Who are the Formless? - Stellaris Lore
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มิ.ย. 2024
- This is what we know about the Formless and azilash, new with the Astral Planes DLC in Stellaris the grand strategy game by Paradox Interactive. In this video we shall discover and acquire Rift Sphere technology, explore our first Astral Rift and meet the Formless.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
00:38 A Tear In Space
02:42 Entering The First Rift
06:35 Unknown Transmission
11:15 The Formless
13:23 To Battle!
15:26 The Eternal Throne
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What are you all most excited to find within the rifts!? The Formless, relics, precursors perhaps? Let me know below... If you want to pick up Astral Planes you can do so here: play.stellaris.com/TheRedKing
finally, something in the galactic core
Subscribed, small channel but great content
The Formless are the kids who were bullied by the Endless from Endless Space and went hardcore emo. Change my mind.
@@eliminatorvr1350
*spooky space skeleton noises*
I absolutely loved the lore tie in with the Unbidden. I hope they spice up the Unbidden crisis with free Astral Planes material.
"That Eternal Throne belongs in *my* museum!" - Trazyn the Infinite (probably)
I've been told these books are good!
I dont think people realise how massive this is for the lore of stellaris
We now actually know the origins of the unbidden and the others like them and what the throne is and what it is capable of... questions that we have had for years now...
(now all we gotta wait for is an answer for what the hunters are)
Agreed, it's properly huge in lore terms!
I got hit by all three crisis faction the other day in the last 100 years of the game. Last thing I need is a 4th now because those bugs did a number on the galaxy.
@@TSOMimmortan agreed it fits very well with the lore and they are beyond terrifying
@@TSOMimmortanI don’t. They aren’t canon.
@@TSOMimmortan that's what they are themed around, it says on the settings menu for Gigas that they are the Hunters in Gigas lore. In normal lore they obviously aren't canon but in Gigas they are the hunters the scourge speaks of.
Ah the ones without form
Shop more. Form less.
T h a n k y o u m i s t e r h e l p f u l
BTW, you can force them to serve underneath you, which gives you the throne and size 40 gaia world in that system.
And on top of that you can form a migration pact (or in my case be in hegemony with allowed migration), colonize new worlds with Formless pop, give them full Citizenship (maybe even assimilate into cyborg/robot pop), change to democracy/oligarchy, get Formless leader as new head of your nation, enslave every other nation(or purge), and now you have Ethernal Empire, with Formless as sole species.
Oh my god the formless look SO COOl. It’s like they took the unbidden and made them badasses
They've updated the Unbidden/Ab/Veh as well with a similar look
The "rift sphere" is very similiar to what the ancient forerunners used during their eradication of the precursors
Reminds me of the void ship in doctor who
No matter the problem, if you're in space, the solution is to "repolarise the X" - if that doesn't fix it, you might as well just set the self destruct.
Gotta repolarise the infinity dilithum chambers boss!
Well, that's one Stellaris mystery solved. Now, about those "Hunters"...
Indeed!!
This update changed dimensional travel
Machine age updates machines
I'm predicting next DLC will be a biological update
Eternal Throne with immortal people, world devourers and the ability to command massive amounts of power? I wonder where I have heard that before...
Warhammer 40k
reminded me of the Eternal Throne and eternal empire from the star wars the old republic expansions
I am addicted to these stories. I have played Stellaris for years and your stories just bring me even more into this world. I can listen to them over and over. It's such great storytelling. keep up the great work.
Thanks Joe!! Happy to hear it, hope you enjoy exploring the Rifts
@TheRedKing still hasn't decided to get it yet. Maybe I'll win a code on the live today. 🤞 but if not there is always humble bundles lol
if everything comes together, formless are the previous players who chose psionic ascension and become crisis, in which they successfully destroyed their last galaxy and moved into the shroud,
also they are the force whos hunting prethoryn from galaxy to galaxy
Doubt that, as they're extremely weak... unless you mean pre shattering of their people
@@TheRedKing I think he does, yes.
I guess I'm weird, my immediate first thought was "if the Abberant and them want it so badly, the throne should be destroyed. Nothing like that could possibly be safe or uncorrupting."
But immortality!
@@TheRedKing I'm a Millennial, immortality holds no appeal for me. 🤣
@@XantheleiSPEAK FOR YOURSELF
_(SIXTY FIVE MILLION YEARS OF TYRANNY)_
"ONLY FAITH CAN GIVE ETERNAL LIFE! NOT THIS PAGAN WATER!"
- Spanish Conquistador in the Fountain of Youth in PotC 4, and its exactly what I'd say before destroying the throne
@@TheCorrodedMan I... did..? Lmao
So if we're getting the backstory on the unbidden i wonder if we might also get some backstory on the other two crises one day
I live in hope
@@TheRedKing The contingency would have to involve some kind of machine expansion. The Scourge, I don't know, probably a biological expansion. The most radical would have to be galactic exploration beyond our galaxy (Though that would be more like sequel type material)
@@stormlordeternal7663 no backstory for contigency in machine age sadly, they just make another crisis
Great! I can put the Eternal Throne next to the Khan's Throne!
Throne collection.
@sharojak9401 We bout to turn Stellaris into a game about collecting Thrones. A "Game of Thrones" , if you will.
@@martinosborne4703
The intrigue and violence is there.
Start with the Dragon origin and now you have a Mother of Dragons with her own army.
Now we know what the eternal throne is
You should do something on the lore of ancient cache of technologies. That is probably the second biggest tech mod next to gigastructures
I promise I will, many have asked and I will deliver; just time...
Space panda go brrrrrt
"Cmon my lords its obvious.. they are those without form.. its in the name." End video
Duh! :)
Not gonna lie this makes me really want a new origin or species pack where we play a subset of the formless that landed in this universe after the shattering. I always wanted to play the unbidden as I though it could be made into a unique playstyle like the machine and hive minds where your psychic beings and could have unique gameplay. Don’t know maybe someone will mod it some day
Sounds really cool, explore multiple l-clusters to simulate other galaxies
someone made the electroids mod which is basically this
Well, cough up the ransom money and get your trash DLC 😂
I just wanted to say, you are the sole reason I keep coming back to Stellaris. Ive been having a blast playing it and watching you.
Keep doing what you do King ^^
Happy to hear it!! Thanks Emily appreciate the kind words,
It's SO NICE to finally get answers to the mysteries we have been teased with for how long. Mystery and the unknown are cool and all but at some point a mystery with no answer is pretty pointless. Especially to actually get an ORIGIN for a endgame crisis!
I also almost forgot you served the Commonwealth of Man. What you did was not very nice. We of the Omni Collective kindly request you return the throne to it's original owners.
Agreed! It's been literally half a decade of not knowing what the throne was
As fast as always, great job, your service to the Commonwealth of Man has not gone unnoticed
Side note- Electroids mod got an update and they all look like this, absolutely fucking sick
What wouldn't I give for a formless origin (probably only a L-cluster origin)
So this basically (kinda) explains (leaving some stuff 4 your imagination) what the throne is. Do you think in other dlcs we will get an explanation or an mention to the hunters and class-30 singularity that get mentioned by other crises ?
I sincerely hope so! They are some of the biggest mysteries the game
i mean, they've explained what the throne the Unbidden were fighting over is, so that's probably a plan they have, yeah
I absolutely love these lore stories despite never playing Stellaris!
Glad to hear it :)
What are you all most excited to find within the rifts!? The Formless, relics, precursors perhaps? Let me know below... If you want to pick up Astral Planes you can do so here: play.stellaris.com/TheRedKing
Congrats on getting sponsored by paradox
Thanks!!
this is huge, i had a feeling the unbidden and their rivals were some sort of advanced empire but wow
Those gormless formless
Yet another amazing video. Love your works, Your Majesty. Happy exploration.
Good to see you! Glad you enjoyed it :) Happy exploration to you to
Time for the other two crises to get story expansions. I'd like to see the hunters arrive in a galaxy that successfully fought off the Scourge, and possibly settle there (or go to war with consumers/eradicators), since the hunted prey is now dead.
Hell yeah! Stay awesome red king!
synthetic dawn updated and expanded on the contingency astral planes is doing the same with the unbidden.
their is probably going to be a dlc about genetic engineering or a hivemind rework that overhauls the scourge.
Wonderful video. Great narrative as always, S tier content. Thank you!!!!
I hope seizing the eternal throne isn't the only way to resolve this. I hope there is a more benevolent option with its own rewards.
You can attempt to vassalise them peacefully and still acquire the throne, but it is chance based whether it succeeds
@@TheRedKing I built a space station in that system, and after beating back the bad guys, convinced them to submit to me and got both gaia planet AND the throne.
Stellaris sponsorship, let's go, homie. Keep up the amazing work, man
Thanks!!
Man I love this videos, thank you Red.
Glad you like them!
Love the stories, can't wait to get done with work so I can go explore rifts!!
Hope you enjoy!
Admiral Cole was a nice touch.
Hope for a mass effect name next time ;)
I’ve been finding myself falling asleep to these Lore videos like a kid to a bedtime story😂❤️. I love them and thank you for making them!❤❤
Aha! I hear this is quite common, glad you're enjoying them!!
i'm gonna buy this dlc!
Seems like so many opportunities to learn new knowledge and lore!
This will be perfect for my UNE playthrough
Hope you enjoy it!
Ah only in stellaris can we start as Star Trek. Turn into eldridge horror and then end up as 40k somehow
Also write in the comments to say what si fi setting would easily beat the formless
They seem pretty weak tbh, mostly broken down into a decaying state, a bit like an FE
just dropping a quote & leaving
there is no peace amongst the stars, only a crucible of war in which we are forever tested-- lord high admiral spire (battlefleet gothic armada 2)
They seem like they would make a good faction for verses like Halo and Warhammer 40k. A faction trying to survive and keep the Eternal Throne away from all the other nations and principalities.
Eternal throne, didn’t the unbidden and their rivals mentioned an eternal throne
Mhm, it's covered in the video
Oh right, I forgot this DLC released today. Guess I'm spending all afternoon updating my mods.
Hope you enjoy it!
@@TheRedKing For $20, I better.
Sooooo, it's a mini Unbidden crisis event? Does it effect the end-game Unbidden crisis in any way?
Not that i've seen, but my testing hasn't been extensive, busy with other events
that tear and then sphere reminds me on that tear from 3body problem that anihilate humans space fleet lol
That was quick red.
I've been busy!
Zadigal deserves a mention.
LETS GOOOOOOOOOO NEW DLC
Don't have the money for the DLC so this video is great for me. Out of topic, ever thinking of doing the lore of Zenith of Fallen Empires?
It is on a long list of to do :) ACOT may come first though, there seems to be more love for that one.
@@TheRedKing Gotcha
@@TheRedKing good call
man we eaten good with this lore drop
who told paradox to cook like this cause they cooked good
Uh huh! Christmas came early
Grats on your sponsorship king make your money take no L's
Thanks, i'll try!
Riftworld is an amazing origin, I've believe I've just closed off the story for it.
Agreed!! I've penciled it in for Wednesday 22nd
I don't want to leave spoilers for others here, but I can't wait to see which path you choose
Who are the Formless?
Commonwealth of Man: Just another Xeno we have to Purge!
The Eternal Throne? It seems like a powerful device that would be a great asset for most galaxy bound verses like Warhammer 40k.
However some may have already outgrown it's limitations.
The Aeternum probably wouldn't be too overly excited over it considering their experiences and tier of power. They however would be more annoyed about this. "Hey! Who parked a entire parallel realm solar system of etheric energy nearby our birch world?!"
The Phanon Corp however would like to take that for study and safe keeping thank you good sirs.
As for the Stellarborne. "Congratulations on obtaining that interdimensional toy little empire. Keep this up and you may become like the Transcendent humans from the Xeelee's universe in a few hundred thousand years. Watch out for the Hunters though."
Big E could hop off his golden one and onto that for a bit to get a bit of regen
@@TheRedKing
That would be nice though he would need to keep the galaxy wide Astronomican up and the Eternal Throne has no connections to the Warp.
maybe he can put one hand on each throne?@@thorshammer7883
I read somewhere that more often than not there will be at least 1 comment about 40k.
@@TheRedKing
I guess you got to leave it to the Inquisition, Custodes, and Gulliman to handle. Don't let the Eldar take it they will only screw everything up again.
Are they going to form the latest crisis
Wait, does this DLC replace the Unbidden art with blue Formless?
Mhm :)
Hold on, hold on, hold on, let me get this straight. There are 4 extra dimensional Species
How much time did paradox put into this game? Because the lore is extensive.
It's still so frustrating that there's an anchor cable attached to the special ultra-smooth rift sphere.
No comment aha!
Well guess I don't need the immortality gene mod anymore.
Overtuned Empires love this one trick
Man, I can't wait for this new update! Toxiods looks amazing. - -Console players.
see you in 18 months? - oh and Toxoids is alot of fun!!
@@TheRedKing It looks like it, and thanks for all rhe amazing content you make!
Yeah, as an xbox player I am exvited to get this one in 999999999999999999999999999 days.
@1.-ulysses334 Hey, don't be so glum chum! They have First contact slatted to come out on consoles as early as next Thanksgiving. No, really, apparently, they need a year to adapt the DLC, which is 90% text boxes.
The hive has returned from isolation
Welcome back!
The unbidden call everyone prey, so what if the prethoryn scourge refer to the hunters as such because they managed to defeat the unbidden and take their place as hunters?
Mom can we have unbiden at home?
No theres unbbiden at McDonalds!
Unbidden at McDonalds:
So, the Unbidden are "shabanash", the Aberrant are "dagaal" and the Formless are "shadagon". Have we ever been given the native name for the Vehement?
I don't believe so, as they are the last to come into the galaxy no one addresses them directly
Time to learn who the F these and I’m guessing the lot where the unbidden and co come from
why isnt their an achivement for owning both the khans throne and the enternal throne
Ha, a very fair question!
Is there any special dialogue if you have the eternal throne and the unbidden spawns as a crisis?
nope, none that i've seen
@@TheRedKing oh ok, thanks for answering!
"probing"....."Rubbing causes friction"... "a spherical device"= can pass thorough unimpeded"....... "frictionlessly glide".....doesn't help that the sphere looks like a button vibrator, .....I am going to hell for my dirty mind T_T
HA!
The only qualms I have with this is it seems far too easy a path to godhood. Godhood by stealing it? It should require more work than that!
Dr.Livingston is everywhere
Busy busy! :)
I would see if I could use the Throne as a battery
Probably could figure it out, would be a huge battery
Dang, They had Eden, and messed it up as well 😭
Is the cable frictionless too?
It's very round...
Imperium of Men.....nice
Since we now have the eternal throne, does that make us the defacto ruler of the unbidden.
Yes I think so
Is the DLC working properly yet? There's... a lot of negative reviews about it being broken.
In fairness I didn't expect any issues, but am aware alot did on launch. I think there are some broken things but it's more related to the patch than the dlc, just there is no where to review the patch
Ach dlc without a form. That says it is in your game files yet it does not work in a game.
Immortality! Al right then, that's worth a little genocide.
Agreed.
So these guys are kinda like super unbidden but not completely batshit insane?
Kinda, but tbf are the Unbidden insane or just real hungry? Take the Throne from the Formless I bet they'll try and eat you
If you think about it, the 3 unbidden factions are just isolated factions of the formless ones may have lost their super sentient abilities due to being isolated from rest of the empire and were driven into an animalistic like craze because they lost their ability to communicate with the throne and turned on eachother, that's my understanding at least
Very much agree, the lack of access to the throne broke them@@herpymcderpy9624
@@TheRedKing sounds like what happened to the blood elves of Warcraft when they lost their sunwell
Rouge servitor when
@@TheRedKing :)
When is there gonna be Stellaris 2 tho?
A question for the next Dev AMA, but given the development in Stellaris 1 i think unlikely any time soon
@@TheRedKing It was more of a joke. But I appreciate the reply anyway. Your videos are really well done and your voice is perfect for the storytelling!
Thanks!!
Glorious !! More Zeno filth to purge.
Stellaris is free with Xbox Gamepass by the way
sorry for spoilers guys but the formless are just me again,i dont appreciate yall breaking into my house and stealing my toilet
How much do you think these Relics including the Eternal Throne would effect galaxies like the Expanded Universe Star Wars and the Halo galaxy?
They seem to raidate great cosmic power however they seem limited in capacity. The Forerunners were kind of like that already. And I don't know how something like the Eternal Throne would help them fight against the Flood and only end up as a liability because if the ever adapting parasite finds out they will target it and attempt to capture the Eternal Throne.
In Star Wars it maybe enough to overpower something like Abeloth.
I'm not sure, but being immortal would go a long way to solve most individuals intergalactic problems
@@TheRedKing
The Flood however have no such concerns. Just pure intent at fulfilling what it has the will to achieve. However atrocious the endgame goal maybe. The Eternal Throne would simply empower them even further then ever before when it comes to a continuous state of being. Add that with Neural physics and reality altering then you got a more powerful devouring monsterous scourge overmind then before.
@@TheRedKing
There is also the problem of hedonism becoming more prevalent then before. And lawless behaviors and doctrines taking root afterwards.
True! I hear the Eldar had some issues with this...
@@TheRedKing
Extremely harsh issues. What the Aeldari Empire did was worse then even by the wicked evil standards of the Dark Eldar in Commorragh.
The defilements those Aeldari did became ever more abomniable and became worse then whatever kinds of perverted lawlessness nephilim activity went on in Sodom & Gomorrah plus two other cities now reduced to brimstone barried under the Dead Sea in the Bible.
wow leaders being immortal, kind of a lame bonus.
Great video although I was a bit disappointed you chose the non-canon ending
Why is console stellaris so far behind PC in terms of updates
Probably because they can't just copy/paste and need to redo everything? But I don't know enough about it
As a xenofobic spiritualist crusader✝️ I say: ONLY FAITH CAN GIVE ETERNAL LIFE, NOT THIS PAGAN THRONE😡
POV: you play ultramodded and their insane accomplishments are no longer impressive 😅
ACOT enjoyer, I see
@@rizkiramadhan9266
ACOT is merely one of the many mods I use to commit multiversal atrocities
@@sharojak9401 >atrocities
Cringe
@@rizkiramadhan9266
The lag must be fought. It is for the greater good.
@@sharojak9401 lol fair enough
so maybe i got this wrong but the formless called the unbidden its "children's" so does that means the unbidden are to the formless somewhat similar to what A.I are to us? i dont think they mean children's as in offspring and they called them broken. it seems the unbidden rose up against the formless and killed all but this group and they want the throne because its a powerful artifact that can harness massive amount of power so they can probably use it as a power source
Maybe, perhaps it will be explained later down the line
Immortality useless when you have the technical mastery of a mid to last game stellaris empire
It's pretty cool though
please put up a spoiler warning, I haven't watched the video cause i want to experience this new crisis blindfolded since it's been so long since they added a previous one. Even if it isn't a new crisis please make the thumbnail something else anyway cause i'm assuming this is a major part of the update
Ahh thats tough for me, it's kinda my job to "sell" the video - my videos are often pretty spoiler heavy as well tbf, but i am sorry if the thumb ruined something for you
Dude no. You know you cant ask that.
I remember having a terminator playthrough (my first ever) and I had set the end year to 2800, so killed, I conquered, and I waited all alone in the galaxy, one day, they came, they looked down on me, so I took their electric eyes, I immediately crushed them I was legit jumping with joy.
Ahaha glad to hear it! Also, top profile picture !!
@@TheRedKing It’s from a vid called “Laefy”, it’s of a Norwegian soldier.
They're a boring cash grab. Saved everyone a watch.
Subjective, i was quite excited about it tbh
@@TheRedKing nothing personnel, King 👈👈😎
ah it's all good - i totally get it, just happens that i love these kind of DLCs, whereas say apoc was less my thing@@ValerianDare5658