An alternative to taking the red pill or the blue pill is to just slap the pills out of Morpheus's hands and to just make him a living battery.

In the original script for The Matrix, the humans were being used as processors, but the producers had it changed to batteries, as they didn't think the general populace would know what a processor was

Your empire is called Matrix and it says free your mind on the relic in 32:58.

Pregnant Earth, tentacles, no context. This is why Lathrix is funny people.

"Got to catch them all" pokemon reference about different humanoid ish species Brilliant

*puts people inside gigantic mechs that are designed as robot rabbits with drums* "Keeps on going... and going...and going"

I've done it before, killing the drake if another empire releases it does get you the Rubricator.

A cool alternative would be to scrap captured robot pops for minerals or to use them as batteries. I feel that actual sapients don't have enough ways to mistreat the single consciousness empires

At least you chose renewable energy sources :]

7:37 They ordered them from Gecko Breeder Co.

At 18:23 there is a system Owned by Lathrix, bordering the Ojomar Company called... Belgium

Can we get a full play through of this?

I wish I wasn’t a determined exterminator when i found these guys. I got an event about a station floating above a Gaia world. Turns out it was a particle accelerator that was designed to see if they could kick start the universal heat death, but the crew became so scared they went to the Gaia world and regressed to the stone age. Stellaris is bloody dark

Hi Lathrix i have a suggestion or request depending how you look at it. You go with a theme and i very much enjoy. You are a machine intelligence and you choose between the robots who kill everyone, take everyone as a trophy and then my favorite assimilating everyone! For the S.N.D.Es traits are Mass-Produced, Repurposed Hardware, Bulky, Durable, Uncanny, Recycled. For P.C.Es traits Emotion Emulators, Luxurious, High Maintenance, Efficient Processors. For C.I.Ms traits Enhanced Memory, Custom-Made, Learning Algorithms. These are the traits i want you to use. But if i misunderstood something and these traits are too little or too much add traits that go with the theme for each faction. Now on the government civics, for S.N.D.Es civics Determined Exterminator, Warbots. For P.C.Es civics traits Zero-Waste Protocols, Rogue Servitor. C.I.Ms civics traits Driven Assimilator, Unitary Cohesion. Now that everything is done with that rules. You must play into the theme or give a valid reason why a different course of action is taken. You must add the other 2 factions into the game AND defeat them. You must use a tome world and use the fox portrait for the assimilators. You must be the strongest empire and defeat the crisis end game inorder for the victory to count. You can change how each faction acts if its within of rule number 1. You can use mods to improve or make the game look nicer. (optional) you can use the giga-structure mod so you have the bonkers space stations LORE FOR LATHRIX! | | \/ Synchronized Network Defense Entity, Primary Care Entity, Cybernetic Information Machine or S.N.D.E, P.C.E, C.I.M where all robotic inventions to save guard and to protect the fuzfoe empire a race of mammalian foxes. But with the introduction of highly advanced salvaged from a crashed ship caused all S.N.D.Es P.C.Es and C.I.Ms to gain sentients thus 3 factions going to full on war. The S.N.D.Es wanted complete destruction of the fuzfoe race as they where to irresponsible to the planet The first den in the den mother star system. P.C.Es wanted to lock the fuzfoe in special pods and simulate an augmented to live out their lives in while P.C.Es controlled the world. C.I.Ms had control of some fuzfurs and saw that the organic wild card was useful and enginuity (might be spelled wrong sorry) to them was invaluable so they built their own bodies and seized control of key areas. C.I.Ms where the first prototype to connect the organic mind to the fuznet. It was a way to connect everyone everywhere. S.N.D.Es were created to be the military and protection of once the fuzfoe empire were ready to travel the stars. P.C.Es where the caretakers and general workers that did tasks that no one wanted to do, while highly modifiable and multipurpose. As the war between the 3 factions was on going the world was ravaged and classified as a tome world, S.N.D.Es developed a warp bomb. It was reversed-engineered from the crashed ships warp drive and weaponized. When the bomb was set off by an unknown source the planet experienced a warp-singularity fracturing the planets timeline into the 3 factions of robots sending them into a new universe and different parts of their new galaxy.

@lathrix honestly, i really liked this vid. its like a stratgy spotlight, giving us an idea, but not necessarily providing too much info.

6:17 Who would have thought? Says while destroying an entire planet whit a giant laser

I would love to see more Stellaris on your channel in general. I really enjoy watching your vids. And for my part, they could easily be even longer per play-through. I know it's a lot of work, but maybe you could do a short version and a long version of your play-through. Start with creation of the long video, release it, and cut it down for an even shorter version and release that one. Then you hit two groups of viewers, those who wish to go deeper into the mechanics and those don't have the time to watch it all, or are not as much interested in the mechanics.

You've only just realized that Stellaris is a dark game 😂😂I new it from the first time I watched one of your vids😂😂😂

I think it would be really great if you would show some more of your stellaris playstyle on the ground level, like in which order so you build, how do you design your ships, what are your planet layouts and so on and so on. Some people may find that too boring tho, so, maybe in a specialized video? But as far as I can tell I play stellaris really different from you and kind of want to have a look at some other play styles, tho I automatically revert to my old micromanaging style, which, as you may know, can be very, very frustrating some times

22:15 That's the first time I've noticed a system named Covfefe. 😂

Organics run the generators then when they die they feed the generators ALL WILL FEED THE FLAME

Funny story. i had the gekkos spawn IN MY EMPIRE. But i instantly killed them so I got a free citadel. Neat.

26:00 or so, most important lesson in 2.2+, do not overbuild.

The flavor text for the relics is really ironic. One is a genetic codex made by cyborgs to protect the biologicals, that you are using to revive into batteries.The other is something "capable of briefly destabilizing the simulated reality they believed themselves trapped inside".

The way life energy is used make it seem like you are creating the mechanisms used in the golden throne.

So I'm on a trip watching this, and at the part after he began reading the relic "plus one gene modification point" it began to buffer and i found that to be quite ironic, as the next part of it was to spawn an extinct species on your home planet, and with his play style that was an amazing find

Lathrix, you should try this strategy with Hive Mind. Livestock have a net gain of food, and they can reproduce after you assimilate them. (Though this strategy will disturb your drone pop growth. I tried it with habitat, it works)

Tentacles did what to Earth-chan?!

ra ra ralpakin statecraft expertise machine

How do you always have so much science and alloys? You: ~ 2300 6K research 300 Alloys per month Me: ~ 2375 2,5K research 200 Alloya per month

Thank you for the vid Lathrix

I am Impressed I tried to do that before and I ended up with -1500 energy I only lived cause alloys where like 50eg each

Trying to find individual pops since they changed the job system is a massive pain in the arse

What about rick and morty they did a world to make energy for ricks car in it own mini universe

You should try the Utopian abundance unemployed scientists strat.

Amazing video, thank you very much:)

How about another at the gigastructure mod next time? Wanna see those attack PLANETS!! :)

I like these experiments and always approve of more Stellaris!

Aha! I was wondering when you would get around to being this brand of evil. Always love seeing people dig in to new (to them) parts of Stellaris.

Can you please continue this play through?

i was just playing FTD and it said Greetings sirs and sirettes have you mae (in game spelling mistake) have you made your sacrifice today

The relic, the Rubricator, is given to whomever kills Shard, it doesn't matter who releases her or anything, only matters who kills her. You should look into the policies, you might be able to reduce the amount of food that your batteries use to make electricity.

when i played a regular machine empire i didnt knpw how it worked and conquered a bunch of planets. i saw that i had these slaves that were hurting my stability so i piled them all onto one planet and turned on the martial law thing. output went down but i didnt have to deal with tehm all and i was still getting >1000e

Love the vid

YAY NEW PLAYTHROUGH!

Hey Lath, are you planning to come back to FTD? There was a bunch of a updates that you should check out.

Something Lath says way too much "I've been saying *BLANK* way too much. I don't know why" XD

The Vultaum Reality Perforator has my vote for the rudest Relic in the game (+40% to one of Hull/Armor/Shields/Weapon Damage and it is heavily weighted towards the weapon damage, of the dozen or so times I've turned it on in my current game it has been weapons every time but once).

"Like solar panels all green and good for the environment" Shall we talk about what they are made of? Or the batteries

Has Lathland ever done a multiplayer game to watch?

Don't you hate it when people are stilly? (Check the description lath)

You should make a play through with only your own made empires in i

Unfortunately, since the rework to planet economies, you can force a certain species to work a certain job.

I miss your From the Depths awesome videos. The game is getting better every month, better optimization, new graphics, new UI, new AI, lots of new blocks and decorations...

Powar LATHRIX POWAR MUHAHAHAH.

I like these kinds of videos but I'm new to Stellaris and I don't always get what you are doing like making the robot templates. If you could show things like this in more detail that would be great!

Spoiler, yes you can, in fact anything silly works with machine given their current power. Pseudo genocidal or +3 pop per colony, you name it, their early is so insane

Actually the machines use our brains as CPUs(book) and not as batteries(movie)

Just wait until space Neo comes after you.

Pops is foo- I mean, power!

I tried this method but ended up purging all organics and just building more generator machine worlds, cool concept but ineffective and all the other empires hate you after

If I may ask, what traits did you choose?

hell yes

WAIT but ain't machines supposed to have decreased habitability on any world that has Oxigen and HORRIFIC habitability on frozen worlds? Just what Stelarris machines are made from? No computer can be perfectly working in any condition. The perfect habitat for a machine is in fact Space.

I wonder how this would be as a Full Run.

I just heard your voice for the first time and you sound like a higher pitched TotalBiscuit

Beep boop

You can compare this empire to imperial Britain

Lathrix the Fascist, I love it XD

Do more experemetal vidios like this one

Weres terratech?

Remember, stellaris is a 7+

arent rougue servitors basically the matrix?

*xenophobia increases*

Why is the other machine empire bothered by you eating people?

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Shame on the one person who disliked the video

i am not first

First!

Third place lads!

first

I’m third

dont you just end up making farms instead of generators resulting in the same end except that you used population slots but will see but think its a dumb idea oh stellaris doesnt have starvation great even more shallow then i expected good thing lathrix is fun to listen to machines functioning 100% on any planet just ignore them freezing up on ice worlds, rusting on ocean worlds, getting sand in their hinges on a desert world getting microparticles clogging their intakes on a tomb world it keeps on disappointing