended, turned out to be a wingless penguin.
Any attempt to achieve something, to become better is doomed to failure by definition.
In this world you will live as if in a felt-lined cage.
You will beat against these walls all your life for nothing, because you literally have nowhere to go.
Then, you will die, a new cycle will begin and you will continue to beat against these walls.
And over. And over
Even Xeelee Sequence does not look as grimdark as this Infernal Timeless Cage.
This is about the world as a whole, but the above is also reflected in the narrative plan, during the game.
There is a feeling that the game begins to limit you.
The original Stellaris always leaves room for imagination, the world is built - but the boundaries are always blurred.
Here, as I already said, there are too many 100% statements.
There is no understatement, no mystery, and no exceptions (except for Kaiser, but he is unique and inimitable) - everything is fixed, cemented - the player has nothing to add, he has to act exclusively inside the timeless cage.
That's what I meant.
P.S
Despite the statement above - I really like the mod, as well as the customization menu.
I really like strong and detailed crises that require more than just "fleet spam".
Among the new features, I want to mention Faust - you managed to make a reference to a show that makes me break out in a rash - in one of my favorite crises (and planetary systems too).
The only thing missing is Stellaris-style portraits, like with Kaiser and the Blokkats.
Also, Compound - these guys deserve more, and better.
Anyway - I'm very glad I met you!
I'm extremely intrigued by what else you can add.
I would be very happy to finaly see Nebularia.
P.P.S
Still waiting for the Kaiser Moon page on the wiki.
absolutely stellar coverage of Aeternum as a whole and I'm excited to see what Gigastructural engineering story you cover next!
That's the plan, i'm sure the Kaiser will make an apperence eventually :)
@@TheRedKing i love the Kaiser but personally i'll have to say take your time, no rush.
@@TheRedKing
Ah, Kaiser Kattail.
Unbelivable person.
Hero of endless cycles.
The first one who lived.
The one who found the gap.
Its arrival is expected at approximately 01/01/2200.
Just in time for the start of Phase Two.
The last time he reported that he had finish the ultimate strategy.
But he didn't got in touch again.
However, we believe in his abilities.
Earth prepared the necessary data he requested and secured the Jublio system from attacks by hostile forces, to wait his arrival.
The threat in the Jupitwo system has also been neutralized.
In another 75 years we will begin to collaboration.
Then we will finally get rid of the infernal forces that have filled our realm.
And then we will break through their temporary blockade, which has turned our universe into a timeless cage.
What we can learn from this? Aeterneeze did not love the Worm, and thus the Worm did not love them back. Only by embracing the Love of the Worm, may our people prosper, as it was always ment to be.
What was, will be. What will be, was.
Oh no, this one has been compromised
I think that the worm we meet is not the one created by the Aeternum, he’s weak.
I'm gonna kick your worm in the nuts in every cycle and timeline I find them in.
@@ultraflopp2802
The Loop only came through with an avatar, just imagine if that thing you saw was merely an avatar, what the real deal would and could potentially be.
Since the Worm is regarded as The Worm, it's not out of the question for them to be the same worm.
That worm is probably just a sperm from a divinity cumshot
The thing that this reminds me of more than anything is the Architects from Subnautica, beings who were created by combining and hybriding different species together and who possessed immense technology but were ultimately undone by a biological monster. In that game's lore, it's also the case that one such architect, in his hubris, allowed that biological horror to escape its containment.
I always loved the Aeternum because the idea is more awesome and unique to the mod. The closest thing in gameplay is the mercenaries that wake up with the khan.
Absolutely love the gigastructural engineering lore vids, thank you for your amazing production value as always!!
Glad you like them! More Giga stuff to come!!
@@TheRedKing do planetary diversity
Hey man your the best storyteller in the commonwealth keep it up!
Thanks very much!! :)
Keeo em comming these are great
I recently had a run against the max difficulty Aeternum with the ancient cache of technologies and acquisition of technologies mods and it was a blast.
9 Maginot Worlds (3 at each of the Galactic Core entrances), 15 Planetcrafts, 26 Attackmoons, 20 Jugurnots, 12 Warbarges and about 500 of the Precursors largest ship types.
They caught me mid transition to the Alpha techs and I still only won by using the fact that the Maginot worlds FTL inhibitors prevented them from going in between the core exits, So I could pick one or two fleets at a time.
After trying to destroy The Massive Fleet that spawns when they awaken.
I was reduced to 1/5 of my forces and they only had 6 Planetcrafts and half of the Massive Fleet left.
As I was building up to finish the rest of their remaining fleets. They triggered the fails safes on two of my maginot worlds. Destroying the rest of The Aeternum Fleet.
I took their Birch World soon after.
Also Fleets destroyed by the Maginot World fail safe do not leave wrecked Planetcrafts behind.
Im glad your channel exists to make these lore vids, because most others just suck or don't exist, so thank you!
Happy to hear you're enjoying the videos!! :)
Yet another amazing video, keep up the good work. I'm looking forward to see you cover the EHOF Megastructure and the story behind it
Plently to cover!! Giga will keep me busy :)
Truly a Fallen Empire, even safer from the rapidly-snowballing player empires than the younger, insignificant ones due to being in such an isolated and completely-overlooked part of the galaxy.
Loving the gigastructural vids. Can't wait for more
More to come!!
Honestly, a No Man's Sky type game on a birch world with a species loke the Aeternum would be pretty sick.
Just millions of procedurally generated worlds all in the damn near infinite living space of a birch world's habiats would be neat.
There's also the infinite looks of the species as well. Is that a space deer or is that a fellow player that gene edited themselves and is waiting for the perfect moment to grief me?
Makes me kind of wish we got to or would get to talk to Divinity in some way about Aeternum and its people. Most likely when they awaken again to try and start their endless crusade of the universe once more... or if they are succeeding quite quickly after re-awakening. It makes me want to see it in some form or fashion within the game and the mod itself considering it seems like such an integral part of Aeternums lore. As well as something that would likely refuse to allow their rise once again.
This also makes me wonder what truly became of Alice the second, and if she is still somewhere within the psionic realm where you would think you could contact her.
I need to play giga structures lol my brothers always telling me how good it is and now I’ve seen two sick lore vids about it xD
There is some great stuff in there! I'd definitely recommend it 😊
Imaginatively well done. Happy to see it was a team effort. And awesome artwork selections, too.
Thank you very much! 😊
This just calmed the mood from a very stressful day into a calmly state of being told a story from my favorite game. Thank you.
I hope tomorrow is a better day :)
@@TheRedKingMuch better. Thanks. Pretty good channel!
Well, if we cant conquer the entire known universe we will take out gigastructures and go home then!
-The Aeternum probably
do people still fight for first comment?
Perhaps? 👀
😂😂 They try, they do try
First comment
Yes
I _really_ think in these mod lore videos you should mention in the video title that its from a mod and not in the vanilla game.
Saving me at work again, thanks man!
Happy to help! Thanks James!!
I really enjoy your Gigastructual Engineering Videos
Thank you! More to come in the future!! :)
@@TheRedKingGlad to hear this! Will the Katzens be covered, perhaps?
I'm sure i'll be able to squeeze them in eventually :)
@@svijj_ I'd love that, I love the silly lore of them
OK, you're saying "Aeturnites", but I'm hearing "The Culture".
Question: is the history of the Aeternites( probably spelt that wrong) explained in the mod or is this your personal narrative? They are a interesting nation, but as a console player, I can never ever access this.😢
This part of the lore is available via the giga structures wiki. There are more events once you meet them ingame, which I hope to cover at some point. But no it's not my personal narrative, this one is exclusively from the Giga lore wiki :)
@@TheRedKing Ah, ok. Thanks
Can't wait to see if you're going to be covering more events mod buly guilliman, i would love an episode on Xandar, the living planet
a grand side mod to go with this lore wise is galaxus essentially your species lucks out and finds a way o make a gateway bewteen galaxies that is instant in its connection and not gigastuctural in resources reuirements which would allow so many opertunites to succede where the aeternum failed.
Love your content man
Wish I had more of the dlcs
Thanks again!
Thank you!! I did see some go on sale atm, might be worth a look? Via Steam
@@TheRedKing I'm a lowly console player lol
@@jsullivan5823 Ahhh!! Then I wish you luck on the various console stores!
top notch thanks for making this!!!
Glad you liked it!
Whould you make a lore video about the Katzen's origins from Gatzo and how they got to Flusion? That's what I putted together myself if I'm right, but not sure.
Will look into it!!
Another amazing video mate, keep up the good work.
Thanks, will do!
If the Aeternum were in Warhammer 40k how much of a powerhouse and impact do you think they could do? And could they hold their ground?
Since i've not heard of literal planets being turned into spaceships in 40k I think they'd be just fine. The Birch World is as big as our solar system I believe, it's insane. Oh and remember these guys have travelled between galaxies, something I don't think happens in 40k?
@@TheRedKing
It doesn't happen in 40k that much. The only two factions who did travel between galaxies are the Tyranids and the Necrons.
Population wise 2 Quadrillion residents is going to be a pretty big population to draw manpower from. Even by the Imperium's largest population estimates 2 Quadrillion inhabitants are going to be enough to keep up.
And I doubt the Imperium and Chaos can draw enough resources and weapon fire power to actually destroy something as huge as a Birch world. Only the Necrons could possibly do so. Nevermind all the defenses each system has.
If we assume naturally the Aeternum inhabitants would be highly resistant to the influences of Chaos and because they have pretty much everything they ever wanted already the Aeternum are pretty secure on the mental attacks territories.
And with all the likely industrial capacities the Aeternum would have I think they will be a huge powerhouse in the Warhammer 40k setting.
hummm they are psychic, so they would now connect the the 40k version of the shroud.... witch is the warp.... i don't think they survive for long, Slanesh would LOVE them.
@@mathieutechno
I think it is possible they might be naturally highly resistant to the mental forced influences of the Warp and to the Chaos gods. As with their experiences I think it's not too hard to imagine they might be pretty naturally resistant to the Chaos gods. The Shroud entities operating on a greater scale may have helped them on that front dealing with a smaller more local galaxy version of the Shroud that the Warp is. Though the Chaos Gods are alot more proactively aggressive then the Shroud deities I don't think they will have as much early success as they may desire to get influencing them. Aeternum have had all the power and pleasures they have been content with for hundreds of thousands of years. Personally I don't see the Chaos gods being as impactful as some may think.
So I think it's okay to explore that if.
Now the Aeternum suck alot at sensory technology so that's one thing that could help Warhammer 40k galaxy but the Warhammer setting has it's own problems with sensors and communications. Logistics are a nightmare for factions normally. So the Aeternum are not that bad in comparison.
They do enjoy a bit of hedonism, maybe Slannesh would have fun with them...
imagine if during a game divinity just showed back up in the galaxy
Don't quote me, but i've heard rumors it may make an appearence!!
The mad lad did it and started covering Gigas. Excellent
Thanks Corey :)
It makes you wonder in your Stellaris chronology how the Contingency and Unbidden dimension factions were even able to launch any successful long lasting potent campaigns with the Aeternum around and the Crisis factions unable to adapt to their level technologically and in power.
And really you made the original Aeternum look like teddy bears?
The images are taken from the Giga Wiki created by the creators of the mod :)
@@TheRedKing
I can't say I really agree with what those guys chose to go with as the image.
Aeternum is only active for around a hundred thousand years. The rest of that time was spent being recluses in the galactic core, and before a million years ago they literally didn’t exist. So the best explanation is simply that these crises weren’t active at the same time as Aeternum and as a result never came to blows. Same for the other precursors, with most of them massively predating, or slightly postdating, Aeternite activities.
@@Betrix5060
I thought they were around for 2 million cycles?
@@thorshammer7883 you expect the truth from them?
Absolutely love that you covered this. Do you think you'll find a way to cover some of the more complex gigastructures?
Yeah I hope to in the future!!
@@TheRedKing awesome!
you should do one about when aternium is chosen as being destroyed and either owned by another empire or its just empty or make one about the weapon thats in their if you choose it
I love your content and the creativity you bring to this great game :3
Happy to hear that! Thank you :)
i always bully them on every single one of my playthroughs. the only gripe i have with them is that the birch world takes so long to explore
let's gooooo!!!! gigastructure lore.
never actually fought them entierly cause gigastructure causes way too much lag for me.
here's hoping to more mod lore, who knows, maybe we'll reach one of the anime mods one of these days.
Hahaha i've yet to experience an anime mod, giga is really the only one i've used at this point - but I will expand further at some point
@@TheRedKing neat. I know there's a few extra precursor mods out there (Precursor story pack XVCV and more precursor by kroun, there's also Guilli's planet modifier who adds in some cool precursor worlds who have a unique digsite that'll usually give you an ancient relic.) who are all fleshed out enough to give you enough content for at least a few episodes.
Ancient cache of technologies is the only other large mod I use other than GE and has some fun stories to it, also pairs well with this one, but be prepared to take a minute to load if using both!
@@Xanhari yeah, got tired of the super long loading times so instead I tried zenith of fallen empires, until that mod broke.
I absolutely love the idea of a birch world.
I feel like the part where they do wake up and trash my sorry stellar-systemcrafts-sailing society into oblivion seems to be missing.
This is what absolute centralization leads to.
If one can rule, one can destroy.
As powerful as this empire was, they squandered their potential by creating their own death point.
13:06 this art is beautiful, it looks like the empress of the interstellar psionic empire should look like, I wish I was able to draw something complex to make something like this but with my CK3 Scandinavi-Greek empire which possible future I play in Stellaris, I’ve currently build a QSO and fighting of Galaxy. In the next attempt I’m going to try fight Blokkats, not sure about Aeternum cuz I want to build QSO, whilst Aeternum require peaceful core. I’ll overthink this…
You can use the max level EHOF to find an active supermassive quasar if there is a supermassive black hole. And vice versa.
13:13 "clean energy" tell that to the rocky planet next to the star...
Early Red King gang, also im enjoying these Giga lore videos
Glad to hear it! More to come :)
Incredible video, i hope you make the kaiser one soon
That's the plan, at some point :)
Oh after Gigastructural Engineering how about cover the story for Ancient Cache of Technology where they tell about the Sin of Fallen Empire.
Sounds good to me!
Oh well I took over Aeternum and moved my capital there after exploring it, pretty nice ngl
So the lore is an average playthrough of stellaris gone wrong. (Also does that mean the centre of the galaxy we play in is inhabited by the Aeternum?)
Yes (If you have the Giga mod installed) ;)
Ok, noted. Should I happen to become emperor of a highly advanced civilization that's able to build birch worlds but wants to be left alone, I'll just move a black hole a bit outside of the galaxy and cover it up, so nobody accidentally looking in my direction will recognize it. Everyone is looking into the galaxies core, but beyond the rim? Why should they.
Your videos have quickly gotten me hooked on Stellaris' lore. By the way, what character are you using to represent Alice the 3rd?
Happy to hear it! I used the images they have on the gigastructures mod page wiki :)
@@TheRedKing The images' status is unavailable unfortunately. But thank you so much for assisting me, even if it didn't turn out well :)
KAISER! KAISER! KAISER!
Keep up the good work, I enjoy your Stellaris Lore video's!
Glad you like them, i'm sure the Katzen will show up eventually!!
Everyone's psychic, immortal, energy and resources are infinite and its all peace and love and excess? I DON'T WANT PEACE I WANT PROBLEMS ALWAYS.
Preach
Alice III literally be like; "yea lets not do that anymore and just chill" lol
Alice 2 lost and was taken over by the worm, but don’t worry for it loves us.
If only Microsoft allowed stellaris mods
Love these video's so much!!
Thank you!! Glad you enjoyed it!!
>Cyber Psycho-Furries
AVENGE ME BROTHER!!!!
Hello. Can you explain to me why the highest Aternum difficulty isn't selectable for me? I honestly have no idea why this is the case...
Suggest asking on the giga discord
so basically this is what happens when you take all ascension perks
Let's go another lore video!
The centre of the universe is dominated by eternal furries?
I should have guessed this really
I find it deeply silly that they called it a Dyson Swarm. The galaxy's first Dyson swarm? Certainly. Likely not what the nascent Eternites would've called it, though. Maybe an Alice swarm? The Empress's Star Crown? Though it _is_ amusing to consider they had someone named Dyson themselves.
aha a very fair point
"The Aeternium" lol this is why we over the pond don't say aluminium. Just jokes though, love your channel!
Thanks!
The old let the god be born rather than possess its body before its done mistake at it again
Its good they didnt go too far. They might have ended up bumping into the blockats
This species sounds lot like aeldari from Warhammer 40k
im slightly irritated that all the super races are anthros but they are well made
Fighting the Aeturnum is not fun...how many death stacks i lost on the hardest setting. I can atleast remember having over 15 fleets stacked with spine weapon battle ships. All of them battle ships. Just taking the first three planets i lost 12 entire fleets... thankfully i had juggs in the rear pumping ships out. Next play through With a couple more mods i was able to switch the battleships with the more affordable Mobile tactical units mod glad to say that the MTUs were just enough that i was able to have atleast 7 fleets survive the slaughter. 😂😂😂 And the ground battle was brutal so many clones gone with the winds.
Which makes it all the sadder when a by comparison booty cheeks empire defeats the aeternites because they nerfed their ships movement speed and kills them with a fleet of crude systemcrafts
Could you do a video on the quasarcraft?
ummmmm i'll put it on the list, no promises!
Wasn't the quasarcraft mod made by a pedo?
Could you provide the transcript? @the red king
For what purpose?
@@TheRedKing I am creating the Aeternum Empire and would like to get the leader bio and empire description boxes right
my lord, the patreon link seems to not be working
Ah! It seems I had accidently deleted a "t" ... it should be working now? or you can find it here: www.patreon.com/theredkingyt - thank you for letting me know!!
Cool video, birtch world isnt a gigastructure tho, i belive its accualy a tera(tetra?)structure
Could be! I hope to cover them in a future video so I'll find out 😊
I guess, this is where Neo comes in. To end the matrix once and for eternity.
Another masterpiece video awesome.
Thanks very much! 😊
Me who’s a human uses less then 300 years to remove them from the Galaxy
That was an awesome history
Hey, I am a bit confused. How long can they live? Didn’t they say the construction of the birdch world take 10,000 year! Can the daughter of that person live that long naturally? It seem like this take thousand generations, which they seem to take only two
They live 10 thousand years but can extend their life by transfering their soul to other organic or synthetic bodies
@@spode2091 That seem unnatural....Well it is just a story.
As spode said, they're incredibly advanced by that point and if they choose to can be effectively immortal
Great news. Now. How do we use this Knowledge for oure Military?
ayyy more gigas lore videos
ok Kattenreich lore when
It will come eventually :)
is that froma a mod ? because im not sure
Yes, gigastructures :)
Why is that a Mod?!? Why are the Makers of this Mod Not hired by paradox?!?
Why do we get no more new megastructures at Dyson sphere size?!?
I have so many questions!!!
Maybe we will, but also maybe because this mod exists maybe we won't... FYI paradox has hired mod devs grunt is one such example iirc
MORE GIGASTRUCTUAL LOREEEE
Ambition is poison.
sooo Aeternum is literally every con costume goer?
Awesome vid
zaryl is awesome
The hive has arrived
Your name has changed! Glad to see you :)
@@TheRedKing the hive has argued with the TH-cam overlords over our name change the battle continues
The machines have arrived.
@@TheContingency25x they thinking rock
@@1650th Thinking rock? That’s the lithoids
We are the talking toasters.
Very cool
I feel like this is what Humanity could become if we just stopped killing each other over stupid nonsense like skin color or personal beliefs.
The question answered, for we’d know for certain-
_There are Gods among us._
_And they are Us_
what a banger
😊 thanks very much!
finally! 🎉🎉
Dont know why but that does not sound like a utopia, more like a dystopia...
I dont know why it feels like that...
Being gods... free of doing anything... yet being chackled by too much freedom