Stellaris Dynasty – Here There be Dragons
Hello awesome folks and happiest of days to you! I just finished reading my 2019 Stellaris dynasty with you all here at FOFC and I was playing around with the recently released Lithoids race pack as the Silica race. I have played a few dynasties, but just one, the last one, was posted here, and my last take through this dynasty was three years ago and there have been a few expansions like Nemesis and Overlord released since then as well as two more species packs, last years’ Aquatics and just a few days ago the Toxoid species pack. I have purchased them all just now and here is what I want to do:
Run an Aquatic race with the Here Be Dragons background which is supposed to be less of a min-maxer and more of just an RPG background with a space dragon in my home system. Unlike the last two race packs, Necroids and Lithoids which had abilities based on picking your race, here any race that chooses an Ocean homeworld can select the ability “Aquatic” as a background, so you could, in theory, have a Human Aquatic and so forth and since Aquatic has good stuff and bad, there are a lot of fun things happening.
Aquatic:
Ocean Habitability +20%
Housing usage on Ocean worlds and flooded habitats - -10%
Ocean World – Food, Energy, mineral output - +10%
Non-Wet Worlds – Housing usage - +30%; habitability -20%
So you can really break oceanic worlds and you are fine on wet worlds like continental and tropical, but dry and frozen are not your thing.
Do I take a Lithoid with aquatic?
Lithoid:
Consumes minerals instead of food
+50 years leader life span
Population growth and assembly -+25%
Habitability +50%
Army Health - +50%
So you get bonuses to life span, armies, and Habitability but weaknesses to speed of growth and pop assembly so you are slower colonizers. That +50% Habitability break will help when you open your selves up to the other 6 world types with +30 overall. There is a Lithoid pic that looks like it has seaweed on it, that I can use, so let’s do it!
Species Name:
Shapa
I have one point for another racial ability so I choose:
Talented - +1 level leader cap
Homeworld: Shapa Prime, Oceanic
Empire Name:
The Shoals of Peace, Oligarchic
Ruler, Queen Azrouni
Xenophile, Materialist, Pacifist
Civics:
Free Haven - +15% Pop growth and +50% Immigration pull
Meritocracy - +1 leader level cap; specialist pop production +10%
For this run I will NOT be doing an Ascension Run for replacing and splicing my DNA, or getting psychics or replacing myself with artificial parts, since that’s normally one of three paths you seek. I did take Materialist which is required for the cyber and robot replacement run and I didn’t take the slavery route of authoritarian.
