FYI in the Chinese stellaris community Grey is considered the “official” anime waifu of the game, and a mod that turns grey into an anime girl is highly popular

I like the viewpoint you chose, that depending on how long ago the Grey Tempest went rogue, you may find them still active, or you may find them as L-drakes, or after they’ve given up and chosen to relent in their campaign of consumption, you find Grey. Kinda like the replicators on Asgard in SG-1

"It's outside our galaxy morty, a whole race of nanomachines who tried to devour the galaxy! think about it morty! and this happened in all the infinite universes too! even the chair dimension!"

Two things: 1. The curator order claims the gates has existed since before sll known species. 2. There is an event tells the story of a species that was obsessed with activating the gates but failing, which means the reasson no pne uses them is that no one has yet to activate them.

Gotta love when the AI opens up the L Cluster and it shafts you for about 100 years 😂

"Everyone knows the correct phrase is I have a headache" that had me howling X'D

Probably some fallen empire built them at some point, at strategic points, the rests being covered by hyper relays, , which needing more care, have been so severely depleted that they crumbled very long ago or have been scrapped by marauder empires. Gateways on the other hand, as a feat of technology that advanced stroke fear in space fearing scrappers. The fact you can repair them so easily is because they're not that deprecated. And their inner tech makes them impossible to destroy.

one thing to note, there are a few events and systems where you can still get nanites, meaning the recall wasn't entierly sucessfull. it's also pretty cool that the system in wich the scrapper bot spawns has a deposit of nanites, I do love how this details shows us that given enough time, the nanites can reactivate independently.

Thank you for all the Stargate references!

Huh didn’t realise that the L cluster outcomes were a timeline of sorts

That shot at 10:56 made me think of if gateways could work as a sort of Panama canal limiting the maximum size of ships so that they'd be able to use gateways

Oh yeah I remember this episode of Stargate! The nanites becoming people over billions of years was a twist and it made for a good story i thought. Well read and acted, thank you for the wonderful videos! I love them!

It was informative and enjoyable. Tbh, it's an interesting thing that normal gateways must be constructed outside stars gravity well, but L-gates must be constructed close to black hole "for energy". It sounds like local spacetime curvature is a big factor when comes to using them. For in galaxy travel, they must be in "neutral" space that is curved only by galactic core and dark matter. But for extragalactic links, like to L-cluster, gateways need other type of spacetime curvature calibration - from black holes which have similar gravitational mass and produce similar curvatures. Although, it's only a hypothesis, from one observation. Nonetheless, if my hypothesis is true I can answer the question stated in the video: it should be possible to create a new web of gateways disconnected from the rest, just by adjusting their constants for spacetime curvature calibration to specific gravitational wells. I propose Neutron Stars for first tests - even if they are quite unwelcoming stellar bodies, finding at least two with similar gravitational wells should be simple, as gravitational mass range for them is smaller than the range for black holes.

Can you do one on the Fallen Empires and why they seemingly stopped developing Dark Matter technology after their Deflectors, Power and Thrusters?

Every single one of your video is like a lore video for your Stellaris universe, and I like it.

Your channel is so underrated I love the way you make the scripts for your videos

I was wondering which Grey Tempets story will you pick :D

My first and only time messing around with L gates was early on in the game and we got wiped out. I left the game run over night and when I woke up they killed the entire galaxy. A few games later i was playing and got a notification that a neighboring empire was messing around with them. I boned up and as they got wiped out I laughed behind my many fortresses

It doesn't matter when or who built them in the past for I have built yet another one, and will continue to do so till the end of our empire.

I wish Devs would add gate hacking as a game mechanic

Another great video my guy keep up the great work!

Has anyone noticed that the Terminal Egress system is set up to look exactly like a ruined Sol system?

3:48 e3po would be happy

Holy Cows! I have been binge watching these. Listening actually, at work. But thank you!

Informative and enjoyable indeed!

I wouldn't want to go through one of these gates as imo it seems that doing so would result in ones death, after all the matter itself isn't sent, just information? Kinda of makes me think of the 2nd avatar movie where they printed copied memories of those marines into avatar bodies.

Great video my liege

Good point. But no one ever talks about the hyperplane network. What exactly is it? Is it a tunnel in space?

Red: "who made the gateways?" It was me and I want them back plz. No? Ok *declares total war* *brings in 4 million fleet*

Your videos have made me wanna put down CK2 and pick up stellaris lmao keep it up dude

Thanks great video!

Awesome video series! Where do get your more cinematic space battle clips from?? I only ever see top-down shots in-game

Robot @E3po

The outcome depends on *when* the nanites went rogue and BTFOd the real Dassanu. Tempest = Only killed the Dassanu a few millennia or even centuries ago, and still exist in their original form as the “opening crisis” that turns populated planets into balls of soup Fake Dassanu- Had time (a few hundred-thousand or million years, after the Irassians were alive) to think about what they did, and cope with their regrets by trying to create a simulation of their planets as they originally were, as well as their civilization and space-nation. Gray- Starting to degrade; eventually consolidates into one mass. Extremely bored due to being the only sapient thing left in the L-cluster for millions of years, with nothing new left to explore for MILLIONS OF YEARS, so bored that as soon as you show up he immediately swears loyalty to your empire for 5000 years (a mere blink to him even though you’ll be at best a fallen empire by then) just because it gives him something *new* to do L-Drakes: Nanites almost completely degraded; the real Dassanu were eradicated only a couple million years after the Vultaum broke the fourth wall and committed self-genocide. To preserve himself, Gray turns the nanites into large, peaceful space fauna as the perfect redemption arc for himself; *creating* life instead of tearing its molecules carbon group from carbon group.

Ah yes, our true hero Ep3o!

Nice

This game would be great with cut scenes.

He redking you are so good why you have so little subscribers! does KZfaq hate you?

The hive will subscribe

Your voice sounds a lot like Moth Light Media.

EP3O is the chad.

This was very obviously based on Star Gate

It was I, Dio

Everyone knows the correct term is...I have a headache 😂

Wait, didn’t the curators say the L-gates predate all the empires they know of? How are they so new?

"i have a headache" 🤣

No, this is all wrong. It was Sir Ruppert Gatewayington.

I built them! Stellaris is the devil!