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EASTER EGG: If your psionic, you can communicate with he Scourge. They are being chased by a race they call The Hunters, and that Prethoryn means survivor in their tongue. They arent laughing at you upon first contact. They are laughing that even if you beat them, you have no chance against The Hunters.

for me it was rather anti-climactic since the scourge spawned right next to a fallen empire and got their butts spanked

your translaters can translate that message if you are psychic empire and translate is "PRETHORN, WE HAVE ARRIVED. OUR LONG JOURNEY IS OVER! FEED, MATE, AND REST. WE MUST CONSUME THIS GALAXY BEFORE THE HUNTERS FIND US!"

I remember when this event first happened for me. A massive alliance war just ended, I finally broke my rivals, my colonies were prosperous, I had fleets of thousands, endless legions. However, then the war in heaven started, then the whole galaxy went to war. Countless systems ravaged Fleets lay to ruin The war economy in shambles We thought things couldn’t get any worst. Then they came Within just 10 years, they had destroyed one of the awakened empires. Consumed 50% of the galaxy Me and the few empires that remained made a truce, we took up arms, we put are petty grievances aside And took the battle to them Then paradox added synthetic dawn and made the save file not compatible.

If ever there was a film about stellaris the scourge seem like the best one to use

The Sentinels would make a good basis for a mod. You could have the player start as the Sentinels in a late-game galaxy already being invaded by the Scourge. That could be fun.

When you send in your 160k fleet to beat up the scourge and 600k of enemy ships jump in....

Suggestions for fighting the scourge: 1. Kinectic weapons are useless. Torpedoes are useful for their high damage, but concentrate on energy weapons that penetrate armor. 2. Create many corvettes and destroyers that have point defense systems, but do not forget to create almost the same with energy. 3. Put everything in a defensive computer. That way, your ships will create a blob/bubble of ships. That is good because your point defense will be together and defending the rest of your fleet against their missiles, their most dangerous weapon. 4. Your fleet must contain the greatest number of corvettes and destroyers. Battleships and cruisers are for support from the distance, not as important as the firsts. If you follow this, you might be able to take down a 30k fleet with a 11k fleet. That was the thing that happened to me.

Had them arrive 175 years in, with multiple 60k fleets ;_; RIP in peace galaxy

Buddy and I were playing on the console. They decided to spawn in my territory. The Zakuulan Ascendancy(my Empire) was the strongest in the galaxy with a 84K fleet. Other empires were barely scraping 25K. My friend warned me about the scourge, but I laughed in defiance thinking the Eternal Fleet could take them on. I was wrong. Their first invasions consisted of 5 60K fleets. I was uneasy, but felt I could still defeat them if I managed to catch one alone. Then phase two began, and I’m spawned 6 250K fleets. My buddy and I knew there was no time, so we combined our fleets, took control of our federation fleet, and went to hold them off for as long as we could. We managed to destroy one 250K Fleet, but as we retreated, we were caught in an ambush by two others. We didn’t dare retreat, instead we fought till our fleets were destroyed. We managed to heavily damage them, but it wasn’t enough. The scourge has came, and now it will purge us all.

Dear god what have I done wrong . . the vanguard is here. . one fleet is like 100k strong already . . rest in pepperoni my lovley galexy. . .

Hey here's something that happened in my game. I was able to distract the main fleet with my own and sent another fleet to bombard their home world while it was still colonizing. The fleet destroyed the home world and literally all of their fleets in my game despawned! I don't know if it's a bug but I'm glad it happened. :)

PURGE THE ALIEN.

these things are landing at my homeworld with 203k fleet power.... so all my Fleet are busy at frontline damn sick

If another race captures the queen, do you get the chance to take her back, by say, blowing her up? They spawned hyper late game for me and on the other side of the galaxy with two large empires in the way. They took a modest number of systems and got no further.

MUGANI? HAK HAK HAK!

Now I want to start a devouring swarm playthrough, call myself The Flood, and capture the Swarm Queen...

So basically, the Vong. I'm so going to get revenge on these bastards!

Be me: -Get pretty far into a game and play for 5 days straight -year 2402 rolls around -Get the event of echoes being detected -Expect a small invasion force that can be slapped in the face no problem -Get the second wave notification -See 4 144K fleets appear on other side of galaxy -Crap yourself seeing that your own fleet is only 71K -Realize that your fine for probably a while -Go to send your fleet with your allies to try to stop the invasion while you still can -Have your strike fleet completely spanked and retreat with only 6 battleships left -Try to rebuild a fleet in time to try again -Notice that your ally and most powerful nation is already half way conquered and that the Scourge has 3 more fleets -Send your fleet to try to save them -Have your fleet ganged by 3 144K fleets -Your ally falls and everyone else is being overrun -Try again and again to save yourself -Fail again and again to find that your extinction is near -Be fully overrun and get defeated by the Scourge -Cry for a bit after losing a game after all this time and effort -Stop crying and shrug your shoulders and say "Guess I'll play a new game -Start a new game.

Finally got these guys, it’s been an interesting game playing as a Driven Assimilator. Being the black sheep of the galaxy, we began preparing for the crisis and or war in the heavens about 150 years before it hit. The organic races once all so determined in their unity to reject the machines have all finally come to stand behind me. My fleets barely managed to contain the initial invasions, so I pulled my forces back to regroup and heal letting the allied fleets move in to cover. Worst mistake ever, now my fleets are forced to dig in their heels, we’re winning this battle but the cost is so high. On the plus side, my game finally started moving at a normal speed again with all these ships destroyed.

In my most recent run, I had the Scourge invade. Due to dumb luck, my psionic empire had a the following at the end of it: a fleet over 40k strength aided by a Baby Ether Drake which itself added another 14k all by itself, a Shroud Avatar (rating: skull), the Dreadnought (rating: 8k or so) and the Queen with her own fleet. We made short work of our enemies, including the old empires, afterward.

I get really nostalgic watching this, this video was one of the main reasons I got Stellaris and one of the main reasons I now have more than a 1000 hours.

That intro music and then BAM ASpec. Brilliant editing :-)

So i had the scourge appear in the edge of my empire, i had 3 vassals, one of whom had a 7k fleet. My 100k fleet was very far away and could not react in time. The AI vassal did the unthinkable and went strait for the scourge homeworld. As the scourge dedtroyed the nearby systems, my vassal passed through all of them and destroyed the home scourge planet, ending the scourge in less than a year with a 7k fleet

Thanks for the Mechanics video.

Tiny vanguard? Just one of their ships is more powerful than an entire fleet of my best battleships, which I only just barely managed to research. Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies.

i wish the vid was longer. the sense of epicness and grandeur is giving me goose bumps

'Spawning with several 20k fleets...' looking at my own 150k-ish feet: 'Oh, that's cute.'

Awesome vids man

Sweet work, keep it up.

i think its time to revisit these crisis

This was my first crisis and I felt the brunt of the scourge’s swarms. I was forced to relocate to the opposite side of the galaxy a few years after the first wave

I've had these guys pop up in the empire below my own (who i had just warred with a few years prior) and they took a large part of their territory. However, they stopped spreading after about 8 systems and now they're just... there, and have been for about 50 game years now.

When they spawned for me the first time, it was right in the path of an awakened zenophobic empire. The empire was well into its war swing and had two 300k fleets. I barely needed to help (I also spawned across the galaxy). I couldn't believe my luck

I'm pretty sure the Scourge scales with either time or galactic tech. I had one that didn't trigger until around 300 years into the game and it spawned around 8-10 fleets of 80K power each.

Being the strongest Empire in the galaxy with 300k fleet in 2387, then the Prethory Scourge spawned in my face with almost 900k in total, there are no Aweaken Empires and other empires got only 10-30k, so I'm the only one that could stop them but I can't defeat them, this game is fking exiting.

by the way a video about titans in stellaris would go great with your style, also thanks for videos.

your vids are so good

The first time I encountered the crisis (contingency), I was in the middle of a galactic war, they spawned right next to my capital. I got absolutely destroyed. The second time, I played the whole game preparing for the crisis, taking the perks, uniting the galaxy, destroying the fallen empires. I built over 400 battleships and had over 2.5 million fleet power. So when the scourge eventually invaded, it was a bit anticlimactic (it was on normal difficulty I think, 1.5x).

Very well made and quick, excellent work sir! Can you do one on Sectors?

This is a what if scenario... What if the Scourge event occurs during the AI revolt... Scourge meets AI and infest them and evolves into.... The Borg.... resistance is futile... >_

With 3.0 patch notes, the Scourge have an equal chance to spawn now, in theory. Though it seems it is still slightly weighted towards the Unbidden.

For those who found this looking for Prethoryn info, be aware that it is now multiple patches later and the invasion fleets have gotten much, much larger...

I've only encountered these guys in one play through, but I haven't had many advanced games to be fair. While at first alarming, these guys actually put on a "shamfur dispray" once I realized they relied almost exclusively on strike craft and missiles (which are great to research). I wiped out tens of thousands of them and it took about a century to contain and exterminate them, but really it wasn't very much of a big deal other than it caused the resurgent ascendancy empires to calm down for a bit. The end result was that I ended up with massive fleets that could stomp anyone, except Ascendancy Empires, outright. I developed a ship production methodology with my colonies and placement of star bases that allowed me to produce ships as fast or faster than they could be destroyed by the Scourge.

In my game I was at constant war with 3 neighbouring empires, but had a fleet power of 120K to push them back. Just as the Feraxi Regime (My empire) looked like it was going to dominate my biggest rival (Saiban Sovereignty with fleet power of 89K) I got a scourge notification and that they were spawning between me and my vassel. I stayed to attack the Saiban as I thought I had about 3-10 years once they arrived, but they showed up the second I had defeated my adversary. My ships had high shield health and regeneration so I sent my fleet to attack a 50K scourge fleet...Only to be ambushed by four 98K fleets. The poor Void Shulkers were decimated in mere seconds. My vassel's husk squadrons tried to hold them off, but had failed in due time.

I fought these guys in my very first game. My Defense Flotilla was able to handle the vanguard, but suffered heavy losses to the second wave. I was so worried about them I colonized some crappy systems on the other side of the Galaxy just in case. A third of the Nakan Union was lost but my people survived and I did get a Queen out of it.

On my last run through the vanguard fleets were around 120k a piece, and the main fleets where around 360k I believe. They landed just a couple systems north of my border. I also had "The Contigency" active at this time, with similarly scaled fleet power, and a machine world north of me, and one south. That was a fucking ride.

now you can talk to Scourge when having unlocked the shroud

The way I captured the queen was it spawned in the Praethoryn Scourge territory, and so I just had my Science ship tp over there through experimental subspace navigation and then just having the defense system there ignoring me, researched and got the queen... I tried my best bringing it back from the middle of their territory. But since the queen seems like an immortal they made it back.

They popped up in an area where they literally had ten whole systems before they hit a choke point that led into my empire. It was the only way they could expand, and lucky for me they sent only a couple fleets at a time into the chokepoint instead of their full force. At the same time I could use a nearby gateway that the Prethoryn hadn’t taken to prod at them using my fleet of 120 or so corvettes. Eventually they exhausted most of their fleets trying to take that system, allowing me to stage an offensive using my 6 30-40k fleets that were specially designed to fight the swarm. Take that and add the reinforcements from a nearby fallen empire and lets just say that the Prethoryn didn’t last too long.

Those things are basically the Yuuzhan Vong!

First the marauders invaded one of my weakest systems while I was fighting the ether drake and then these guys show up directly behind me afterwards. Gg

The Scourge is some fusion of the Tyranids and the Flood

Good old 2016... Sometimes I wonder what the YT algorithm is doing, but then I get hit by nostalgia...

First time, I played, they started deep within my territory, no one came to help as it was so far into my territory, meanwhile at the same time a bordering fallen empire awakened, I got crushed

Just got them , they spawned on the opposite side of a large galaxy to me thank god

They took my home world but one day.. just one day.. my people shall return to take back what was ours

*Breathes in* FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!!

Mine spawned with 200k fleets... Should I just uninstall at this point or

So the scourge invaded and with the help of my federation fleet I’ve been able to keep them contained in a small corner of the galaxy. I’ve burned every single scourge controlled planet and recaptured most of the territory held by them but for some reason they keep spawning massive fleets out of nowhere? How do I get rid of them permanently

To me didnt come in small numbers, they come with four fleets each one with 17k ships, more another 4k ships and 8k ships, before I realise I was totally overwhelmed by them.

Had these guys in my multiplayer game with two of my friends, 152 years in they spawned in inside my AI neighbor, me and my fanatic materialist collectivist friend took them down while combating their irritating constructor ships (my nation had only just rebuilt after a huge attempt to get four of my core planets back from the imperialistic Meshben Hegemony)

You can now undrstand them in 1.5 if you have breached the shroud as Psionics.

I think I'm boned cuz their fleets are spawning with about 120-160k fleet strength and max I have with a fleet of 2 titans battleships and some corvettes only reaches about 70k

*_Do not be afraid! I am peace! I am salvation_*

I remember in one of my games the scourge came when everyone barley got battle ships it was horrifying

love the tyranids reference

when this happened to me there was no queen and they had over 5 50k fleets, was not easy to deal with

This was my first end game and all landing points WERE IN MY HOME SYSTEM

For me the fucking main body arrives so soon after the vanguard that I can't even get my ships to engage the van.

Hungry, hungry still hungry

In mine their first invasion force spawned inside a xenophobic empire with closed borders to everyone... So I couldn’t even engage them until they had basically taken over that whole empire and were super fortified... Also the sentinels spawned dead center in the scourge infestation so basically got wiped out immediately

Every sci fi has space bugs...

Thule Holy fuck that brings back memories

when he mentioned that there r sentinals im pretty sure they r referencing the flood vs forerunners from Halo

Today I was in the middle of my last conquest before taking the Alliances when this event spawn out of nowhere, really, it take me by surprise, I should declare war to them so my vassals help me in the fight but I get stuck in the middle of the battle, I had to go back to a previous save file, and now thanks, now I known that can spawn again or don't, that really lift my spirit, because now I don't known if they would ever appear again.

When I first got this crisis the other empires destroyed them like 2 months after they arrived. The fallen empire awoke to defend the galaxy like a year after the crisis ended. I just thought... Soooooo, that's it..?

They came right after my federation got done fighting a huge war that spanned across my entire galaxy now no one has the power to stand against them. Plus they all spawned in my territory. R.I.P Galaxy

The Prethoryn vs the Flood

I had 4 fleet 100k each with synthoid race 1280/800 fleet supply, then used dps boost edicts: basically a-moved in their territories and deleted them

I recently fought them, and I beat their first wave before the second could arrive and the quest chain ended. It was on console and I don't know if the second wave would spawn if I waited long enough but I was really annoyed I couldn't fight a large scale war against them. Then again I set the end game crisises to really late in the game. Edit: the invasion restarts lmao

Sunset invasion, space edition

well the wounded queen literally spawned in the capital system of the prethoryn scourge and im fleet was destroyed by them so no chance getting the queen now :/

Just got this chain after a federation war took out half of the enemy, scourge breaches happened in enemy systems. And I can’t get to it because I’m rivaled with the enemy

You know what stellaris needs in the next set of content? A empire like this with a hivemind. I know everyone has that flood empire fantasy once or twice. I know i do. Sure it'd probably be a little restricted but thats the fun of it. Otherwise you can make hiveminds more fleshed out. I get devouring swarm and all that but a civic that give me the ability to infect pops and turn worlds into hive worlds.

Don't you love it when you only have a Max fleet of 10K altogether which is all that you have and 700K Fleets of the Scourge spawn close to you. It was scary but I have energy weapons which surprisingly dealt a lot of damage because I am a beginning player.

20k fleets.... lol that’s rich, they attacked me with swarms of 50-80k fleets. I barely took down one fleet before all twenty of their other fleets wiped the floor with me X_x. You PC players got it easy, being able to tone down the crazy before you start the game.

They need to add another end game crisis which spawns something similar to 'The Old Ones' From HP lovecraft. It would basically spawn a bunch of leviathans who have stupid amounts of HP that go around glassing systems. You could start the event, by making a cult pop up as a faction, and slowly grow in power. After a certain amount of time, the cult could begin attempting to summon the Old Ones. If you fail to locate the Cult in enough time, it begins an even to summon the old ones. At which point a few systems pop up with a cultist fleet, and a stupidly over powered leviathan. They could spice things up by making maybe an even quest chain, where you could banish the Old Ones if you find several relics across the galaxy. Or just tank the leviathans in a few fights.

I'm dealing with them now and i never saw them before - now i miss the unbidden - i have them contained to a degree but they come in 200 K fleets each time and are slowky eating through my fleet and my mineral reserve as the the rest of the galaxy watches. I can't wait for the sentinels as by that time my empire will have been consumed. I am scared to hell XD

This is in desperate need of an update...

Ah yes, Prethoryn Scourge. We have dismissed that claim.

I tonight just got this crisis. They spawned in 2411 and sent a few scouts in. However.. I rushed tech and dominated a majority of the galaxy through either vassalisation or integrations, or just straight domination. I had a massive armada of 20+ fleets all well over 150k and some in the 200k area. Some of my vassals had a quarter of that, but that still meant they had 300k + fleet power. Those bugs spawned and 50 fleets moved in on them, took their 'home system' and after a couple years, they tried again. They didn't last long, and a year or two after all the ships were dead I got a pop-up that said all pockets of the scourge were gone. I barely did anything because I was fighting a fallen empire at the time who started invading my areas.

At this point now i am a protectorate of the Trebid Homolog and I have just lost Karka. I am retreating to my homeland of the Citadel and will rebuild there.

I recon it’s just the tyranids have the same colours and similar looks. They also drain planets out into husks

In my first play through (UN of Earth), the scourge was greeted by my 1.32mil fleet. They barely scratched my neighbor's territory before I deleted them off the outer rim....

While playing I got an "event" window where it told me unknown vessels has been spotted in a system but cannot establish communication or something like that and that "only time will tell". Situation log not updated either. Its been 30 years since already since I got this message and nothing more. The said system it was spotted was in a another empire's territory.

It's worth noting that untill recently, this crisis was unbeatably bugged. Bombing swarm planets was impossible and they would never leave.

You know.....if I knew we could benefit from the scourge....I would have spared them....

smells like Reapers to me, sitting in dark space, suddenly jumping into your galaxy to destroy all life, where is Commander Shepard when you need him?