The Star Union during and after it's existence sounds a lot like the Golden Age of Technology, Dark Age of Humanity, and Rise of the Imperium of Man from the 40k universe. The Psionics, the Void storms, the collapse and scattering of human colonies, and now the imminent wars to unify the colonies again. All we need is the Emperor in his golden armor, wielding his flaming sword, and his 18 sons commanding their legions and we have the Great Crusade.
18 sons... they never talk about the other two legions or their primarchs... what are you trying to accomplish with those heretical words brother, you don't want the Emperor's most holly inquisition to come and take your head away with them as a servo skull... be careful... ;)
I agree with all of these suggestions. Though isn't the Galactic Kaiserreich in Legend of the Galactic Heroes called the Galactic Empire in it's setting?
I definitely wanna hear what the Templin Institute has to say about the war between the UCF and the Bugs. "The only good bug, is a dead bug!" - MI Soldier
This is awesome, Ive been watching a few videos of this game and genuinely wanted to know the back story. This documentary has practically solidified my purchase.
This quickly started to sound like a Warhammer prequel series soon after the video began... now theres the type of story we never see, like with hardly any franchise.
@@Gothic7876 I am considering buying it, but I got a hard time determining what it is comparable to. Does it feel much like Stellaris, Civ 5/4 or something else?
The research trees have some excellent Alpha Centauri-style lore in this game. Researching biotech that lets you cull your weak and sickly larvae by eating them as the insect race is a great conversation piece for your diplomatic negotiations with the other factions.
@@TricksterPoi I'm currently five missions deep into the Planetfall campaign, but I'm not sure it's quite accurate to label the Psynumbra as either Chaos or Sith: Chaos is fuelled by extremes of emotion, while the Sith embrace anger and hatred. The Psynumbra, on the other hand, are explicitly linked to the emotion of despair: specifically, because the powers of the Psynumbra are derived from the void, it seems to be sense of being exposed to the vastness of the universe and the sudden awareness of the degree of your own insignificance - which is why Psynumbra powers are more often to do with psychologically cracking one's opponents rather than directly killing them.
So many secrets, so many worlds, so many mistakes... ...and that just scratches the surface of the secrets to uncover, just lost & drifting out there in space. --Mah Reg'Mib, A Traveller
I would say the decay had set in once they entered the state where they had to constantly expand to stay afloat. It’s something that has afflicted many empires in history.
@War Never Changes Basically the SCP Foundation is a clandestine organization that operates in secret in order to protect the society of mankind from anomalous threats. They secure and contain all anomalous entities from the public and protect humanity from utter destruction. This would become their scared motto of *Secure, Contain, and Protect*. The SCP Foundation operates around the globe in a strict operational security manner. They receive an unlimited amount of resources and assets from many of the worlds' national governments. By utilizing their resources and influence, they're able to combat countless anomalous entities and successfully capture them before the public finds out. The captured anomalous entities would be transported in many of their facilities and sites that are built around the world, from then they'll be classified, researched, and permanently contained. People who are employed in the Foundation knows the risk of this unprecedented field of work. Whether he or she is a Researcher, Security Agent, or a Mobile Task Operative, they all die in the dark so the innocent may live in the light. *"We Secure. We Contain. We Protect."*
The SCP Foundation would be difficult because a lot of stuff is fan-made and merely approved by the curators of the site. You are no doubt aware that they occasionally expunge some entries, later deciding they are not suitable afterall.
Alex Ander ah kitten has the functional brain power of an automaton but yet still beats the emperor in paradox-Billiards-Vostroyan-Roulette-Fourth Dimensional-Hypercube-Chess-Strip Poker
This is literally the best channel in the universe! I am just now looking through your videos list with a grin of a madman. Now excuse me, I have some watching to do...
I just bought this game and very excited to play it, I saw ya had videos for this game. So I thought I get info. on the game and factions, so thank ya very much
You know... i still have fond memories of AoW II: Shadow Magic. It does everything right, has a ton of factions (such as Undead and Dark Elf but also Halflings and Dragons) and a gigaton of units, the maps can be procedurally generated allowing for endless replaybility and of course it can be played in multiplayer in any way imagineable. In many ways its still the pinacle of the old guard of strategy games aking to Heroes of Might and Magic, just much, much better. Kinda the Master of Orion 2 in its weightclass and there is nothing even closely punching to it. To take THIS, transer it into a scifi setting taking inspiration from Alpha Centauri, Endless Legend and XCom to do this? *extatic wimpering* Its fantastic of course.
Sounds like that series has some good world building there. Draws just enough from historical events like the collapse of the eastern Roman Empire to seem believable without falling into the trap of being space Romans, nice.
When I was played AOWPF first time I was feel essence of dark age of technology there.I was imagine dark age of technology as game Planet fall.I believe every player and WH fun knew and feel it.
@@RaidsEpicly well you can watch preview let´s plays (if you don´t mind german commentry) on the channel writing bull, but i guess the main concern is more the dlc policy isn´t it?
Here's a possible idea for a galactic civilization you can review in the future: United Citizen Federation of Terra (UCF), Starship Troopers. I know it might be a tough one, but I just wanna see what the Templin Institute has to say about the war between Humanity and the Bugs!
this is just a theory, but I think those rifts were becoming unstable because the constant forced tearing of time and space was weakening the fabric of the universe faster than it could heal.
This video was good, but I'm troubled at the precedent being set here. Can anyone now buy a Templin Institute investigation? And would these ads ever influence the content of such videos?
I can understand your unease, however, we are very selective with our sponsorships. We've received a few requests to cover other unknown properties that we've turned down because our priority is releasing a video that our audience will enjoy. Given how popular Paradox games are with our audience, it seemed like a natural fit. As for the content being influenced, it wouldn't be fair to say that we didn't get something out of this partnership with Paradox. We were given some information about the lore that isn't publicly available, so if anything, the content was improved and deepened because of it. We still intend to hold ourselves to the same high standard we set when we first started. I hope that sets your fears to rest and thank you for your support!
@@TemplinInstitute Thank you. I didn't expect a reply, but I am grateful to you for putting my fears to rest. I am a huge fan of the channel and the great work you do.
I know it’s not a massive franchise but MorningLightMountain and the Primes from Pandora’s star and Judas Unchained would make an awesome video if u guys have time.
So I do not know if something like this would be worth looking into, but what about the Star League for The Last Starfighter? It is a classic film and it would be great to watch this video. Thanks for all the great content you bring out.
I'd say the best way for a star empire like this would've survived if they went the way of the british empire and devolved power, allowing for self governance.
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I prepurchased, so that is not an option for me or I would.
Make a video on the Abbey of the Everyman.
Please do the Bene Gesserit sisterhood for the new Dune TV show.
@@oddish2253 There's a _new_ Dune TV show? As in, of 2019?
@@UnlimitedFlyers A movie too in 2020
The Star Union during and after it's existence sounds a lot like the Golden Age of Technology, Dark Age of Humanity, and Rise of the Imperium of Man from the 40k universe. The Psionics, the Void storms, the collapse and scattering of human colonies, and now the imminent wars to unify the colonies again. All we need is the Emperor in his golden armor, wielding his flaming sword, and his 18 sons commanding their legions and we have the Great Crusade.
Yes it's almost too similar to be immersive. Can't wait for a 40k total conversion tho ;)
@@thelin9061 I can see them ripping the needed models from maybe Gladius.
Not surprising, since Stellaris also has 40k references
18 sons... they never talk about the other two legions or their primarchs... what are you trying to accomplish with those heretical words brother, you don't want the Emperor's most holly inquisition to come and take your head away with them as a servo skull... be careful... ;)
@@sohrabroozbahani4700 Oh shit you're right lol.
Suggestions for the Templin Institute:
- Galactic Empire (Star Wars)
- Principality of Zeon (Mobile Suit Gundam)
- Galactic Kaiserreich and Free Planets Alliance (Legend of the Galactic Heroes)
- United Citizen Federation (Starship Troopers)
- Earth Alliance (Babylon 5)
- Atlas: Babylon 5
- Atlas: Namek (Dragon Ball Z)
- Atlas: Cybertron (Transformers)
- Atlas: Sakaar (MCU)
- Atlas: Tattooine (Star Wars)
- Dossier: Amuro Ray (Mobile Suit Gundam)
- Dossier: Lord Thanos (MCU)
- Dossier: Son Goku (Dragon Ball Z)
- Dossier: Master Chief (Halo)
- Dossier: Luke Skywalker (Star Wars)
- HiCom: The First Zeon War (Mobile Suit Gundam)
- HiCom: The Infinity War and Endgame - Thanos's Last Stand (MCU)
- HiCom: The Dominion War (Star Trek)
- HiCom: The Alien War (Independence Day)
- HiCom: The Clone Wars (Star Wars)
I agree with all of these suggestions. Though isn't the Galactic Kaiserreich in Legend of the Galactic Heroes called the Galactic Empire in it's setting?
You forgot the Great Houses of Dune
Don't forget about the Earth Federation and The Titans.
I definitely wanna hear what the Templin Institute has to say about the war between the UCF and the Bugs. "The only good bug, is a dead bug!" - MI Soldier
kino
This is awesome, Ive been watching a few videos of this game and genuinely wanted to know the back story. This documentary has practically solidified my purchase.
This quickly started to sound like a Warhammer prequel series soon after the video began... now theres the type of story we never see, like with hardly any franchise.
More than you'd think.
The Alessian Empire from the Elder scrolls would be nice.
*May The Union Rise Again!*
Why does this sound like Warhammer 40k humanity during the dark age of technology
because the immortal god emperor sees all
@@cmdraftbrn FOR THE EMPEROR!
It pretty much is. It’s a fun game though.
@@Gothic7876 I am considering buying it, but I got a hard time determining what it is comparable to.
Does it feel much like Stellaris, Civ 5/4 or something else?
It is sort of like Civ, but with turn based tactical battles and “operations” which are functionally spells
The research trees have some excellent Alpha Centauri-style lore in this game. Researching biotech that lets you cull your weak and sickly larvae by eating them as the insect race is a great conversation piece for your diplomatic negotiations with the other factions.
Resuming: it's Warhammer 40k, but without Chaos.
Interesting.
Well there is a mysterious dark force that let people use psychic powers
The syndicate use something that resembles chaos/warp doctrines, units, tech.
@@DoomStarRequiem more dark eldar but i see your point 😅
@@lynnusuk2092 after some lore reading, kinda. But it is kinda based from Star Wars.
The Celestians were basically Jedi while Psynumbra is Sith.
@@TricksterPoi I'm currently five missions deep into the Planetfall campaign, but I'm not sure it's quite accurate to label the Psynumbra as either Chaos or Sith: Chaos is fuelled by extremes of emotion, while the Sith embrace anger and hatred. The Psynumbra, on the other hand, are explicitly linked to the emotion of despair: specifically, because the powers of the Psynumbra are derived from the void, it seems to be sense of being exposed to the vastness of the universe and the sudden awareness of the degree of your own insignificance - which is why Psynumbra powers are more often to do with psychologically cracking one's opponents rather than directly killing them.
The vaults are by no means unguarded!
So many secrets, so many worlds, so many mistakes... ...and that just scratches the surface of the secrets to uncover, just lost & drifting out there in space.
--Mah Reg'Mib, A Traveller
Nice vid! The Kushan from the Homeworld trilogy universe would be also nice!
I would say the decay had set in once they entered the state where they had to constantly expand to stay afloat. It’s something that has afflicted many empires in history.
This games feels like it’s based in the Stellaris universe.
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In my head canon, it is.
Could be what happened after your galaxy wide empire lost its foothold tbh
Daniel Ramirez well, both are the IP of Paradox.
Then no it's not
_The Union shall riiise again! YEEHA-Wait a minute_
Wrong union
Properly sponsored, because I love you guys and this game!!! DOWN WITH THE UNION, BROWNCOATS!!!!
3 Letters, 1 Word: *SCP FOUNDATION*
Is she an scp reader?
@War Never Changes Basically the SCP Foundation is a clandestine organization that operates in secret in order to protect the society of mankind from anomalous threats. They secure and contain all anomalous entities from the public and protect humanity from utter destruction. This would become their scared motto of *Secure, Contain, and Protect*.
The SCP Foundation operates around the globe in a strict operational security manner. They receive an unlimited amount of resources and assets from many of the worlds' national governments. By utilizing their resources and influence, they're able to combat countless anomalous entities and successfully capture them before the public finds out. The captured anomalous entities would be transported in many of their facilities and sites that are built around the world, from then they'll be classified, researched, and permanently contained. People who are employed in the Foundation knows the risk of this unprecedented field of work. Whether he or she is a Researcher, Security Agent, or a Mobile Task Operative, they all die in the dark so the innocent may live in the light.
*"We Secure. We Contain. We Protect."*
Pls
The SCP Foundation would be difficult because a lot of stuff is fan-made and merely approved by the curators of the site. You are no doubt aware that they occasionally expunge some entries, later deciding they are not suitable afterall.
It should be an April fools one and be nothing but [Redacted]
Can you do Dossier: Kitten from the TTS-Universe?
Yes, they need to do Captain-General "Little Kitten" of the Adeptus Custodes. I would watch that video so much.
Alex Ander ah kitten has the functional brain power of an automaton but yet still beats the emperor in paradox-Billiards-Vostroyan-Roulette-Fourth Dimensional-Hypercube-Chess-Strip Poker
very well put together, and gives me a background into my favourite game
Makes me more hyped to play this after work
This sounds like an interesting setting, I love space post-apocalypces.
Its interesting because its not like a hopeless future. Its just another age of wonders.
Neutral ending is Canon, a new Emperor leads it during the Expansion
This is literally the best channel in the universe! I am just now looking through your videos list with a grin of a madman.
Now excuse me, I have some watching to do...
I just bought this game and very excited to play it, I saw ya had videos for this game. So I thought I get info. on the game and factions, so thank ya very much
There's the recently added Star Kings.
You know... i still have fond memories of AoW II: Shadow Magic. It does everything right, has a ton of factions (such as Undead and Dark Elf but also Halflings and Dragons) and a gigaton of units, the maps can be procedurally generated allowing for endless replaybility and of course it can be played in multiplayer in any way imagineable. In many ways its still the pinacle of the old guard of strategy games aking to Heroes of Might and Magic, just much, much better. Kinda the Master of Orion 2 in its weightclass and there is nothing even closely punching to it.
To take THIS, transer it into a scifi setting taking inspiration from Alpha Centauri, Endless Legend and XCom to do this?
*extatic wimpering*
Its fantastic of course.
I don't even play these games, I just love good sci-fi interstellar ideas and I hope movie/TV producers could create an adaptation of these stories.
You guys should do more bios of certain fictional leaders, heroes, and villains.
Sounds like that series has some good world building there. Draws just enough from historical events like the collapse of the eastern Roman Empire to seem believable without falling into the trap of being space Romans, nice.
Alright who’s ready for the Great Crusade to start?
TeutonicKnight92 the story is clearly inspired by 40k
Leman Russ is that bad though because you know 40k is awesome
This might sound stupid but could you guys do a video about the Irken Empire from invader zim
Looks like an alternative history of Warhammer40k
Simple Brian probably not, just a prequel exploring the age of strife and the aftermath of the interstellar space elf orgy
Bravo!......This was great....... planning to pick up that game.
Reminds me of the age of strife from 40k
Paradox really knows how to promote these games man
Please consider doing a video on the Fall of the Riders from the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini.
You guys should do the Domination of Draka.
This sounds suspiciously like the plot behind the great crusade in warhammer 40k. Not exactly but hits quite a lot of the same points.
Can we get a video on the Coalition of Ordered Governments (COG) from Gears of War please?
Canton Protocol Strategic Alliance Treaty(CSAT) Arma 3
When I was played AOWPF first time I was feel essence of dark age of technology there.I was imagine dark age of technology as game Planet fall.I believe every player and WH fun knew and feel it.
Have you done the Star League from Battletech yet?
PARADOX INTERACTIVE? WHAT
It's only published by them. Considering how surviving mars turned out ima hold off for a bit
@@RaidsEpicly well you can watch preview let´s plays (if you don´t mind german commentry) on the channel writing bull, but i guess the main concern is more the dlc policy isn´t it?
Dark age of technology this is war hammer 40k
The Star Union will rise once more!!
Would you be doing anymore on the greater terran union ..damn I love that series
Here's a possible idea for a galactic civilization you can review in the future: United Citizen Federation of Terra (UCF), Starship Troopers. I know it might be a tough one, but I just wanna see what the Templin Institute has to say about the war between Humanity and the Bugs!
Can we get one on the Necrontyr?
can we get one on divinity 2 original sin? also this was fantastic. you guys made me NEED this game
When can we get one on the Galactic Empire,?
Imperial Engineering Corps. I think it’s been indirectly done through other videos like the one on the republic and coruscant.
Where did you find your profile pic and TH-cam wallpaper?
Darth Cole just looked up Galactic Empire, the banner and propaganda should be there
this is just a theory, but I think those rifts were becoming unstable because the constant forced tearing of time and space was weakening the fabric of the universe faster than it could heal.
What an amazing backstory for a game. Very tempted to buy it now haha.
Thanks paradox, I have also played warhammer 40k
please do a video about the republic of gilead from the handmaids tale
Can you do the Titian fall factions? Or one of them?
Basically, Planet Fall's back story is like Warhammer 40K minus most of the grimdarkness?
United Federation of Planets
Could you do the Allied States of America from the T.V series Jericho?
I'd really like to hear a detailed report about the ASA.
This video was good, but I'm troubled at the precedent being set here. Can anyone now buy a Templin Institute investigation? And would these ads ever influence the content of such videos?
I can understand your unease, however, we are very selective with our sponsorships. We've received a few requests to cover other unknown properties that we've turned down because our priority is releasing a video that our audience will enjoy. Given how popular Paradox games are with our audience, it seemed like a natural fit. As for the content being influenced, it wouldn't be fair to say that we didn't get something out of this partnership with Paradox. We were given some information about the lore that isn't publicly available, so if anything, the content was improved and deepened because of it. We still intend to hold ourselves to the same high standard we set when we first started.
I hope that sets your fears to rest and thank you for your support!
@@TemplinInstitute Thank you. I didn't expect a reply, but I am grateful to you for putting my fears to rest. I am a huge fan of the channel and the great work you do.
Will you do the factions, and maybe the pre-fall organisations representing the secret techs, too?
Why does that look like an '80s Buick at 1:10 ?
Still miss her as the narrator of your guys videos.
No inclusion of the Oathbound yet? will that ever come or have you all moved on?
I know it’s not a massive franchise but MorningLightMountain and the Primes from Pandora’s star and Judas Unchained would make an awesome video if u guys have time.
You should do one About the Unitology faction from dead space as well as do One about GDI
(Wow... you guys work quick.)
I missed the live stream, where can I watch it?
All of our live streams are on our second channel, The Templin Archives: th-cam.com/users/thetemplinarchives
I would love to see y'all investigate no mans sky
come on do a video on the systems Commonwealth, starting your favorite actor Kevin Sorbo as Captain Dylan Hunt of the Andromeda ascendant
Yes
I'll totally play this if I see a bug fixing patch come out.
Can we please have a video on the Coalition of Ordered Governments?
You should do the Commonwealth of man from Paradox's Stellaris
*I love your voice!*
Good video as always, got a question are you going to release more GTU stuff our gear, I would love to see more stuff like flags
So I do not know if something like this would be worth looking into, but what about the Star League for The Last Starfighter? It is a classic film and it would be great to watch this video. Thanks for all the great content you bring out.
Please do a dossier on Captain Christopher Pike.
Do you think you'll do the new DLC
can you do the hight table from jonh wwick ?
Star Union or Star League. Sounds like Battletech to me.
The optimistic tone of this lore reminds me of Asimov's foundation series.
Hey can you guys talk about The Institute from fallout 4?
Maybe a video on the free city of Novingrad from the Witcher ?
Research Wayne Enterprise
Requesting one for the Malazaan empire, from Steven Eriksen's "Malazan book of the fallen"
will the stream be on youtube as well
North American Commonwealth from the Frontlines series
Next dossier: worf son of mogh
We also need a dossier for Ethan Hunt.
I'd say the best way for a star empire like this would've survived if they went the way of the british empire and devolved power, allowing for self governance.
Hopefully the amazons are next.
The Secretary would like to know when the Institute will be doing a video about the Impossible Missions Force.
I hope you can cover the Vodyani someday.
Make Star Union great again!
PARADOX HAS BOUGHT EVERYTHING RUN!!!!
do irken empire from invader zim. With the new movie coming up, I feel it would be fitting in the current timeline
another brilliant video.
you should try do something on homestuck some time
Y'all should do the Buggars from Ender's Game.
Can you please do one on the Camarilla from Vampire: The Masquerade?
Maybe then we could hope of an Atlas : Valley of Wonders :
can we get a video about F.E.A.R. or Armacham?
Do something with Battletech! There is soooo much content and lore