I like to imagine the Jeffians are really technical about "setting foot on other planets" to the point where they'll visit alien worlds and it is perfectly fine so long as they're always stepping on a carpet or wearing shoes or something lmao

I like the idea that the only reason any Jeffians colonized off Babel and thus were turned into vassals was Jeff II finding a legal loophole with Jeff I's original laws and doctrines.

I hope new Crisis are added in future. Maybe even some non-combat crisis to really mess with the meta a bit, like a Galactic Famine or Energy Drain that essentially crashes every economy in the Galaxy at the same time, forcing Empires to either downscale rapidly, have resource wars or try to collectively figure out a science solution.

Jeff: starts building sandcastle. The rest of the galaxy: we will help you!

Ocean paradise, fuedal society. Nice. Subjugation kinda making tall sort of viable now. Still of course, easier and better to subjugate as a wide one.

The RP presentation of a challenge does sound like it could be an ongoing series, sounds neat!

Technically you could make it harder with 13 advanced AIs, but then you are pretty dead if any Total War empire spawn nearby :)

Alien: "Who the hell are you Primitives creatures to tell us how to live!?" The Imperium "My name Jeff"

Ah man, wouldn't it be wild if you could have a flooded Ecumenopolis? Reminds me of that planet in the Expanse, season 4.

5:51 "The pi aliens, only time will tell if they are more of an apple or a cherry flavour" Montu your humour is so deadpan and subtle I fucking love it

I'm a new Stellaris player and I've been binge-watching your guides and playthroughs. These ones with the RP elements are really fun. Long live the Holy Jeff Imperium!

amazingly done, and amazingly presented. 10/10 will throw ship-mounted rocks at gods again.

I love doing OP Challenges, I especially enjoy Aspec's Clone Army + Livestock version of this

You missed an opportunity to say, "And if you're enjoying this video, please, Jeff that like button."

Love the RP aspect and the Twilight Imperium references. Curious how this would have worked with the Life-Seeded origin instead of Ocean Paradise. It's difficult to compare but some back-of-the-napkin math: - OP has lower housing usage and +10% growth, but LS has +38 carrying capacity to start - OP has two crystal deposits and gases from nebula refineries, while LS gets one deposit of each strategic resource - LS has a 3% higher bonus to all output, but OP gets another 10% (15% with hydrocentric) to basic resources. However, as we get later in the game that becomes less useful as we depend on subjects for minerals and energy, and make the homeworld an ecumenopolis. - Hydrocentric means 3 more max districts, but it's the difference between 38 and 41 in the endgame which doesn't seem huge. - We can't settle our LS pops to make subjects, but by the time we do that, we probably have migration treaties.

You know I've always found the hydroponic bays as a bit silly. Like if any of Stellaris' resources should be heavily tied to a planet it should be agriculture. I feel like it would make more sense to have space alloy foundries rather than space farms. Its easier to smelt thing in space than grow them.

Ever since I saw your video featuring the Empire of Jeff, I can't see that species portrait as anything other than a "Jeff". Love your videos.

Loved this video. I really like how you created a mini-story for this game and then narrated how things went it made it really interesting. I would love to see you do something like this with the Gigastructures mod since it has many more crises options than vanilla.

I love that you have Twilight Imperium empires in Stellaris. I absolutely love that board game.

WHOA!! I played Stellaris on console and had an okay time with it for a few months with it. I set it down and returned to WoW, as one does. But, THIS is the content i wanted from the game! your narration and RP elements made this engaging to listen to while i do my own grind. Definitely would support more content like this one :)

Watched it as a movie. Great RP part and amazing Editing. Thanks for content created and would definitely enjoy more similar series coming. Took a break from Stellaris before, but with each video about to start to play again :) Thanks for good emotions

Would you ever considering going through the proposals you can make in the Galactic Senate and how they may benefit certain playstyles? I tend to completely ignore most of them andI feel like I may be missing out on a big part of the game that can help me.

@Montu plays, I just wanted to say I love this style of video. If you wanted ideas for a other I might recommend a clone army tall game as a military megacorp and try to privitize galactic security with the private defense proposals in the senate. Defeating the crisis with nothing but private fleets would be a sight to see

i love videos like this! would love to see you upload more of these kinds of gameplay videos :D all hail to holy jeff, architect of our destiny

With megacorp and big galaxy it would be totally insane. You will get crazy resources from branch offices. PS It would be nice in such videos to share what ancesion perks/traditions you have and building/holdings.

That looked like a lot of fun, and loved your voice-over on the fleet battles. I'm going to try it out myself!

Appreciate all your videos my dude. Keep em coming.

That. Was. Amazing! Kudos to you, sir. That was a fantastic display of skill and humour. Nice.

Very entertaining vid. If you're looking to make more challenge vids (which, you should, this was great), I think the new vassalization mechanics would make an one planet + single system challenge viable in the long term. Having tried it, with prudent use of diplomacy it was always viable until at least the end of the mid game (I have defeated the Khan in a single system + one planet challenge, but I was running a massive deficit and had to eventually disband my fleets afterward. Maintaining a fleet seems to be the most demanding aspect of that kind of challenge because of the energy requirements of late game fleets. Otherwise it's possible to tech rush and maintain a degree of stability without one). I would be very interested to see how you would tackle that kind of thing, personally.

I love this video, it's fantastic. Very well made, and incredibly entertaining!

sheesh, videos keep getting better and better!

I like these types of videos! Good job 👍

Was planning a one planet run of sorts myself soon so I'm absolutely watching this.

Great vid, thanks! Please keep em coming. Forever.

the story telling part of the video makes it so much more entertaining then other stelaris youtubers

I'm surprised that I've watched your videos for over a year, and only just noticed that you're a fellow dane. Elsker dine videoer!

This was really Fun, i would beg you for more videos like this one however i dont want to demand too much afterall this must ve been a lot of work. Regardless of the Future i thank you for this Entertainment :D Its really lovely to see how the small stellaris Memer has become the big Stellaris Memer xD

I haven't watched yet but the intro sounds so cool. Will edit when I get to the end Edit: I was right that was a blast. Montu once and for all proving that wide has lost its power. The rule of two (or one) reigns supreme.

I loved this. Wonderfully put together and thought through! Any plans on doing a deep dive in mechanics you use to slingshot yourself ahead?

I love your RP videos! They are amazing!

Brilliant video, very funny, love the play through and the various emerging stories. However :-) you didn’t have the guts for x25 unbidden … a 20 odd million fleet power death stack is no joke, even for Jeff!!

As a twilight imperium player I appreciate the Jol-Nar

Earth has been doing this challenge for a while now

I like Montu's humour. :D keep up the good work, mate!

This is making me wanna play a one system megacorp. Habitats are acceptable, mostly for increasing trade value and maintaining alloys and rare resources, and seeing just how tall I can make it.

I would love to see a hostile universe play-through, with the hardest difficulty, only advanced empires, as early as possible crisis, and a x2 or 3 tech cost. Then maybe a few friends and yourself just simply try to survive. My vision would be to have it so hard you would have to work together, but maybe you guys might fight each other as well.

I greatly enjoyed the video, thanks!

Someone plays Twilight Imperium I see.

I love listening to the story of the Holy Jeff Imperium over and over again!

This is such a cool way to play utilising vassals and playing tall, am defo going to do this!!

A really great video please keep up the good work

I love you got so many of the same sci-fi species in your videos that I recreated myself too in Stellaris, though I am surprised the Primes of Dyson Alpha aren't a devouring swarm called MorningLightMountain :P

That was amazing. More of these please!!! ROLEPLAY! ❤️

I like this style, Montu. The edit down of a longer game with your key decisions rolled out with RP flair. Comment offered as a sacrifice to the Algorithm. :)

great video i loved the concept

I love when you make this vids, I usually have the attention spam of a fleeting acuatic, yet you manage to keep me here. What's your secret?

I have a feeling that I just watched a sci-fi blockbuster! That was incredible!

Really enjoying the twilight imperium races

"Universities of Jol-Nar" ahhh I see you are a Twilight Imperium connoisseur as well

I love these longer game videos.

Love it montu

What about a one system challenge where you can build habitats, but can't expand outside your system - we could call it the no FTL playthrough

5 mins in and I really love the roleplay with choosing to grow all your food in space.

It was very entertaining. You could have made emperor Jeff do the end of the cycle crisis as a nice way to wrap everything up

I have always wanted to see this done.

Frameworld when? That was enjoyable, thanks!

Universities of Jol-Nar...a man of class.

haha, loved the Twilight Imperium reference, man it's been so long since I last got to play a game of TI...

The Jeff meme is the gift that keeps on giving

I unwittingly did this challenge for a huge chunk of my second playthrough after picking the ring homeworld and not fully understanding how tech could have relieved my pain.

Hi i'm a brand new stellaris player who recently found your channel and have been coming your tier lists as I try to figure my way through this game. Do you have a beginners tips/guide video you've made or is it something you've thought of making? i'd love to see your break down on pitfalls to avoid and ways to thrive into the midgame. Thanks for your content it's been very helpful.

Watching this was simultaneously entertaining and ego boosting. Good show.

A one-planet challenge and *not* taking nonadaptive? It's literally free when you're spending the entire game on your homeworld. It also makes good roleplay for why it's a one-planet challenge. Ah yes, a subsidiary of a non-corporate empire, thanks Paradox! Fun fact: you can also just build juggernauts in the GDF, it has no Juggernaut cap. Not really a great idea, but you can do it. You will need to create a design for them manually though. Wait, what? the Unbidden AI is actually capable of using their Jump Drives?

Can't wait to play "Hearts of Jeff 4" and "Knights of the Crusader Kings". Thank you Montu! 😊

Epic. Good stuff

I’ve seen a video where a dude survived this very challenge for so long because they were subterranean with a planetary shield and something else that lowered the orbital bombardment challenge so much they lasted like 30 years against every person trying to kill them including a crisis

Love the twilight imeprium references.

Montu, pleasant surprise to see Morning Light Mountain.

This is so good I’m gonna watch it a second time 😅 and then I’m going to probably watch it a third as i attempt to do this 🤣

Inspired me to try this; Surprisingly fun and strong. One planet to rule them all..

That was amazing!

I love thel ittle easter Eggs and references. Seeing the Primes from Dyson Alphs gave me an immediate holup moment :)

This is the proper way to cover Stellaris stories. 😎

Been playing this challenge my entire life

Ah, loved the Eternal Empire from SWTOR references at the end

As soon as I saw feudal society and xenophile I knew this was just going to be the rolling subjugation cheese wheel.

7:09 I sure do hope that MorningLightMountain doesn't betray you

Thanks for the video.

I'll point out that your production is dependent on subsidiaries from your subjects... But yeah, that was still impressive.

Hi Montu! I was wondering, since you finished ship design then starbase/defence platform design could be next.

Would be nice to see dates and top bar info to follow along :)

wow thats crazy, i started a 1 planet some days ago aswell, and its really close settings to what you have even the logo is near the same just other colors, thats scary.

A Glorious game! Truth and justice are allies of the grand architect Jeff

Now make Jeff into a Chosen One. The true immortal emperor!

Gives me a chuckle to think about you asking fkr subscribed and likes, while playing a clip of a planet getting cracked

0:15 best quote of the entire franchise. With an epic build up to it.

31:38 "The strongest defense is a swift and decisive offense!" - Obi-Wan Kenobi

“When you strike a god, a god strikes back.” I dont know why but that gave me chills.

Love ur vids keep it up

hell that story line tho very nice