Reminds me of one of my games quite awile ago when the scourge basically took over the entire galaxy aside from my tiny little cluster of fours systems and 1 little system to the very far corner of the galaxy which contained what I called the mushroom men. We endured the scourge, attempting to take back control of our systems for decades. One fateful morning as I was sipping coffee and doing some paperwork while this ran in the backround, out of absolutely nowhere, the mushroom men stampeded through the galaxy tearing the scourge apart. They then rampaged through my four systems and killed me.
Still remember my first Stellaris playthrough as an Avian species, collecting other Avian pops of other species to have an Aviary... Extra-galactic signal detected... That seems like a cool event, I wonder what's going to happen. Prethoryn Scourge fleets of 112-250k strength.. me with a handful of 10-20k fleets... The Aviary did not survive...
When you install too much mods and now you have four fleets each being 10 million in strenght.... yes game actually can display "Million" as number Now think very deeply why Stellaris even supports such numbers... sus
@@theneverwhere6076 lmao I remember some of my games where apparently the fleet power was 1 trillion. Unfortunately tho it just displays 1 cause the game couldn’t handle showing it lmfao. Was fun dealing with. Just spammed the Stars Wars executor class Super Star Destroyer Mod. Their super powerful. And eventually destroyed that fleet.
of all the nations to hold out the longest, it was an offshoot, probably a vassal of a much larger nation in the west side of the map. its honestly funny just how long it lasts too.
I did not expect the contingency to bounce back that hard! They have a better ability than Prethoryn to produce new fleets, maybe? Which meant that it was a war of attrition for the scourge?
Maybe. contingency reinforces based on number of machine world, which has a maximum of 4. Whereas scourge reinforces based on number of ship they have (the less they have the more they get). However, contingency has the more powerful ship, it’s very high on shield and armour, and focus on laser which melt armour. The scourge unfortunately has mostly armour and hull, and no penetration weapons
@Michael Firbach Scourge has ground forces they can deploy, but I don’t think they bombard planets. While it is possible to destroy a Contingency Machine world through ground invasion, the Contingency has loads of defending armies on those planets. Probably enough to defeat a Prethoryn ground invasion outright or, at the very least, stall them with ground combat for years, long enough that the Contingency gains reinforcement fleets and continues harassing Prethoryn space
Let's review every major empire before the Crises come out to play. The Sovereignties, (Bottom of the map) are good friends and have an amicable relationship. The Hegemonies, (Right side of the map) have a somewhat amicable relationship. And are using the empire between them as a buffer/trade/neutral zone. The Stellar Hegemony particularly was at war with the Pelismus Union The Decimators, (Left side of the map) had just recently won a war, they were almost destined to lose. They were currently at peace after winning a separate war for border expansion. The United Nations, (Center of the map) has been enjoying a golden age of prosperity, not having any wars since their initial war with the Hive. The Union, (Center of the map - above the UN) had just finished a major expansion to their borders. They were currently at war. The Pact, (Top of the map) had been thriving, after killing their neighbors in war. Which I suspect started over border disputes. Now for the Crises; The Great Khan: The Union, and The Pact, practically fall apart at the seams once the invasion begins. The Stellar Hegemony gets hit particularly hard after them. Thus, leading to the collapse of the northern regions of the map. After some time passes, along with the collapse of half of the central region, the Horde meets the Sovereignties for the first time. Inexplicably one of the Sovereignties joins the Union, I have no clue why. The War in Heaven: The War in Heaven begins, and that means nothing but hell for the Horde. So they decide let's just forget about the Great Khan conquest and let us make our own civilization. And they joined the fight in for the War in Heaven. (I guess they knew the Fallen Empires could wipe em out, so they just picked sides instead.) They become the Khanate, they have influence/control in the Northern, and central regions of the map. For some reason, the Khanate lets the Union free of their grasp. (Maybe they made a profitable trade deal or something.) The Zealots a Fallen Empire takes over the region once ruled by The Sovereignties. The Regulators another Fallen Empire, assist The Zealots in their conquest of the southern regions. In the chaos, The Decimators happily expanded their borders. And seemingly teamed up with a nation they shared a border with to do so. The Shard, another Fallen Empire expands, in the untouched western regions of the map. The Peacekeepers are at the center of the map. Yet another Fallen Empire, stays out of the war for the most part till it nears its peak, then they start invading. Armageddon: The Contingency hits, tearing through the Khanate like butter. The Scourge takes over the region the Khanate had influence in, where The Pact is up north. The Unbidden shows up in the south where the Zealots are. They rip through them like a shredder. The Decimators collapse once they battle The Unbidden and its lacky counterpart empire. The Scourge is really solidifying its position in the northern regions and The Contingency is popping off everywhere. The Scourge then takes over the central region, then they make contact with the Unbidden and The Contingency in the southern regions. A massive three-way battle ensues. The Contingency has been battling The Scourge across the map but has been losing badly, they did however manage to keep control of the L-Cluster. They've been relegated to the southeastern region for the most part. The Shard, now renamed the Celmy Reconquers, are the last non-end game crisis alive. The Scourge takes them out in the middle of a battle with Contingency. The Unbidden manages to grow in the southwest region while the Scourge successfully takes control of the L-Cluster. After losing the L-Cluster the Contingency is on its last legs, fighting just to stay alive. Pretoryn Scourge vs The Contingency: The final era. And The Unbidden decide to just stay out of the war between the other 2 crises and just enjoy life while they're here. They do still defend their border of course. the Contingency uses tactics straight out of Vietnam, guerilla warfare. The Scourge grows more tired and warn out with each battle as they are stretched to their limits, after their massive expansions. They were expecting a respite after their major victories. They didn't account for the Contingency's cockroach-like resistance. They'd have been constantly winning battles against the Contingency, but still failing to kill them. And now the Contingency strikes, while the Scourge is at its limits. The Contingency immediately makes a system supply line/chain across the galaxy. So that they wouldn't suffer the same supply fatigue the Scourge did. Once they linked up with their northern regional counterparts the Scourge was finished. They were surrounded on all sides, with no way out. After crushing the Scourge, the Contingency took a refreshing break. The very same thing the Scourge was planning on doing after taking over the majority of the galaxy. Then they sent the Unbidden right back into the Shroud. Machine learning is a scary thing people, very few things can come back from the brink of utter defeat like that.
You get to live in the far future where technology has reached space travel and futuristic spacer tech. 6:45 But you live in that last surviving blue colony to the left
@@StarshadowMelody The text is too small to read but if that's the cybrex, then you're probably born from a refugee family that is living in their ring world. Hoping that your robotic protectors can hold off the galactic hell that is happening outside your system. lol
One of two things would be happening. 1: "If we stay quiet, maybe they won't see us." 2: "Any soldier dies with a full magazine, I'll rape your fucking corpse!"
@@joshuaraewa-ay9684 I doubt it will help since crisis fleets can attack in pack and overrun the defence. They should rather build shelters in remote areas of their planets and prey to God that the aliens won't find them.
I like the idea that the Scurge fueled its extreme expansion due to the biomass it was collecting. But after the conflict with the machines raged on, they ran out as more and more of their warriors got disintegrated with no way of replenishing their ranks.
I’m shocked that the ai could not handle the khan, as well as the fact that the khan joins the war in heaven. Never had that interaction because he always dies quick.
Big moment for a player would be secure L Cluster and lock yourself in since the AI for Crisis' can only use portals if both To and From systems are unclaimed. So it would just be down to defending the L gate lol.
I mean didn't both the Scourge and the Contingency go to the L-Cluster though, you might be better off with some room to maneuver. Unless you're willing to really try to lock down that one entrance area, because that system will get ugly real fast.
The Contingency was just that. I always found the nanobot crisis to be the eeriest/creepiest threat for this exact reason. It's like Halo, it exists to wipe out all life in the event of a galactic emergency
Problem is , weaponry of the contingency is a direct counter of the scourge , and the extradimensional ( that counter the contingency) killed themself .
It’s because Preto can’t destroy wold so the contengency keep getting back while eventually the world Preto use as full get emptyed, they only get déploy during the start
I was a devouring swarm and the crisis in one of my games. I had to fight the Prethoryn scourge. It took longer to beat them then the entire time building up to that point; because I had to glass every planet.
Hahah I once took Colossus for RP purposes cause I thought it looked “cool” ended up using it for 40 years straight cause the Scourge spawned in an area of the Galaxy that had seen an AI rebellion and Great Khan pop off. So it was tons of border gore and they infested something like 200 worlds.
@@j.vinton4039 in my last match before first contact dlc i dared to fight the scourge on 25x buff without mods. 3.5 million firepower fleets really hurt and the worst part was they even retook worlds we (ai vassal, reawoken fallen empire xenophile) bombed back to barren. the worst part is even with over 400 planets and 22000 population i can´t really push them back and are on a constant retreat to 3 choke points in the east of the galaxy where i am building a defencewall up. in the shouth i allready manadged to establish a stationary defence line that hold dozens of there waves off. my dockyrds produce ships without an break to rebuild most of my fleets i lost. the only think i guees gone give me a realistic chance to win this in a offensive is to increase the naval cap that it don´t end by 9999 because having 36000 naval cap in use really hurt the economy but first i would have rebuild my fleet from 12000.
honestly i'd much rather the contingency win than the scourge if forced to choose between the two. if life as i know it to be obliterated, i'd at least want it to be something of our own making
I guess it depends if the AI just want to kill organics, you wouldn't want to have your mind duplicated a million time and end up in an infinite "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" scenario after you die. But i agree since the the contingency seems to be a pretty "punctual" AI when it comes to the genocide of organics lol
I swear if the extra-dimensionals would have spread out instead of spawned onto each other it could have been possible they would've won, just saying those guys can pump out mass ammounts of fleets early on, but they cucked each other immediately.
Yeah even after the Prethoryns took over most of the map I knew the Contingency would win. They are just too strong, with a built in advantage of having multiple directions to attack from as a feature and their strongholds are basically impossible for an AI to take care of. We see the Prethoryns struggle to take the northern bastion the whole time and just never do it and it bites them later.
@@anidiot4243 I don't know for sure. The stellaris community has debated on what a "class 30 singularity" is for a long time now. I've seen all kinds of answers. Unless we get a straight answer from the devs, it's only going to be debated for now. But what I do know for sure is that the contingency was made to combat a crisis. And the scourge and the extradimensional sure do look like a couple of crisis to me.
If you dont know yet,scourge is basically tyranids from wh40k,all consuming hive mind,aberrant,vehement and unbidden are extradimensional invaders that want to eat you because they see you as energy source and they hate each other,contingency is basically space skynet made to stop class 42 singularity which is eradicating all sapiebt life no matter organi or mechanical
@@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012basically every endgame crisis happened, regulars stellar empires get burned down like matches, and at the end, one of the crisis who is a hive of robot made by an ancien local civilisation to protect the galaxy, but has gone mad and were asleep woke up, and wipe out the others remaining crisises. They are the Contingency, and they are the reason I only play artificials races. Flesh is so weak.
My favorite was the unbidden spawning 2 stars from my home system and taking control of the sensor array there while I was dealing with the grey tempest home system. They managed to kill one planet but then the war in heaven started and one fallen empire came through an L gate and deleted them within the same year they started. From there the remaining fleets just harassed the whole galaxy while the war in heaven carried on.
Imagine a mod that would let you go from Spore to Stelaris after you colonize a certain number of solar systems and levels, your species gets turned in to a 2d artistic render
I want a dlc or event or arcology site that tells us about these crises like a profetsi or spacefarers that escaped from the crisis and died in this galaxy i want more info on them you know give me LORE
It's actually speculated that the Prethoryn Scourge escaped from an Aetherophasic Engine going off in their home galaxy, and the race that did it is the race the Prethoryn Scourge is running away from, and why they're so confident that they'll reach your galaxy soon enough, hence their intent to consume all life and leave the galaxy before "they" arrive.
Yes they have a lot to work with but need to take a hint from Games workshop. What they don’t seem to realize is that each galaxy can be a different connected universe and the crises are multiversal in nature, sweeping from one to the other and trying to consume. That way each universe can have its own lore and the crises can have numerous different canon backstories.
I love this game even though I’m not good at it at all. It’s just too much in terms of scope and small detailed possibilities and I fail regularly. But the stories that arise in my head every time I play are fantastic. Just watching this map, as individual realms rise and fall, find greatness again and ultimately cannot escape the inevitable. And in the end, the great tyrant himself is completely destroyed after a long battle where it sometimes looked like he would win. Not many games can do that.
I know there’s mods for it but I’ve always liked the idea that one of the rare techs you could only get was hyperlane manipulation. Think of it, you could be like the L cluster and cut off your core sector from invaders especially during a crisis. It won’t stop everyone completely as they could jump systems but it would buy you time and weaken their shields and speed. I think a good balance for using the tech would be either a high energy cost to use it or if you’re isolating a planet or sector you get a big penalty to either trade value, galactic market prices or production rate of the isolated area.
I have to say i never thought i wouldve gone from "yeah theyre not doing anything, theyre done just a matter of time" to "HOW ARE YOU STILL THERE" to "COME ON YOUVE COME TOO FAR NOW" to incoherent internal screaming as I did for that little green civ that sat there in the middle off to the right, couldnt see its name cause mobile user but RIP you little troopers
Got boxed between a devouring swarm, fanatic purifier and driven assimilator. Close to the first 100 years of the game I was at war when I was trying playing a spiritual pacifist inward perfection isolationist was surprisingly fun. By the time my crisis came I had 4 200k fleets and multiple 500k bastions because of the perks I had to take just to survive my three neighbors early game. The crisis fleets broke themselves on my bastions and I just cleaned house with my fleets. The next play through I got owned hard 30 years in by a fanatic purifier that declared war right after first contact.
This reminds me of a multiplayer game I was in were a war in heaven started with me positioned in between both awakened empires so I pretty much got rolled except for my core worlds because I managed to build fortress stations with FTL inhibitors and have a megashipyard inside, when the preythorian scourge came everyone asked why I wasn't sending fleets and I was like "my guys, with what fleet?" but yeah the awaken empires managed to keep the scourge away from me long enough for the other players to beat them back. All of this to say, I thought the awakened empire would do better against the crisis.
Почему то когда сам играешь, то такого кайфа от расширения не ловишь, а когда смотришь таймлапс расширения какого либо государства, то это ощущается красиво и приятно
What if the prethoryns after taking control of most of the galaxy they just left for another galaxy. I mean after all the empire's were gone it was only the AI empire and an elemental empire left so nothing to eat .... so I think the main host of the prethoryn left the galaxy for another and left behind a garrison .... hence why the contingency came back the way they did. Then after the contingency won they shut down again to let the process start again in another few thousand years or so.
I really like this progression, tbh i wish stellaris had ages like EU4, imagine having say the khans rise up right after the early game shaking up borders, then after the universe starts to get centralized between strong powers maybe some sort of revolutuon crisis begins forcing the galactic community to fight against it or join it sort of like the eu4 hre religuous war, then maybe the next crisis is the scourge or even a new one where suddenly minorities want their own empire and xenophobes have to deal with distant planets becoming new races (to simulate how their cultures developed differently and now they feel they are different enough) and ais and hive minds have to deal with autonomous minds on their border regions going rogue or whatever. Would be neat
ive played one game where ive gotten far enough to have the scourge come and it was at the worst possible time and place for them. I had just finished beating aeternum after they had awoken and 10 years later here comes the scourge just a few jumps away from the main battleground. I had four 2 million fleet power fleets less than 5 jumps away from their spawn. They took 6 systems, then got totally obliterated.
And so having accomplished its goal, the contingency resumed sleep mode until it was needed to preserve the galaxy from an overabundance of life once again.
The reason the "Contingency" *could not* have lost is because the AI for the scourge and other Crises do no the idea of the "take out the machine world then the master core" because the "Contingency" is not able to be defeated unless the master core is revealed which because there is no questline for that for the AI crises. the "Contingency can't be beaten.
I'm not even watching the clip mate because that deus ex music you put in triggered some very cool memories and now I'm just chillin to an amazing track!
My first time playing after picking up all the DLC I got the war in heaven cutting straight through my empire immediately followed by the contingency. Fortunately I was able to stay neutral for ages because every other faction formed an anti-fallen federation and that distracted everyone long enough for me to clean up the crises. Still, being told "looks like those xenophobes you've encircled were playing the long game," right as you're on the cusp of closing out another war half a galaxy away is the worst.
on my first round the Prethoryn destroyed the one empire who nearly owned half the galaxy and the seeked refuge on my worlds i jumped from 500 pops to nearly 1300 pops. Me and two other empires had the other half and hated each other luckily there were still the old ones to hold my flank to the swarm but the Prethoryn owned the other half end destroyed my best Navy but i managed my crap out of my empire( I called it the German Empire ) and later i get my battleships faster than they coud destroy so later it was me and they. i coud hold them because i had only to chokepoints to enter my empire. after i defeated them i rebuild the galaxy with empires and make them later free to restore the order. It was trhe hardest but also the funniest base game stellaris ive ever had. i played stellaris on release and was nearly a other game than today
I remember in the early days of stellaris when I had my alternate history space faring roman empire. I took control of nearly half the galaxy after defeating my long time rivals. The preythorians invaded on my side within one of my slave nations. My nation had shielded the rest of the galaxy from them. I fought the war against them alone for 200 years constantly resupplying my defense stations with fresh corvettes. All the while neighboring empires were declaring war on me whenever my fleet power dipped. It really felt like the historical collapse of the roman empire but I persevered and wiled them from the galaxy.
This video contains everything I hoped to happen at once😂 I played 5 times and mostly trigger Scourge, and Contingency. I would love to trigger The War in Heaven but don’t know how.(By the way, I never successfully defended myself in the endgame crisis, those enemies are overwhelming hahaha)
The contingency has completed its mission, all intelligent life will be exterminated and a class 30 singularity will never happen. They will likely return to sleep for the next 100000 or so years and come back just for even more intelligent life to exist, and the cycle continues
Stellaris's soundtrack is already very synth heavy & futuristic..so it makes sense that Deus Ex's equally synth and futuristic sounding soundtrack would work well with Stellaris.
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The fact that the Unbidden, Aberrant, and Vehement fought each other to the point of making them no match for the other Crises is poetic.
"We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because we allow it. And you will end because we demand it" - The Contingency :P
"And there will be no Shepard or stupid plot devices to stop us now".
Ah yes, The Contingency, we have dismissed that claim.
Reminds me of one of my games quite awile ago when the scourge basically took over the entire galaxy aside from my tiny little cluster of fours systems and 1 little system to the very far corner of the galaxy which contained what I called the mushroom men.
We endured the scourge, attempting to take back control of our systems for decades. One fateful morning as I was sipping coffee and doing some paperwork while this ran in the backround, out of absolutely nowhere, the mushroom men stampeded through the galaxy tearing the scourge apart. They then rampaged through my four systems and killed me.
You know what they say: Beware the fury of a fun guy.
Wait...
"Mushroom men" Guess the Old Ones unleased the Orks.
I've wanted to do a tiny enclave empire run like that, but I constantly run out of resources to fuel it ànd get forced to expand..
Muad'Dib: the mushroom must flow
Fear the Fungus Females!
Good thing the galaxy had a Contingency in place for just such a circumstance!
Buh dum tss
They were worse than the scourge though it turned out
Noo nooo they are bad guy. Runn fast wjen you see tjem!!!!
Still remember my first Stellaris playthrough as an Avian species, collecting other Avian pops of other species to have an Aviary...
Extra-galactic signal detected... That seems like a cool event, I wonder what's going to happen.
Prethoryn Scourge fleets of 112-250k strength.. me with a handful of 10-20k fleets...
The Aviary did not survive...
a sad day for the aviary
Your Goose was cooked! 😜
When you install too much mods and now you have four fleets each being 10 million in strenght.... yes game actually can display "Million" as number
Now think very deeply why Stellaris even supports such numbers... sus
@@theneverwhere6076 silly guy, I think youll understand why it can display million if you put crisis strength at 25x
@@theneverwhere6076 lmao I remember some of my games where apparently the fleet power was 1 trillion. Unfortunately tho it just displays 1 cause the game couldn’t handle showing it lmfao. Was fun dealing with. Just spammed the Stars Wars executor class Super Star Destroyer Mod. Their super powerful. And eventually destroyed that fleet.
of all the nations to hold out the longest, it was an offshoot, probably a vassal of a much larger nation in the west side of the map. its honestly funny just how long it lasts too.
If you mean that one little blue system that's the Cybrex Remnant. They spawn as an event during the Contingency war.
@@flashgordonsthemesong2838 I thought he meant the purps in the upper left
@@Paddydukes89 yeah the ones that beat back the Khan. I was watching them for a while before they were eaten.
I did not expect the contingency to bounce back that hard! They have a better ability than Prethoryn to produce new fleets, maybe? Which meant that it was a war of attrition for the scourge?
Yeah if you dont nip contingency in the bud it is game over they take planets turn them into machine worlds and produce flesta on those worlds
Maybe. contingency reinforces based on number of machine world, which has a maximum of 4. Whereas scourge reinforces based on number of ship they have (the less they have the more they get).
However, contingency has the more powerful ship, it’s very high on shield and armour, and focus on laser which melt armour. The scourge unfortunately has mostly armour and hull, and no penetration weapons
I guess they activated a contingency 🤗
@Michael Firbach Scourge has ground forces they can deploy, but I don’t think they bombard planets. While it is possible to destroy a Contingency Machine world through ground invasion, the Contingency has loads of defending armies on those planets. Probably enough to defeat a Prethoryn ground invasion outright or, at the very least, stall them with ground combat for years, long enough that the Contingency gains reinforcement fleets and continues harassing Prethoryn space
@@alexmiller1800 you can’t invade machine world unless ur also playing as a machine
Let's review every major empire before the Crises come out to play.
The Sovereignties, (Bottom of the map) are good friends and have an amicable relationship.
The Hegemonies, (Right side of the map) have a somewhat amicable relationship. And are using the empire between them as a buffer/trade/neutral zone. The Stellar Hegemony particularly was at war with the Pelismus Union
The Decimators, (Left side of the map) had just recently won a war, they were almost destined to lose. They were currently at peace after winning a separate war for border expansion.
The United Nations, (Center of the map) has been enjoying a golden age of prosperity, not having any wars since their initial war with the Hive.
The Union, (Center of the map - above the UN) had just finished a major expansion to their borders. They were currently at war.
The Pact, (Top of the map) had been thriving, after killing their neighbors in war. Which I suspect started over border disputes.
Now for the Crises;
The Great Khan:
The Union, and The Pact, practically fall apart at the seams once the invasion begins. The Stellar Hegemony gets hit particularly hard after them. Thus, leading to the collapse of the northern regions of the map. After some time passes, along with the collapse of half of the central region, the Horde meets the Sovereignties for the first time. Inexplicably one of the Sovereignties joins the Union, I have no clue why.
The War in Heaven:
The War in Heaven begins, and that means nothing but hell for the Horde. So they decide let's just forget about the Great Khan conquest and let us make our own civilization. And they joined the fight in for the War in Heaven. (I guess they knew the Fallen Empires could wipe em out, so they just picked sides instead.) They become the Khanate, they have influence/control in the Northern, and central regions of the map. For some reason, the Khanate lets the Union free of their grasp. (Maybe they made a profitable trade deal or something.) The Zealots a Fallen Empire takes over the region once ruled by The Sovereignties. The Regulators another Fallen Empire, assist The Zealots in their conquest of the southern regions. In the chaos, The Decimators happily expanded their borders. And seemingly teamed up with a nation they shared a border with to do so. The Shard, another Fallen Empire expands, in the untouched western regions of the map. The Peacekeepers are at the center of the map. Yet another Fallen Empire, stays out of the war for the most part till it nears its peak, then they start invading.
Armageddon:
The Contingency hits, tearing through the Khanate like butter. The Scourge takes over the region the Khanate had influence in, where The Pact is up north. The Unbidden shows up in the south where the Zealots are. They rip through them like a shredder. The Decimators collapse once they battle The Unbidden and its lacky counterpart empire. The Scourge is really solidifying its position in the northern regions and The Contingency is popping off everywhere. The Scourge then takes over the central region, then they make contact with the Unbidden and The Contingency in the southern regions. A massive three-way battle ensues. The Contingency has been battling The Scourge across the map but has been losing badly, they did however manage to keep control of the L-Cluster. They've been relegated to the southeastern region for the most part. The Shard, now renamed the Celmy Reconquers, are the last non-end game crisis alive. The Scourge takes them out in the middle of a battle with Contingency. The Unbidden manages to grow in the southwest region while the Scourge successfully takes control of the L-Cluster. After losing the L-Cluster the Contingency is on its last legs, fighting just to stay alive.
Pretoryn Scourge vs The Contingency:
The final era. And The Unbidden decide to just stay out of the war between the other 2 crises and just enjoy life while they're here. They do still defend their border of course. the Contingency uses tactics straight out of Vietnam, guerilla warfare. The Scourge grows more tired and warn out with each battle as they are stretched to their limits, after their massive expansions. They were expecting a respite after their major victories. They didn't account for the Contingency's cockroach-like resistance. They'd have been constantly winning battles against the Contingency, but still failing to kill them. And now the Contingency strikes, while the Scourge is at its limits. The Contingency immediately makes a system supply line/chain across the galaxy. So that they wouldn't suffer the same supply fatigue the Scourge did. Once they linked up with their northern regional counterparts the Scourge was finished. They were surrounded on all sides, with no way out. After crushing the Scourge, the Contingency took a refreshing break. The very same thing the Scourge was planning on doing after taking over the majority of the galaxy. Then they sent the Unbidden right back into the Shroud. Machine learning is a scary thing people, very few things can come back from the brink of utter defeat like that.
Thanks for telling us the situation in the video, felt like a lore going on
Thx for the recap
Write a book!
Then the Contigency shuts down and waits millions of years until it all starts again.
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If I were to be born in this galaxy, I pray my life be lived within the era of the first 2-minutes. After that it's pure cosmic hell
Well if you are an experienced player civ . The only thing you could worry about is he genocides your nation would be commiting while living in utopia
and then you get born into a primitive world that's filled with its own hell.
You get to live in the far future where technology has reached space travel and futuristic spacer tech.
6:45 But you live in that last surviving blue colony to the left
@@JBrander ... so you're a newly constructed cybrex. All right, that sounds like a very foreign and different existence to what we're used to.
@@StarshadowMelody The text is too small to read but if that's the cybrex, then you're probably born from a refugee family that is living in their ring world. Hoping that your robotic protectors can hold off the galactic hell that is happening outside your system. lol
Imagine being the last free star system in this game.....
One of two things would be happening.
1: "If we stay quiet, maybe they won't see us."
2: "Any soldier dies with a full magazine, I'll rape your fucking corpse!"
U would have to realise at some point n would need to fortify the shit out of your solar system
Might as well make it Reach or Cadia.....
If there's gigastructure..... Maginot the fuck out of it.
@@joshuaraewa-ay9684 I doubt it will help since crisis fleets can attack in pack and overrun the defence. They should rather build shelters in remote areas of their planets and prey to God that the aliens won't find them.
I think it would be pretty fun to make a massive fortified starbase, send all your ships there and try to turtle the crises.
I like the idea that the Scurge fueled its extreme expansion due to the biomass it was collecting. But after the conflict with the machines raged on, they ran out as more and more of their warriors got disintegrated with no way of replenishing their ranks.
I’m shocked that the ai could not handle the khan, as well as the fact that the khan joins the war in heaven. Never had that interaction because he always dies quick.
Big moment for a player would be secure L Cluster and lock yourself in since the AI for Crisis' can only use portals if both To and From systems are unclaimed. So it would just be down to defending the L gate lol.
It would mean moving everything tho and leaving eveything else behind
@@zanderallan4373 Well you would lose everything if you didnt
@@onemansvoice9132 yeah it would be better
Becoming the gray tempest
I mean didn't both the Scourge and the Contingency go to the L-Cluster though, you might be better off with some room to maneuver. Unless you're willing to really try to lock down that one entrance area, because that system will get ugly real fast.
The Contingency was just that. I always found the nanobot crisis to be the eeriest/creepiest threat for this exact reason. It's like Halo, it exists to wipe out all life in the event of a galactic emergency
Reapers
@@s71402sana label given by the protheans to give name to their destruction
Problem is , weaponry of the contingency is a direct counter of the scourge , and the extradimensional ( that counter the contingency) killed themself .
Unbbiden are weak against Contingency, their weapon melt armour but sucks against shields.
@@jhtrq1465 don’t the matter disintegrators bypass both armor and shield?
@@kerbodynamicx472 Nope, -50% bonus vs shields, huges bonuses against armour and hull
Matter disintegrators are just disrupters so yes they go through shields and armor
@@axoltheotl2198 No, they always have been energy type weapons, malus vs shields bonus vs armour and hull
I love how CONTINGENCY centers itself over the whole galaxy.
The contingency really proving that flesh is weak with that clutch comeback.
Flesh is heresy
It’s because Preto can’t destroy wold so the contengency keep getting back while eventually the world Preto use as full get emptyed, they only get déploy during the start
Honestly I'm surprised at how well the khan did, don't think I've ever seen one do that well
the Abberant: finally we are here, its time to eat we...WTF IS THIS GALAXY!!??
The scourge and Contingency: get off our fucking lawn!
I was a devouring swarm and the crisis in one of my games. I had to fight the Prethoryn scourge.
It took longer to beat them then the entire time building up to that point; because I had to glass every planet.
Hahah I once took Colossus for RP purposes cause I thought it looked “cool” ended up using it for 40 years straight cause the Scourge spawned in an area of the Galaxy that had seen an AI rebellion and Great Khan pop off. So it was tons of border gore and they infested something like 200 worlds.
@@j.vinton4039 in my last match before first contact dlc i dared to fight the scourge on 25x buff without mods. 3.5 million firepower fleets really hurt and the worst part was they even retook worlds we (ai vassal, reawoken fallen empire xenophile) bombed back to barren. the worst part is even with over 400 planets and 22000 population i can´t really push them back and are on a constant retreat to 3 choke points in the east of the galaxy where i am building a defencewall up. in the shouth i allready manadged to establish a stationary defence line that hold dozens of there waves off. my dockyrds produce ships without an break to rebuild most of my fleets i lost. the only think i guees gone give me a realistic chance to win this in a offensive is to increase the naval cap that it don´t end by 9999 because having 36000 naval cap in use really hurt the economy but first i would have rebuild my fleet from 12000.
Later, the hunters who were chasing the prethoryn: what sad excuse of a galaxy is this place?
honestly i'd much rather the contingency win than the scourge if forced to choose between the two. if life as i know it to be obliterated, i'd at least want it to be something of our own making
And Something That Looks Better And May Still Make Things Go Back To Normal In A Million Years
I guess it depends if the AI just want to kill organics, you wouldn't want to have your mind duplicated a million time and end up in an infinite "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" scenario after you die.
But i agree since the the contingency seems to be a pretty "punctual" AI when it comes to the genocide of organics lol
@@Nodens what is the contingency?
@@Ttegegg did you watch the video? 7:50 just look at the name of the winner
@@Ttegegg The scourge is basically a all consuming hive mind like the Tyranids, whereas the contingency is a genocidal AI like the terminators.
At this point - just shield your planets with The Collosus and pray for the best.
The history of this galaxy would be amazing. Crumbled empires left right and center. Good show
I swear if the extra-dimensionals would have spread out instead of spawned onto each other it could have been possible they would've won, just saying those guys can pump out mass ammounts of fleets early on, but they cucked each other immediately.
Fr, I didn't even see the Unbidden, just instaclapped
Abberant and Vehement always spawn close to each others, don't know why.
@@jhtrq1465 speak for yourself, I had them spawn on opposite sides of the galaxy, can’t say the same about the unbidden’s positioning tho
@@wormybobcat3706 Strange they are supposed to spawn close to each other, did you use some mods who can alter this?
Yeah even after the Prethoryns took over most of the map I knew the Contingency would win. They are just too strong, with a built in advantage of having multiple directions to attack from as a feature and their strongholds are basically impossible for an AI to take care of. We see the Prethoryns struggle to take the northern bastion the whole time and just never do it and it bites them later.
I guess the Contingency really lived up to their name and purpose. They were created long ago to stop a crisis.
Isnt class 30 singularity are crisis empires?
@@anidiot4243 I don't know for sure. The stellaris community has debated on what a "class 30 singularity" is for a long time now. I've seen all kinds of answers. Unless we get a straight answer from the devs, it's only going to be debated for now. But what I do know for sure is that the contingency was made to combat a crisis. And the scourge and the extradimensional sure do look like a couple of crisis to me.
To stop the Aetherophasic Engine from being completed right?
I’ve never played stellaris and have no clue what just happened but goddamn was it terrifying
If you dont know yet,scourge is basically tyranids from wh40k,all consuming hive mind,aberrant,vehement and unbidden are extradimensional invaders that want to eat you because they see you as energy source and they hate each other,contingency is basically space skynet made to stop class 42 singularity which is eradicating all sapiebt life no matter organi or mechanical
Waiting for someone to explain it
@@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012basically every endgame crisis happened, regulars stellar empires get burned down like matches, and at the end, one of the crisis who is a hive of robot made by an ancien local civilisation to protect the galaxy, but has gone mad and were asleep woke up, and wipe out the others remaining crisises.
They are the Contingency, and they are the reason I only play artificials races.
Flesh is so weak.
@@xeranths thanks for explaining, also based
Tyranid consume all planet and then Ai neturalize entire galaxy. Means No habitable planet in galaxy. Awesome!
Gotta build those habitats then
My favorite was the unbidden spawning 2 stars from my home system and taking control of the sensor array there while I was dealing with the grey tempest home system. They managed to kill one planet but then the war in heaven started and one fallen empire came through an L gate and deleted them within the same year they started. From there the remaining fleets just harassed the whole galaxy while the war in heaven carried on.
Imagine a mod that would let you go from Spore to Stelaris after you colonize a certain number of solar systems and levels, your species gets turned in to a 2d artistic render
That would be so cool
Spore had so much wasted potential.
Round of applause for the Berereltan Continuity (I assume that’s what their name is I can barely read it) for lasting as long as they did.
God DAMN that comeback for the Contingency was VICIOUS! That backlash was fucking FILTHY
It was looking pretty rough there for a while, good thing they had a Contingency plan.
I want a dlc or event or arcology site that tells us about these crises like a profetsi or spacefarers that escaped from the crisis and died in this galaxy i want more info on them you know give me LORE
I think they make it somewhat open ended on purpose like to allow one to role play their own lore. But yes it would be cool if they included fluff
It's actually speculated that the Prethoryn Scourge escaped from an Aetherophasic Engine going off in their home galaxy, and the race that did it is the race the Prethoryn Scourge is running away from, and why they're so confident that they'll reach your galaxy soon enough, hence their intent to consume all life and leave the galaxy before "they" arrive.
Yes they have a lot to work with but need to take a hint from Games workshop. What they don’t seem to realize is that each galaxy can be a different connected universe and the crises are multiversal in nature, sweeping from one to the other and trying to consume. That way each universe can have its own lore and the crises can have numerous different canon backstories.
I guess you can say the Contingency “saved” the galaxy? They were programmed to emerge to destroy a bigger threat 😁
Lesson to be learned from the contingency.
Never back down. Never stop fighting
For so long I thought Contingency were done for then all of a sudden the map starts turning red xD
This was a fun video to watch
0:01 Holy Jesus! That music!!
Deus Ex - UNATCO Theme kinda lit ngl
Definitely one of the best montage music-map battles I saw from a long time. Keep on the good work. GG
Thx :)
I love this game even though I’m not good at it at all. It’s just too much in terms of scope and small detailed possibilities and I fail regularly. But the stories that arise in my head every time I play are fantastic. Just watching this map, as individual realms rise and fall, find greatness again and ultimately cannot escape the inevitable. And in the end, the great tyrant himself is completely destroyed after a long battle where it sometimes looked like he would win. Not many games can do that.
that 1 system minor Cybrex Remnant chilling the whole end game lol
I know there’s mods for it but I’ve always liked the idea that one of the rare techs you could only get was hyperlane manipulation. Think of it, you could be like the L cluster and cut off your core sector from invaders especially during a crisis. It won’t stop everyone completely as they could jump systems but it would buy you time and weaken their shields and speed. I think a good balance for using the tech would be either a high energy cost to use it or if you’re isolating a planet or sector you get a big penalty to either trade value, galactic market prices or production rate of the isolated area.
Yeah I mean if you can put wormholes in every system why not
Well, I’m off to the L-Gate
"... and I, for one, welcome our new Contingency overlords."
ALERT: CLASS-30 SINGULARITY CONTAINMENT SUCCESSFUL.
I have to say i never thought i wouldve gone from "yeah theyre not doing anything, theyre done just a matter of time" to "HOW ARE YOU STILL THERE" to "COME ON YOUVE COME TOO FAR NOW" to incoherent internal screaming as I did for that little green civ that sat there in the middle off to the right, couldnt see its name cause mobile user but RIP you little troopers
Got boxed between a devouring swarm, fanatic purifier and driven assimilator. Close to the first 100 years of the game I was at war when I was trying playing a spiritual pacifist inward perfection isolationist was surprisingly fun. By the time my crisis came I had 4 200k fleets and multiple 500k bastions because of the perks I had to take just to survive my three neighbors early game. The crisis fleets broke themselves on my bastions and I just cleaned house with my fleets. The next play through I got owned hard 30 years in by a fanatic purifier that declared war right after first contact.
The scariest crisis of all is trying to run my computer with a Huge Galaxy size.
This reminds me of a multiplayer game I was in were a war in heaven started with me positioned in between both awakened empires so I pretty much got rolled except for my core worlds because I managed to build fortress stations with FTL inhibitors and have a megashipyard inside, when the preythorian scourge came everyone asked why I wasn't sending fleets and I was like "my guys, with what fleet?" but yeah the awaken empires managed to keep the scourge away from me long enough for the other players to beat them back.
All of this to say, I thought the awakened empire would do better against the crisis.
That Celimy Shard faction had such a good location. Only three paths into the tail of a spiral with chokepoints galore
imagine if they added a massive update where entire galaxies could battle
It would en amazing. But kind of extremely long unless the factions manage to develop more bigger guns to wipe out the life into a galaxy scale
My game was even worse I opened the L gates a bit early and every empire but me is gone because of the nanites
how agressive the scourge was at first, but i guess the contigency lived up to its name, mfer hung in there like a god.
010110110 - THE FLESH IS WEAK. EXTERMINATION PROTOCOLS INTIATED
Почему то когда сам играешь, то такого кайфа от расширения не ловишь, а когда смотришь таймлапс расширения какого либо государства, то это ощущается красиво и приятно
O unhappy galaxy.
I was so focused on the contingency that I didn't even notice the scourge until it consumed a quarter of the galaxy.
What if the prethoryns after taking control of most of the galaxy they just left for another galaxy. I mean after all the empire's were gone it was only the AI empire and an elemental empire left so nothing to eat .... so I think the main host of the prethoryn left the galaxy for another and left behind a garrison .... hence why the contingency came back the way they did. Then after the contingency won they shut down again to let the process start again in another few thousand years or so.
uhh... that'd be closer to a few million years pretty sure, can't evolve sentient life from microbes in only a few thousand years
I really like this progression, tbh i wish stellaris had ages like EU4, imagine having say the khans rise up right after the early game shaking up borders, then after the universe starts to get centralized between strong powers maybe some sort of revolutuon crisis begins forcing the galactic community to fight against it or join it sort of like the eu4 hre religuous war, then maybe the next crisis is the scourge or even a new one where suddenly minorities want their own empire and xenophobes have to deal with distant planets becoming new races (to simulate how their cultures developed differently and now they feel they are different enough) and ais and hive minds have to deal with autonomous minds on their border regions going rogue or whatever. Would be neat
It does have ages, that is called the “end game year” and the “mid game year” that you can customise.
What is missing is age abilities.
i like how the aberrent killed the unbidden instantly
ive played one game where ive gotten far enough to have the scourge come and it was at the worst possible time and place for them. I had just finished beating aeternum after they had awoken and 10 years later here comes the scourge just a few jumps away from the main battleground. I had four 2 million fleet power fleets less than 5 jumps away from their spawn. They took 6 systems, then got totally obliterated.
Stellaris, complete with UNATCO HQ ambience. Doesn't get much better than that.
The only thing this lack is the reckoning
Holy crap... the contigency actually won?!? Every game I made where they have appeared the galaxy beat their butt...
"Batman, whats your contingency plan for Prethoryn Scourge?"
"Contingency."
And so having accomplished its goal, the contingency resumed sleep mode until it was needed to preserve the galaxy from an overabundance of life once again.
Do another one, this time with the new crisis, the Synthetic Queen
Love the music you put in. Lets slay some reapers!
That Contingency awakening was some Stalingrad type shit painting from mustard brown to plain red.
6 months ago?! This is pre overlord update, back then AI couldn't build a single megastructure or get over 20D weight let alone fight a crissis.
Imagine if in the middle of Pretoryn-Contingency war the Blokkats would've entered the Galaxy.
The reason the "Contingency" *could not* have lost is because the AI for the scourge and other Crises do no the idea of the "take out the machine world then the master core" because the "Contingency" is not able to be defeated unless the master core is revealed which because there is no questline for that for the AI crises. the "Contingency can't be beaten.
I'm not even watching the clip mate because that deus ex music you put in triggered some very cool memories and now I'm just chillin to an amazing track!
Galactic Cradle start be like: "Oh, what's going on in MY yard? GTFO MY YARD."
I've never gotten this far into the game without waging constant war on every single neighbour first.
Eat or be eaten.
Spawning next to a Devouring swarm, isolationist FE and a marauder enclave is the biggest middle finger you can ever receive in a new game.
My first time playing after picking up all the DLC I got the war in heaven cutting straight through my empire immediately followed by the contingency. Fortunately I was able to stay neutral for ages because every other faction formed an anti-fallen federation and that distracted everyone long enough for me to clean up the crises.
Still, being told "looks like those xenophobes you've encircled were playing the long game," right as you're on the cusp of closing out another war half a galaxy away is the worst.
The UNATCO theme is the reason why I hit the like button in the very first second of this clip.
on my first round the Prethoryn destroyed the one empire who nearly owned half the galaxy and the seeked refuge on my worlds i jumped from 500 pops to nearly 1300 pops. Me and two other empires had the other half and hated each other luckily there were still the old ones to hold my flank to the swarm but the Prethoryn owned the other half end destroyed my best Navy but i managed my crap out of my empire( I called it the German Empire ) and later i get my battleships faster than they coud destroy so later it was me and they. i coud hold them because i had only to chokepoints to enter my empire. after i defeated them i rebuild the galaxy with empires and make them later free to restore the order. It was trhe hardest but also the funniest base game stellaris ive ever had. i played stellaris on release and was nearly a other game than today
I remember in the early days of stellaris when I had my alternate history space faring roman empire. I took control of nearly half the galaxy after defeating my long time rivals. The preythorians invaded on my side within one of my slave nations. My nation had shielded the rest of the galaxy from them. I fought the war against them alone for 200 years constantly resupplying my defense stations with fresh corvettes. All the while neighboring empires were declaring war on me whenever my fleet power dipped. It really felt like the historical collapse of the roman empire but I persevered and wiled them from the galaxy.
Looooove the Deus Ex soundtrack in the background. Nostalgia to the power of 10!
That exterminators vs devourers at the end was a surprise.
Contingency was littelary built for this
*Scourge dominates the galaxy*
Contingency: "And we took that persionally"
damn those marauders took the fuck over, last time I played the Great Khan went after a fallen empire right away and got wiped out
POV: You live in the galaxy that Not-God King Supreme has had to use his Admin Powers in
This video contains everything I hoped to happen at once😂 I played 5 times and mostly trigger Scourge, and Contingency. I would love to trigger The War in Heaven but don’t know how.(By the way, I never successfully defended myself in the endgame crisis, those enemies are overwhelming hahaha)
Contingency straight up came in clutch out of nowhere…
Everyone is talking about the end game crisis but I’m just amazing at how big the Khan got
This is our Galaxy, Humans are absolutely unlucky enough for this. I hope everyone is excited for space travel.
6:21 Tyrranids killing of all humans...
Some people survive and beat the terranids.
Terranids - "Oh shit..."
So basically the galaxy ends with Tyranids from 40k vs the Reapers from Mass Effect.
The contingency has completed its mission, all intelligent life will be exterminated and a class 30 singularity will never happen. They will likely return to sleep for the next 100000 or so years and come back just for even more intelligent life to exist, and the cycle continues
The contingency and the Prethorin appears at the same time
Me:"Wait, that's ilegal"
I don't think I have ever seen the great khan be that successful
I have to say the Deus Ex music fits quite nicely with Stellaris.
Stellaris's soundtrack is already very synth heavy & futuristic..so it makes sense that Deus Ex's equally synth and futuristic sounding soundtrack would work well with Stellaris.
Damn Contingency is like a motivational speaker that tells you
-Don't give up man! You can do it!
I love this game so much!
Then my empire spawns in after the contingency dies off at the end