Playing as a scion origin: *AWAKEN MY MASTERS*

When a xenophobic doomblob appears in your capital system but you pull a Stalingrad and destroy your own sun.

So basically: Spiritualists->DEUS VULT! Materialists->The Google to your Yahoo Xenophobe->The Schoolyard Bully Xenophile->The Helicopter Parent

Benevolent Interventionists: Hey man, why don't we just all get along? Doctrinal Enforcers: DEUS VULT DEUS VULT DEUS VULT! Watchful Regulators: Hippity Hoppity, your tech is now my property. Jingoistic Reclaimers: Hippity Hoppity, you are now my property.

Awakening fallen empire: at least we will reclaim the galaxy! Technologically advanced federation that covers half the galaxy and overwhelming devouring swarm that controls the other half: oh really

Awaken my master! *Pillar men theme plays*

FE: *awakens* Me, staring at them with over 6M fleet power and the Colossus: Decrepit fools.

There are other events that can trigger an instant awakening: When an endgame crises happens, the xenophile fallen empire can awaken to protect the galaxy. This can also happen during a war in heaven, so it's possible for 3 fallen empires to awaken If you blow up a holy world with a colossus then the spiritualist fallen empire will send you a very threatening message and instantly awaken

The Unbidden emerged during the War in Heaven, and now I’m fighting them all alone :(

*Laughs in endgame firepower*

AWAKEN, MY MASTERS!

i remember taking out a FE but didnt have enough influence to take their last tiny planet, it was enough to start a war in heaven that lasted a hundred years, oof.

Fallen Empires: *_"WAKE ME UP INSIDE!"_*

But the War in Heaven is going to save the Templin Institute.

>be me >space faring civilization >just chillin in space with my friends >fallen empire awakes to conquer galaxy >mfw

When you're a Fanatic Spiritualist and the Spiritualist Fallen Empire awakens: "AWAKEN, MY MASTERS!" *Pillar Man theme starts playing*

"Achieves erotic fullfilment upon hearing Babylon 5 reference"

The first awakened empire i encountered was way weaker than me. For some reason they still thought i was weaker than them, then died because of that. They were my next door neighbor.

Combined fleet strength of 40k? I have single fleets with 40k. Problem is, literally every single ai is listed as "pathetic" in my current game, so I'll be the only real participant in any awoken fe events

lol, huge like for the intro, Musta appreciates))

Oh god I remember when this first happened to me, I was losing on both fronts against the ghost signal and then they declared me the head of the federation,I only had 2 fleets left, I was curbed stomped, I was losing all my resources and I didn’t have the resources to make new ships

I love how the War in Heaven (and the fallen empires in general) is basically a homage to Babylon 5. They even lifted some of the text for the event directly from the show. Stellaris is a love letter to Sci Fi, tbh

"The future is now, old man."

Under no circunstaces the xeno must be trusted

War in heaven: starts Smaller empires: *chuckles* I’m in danger

I tried to form the non-aligned faction and ended up going to war with everyone. Really shot myself in the foot there.

First playthrough, a fallen empire awakened, the benevolent interventionalists, a few years later the unbidden came along. Didn't know much about the game so ignored them at first seeing as they were across the galaxy realised the unbidden were an endgame crisis when they popped up in the galactic senate as someone to gather against. I went to check back and saw 2 fallen empires just stomping them back into oblivion.

Goddxmnit! Now I have to go listen to deathclock! Curse you Aspec, you magnificent, glorious bastard! Edit: thanks for the heart less than 2 minutes after posting!

It took me 4 months to realize he said John Sheridan and to connect War in Heaven to Babylon 5

My Necrons look forward to the war in Heaven event XD

*Empire wakes up during crisis* Me: Alright, we have a chance now. *Does absolutely nothing and only goes to war with shit AI who don’t think.* Me: ..................

According to the Stellaris Wiki, a normal empire needs to have above 50k, that the awakening event can happen. You have to outlaw AI now, if you are a subject under the spiritualists, the materialists no longer demand that. This is not updated in the wiki. You could have also mentioned the Guardians of the Galaxy mechanics. In the War in Heaven, you can also pick the option to be completely independent, not even in the League of Non-Alligned Nations. That means, you are not in the war, but will potentially get attacked afterwards from the winning side.

Stellaris is the gateway drug for 4x games. The story events make all the numbers less scary. Learning the game didn't feel like a chore.

To be honest I hoped for more in-depth look at their mechanics. For example you didn't even mentioned about decadency (and related to that mechanics). Another thing not even mentioned (though this one is rather minor thing - still, I feel it should be mentioned if you plan to talk about Awakened Empires) is reaction of Spiritual Fallen Empire on destruction of one of their Holy Planets. One more thing that was not mentioned is their ability to wake up with arrival of Crisis and how they may see themselfs as protectors of the galaxy (and how Xenophobe will never do such thing). But please, don't get me wrong - really nice video, and I watched it with pleassure.

Hey ASpec, would you mind doing a video about the Wanderlust event chain? I haven’t seen any other channels that have posted one.

That opening made me click subscribe so fast. I lurked the channel for too long, but finally sealed the deal.

At the begging of the video I was thinking about how the Fallen Empiers were like the Vorlons or Shadows, and not a minute in, we get the Babalyon 5 joke. I approve.

*Me: Time to colonize that far far away habitat planet, just incase*

Amazing intro...just so perfect.

In my last play through I actually got a war in heaven event, I chose to go it solo and declared war on both immediately. Within 10 years the capitals of the FE had been bombarded to tomb worlds. Humanity first!

John Sheridan - yeah, some B5 love!

The five dislikes are from the Awakened Empires.

In my most reacent playthrough i have around 10 million fleet power, the year is 2320... (its pretty heavily modded, but still) And im a determined exterminator, so i think ill just MURDER everyone if the war in heaven starts, thank you very much.

Enjoying this channels great content

Made my day with that Dethklok at the start lol

HOLY HELL, THAT BABYLON 5 REFERENCE AT THE BEGINNING! Man, you are my fucking hero for that

Deathklok at the start made me laugh lo loud, I immediatly liked just for that AWAKEN/10

Let's see, let's see... Dethklok and B5 jokes are out of question straight away, someone more than likely shouted somewhere in the comments about awakening their masters... Well, one option left with all that thrall-talk. Bring back lots of minerals, Captain. And radioactives. Our rave pa... I mean war effort could really use them. ------ Why did you have to do that to me, Aspec? I like Star Control 2 as much as the other guy, but it's not like there are that many oblivious places to attach it.

Get the hell out of our galaxy quote has made my day. Thanks aspec.

I had the fun startup where I had enough repeated tech for my star bases to quarantine the fallen empires. They went to war, but were unable to leave their respective areas.

2 years after the video was released i get around to watch it and dear god i did not expect a babylon 5 reference

MY MASTER AWAKEND MEEEEE!

Simply a fantastic intro

Could have saved 9 mins by just saying this is the plot to babylon 5

loved the intro :-)

Loved the Dethklok song haha, it fit well with this.

B5 reference! You ROCK, Aspec!

God it's fucking nice to hear Dethklok, I'm glad to see you're a man of culture as wlel.

Nice choice in music for Clair de lune to dethklok awaking lmao

I thank you for this Video now if only I watched this vid before the fallen empire woke up

Awaken my masters!

Fleets : " OUR MASTERS HAVE AWAKENED US !! "

AWAKEN MY MASTERS

Scions be like: AWAKEN, MUSTAKRAKISH! THE LAKE TROLL!

It’s 2021, I’ve had the game a week and I just wanted to come here and appreciate the funny Intro 😂

+1 for the B5 shout out. All we need now is the FE to start asking “Who are you?” And “What do you want?”

I appreciate the Dethklok opening. It was one of my 2 favourite Dethklok songs too! Anyway, what happened during my first War in Heaven was that the empire of my vassals and mine completely surrounded both Fallen Empires, and I did not yet have the fleet power to hold them back. So if I were to pick a side, the other FE would immediately crush my empire. Likewise, if I would oppose both of them they'd both just crush me. So I had to stay out of it completely. However, this did cause a small problem: I could not end the War in Heaven event without completely destroying every party involved. You see, after I dealt with the end-game crisis that spawned in the middle of the War in Heaven, I tried eliminating one of the FEs to end the war. That did not work, because upon destroying the FE their side's leadership was just passed on to one of their vassals. So I destroyed all the vassals. Nope, that didn't work either. Sure, the actual war was over, but the War in Heaven event itself was still running. And considering that every empire but mine picked a side in the war, this meant that I literally could not end the event, and thus win the game, until literally every empire but mine was destroyed. That took a while.

Perfectly balanced and working as intended

Yo showing off music from the Legend of 1900 you dog you!! I love that movie.

what if you open the l-gate and unleash the grey tempest and retreat into one of their systems to create a ringworld while keeping the tempest alive and swarming the galaxy there usually are systems in the l-cluster that have only a single hyperlane that you can hold and then you build a ringworld for your civilization and then you can just watch the galaxy burn and basically gtfo

The intro music took me back to the age of Francis of the Filth

That subtle Babylon 5 in the description.

AWAKEN

Your overlord awakening as a Scion: *pillarmen theme starts playing* AWAKEN MY MASTERS! Awakening a spiritualist FE via World-Cracker: Wake up you wrinkly sack of hallowed dung, either you die or I die

This video gave me and idea for an end game Crisis. The Pact: Millennia ago, the Fallen Empires where locked in a terrible war with each other. After centuries of stalemate they agreed to a pact. They would all return to their core systems, and if any of them ever left they would all immediately go to war again. Now with the new powers growing new opportunities arise and the fragile peace is broken. ( All FE awakens at the same time, and start an all out war against anyone who wont become a vassal.) Could be amazing!

perfect mod to add to the game to make war in heaven even more great is the zenith of fallen empires.

John Sheridan quote earned a subscription

Clair de Lune from Debussy is a masterpiece

Dat opening tho.

have yet to see the rest of the video but 10/10 for Dethklok usage

AYAYAYAYAY

Fallen Empire : Awakens and demands my stuff The one route into my stuff that I’ve turned into Cadia. “Hmm… I’ll watch”

Opening was awsome

AWAKEN AWAKEN AWAKEN TAKE THE SPACE THAT MUST BE TAKEN!!

Awaken my masters

TAKE THE LAND THAT MUST BE TAKEN

MUSTA! KRACKISH!

Love the dethklok opening

AWAKEN AWAKEN AWAKEN AWAKEN TAKE THE LAND THAT MUST BE TAKEN

Load up on swedish meatballs and turn on the jump drives, Aspec is standing between the candle and the star on this video.

"Now get the *hell* out of our galaxy, *both* of you!"

I saw this video in my recommended a couple minutes after both my Materialists fallen empire and Spiritualist empires woke up, also I have the scion origin so the Materialists empire is gonna kick my teeth in

I hope we'll meet others long after we completed warp drive

Let me write it before you ask music at the beginning is Clair de lune

Materialist AE vs Spiritualist AE presents an interesting dynamic for spiritualist empires (and gestalts). Basically, submitting to the Spiritualists makes you become F Spiritualist and authoritarian... and the materialists make you ban AI and and pay some science... a spiritualist who's already authoritarian will have no problem joining the Spiritualists, but an individualistic spiritualist empire may not want to change ethics and may in fact find it better to side with the materialists if they don't mind the loss of science... Gestalts, especially MEs may, ironically, be more tempted to join the spiritualist AE since the ethics don't change, and it essentially means no loss besides independence... So what would make sense thematically... doesn't actually make sense thematically, because most spiritualists will join the Materialist AE, and a lot of gestalts, including ME's would benefit more going with the spiritualist AE... This is a really interesting dynamic... and one that doesn't occur for Xenophile AE vs Xenophobe AE... food for the thought...

It took me an embarrassingly long time and an embarrassing few saves destroyed before I realized that Awakened Empires were actually just Fallen Empires and I could nip them right in the bud by conquering them, so now as soon as I get some decent fleet power the first thing I do is claim all their stuff and declare war.

War in heaven: *starts* Me, with the L-gates ready to open: "If this galaxy can't be mine, then it'll be noone's"

I really loved the first few seconds. How do you move the in-game cam so slowly and smoothly?

Oh that opening!

FALLEN EMPIRE: "AT LAST WE AWAKEN TO....Wait, where is everyone? DEVOURING SWARM: "*BURPS*...Pudding?"