*THE SUN IS A DEADLY LAZER*

*Slaps the top of gigastructure* This bad boy can produce so much, and it only costs *insert apsurd amout of minerals, or energy*

> unbidden 2 systems away from my space > 4x crisis > spiral galaxy > annihilate the star with dison beam > they have to go through the entire galaxy to get to me nwo

"You can build as many as you want at the same time" And right there? I was sold on this.

The war moon is the most Warhammer 40k thing i have ever seen

I'm now expecting a mega structure that uses the mega blackhole in the center of the galaxy

VR world? sounds like the last technology before an empire become fallen empire

Matrioshka Brains, Nicola Dyson Beams, Kugelblitz Black Holes, Starlifting... Is this an Isaac Arthur Fan Mod?

11:53 a Matryoshka brain is Kardashev 2, controlling an entire star. Kardashev three is harnessing a whole galaxy

Attack Moons... *Muffled Waaagh!!! in the distance*

Do a series with this mod please

Megastructures are so cool. They can really get you in the mindset of thinking about higher morality through space travel and technology. When you are blocking out a sun, freezing all the planets in a system, you can reflect at how your species has ascended beyond answering to what can be thought of as forces of nature, beyond seeing the effects their actions have on the survival of a single ecosystem as the height of "moral quandries". Having the power to destroy stars and planets, and to build worlds in the void, where life can be created that can be free even from the confinements of physical bodies. No better god sim out there than Stellaris with this mod.

Ok Boys Grab That Moon And throw it at Da Humis. WAAAGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A particle accelerator with a radius of 1 AU would have a length of 938 million kilometers.

"have you ever found yourself in a situation where you thought to yourself I could really do with more food" No, no I have not.

Ok but when are they going to let me move stars around so that I can taunt my enemies by spelling out slurs and profanities in their night sky

7:46 *Devouring Swarm Breathes Heavily*

This, NSC, ISBS Genocide has never been so tempting

Imagine just seeing a fleet of war moons coming into your territory that would be fun. Also that's no moon its a space station... no wait it is a moon. A perfectly normal moon with giant thrusters and a giant gun good good...... WAIT WHAT!!!! EDIT: How the hell did this get 100+ likes.

15:03 "Encounter in 'Great Wound'" I'm imagining, "Hello... I am your new neighbor.. I get the feeling we aren't going to get along.." From American Dad.

I sacrificed so many orphans for this

When he said war moon I immediately thought of the planetary thruster from Planetary Annihilation: Titans

now they need to SOMEHOW balance this.....maybe a new crisis? say a Empire even older then the fallen empires that live in the core?

I demand a quasi-single planet challenge with this mod. All megastructures are allowed and end-goal is wiping everyone out with Nicoll-Dyson Beam!:D

*That's no star....*

The Attack Moon only has one weapon..? Come on lads, give me a few good Archmagos-Domini and we can fit at least a dozen X-class guns on it!

Is that a *Nicoll-Dyson Beam*

The Nicoll-Dyson beam is so much more original than Starkiller Base from SW:Episode7...

15:50 kinda makes me think of the star forge from star wars knights of the old republic

I think Le Guin's changes might make some of these structures much more useful in the game and make using the super large habitat's easier to manage and populate. Having many times more pops in an empire might make a gas giant farm attractive, and using minerals on high end production means when starships require alloys could be good investments. Things like the Neutron forge could be used to drastically increase refined materials production or support the production of bio-fleets and super ships like the automated dreadnought. Could even lead to a game mode where AI factions like crises and fallen Empires keep trying to kill the player and only with the construction of these gigastructures can they hope to last against the ravening hordes.

Oh Aspec ... u forgot the gargantuan ringworld, where you can also make the mid-sections in between making a single system worthy of a complete empire.

hopefully the developers of this mod add Craft Worlds, like the Eldar have in Warhammer 40k. it would fit as a giga engineering option since Craft Worlds are bigger then most planets.

Mods > DLC

I hope most of that gets added to the game. I don't even care if it becomes DLC so long as the mod team gets a cut.

So this is all in a mod?

You messed up the names a bit and some other things too. I went out of my way and corrected them below: - Orbital Zoo = Orbital Artificial Ecosystem - Orbital Engineering Center = Macroegineering Testing Station - Military Arcademy = Orbital Military Bastion

A craft world ship like the Eldar have which can travel, house population, manufacturing, science etc including the docking of your fleets all in this one mega craft. Similar to the war moon but hey I like options! Also the moon should have the option of going into it like a small planet to add population, troops, ships, you get the gist. You could make that extra phases after making it mobile to make it stronger. Think the Black Ark in TWWHII.

Id love to see tham make a whole Side from Gundam. Basically, a Side is a collection of O'Neill Cylinder Space Colonies on a Lagrange Point. It can be a larger habitat you can put anywhere but would be much more vulnerable. Would be an amazing(-looking) alternative to habitats AND you could totally make one into a Colony Laser (basically Ion Cannons) or use one in a Colony Drop (poor-man's 1-time colossus. Does alot of destruction on the dropped planet)

"War Moon" The second I heard that I was literally like "that sounds like the greatest thing ever".....Well I wasn't wrong.

They should add a gigastructure dreadnought, and also add some form of gigastructure defence platform, like a citadel.

Cover the related mod that adds in Giga-ringworlds. 4 rings. All you'll ever need for a "one system challenge"

I think that the process of adding these things in the game starts with watching Isaac Arthur's videos on youtube every Arthursday :D

But can the AI build them? I’ve never seen them build any mega structure in any of my games. Once I start building mega structures I’ve basically won the game. My economy starts overtaking all others. I’d be more interested in an AI that can competively build mega structures, it’d be so much fun to race them.

@Aspec don't know if you'll see this, but can you please do a complete playthrough of Stellaris with Gigastructral Engineering

Finally you sly thing, fluffy species is not what we were waiting for, XD jk I’m just glad you were still making the video, I’m also very impressed with the way you present things in the game👍

I wonder if even Attack Moons would lose to Naked Corvette Swarm...? :P

I have 2 matrioshka brains, building a nicoil-dyson beam, I have 200k military, Basicaly everybody is doomed

So attack moom death star. Attack Planet Death Star 2/ what ever it was called in star wars episode 7

This is Not your average everyday mega engineering. This is giga Engineering.

Rumors of attack planets? Owo I must build Unicron!

*"Called a kugelblitz"* Finally I can shoot down all of those pesky alien craft!

It's nuts coming back to this video and being suddenly flashbanged to remember the fact alloys didnt always exist in the game

Finally I’m able to terraform *ALL* of solar system planets!

A Matryoshka brain is not a habitat, it is a layered super computer and it is a Kardashev 2 structure, not Kardashev 3.

Can't wait for the Terastructural Engineering

9:07 that is cool. That part reminds me of the film " 2010: The Year We Make Contact" [message relayed from monolith] All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together. Use them in peace.

Imagine a habitat that you can move from one star system to the other. It would be kind of funny seeing a punch of habitats running away from a end game event.

So double middle finger is sending a war moon to sweep up their fleets and then sweep the system with your nicoll-dyson middle finger.

As soon as I get a computer capable of running Stellaris at max graphics at 60 fps for the entire game, I'm going to download this mod, take a two week vacation and just conquer the Galaxy and develop it to a Type 3 Civilization.

Could you do Zenith of a Fallen Empire. really great mod that makes the late game really fun

You are like the forerunners Mega structures- check Technology beyond your widlest dreams- check

Can we just move the stars with its planets away so these filthy xenos cannot reach me via standard hyperlanes (create my own little L-gate system)? Or maybe even flying away to another galaxy? Maybe we can rip apart space-time and create a stable portal to (once again) another galaxy, effectively playing as extradimensional invaders. On the other hand one can build a doomsday device that will dramatically increase gravitational force of central galactic black hole, so it will slowly devour every system starting from the closest to galaxy's center.

I think a series where you start on say a super ring world or whatnot would be really cool. Its no so much a single world play but rather its a controlled expansion. Maybe have it so FTL travel is not invented at the time and so its all about the initial solar buildup. I think that might be cool. Anyway, this is a cool vid. :)

"That's no moon, it's a Space Station.... no wait, it is a moon!"

it seems that i accidentally subscribe to a commercial channel

I can imagine the sheer amount of time that would have to be pumped into this mod without other mods to speed things up.

That Blackhole bomb looking pretty sexy with the Nemesis update.

Basically Isaac Arthur's whole channel.

gigastructural engineering is a severely under-rated mod, IMO. I use this in all my playthrus. You can build tall as fuck with this mod.

Next on gigastructures Developing Universe Nexus Center: A blob of a forming universe a size of a system. How about 450K energy and mineral for 1K research of everything?... Black hole colony: You are creating an anti singularity within a singularity. A dyson sphere of a black hole and habiting the inner side of it.

"That's no moon! That's a space station!"

For the shroud building, other than the Unbidden seemingly coming in quite early, and by quite early I mean within 20 years of its construction, ending my game cause I stupidly decided to up their fleet power to 1.5 M each, though that could be because I happened to get PSI jump drives from the shroud a while back, other than that I don't know what else had came through. No Wanderlust event chain either.

One scientist once asked in regards to the War Moon project "But why?!" to which our dear leader replied "Because its cool."

This terraformation system is far more interesting than the vanilla

Aspec:introducing the war moon Me: thinks of Star Wars episode 4 "that's not a moon that's a space station"

All I can think of whenever I see a War Moon is that episode of Invader Zim where Mars and Mercury are turned into giant warships that have that exact same thruster design and ribbed structures on their surface

This is a must-have for modded adventures in Stellaris

20:06 The Beast planet will be real?! EEEEP! o_0

You missed a prime opportunity for a U2 reference with the Zoo Station.

...I shall call my Attack Moon that I'm turning Luna into Dahak, and we shall build the Imperium on the bones of our enemies!

Always love coming back to this video lol

Two words, Aspec. Two words. As of the latest update to Gigastructures, BIRCH SPHERE

"Are you ready to spend-" Did you not pay attention to all the megastructure factories you just built your way through? If you're not running a few dyson spheres, several gigaforges, and a few other structures that have been created since this video went up four years ago...

“You may fire when ready”

Stellaris gigastructures-one planet challenge have never been so easy!

The gist of this mod - KABUUM!

Now we need the megalomania dlc for Stellaris. PARADOX! Do the thing....

What we could really use is defensive ring around planet, not with single hyper gun but with many many many many good guns, for when fleet is away, , because those star bases sux

holy shit this mod author loves to do things real big huh

Elysium habitats are actually an old concept, they're basically big bishop rings. EDIT: The Penrose Sphere seems like a decent way to deal with end game crises like the Unbidden and Prethoryn.

There is an addon of that mod about ringworlds where you can build 4 Ringworlds in a system making more than 20 segments, I hope that addon get added into the mod directly.

A matrioshka habitat doesn't make a civilization a k3 civ, still only a k2 civ

"On the DONG of 2.2"...

Not gonna lie this is some sort of Star Wars stuff right here. Especially that attack moon. I just hope that no Rebel would be able to fly into it and blow it up because of a construction mistake.

This feels like an ad from a megacorp

Whenever i use this i have the urge to yell " I"MA FIRIN" MAH STAR LASER!!!"

THIS is why this game was created.

Hope they add a space craft carrier that can only have air craft on it No on board weapon systems on it that can be used to bombard planets without causing damage to civilians it only targets all military units and buildings and can be utilised to attack in full planet defence and attacking space fleets

You can terraform Mars with enough of the official technology discovered. slow expensive but doable. Once terraformed, you got a beautiful little world.

"thats not a space station, thats a moon"