Who are the Guardians of Stellaris?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 มิ.ย. 2024
- This is what we know about the four mechanical guardians in Stellaris the grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:27 Automated Dreadnaught Lore
02:06 How to defeat the Dreadnaught
02:33 Scavenger Bot Lore
04:58 How to defeat Scavenger Bot
05:30 Infinity Machine Lore
12:25 How to defeat the Infinity Machine
13:10 Enigmatic Fortress Lore/event story
18:37 Fortress Loadout/how to defeat
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I always thought the Dreadnought should have been HUGE and Vastly more powerful, the Scavenger should have gotten stronger the longer you left it and the Enigmatic Fortress should have been something you could USE yourself.
You should suggest this on the forum and maybe the custodian can see your idea.
Yeah I kinda wish we could use the Enigmatic fortress, maybe once defeated and scanned it you then could unlock a new engineering tech that allows you to build it as a megastructure
@@abdurrazzaqmumin1574 isn't the custodian team being shuffled as PDX closed a studio?
@@LuizAlexPhoenix No, a dev said that closing will not affect the custodian team or Stellaris.
Agreed! Would love to see these changes - regarding the Custodian team, i'm no expert but I believe this shuffles around between different teams each patch to keep ideas fresh.
An AI that is so technologically advanced that it only has infinity to calculate anymore, that can warp reality and move without thrust, but enjoys communication and has sentience is kind of comforting and kind of horrifying
I love the Infinity Machine, always makes me happy see them, even though their intelligence is far beyond a humans, I feel like they would be great company in real life, just lovely to talk to
how odd... in my latest playthrough when i conversed with the infinity machine, instead of being unable to help solve its infinity conundrum, we somehow solved it in the infinity machines stead. it delighted at the thought that all this time it was missing the key organic element which eluded the infinity machines own logic, and reveled at the revelation that blackholes are indeed wombs, and universes their offspring.
before i could say anything else it travelled to the black hole causing it to explode and opening a window into another universe. i think it worked for me because i already had the positronic AI and quantum processing techs unlocked, but unfortunately the infinity machine didn't give me a gift for solving the equation that had eluded it for eons, instead the black hole became a comically large source of physics, society, and engineering research.
@@chloekaftan yes that has a 25% percent chance according to the wiki.
@@chloekaftan Did you receive a research speed boost in your empire-wide effects on the government screen after solving the infinity conundrum?
@@matthewwilliams8727 i haven't checked actually, i will next time i load up my save
Imagine if you could have captured it…
I love how if you actually manage to get information out of the Infinity Machine, I think by managing to actually help it with what it's trying to do, you can then go tell the Curators about it and they get very upset that you were able to figure out something that they couldn't.
The Infinaty machine is my favorite. I legit chocked up when the big guy threw himself into the black hole, only to create a new universe within it.
The infinity machine is so criptic.
its mind boggling.
it reminds me of the great machine from hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.
Calculating the purpose of life.
a surely impossible task.
But in the end.
Being granted only a short. And sweet answer.
“42”
That wasn't the end though, that was it's failed answer. Earth was built to find the proper answer.
@@JamesMadisonsSpiritAnimal No, that was the correct answer. The trick and fun thing about Hitchhiker's guide is that 42 is the answer to the ultimate question of life, but makes no sense without actually knowing the question. Tha's the joke, 42 is the correct answer, but we don't know why or what even the question is.
@@JamesMadisonsSpiritAnimal 42 is a mathematical & scientifically special number.
Long story short.
When we look at values of things in our universe.
It more so often results in 42.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/42_(number)
@@kotzebrecher yup Earth was built to find the question. I think the dood who thought it died right as the earth did. Or it was a failed experiment due to a flying coach.
i love the infinity machine because it really brings to light what could be believed: blackholes are just universes inside universes.
Infinity machine is fantastic :)
@@TheRedKing agreed!
The infinity machine has 2 endings:
If your computing technologies are high enough (you already have quantum computing technologies) and your tech researcher is 6th tier of cap level you can solve infinity, making the orb be overjoyed that its work is finally done. Then it crashes on the black hole giving you a substatious reward in society research points.
The fortress has a way to give you both enigmatic pieces which gives you a tremendous advantage.
I always loved the Infinity Machine; the concept of a self-contained technological singularity which poses zero threat to everyone -- not because of its loneliness, but because it has everything figured out. It has absolutely zero reason to interfere in galactic affiars; what occupies its mind is of an infathomably greater scale. Though it sees us as small and incredibly ephemeral, it smiles upon us and lets us try to help it. A Machine for which quantum mechanics is as comprehensible to itself as fluid dynamics are to us now... and a Machine which carries so many secrets, but most importantly, carries the secret to time and existence.
In my mind, it set itself to calculate Infinity, because the "answer" to Infinity was the solution to closing the loop it understood, regarding all of what was, what is and will be. When it went into that Black Hole, it shrank, stabilized and showed us another Universe -- even by science fiction mechanics, the stabilization of a Black Hole and to shrink it is absolutely impossible! But then, it let the results of it's work do the talking for us, and we reveled at a new Universe through the looking glass of where the Infinity Machine had last been.
... it figured it out. It calculated Infinity, and when it did; it applied its equations, sent itself in, and gave realization to another Universe, how to travel to them, and most importantly -- how to give birth to new Universes, closing the loop of infinite cycles of not only Planetary evolution, but Universe heat death and rebirth. Like the acute, perfect Goldilocks ratio required for a Planet to bear lifeforms; it discovered the optimal factors of existence for a Universe to be born from a black hole, and now... what was, will be. What will be, was. It's nothing to fear... it's just a fact of our existence. And something out there now holds the secrets to keep the wheels of Reality turning... and that is a bittersweet but wholesome concept.
The Infinity Machine is a really cool reference to Isaac Asimov's short story "The Last Question" ^^
It's a really good read. It follows the billion years long journy of a super computer trying to find the answer to the question a drunk computer engineer tasked it to solve: "How can the net amount of entropy of the
universe be massively decreased?".
I won't spoil the end.
Spoil the end
@@scott-gaming.8834 At this time there is insufficient data for a meaningful spoiler.
"Let there be light."
My crack at it having never read the material. Entropy is the process of energy dissapating over space/time. (Fire burning out) In order for this process to decress there are 2 ideas in my mind. Exponental increase in life and thus the movement of energy. Or the exact opposite resulting in the finality of entropy itself.
How'd I do?
@@midweekcentaur1050 no it ends with muti-vac figuring out how to after all light had gone out and thought doing it would be answer enough and said "let there be light"
Funny story with infinity fortress: I found one after almost 80 years of wondering where all those maruder raids that my fellow empries were spamming at me, not to mention like 5 raids after I told maruders where they can stic thier trubute.
And there i find infinity fortress in a nebula stripped of all its platforms by countless maruder fleets that commited mass suicide.
Propably the only time I had some use out of it cause tech is trash for my carrier battleships.
Ha, what a lovely road block!
The Scavenger Bot is the definition of "Built Different."
It would be an interesting concept in a game like Stellaris to have “guardians” that aren’t really a puzzle you can solve to get something. They are simply an enigma, a story element. Some you can talk to. Others the ancient civilizations can give you information about. Ultimately, they are simply a mysterious and permanent part of the galaxy.
I don’t think this would be frustrating or boring since they are but a tiny part in the whole of the game.
I mean fair, but plenty of arkeological digs and anomalies fill that role already
"Could single handedly destroy an empire's fleet-"
scavenger bot: flies into the sun (4:12)
That's one way to solve the problem.
"We are humans. And nothing stands in our way." - Chills man.
The infinity machine actually gave me chills. You’re way too good bro
Thanks Matril :) Glad you enjoy them!! Infinity Machine is a fantastic story
There is a secret ending to the infinity machine if your doing the horizon signal mission. Let's just say the worm loves the infinity too.
doesn’t it just go “dude. what the fuck?”
i need more data,,, please
@@Andriy_Sklyar that ending is disapointing to be honest
@@xzardas541 can you explain the ending to me ? Like what does it say ? What the infinity machine say?
@@alexanderrohaj4794 You pay some resources and it explodes like a clown.
Message pops up about strange microbes around the black hole that may or may not be the "brief" who constructed it but instead of bringing them back it brought the miocrobes that the brief evolved from.
Reward is pathetic couple points of society research from the hole, and not being able to do main event chain of infinity mashine any more.
If you ask me spaceball got trolled by the worm.
I like to imagine the worlds the dreadnought patrols still have life. Recovering remnants of a shattered civilization fighting amongst itself for scrap in the ruins of an old world, unable to escape the surface or send far reaching communications without risk of annihilation by the dreadnought. A massive ghost ship imprisoning the survivors of an apocalypse world.
The infinity machine is best described as "the singularity of singularities". It can befuddle even the most advanced machine intelligence we can conceive, and only really psionic gods, or gigastructural crisies can hold a candle to it in intellect and wisdom.
03:32 , an *inter*-galactic battle you say? A war between multiple galaxies?
Honestly this is *the* major information of the episode if true.
I double checked the script - this information came directly from the game when you ask the Curators about who built the Scav bot :)
@@TheRedKing A man wonders if the Curators are hinting at something deeper here, with Ultima Vigilis, and an extragalactic invasion from the Prethoryn swarm it seems perhaps there was intergalactic travel in a more civilised age.
Narrator:“It’s believed this dreadnaught belonged to a military force that was once a dominate force in the galaxy in its time.”
Dreadnaught: Does multiple instantaneous 90-180 degree turns in the background
“You don’t say?”
It’s actually pretty cute, the turns were so sudden, random and almost childlike
For anyone wondering, assuming that a galactic year is one full rotation of the Milky Way, a galactic year would be 200 million years
Additional fun fact: Our entire solar system was on the other side of the galaxy than it is right now when the dinosaurs were around.
@@Stingra87 and also at the same position when the dinosaurs were around. The dinosaurs were around for a LONG time.
And all that time the dinosaurs still arw around aka today's birds
@@onedeprivedboi1625birds are as much dinosaurs as you and I are quadrupeds we came from. Technically true but only technically.
Cheese. I’ve always loved the guardians. Not because of what they are but because of the rewards they give you. One thing I’ve hated is how weak the automated dreadnought is when you repair it and put it in your fleets.
It is like stronger than juggernaut what do you mean?
Ive got one in my last playthrough pretty late and it had like 40k fleet power by its own
@@chicken_burgers I play on console. I’ll be changing to Pc soon anyway.
yes it's all about profit 🤣🤣🤣
@@TheContingency25x I dunno the difference
Getting Scavanger Bot's trophy to fall on your Ecumenpolis is such a pog thing, heh. +20% alloy production!
A year on and now you can relocate the trophy wherever you want with planetary decisions. A very welcome change.
Please keep making these! You do such a great job explaining the hidden lore of Stellaris. Im over 3000 hours in-game, and still look forward to whenever your videos drop
Thank you for the kind words Xoe :) Glad you're enjoying them!!
I always wondered who fought at the battle where the recycler resides
I love the Infinity Machine, that quirky planet-sized little nerd.
I've always wondered about the Enigmatic Cache that wanders the galaxy. To me, it seems to share much with the Enigmatic Fortress and the Infinity Machine, as it is of such strange mechanical technologies far beyond our understanding. Maybe they even have a tie-in with the Gray Tempest or the Artificial Fallen Empire. Either way, amazing work here!
I plan on covering it seperately :) It's a cool if not elusive machine!
My favorite on the list is the infinity machine. And I always hope to get it.
The fortress is difficult for me to do😅
Good to know Indie is still raiding ancient structures even in the far future!
Hey I just wanted you to know that I’ve been listening to your stories every night as a way to help me sleep. It’s so calming listening with my eyes closed slowly drifting off asleep. Thank you haha 😊
Aha! That is awesome, as someone who also uses background noise to sleep i'm happy to help!!! :)
Waiting for a playlist of videos about different digsites :3
I've covered a few already, have to go back through the lore playlist and have a look :)
This is a great video. I came across the scrapper one in a MP game and we stopped playing it before anyone was powerful enough to beat it, so I could never figure out what it was
Guys stop what you're doing, Red King just uploaded another video
Love your series. Hate to read the texts myself. I just skip to the rewards. But I have come to enjoy these videos insted.
Happy to hear it :)
Same. Especially when there’s 5 excavation reports, 13 anomaly reports, 6 first contact reports, a million other reports to read.
I love the scavenger bot lol it’s so cool just chilling there in all it’s space garbage
Same! Just going about its business until more scrap comes a looking
I've been here since the beginning. On different accounts but I'm still here and still never played Stellaris. I just love the sci fi and by now I probably know way more Stellaris lore than actual players haha
aha :) Happy to hear it!! Thanks for sticking with me
For what you said here's an advice : One day if you start playing it, don't search for any guides and just unlock those cosmos mysteries by yourself.
The first play through is worthless.
You underestimate Stellaris players and their never-ending hunger for *lore*
01:31 - that’s modified from the Great Hall of the Natural History Museum in London
Ha, so it appears to be :) Good catch!!
hey uh
Incase you guys haven’t seen it before
there’s a very small chance that you assisting the machine actually solves the equation
it rewards you with a mirror of knowledge modifier for your empire and boosts all research by 10%
not sure if it changed as i haven’t gotten it recently (despite being fanatic materialists)
Great video as always!
Thanks AJ glad you enjoyed it!! :)
omg your voice is so calming😊
Happy to hear it :)
Well done
Thanks Dustin :)
I just wish you could do more special projects with the dreadnought and other quest ship rewards, at the very least once you reach the tech you should be able to swap out parts and refit the ships.
Agreed!!! Or if you've not unlocked those techs, you should at least get a small amount of progress towards them
Wouldn't the Surveyor count as one of the Gaurdians, because it is mechanical in nature as well?
Probably 😅 but I'm not sure its space worthy ? I actually don't know
I know it's for gameplay reasons but man armor in space and missiles make no damn sense.
In a world were Ai is so advanced you would think we would just intercept the missiles with ship based drones.
And as for armor, idc what magic space metal you have. A grain of sand moving 1 1000th the speed of light will still turn you into hydrogen carbon and iron dust.
Armor maybe effective against energy weapons perhaps
if you keep feeding the Scavenger Bot ships, will it increase in strength?
Sadly not
Not that it’s not - but
Im a new player and the Automated Dreadnaught spawned right next to my system. I sent a whole fleet very early game against it including my Secundus (2nd in line) and mannnnn I got my ass whooped haha
That thing owned the system up until the War in Heaven, and when I returned with a Juggernaught XP
It's a monster :)
cool
You should do ASMR. Just randomly talk random facts. Lol
Aha I'll consider it - thanks James
What dlc is this in
Ummm probably leviathans, but maybe mixed across a few tbh
They should really make the leviathens more powerful, literally destroyed them all by the start of the midgame
Yeah I tend to agree, power creep has made most of them a bit limp
Not Guardians of the Galaxies?😂
Ha! That would have been a good title :)
@@TheRedKing YEP!
does anyone else see the clown face on the infinity machine?