Missed your chance to say "This species cares about two things and two things only: it cares about profits and it cares about prophets."

I can see the advertisements for indentured assets. "Servitude - saving souls, and saving profits."

From communist Blorg to Ferengi turtles. Whatever next?

"I am worried this will be too slow of an empire" Well you DID make them TURTLES...

We were a turtle megachurch; Our neighbors left us in the lurch. Took a colony And we set it free: A Federation with ourselves. Let the congregation sing And build markets on our ring Holy Greed disguised As a new franchise Trade Federation with ourselves

For the next one, could you you try roleplaying as a raider? Militarist, authoritarian, Xenophobe, with oligarchic authority, and civics are Barbaric Despoilers and slaver guilds and use habitat start. The goal is to ally with no one, steal and enslave pops from every other empire and reduce them all to tiny rump states of a couple planets. You can make everyone join a hegemony, and once you become totally in charge, abuse a combo of kicking members out and then using the join or die CB as an excuse to go in, steal most of their pops and keep them in line. Use planets for your enslaved pops, and habitats for your main species. Beyond that, go nuts. Edit: thoughts on species traits: nonadaptive is a freeby for this one, so take that one. Idk what other traits would be good. Edit 2: rapid breeders might be good to counteract the void dwellers downside? Idk if strong and one of the research boosters or intelligent would be better. Definitely want to go the genetic engineering route with this and specialize species. Make your original species into perfect leaders, and have livestock+lithoid slaves on multiple thrall worlds to make minerals, food and rare resources.

Little influence tip: presapients are sometimes sold on the market, and even if you only buy one you still get 500 influence. And then you could do it again if you buy another

Temple Salesman *Slaps Roof Of Temple* “This bad boy can give you research, society, amenities.” Lathland “We are going to be building them everywhere”

"I deal with disease and rot" Lath is papa nurgle, confirmed

“...I was once a humble turtle. Breaking my back just to earn a credit! But when I made my offering to the glimmering spires of the ring, I saw my investment return a hundred fold! And now I stand before you as your prophet. A prophet, of profit. Isn’t that wonderful?”

The Orzhov called, they're claiming that you owe them royalties.

*looks at video on Lathrix's channel* "Mega Church" "Greed is good" 666 views Heh. Nice.

You should do a run as a "puppet master" driven assimilator. You would sweep in and assimilate an empire and release them as a vassal with their husks of their former selves.

99% of the time I have no idea what is happening, why you are taking the decisions you are taking, why you are doing what you are doing since I have never player Stellaris before But, I still enjoy watching your videos a lot. Keep them up!

"Every successful economy is build around the hopeless cycle of repetition where we sell you the empty promises of happiness and fulfilment. And unfulfilled as ever, you still come back for more." ^^

A species where there’s no difference between faith and economy, wait a second that’s the ferengi. Sure faith seems bigger in this empire but it’s pretty similar.

When Lath posts a new video: Another fine addition to my collection

The name "Turt Lads" amuses me far more than it should.

My favorite part was when Lath kept analyzing his corporate agenda and repeatedly arriving at the conclusion that he is probably just straight up evil then doing mental gymnastics to dodge the truth. 10/10 Megacorp RP.

This empire is an alternate reality of your last empire where the scourge destroyed the empire and you were in a hidden ring world with no fleet

I think you mean to say "Hostile Takeover" instead of war... It's just business after all!

I can somewhat hear laths madness when the chosen one was presented "you could say that lath is kind of a mad lad"

Now is the time to REJOICE brothers and sisters for we have been blessed by our Lord and savior with another one of his holy videos. PRAISE THE WORM!

As soon as Lathrix was describing the indentured servitude as pops working to save their souls, I immediately thought: 'we're the GOOD GUYS' I think next episode will be the embodiment of the phrase: war is the continuation of politics with other means.

The prophets of profits? Lathrix is out here straight-up recreating scientology, the mad lad

How does Lathrix come up with such great empire origin backstories? They are so unique.

This has come out just when I need it! Thanks for putting in the effort for this.

"Its far more fun to deal with disease and rot" -Lath admitting which chaos god he works for.

Love these playthroughs, keep em up!

"Thou shall not be greedy. That doesn't count if I'm greedy though. If we, Megapriests do it, then It's ok"

”I value value” - member of The Divine Turtle Conglomerate

As usual, I absolutely loved it! Also, I just wanted to say thanks for your videos. I love how you dig into your Empire's backstory the way I do in my head before every game! This simple little imagination self-RP is half the fun in Stellaris if you ask me!

I am loving these longer vids! And I think the 2/3 parts are a good mix of longer vids and episodes. Really loving your work man, keep it up!

Live in fear knowing their is now a stellaris Mobile game look it up. The sad part is it’s a clash of clans remake.):

Thankyou for these videos Lath. I was struggling of new ways to play stellaris and you have shown and taught me so much. Thankyou 🙂

Lathrix, I love all the Stellaris content you make and look forward to even more in the future!

Thanks for putting this together for us!

Thanks for the new episode, Lath

Thanks so much for your time on this!

I will like and comment on all your full playthroughs. My favorite runs you do.

I tell you it's just last night that I wanted to see another Megacorp gameplay(specifically the Mega Church) THANK YOU LATHRIX, YOU ANSWERED MY PRAYERS

You just don't get good long form content nowadays. Thanks for these!

These full playthroughs bring me so much joy

Love this better than even the last one. Good luck and hope the next part comes in fast

Awesome idea for gameplay :D can't wait for part 2

Love the long playthroughs! Keep it up!

Aw yis, another full playthrough! Thanks

OMG a new one already !? And a mega church, no less ??! Lathrix, you spoil us so much ❤️❤️

Interviewer: “So what made you decide to build ANOTHER megacorp right next to the original?” Lathland: “Money!”

Oh boy, he’s done it again!!! Up from 2-3 parts. I’ve just gotten so excited for the rest of the series! I wonder what goes terribly wrong . . .

Pinching off one of your own systems to then become a federation with... yourself. WOW. That is going into my 'ways Lathrix has made Stellaris such an awesome game' folder. I do admit it took me some effort to understand this at first, but, WOW.

Have you ever thought of making an empire that is a reflection of you. As in copies your ideal/ethics and a flag that you’d just view as “epic”

Yay. Another one. Keep up the good work.

I love your playthroughs

Great Video as always!

Growth, Profit...GROFIT Synergy, energize...SYNERGIZE

Love your playthrough videos! I think itd be a great idea to use past playthroughs Empires in the next one to see some of your others in the same galaxy :)

Yes lathrix you go and keep up this hard work !!!!!!!! We love you, we support you !!!!!!!!!!

more full playthroughs?! yes please!!!

I love how most people pick either ringworlds or arcologies. Me on the other hand, have most planets as ecumonopolis' and have a few ringworlds for food and science.

A ring world? For so many turtles, in so little time? That's one way to hot foot your species like a real ninja.

I honestly prefer these full playthroughs than the series, Love you lath

Holy shit Lathrix, another Full Playthrough of ludicrous size?

You know it's a good day when you see another Stellaris full playthrough is uploaded.

I was hoping this was the next one!!

Me: waiting for more From the Depths Lathland: Youll have to wait longer

how tf did he not stumble over conglomerate, i can barley say it and im not dislexic, well done lath! im proud of you!

lathrix my dude, wasnt it a 2 part video yesterday? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I am no complaining

"..i want to do the archology project for once...i never do it..." what? I've been watching the backlogs and that's all he chooses.

lighting rods of pure hate, poetic

Best video yet keep making more

Can't wait to see the rest!

Lath: "We have the covenant here, which I have a feeling of that they like our ringworld idk maybe they like halo shaped things" Me: *brain clicks* God fucking damnit

I JUST FINISHED THE FIRST ONE!!! MOAR!!!

Turtles lives at sand. cash collector thorn grows in sand, coincidence? I think not! The turtles must have dug up inscriptions of the concept of greed from the old cash cacti combine!

Comments for the comment gods. Love these long playthroughs. Keep it up

I’ll comment now, because reasons. May the analytics be with you Lathland.

Man i love these lets play! please give us moar!! for greed and profit!

Go lathrix you are the best. You are all so my favorite KZfaqr.

Gotta love the space-Orzhov XD

Loving it buddy

The thing about the commerce trial was that just to participate you needed to have a system with 50+ trade value. Your "Ally" didn't have 50+ trade value, therefore he couldn't participate. Which means that you were the only one participating so it was a total success.

From Slaanesh to Tzeentch what a smart choice my friend

Oh Star O'Money, star of might, Star of royal beauty bright, Currency leading, growing proceedings, Guide us too the perfect life - excerpt from 'The First Song of Income', main chorus

Comment for alogrithm. I love ads please give me ads many ads many high pay ads!!!! I love this family friendly channel so much!

It’s a fight between Xeno Compatibility and Defender of the Galaxy? WHAT HERESY IS THIS! Also, there is a wormhole in the North East corner of your empire that goes to system that is one or two jumps from that awakened empire, you could try to take them out before they start a war in heaven...

I can’t begin to tell you how much I love these videos!

7:00 actually a genius move

I see your tricks lathrix, you can’t slip changing it to part 1 of 3 past me!

It's probably impossible, but the church asking if they are the lords of all creation just makes me want to see a playthrough where there are no other empires, even fallen or marauders; then all of the different variants of endgame crisis just pop up out, with no chance to get the fallen empire tech or federations or anything.

I love doing megachurches and trying to stack spiritualist pop shift and buying/raiding for pops

Lath I adore your videos! Listening to thid whilst playing Stellaris is fing perfect. Quick question, would you consider doing another modded full playthrough?

Prophet of Mercy, Prophet of Regret, Prophet of Truth, and most importantly, the Prophet of Profit.

The covenant are coming after our ring-world maybe because its halo shaped Me an avid halo player: i see what you did there

Comment for the Lathrix. Also, I would love a vassal run. It would be awesome to be a mastermind behind the scenes. Although that is basically how all runs end up Or a run where your people are everywhere. Through immigration or breeding. Your species will be the rabbits of the universe

I have been playing with a very, very similar set up (Ruined Ring World, Megachurch, Authoritarian-Spiritualist-Xenophile). My beginning rush is to sell off everything to get 500 energy and clear the Volatile Motes tunnel immediately. Once you have the motes enact the Volatile Land Clearance edict to make the other two tunnels faster and cheaper. You should easily have 2000 minerals accumulated for the commercial district. I then rush a research district.

Next run will be no ascension path challenge I guess then. No psychics or robots or biologists ascension. Btw since you are a micro biologist did you work on covid? thanks man. For working and helping us get over this pandemic. (Also for keeping us entertained with these videos)

I have 20 hours of stellaris playtime and 200+ hours of Lathland playing stellaris time. I regret nothing

Hey love your content keep up the good work!!!!!!!!!!

Michael reeves will be really angry. So angry that he will have a stroke