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The new Stellaris DLC will bring your Clone Wars power fantasy closer to reality

You either die a hero, or live long enough to become a villain. Stellaris' recently announced upcoming expansion - Nemesis - seeks to test players like never before. Last week, the developers went into more detail as to what 'becoming the crises' entailed in everyone's favourite space grand strategy game, where instead of trying to resist an endgame uber-enemy, you simply become that enemy yourself.

In this week's dev diary, the developers have explained more about the other side of the expansion's coin - becoming the custodian. While dominating space as a true galactic supervillain does sound fun, plenty of people are going to enjoy the power fantasy of being the great defender, and now there are mechanics for that too.

As soon as the galactic community becomes aware of each other and the galactic council forms, any council member may be elected to become the official 'custodian' of the entire galaxy. The AI is more likely to actually vote on such a resolution, though, if there's an actual crisis going on, like the end-game content or a marauder crisis. Whoever gets voted in as custodian will have three main areas of special powers to play around with.

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Stellaris Dev Diary #200: The Custodian

Hello everyone!

Today we’re back again with yet another dev diary; number 200 in fact. It sure has been a very exciting journey for Stellaris, and I think it is only going to get better! Nemesis is shaping up to be a very interesting addition to Stellaris, and today we thought we would talk about another headline feature for our upcoming expansion – namely the Custodian.

While some empires seek to set the universe on fire, others need to find their destiny as its defender. As we mentioned last week, the Galactic Community will get their own tools to fight the crisis, and that is what they can do by electing their chief crisis fighter.

We are setting the stage for these two nemeses to battle over the fate of the galaxy, and it is up to you who will win.

Becoming the Custodian
As soon as there is a Galactic Council, the Galactic Community can propose to elect one of the council members to become the Custodian. It is possible to have multiple proposals going at once, but as soon as a resolution is passed that elects a Custodian, others cannot be proposed anymore, as the choice has already been made.

Concrete evidence that my lithoids should rock the Custodianship.

The AI is more likely to vote for a Custodian when there is some sort of crisis going on, which can be a Marauder crisis, end-game crisis, “Become the Crisis”-crisis or any of the other things that can happen.

Time to get to work.

Powers of the Custodian
In order to be effective at their role, the Custodian must gain access to some special powers. The Custodian may need to be able to affect which resolutions move to the Senate Floor, so they have extended powers to be able to influence that more directly.

The Custodian in the Galactic Community.

Prematurely End Session: A Custodian can end the current session after half of its voting period, which will pass or reject the resolution being voted on depending on the voting situation at the time.

Emergency Measures: The Custodian can use the Emergency Measures power to send a proposal to the Senate Floor, but has a much lower cooldown than regular council members.

Shared Intel: The Custodian will gain some Intel on all other members of the Galactic Community, such as knowing their Relative Fleet Power.

Freezing proposals: The custodian can pay 200 influence to freeze a resolution for 4 years, making it impossible for the resolution to move to the Senate Floor for the duration.

Brrrr. Will you be resolute and wait it out..?

Custodial Resolutions
There are a number of new Resolutions that are tied to the Custodian. Let’s take a look at some of them:

Wanna read more about the Galactic Resolutions and Galactic Defence Force? See the forum post here!

Nemesis - new Expansion coming to Stellaris!

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Paradox Interactive is proud to announce the new expansion coming to Stellaris - Nemesis!
Determine the fate of the galaxy by pulling strings behind the scenes with new espionage mechanics. Choose to become the Galactic Custodian to counter Galactic threats, or take the menace option to BECOME the crisis - Nemesis gives you the most powerful tools ever available in Stellaris.

Ultimately, you will have to decide whether to grasp the reins of a galaxy spiraling into chaos – or ferment the chaos yourself.

Will you find a way to take power through diplomacy and subterfuge, or will you stand on the sidelines as the stars go out one by one?

You can wishlist Nemesis now here!

Stellaris: Nemesis will let you become a star-eating galactic supervillain

If you read superhero comics long enough, you're bound to eventually run across someone who gets it into their head to destroy the entire galaxy for some reason. The next major expansion for the space-faring grand strategy game Stellaris was revealed today: it's called Nemesis, and it's going to let you become that guy.

In Nemesis, the endgame is changing, and it's turning into a desperate race between a Thanos-like character who wants to destroy the galaxy and everything in it, and the people who would prefer that this didn't happen. You'll be able to take on this ultimate evil role yourself, devouring the very stars themselves in your quest to generate enough dark matter to power a device called the Aetherophasic Engine.

Paradox has updated its latest Stellaris dev diary to provide some first details about the expansion. In Nemesis, you'll be able to become the Crisis, and to do that, you'll first pick that as an ascension perk. Selecting it allows you to progress towards becoming the Crisis itself.

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Eat and destroy stars in Stellaris: Nemesis and become the endgame crisis

Stellaris: Nemesis is going to boost some very exciting things for the grand space strategy game from Paradox, with a huge new endgame crisis coming where you get to pick a side.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/02/eat-and-destroy-stars-in-stellaris-nemesis-and-become-the-endgame-crisis