speaking of which, you couls do a video on the ACOT databank, or the (what was the name again, you know the one whit red powersource, a giant vessel around the star. hmmm a YES phanon), and maybe even on the source of that power whit the purple power, the shroud master
At least they died using the economic might of their Birch to destroy the Blokkat Harvesting Fleet that attacked their galaxy. Their people died as heroes.
Just lost to the stellarborne in my first ACOT play through. The last of my empire transmitted a universe-wide message to warn others of them and to never open those gates.
Could a Quasarcraft surffice enough? I seen some videos when one can easily defeat a Stellarborne fleet when some youtubers combined the mods together.
A sphere .5 ly in diameter would apparently have the same surface area as 53 quadrillion Earth-sized planets. And that is _surface_ area, not land area. It would take light 1.5 earth years to travel around the surface of this sphere in a vacuum. I cannot imagine that they are the only sentient species within a couple of centuries travel ate pre-industrial speeds.
A Birch World would only have to be 1 ly in radius to have a 1 g surface if it was built around an artificial hypermassive black hole, one that was built by collapsing every star in a galaxy into it.
Reminds me of two scifi stories Ring world of course, but in particular the ringworms itself. On the ringworld were several great counterbalance oceans. In one of the oceans for giggles the creators had placed copies of the home world of basically every major life bearing world in the local area of space as they found them looong ago. This included earth and the Kzin homeworld, though earth was inhabited by honor erectus I think. The Kzin fulfilled the species dream of conquering earth by sailing huge ships to Earth's copy. A distance several times the distance from earth to our moon.
Had to re-watch this twice to properly understand the storyline. If you think about it a Birch World at it's maximum capacity would be able to produce, manufacture, have access to more resources from a Super Black hole plus a massive industrial output more then all the Imperium of Man's million worlds and the Galactic Empire from Isaac Asimov's Foundation series 25 million worlds combined. A Birch World is so massive it may rival even the Forerunner's feats and largest structures they made within slipspace instead of real space. Such as the Forerunner Shield World 006 Trevelyan with is 2 AU in diameter however it doesn't have as much layer depth like the Birch world does and is mainly hollow. Though I did hear discussions about 11th dimensional scaling but due to Halo's interdimensional cosmology being it's own I don't know how accurate that claim is.
Not, a Birch world has a diameter of 1 light-year, a forerunner shield world only 1AU or under 9 light minutes. A Birch world completely dwarfs any forerunner construct and all of them combined. The only thing that comes closer is the city of Comorragh in the web way of Warhammer for which the dark Eldars need to steal several stars to light up and even it would fall short.
@@areth2228 in the same way that the Imperium of Man move planets around the galaxy, using enormous warp engines to fully transit a planet to a new location. The difference is that the dark Eldars use humongous web way gates and gravity manipulation to move the star in the desired direction.
I've never played stellaris, but I am an avid scifi reader and writer (just for fun, never published anything) This is genuinely a great concept, and I really enjoyed the narration. Thank you for your retelling of this bit of lore, I really enjoyed it.
There is a book called "Matter" by Ian M.Banks, The Culture series, which dives into a similar experience to this story including 4d engineering and societies. Might have been an inspiration.
Currently a little sick and your videos are so relaxing that I wanna fall asleep to them but too interesting so I wanna stay up and listen. Please help
Love these videos! You make some of the super long drives I have to do on occasion so much more bearable and make the game even more fun! Thank you so much!
Really love your way of story tellling! This one had a "backrooms" vibe to it, with all those layers. Was really depressing to hear them fall to the blokk menace 😒
This is my favorite origin from the Gigastructures mod! It's just a pity that with the recent tech rework it's really hard to progress with the exploration...
@@jamesallen1563 The scaling research cost for every researched tech and the much more severe empire sprawl mean that it will take you on average 40-50 more years to get to megaengineering... And about 100 more years to get to tetradimensional engineering.
i just have one issu whit hte last sentence, "block like alien" meaning it mostlikely the blockcat, and the birch woudn't be standing, it would have been consume out of that really nice video
@@TheRedKing true, but the way you said thing was like the entire galaxy got destroyed, and nobody could maintain the birch (which wouldn't have happen if at laest 1 empire was still alive), after it just me and my ussual misendesstanding of thing :)
@@cewla3348 still need someone to kill the cat before dying out themself, but yes could work (even if the birch have high chance of tanking for a REALLY long time the black hole)
@@cewla3348 this is what I assumed happened. Basically they beat the blokkats but the overall loses and damage across the builders empire caused a complete collapse of their society. As a result, no one was left to watch over the birch and over time like most things it slowly breaks down.
This is my favourite video on the channel, its not like the others, appreciate the story, its something nice to just turn off and listen to Enjoy a good part of the storytelling but also the civilisational development and industry
Since this was discovered after the invasion of the Blokkats - and the galactic defenders evidently failed, wouldn't that mean every star in this galaxy is dead/gone and the Birch World and black holes are basically the only thing left? Where did the ones who discovered this story come from?
@@TheRedKing I always do. Sometimes when I play I skip ALOT of the story stuff because im seen it all over and over so much. I end up missing something new. so its nice to see lore vids i can catchup on.
It's unfortunate that the writers had such a poor understanding of black holes. The distances they described with regards to the black hole would put the collection equipment layer deep within the ergosphere, where nothing, not even light, can stay stationary relative to the black hole (it's not the event horizon, since things can still escape, but nothing can move fast enough against the frame drag to not get twisted around with it). Due to the structure being so large, and even assuming stellaris space magic let things stay intact, this would result in a fairly significant time dilation effect on lower layers compared to the upper layers. They did nothing with this at all. Nor did they do anything with the concept of gravity gradients. Effectively, they treated it like a very normal large structure, albeit one that was much more easily traversable than should be.
The birch world origin is top notch story telling and it really sparks curiocity. The immense scale and time we are dealing with is incredible, how civilizations upon civilizations was born and wiped out over so meny millenia on a simple shell of a birch world. The structure is a universe in itself. Its not really a balanced origin but its very entertaining :)
If i was apart of the ninth expidetion and looked into the black hole... That black hole would gain wome more mass... from my back end in the form of bricks. They terrify me.
That's really not an efficient way of using resources by redirecting it all to your home world... the wierder thing is this automated system failed to the point of not being able to maintain itself... there should have been many contingency systems yet none of them kicked in...
@@YuriXEstelle Yeah, that sadly was due to a mis-record of those few seconds so I had to redo it. Oddly the time of day I record appears to affect my voice and it's hard to get them to match up.
![Don't open the 'Outer Gates' - Stellaris Lore [ACOT]](/img/1.gif)
> get a birch world
> look inside
> no birch
>😭
>😭
>😭
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No 😭.
Other species: Exploring the Galaxy
Birch bros: You guys explored your homeworld?
very "We'd rather go to space than explore the depths of the ocean."
@@MBunn-uf1weyeah but in this case just one rock pool is the size of Jupiter
Red king coming in with another certified galactic community classic
I do my best! Hope you enjoy
@@TheRedKing and giga is alway nice, and i alway wonder how the dev can put so much lore into it every time, same whit ACOT
speaking of which, you couls do a video on the ACOT databank, or the (what was the name again, you know the one whit red powersource, a giant vessel around the star. hmmm a YES phanon), and maybe even on the source of that power whit the purple power, the shroud master
The fun challenge is conquering the galaxy and placing EVERY species on this thing as a Authoritarian Xenophile :3
i love to play the rouge service matrix flavor of this concept but i love the way that sounds.
@@ecogreen123 Pampering is mandatory, you will enjoy this.
@@Sundablakr indeed
The greatest challenge would be completing the game with all those pops slowing the game down. 🤣🤣
@@Ne0c225 Unironically, clamping all pops into a single planet makes the game less laggier
"and then they all fucking died. The End."
At least they died using the economic might of their Birch to destroy the Blokkat Harvesting Fleet that attacked their galaxy. Their people died as heroes.
Just lost to the stellarborne in my first ACOT play through. The last of my empire transmitted a universe-wide message to warn others of them and to never open those gates.
The gate dwellers are to powerful for anyone to stop
Could a Quasarcraft surffice enough? I seen some videos when one can easily defeat a Stellarborne fleet when some youtubers combined the mods together.
@@thorshammer7883 That might be the only thing I would consider overkill for the Stellarborne. Expect a full sized Herculean
@@RavAlexy a what now?
Just spam warbarges and phanon ships
A sphere .5 ly in diameter would apparently have the same surface area as 53 quadrillion Earth-sized planets. And that is _surface_ area, not land area. It would take light 1.5 earth years to travel around the surface of this sphere in a vacuum. I cannot imagine that they are the only sentient species within a couple of centuries travel ate pre-industrial speeds.
they literally meet other sapients in, like, 5 minutes of the video
I just love the way these video starts every time I hear “My Lords.” I know I’m in for some quality content keep it up Red
Will do!
A Birch World would only have to be 1 ly in radius to have a 1 g surface if it was built around an artificial hypermassive black hole, one that was built by collapsing every star in a galaxy into it.
Reminds me of two scifi stories
Ring world of course, but in particular the ringworms itself. On the ringworld were several great counterbalance oceans. In one of the oceans for giggles the creators had placed copies of the home world of basically every major life bearing world in the local area of space as they found them looong ago. This included earth and the Kzin homeworld, though earth was inhabited by honor erectus I think. The Kzin fulfilled the species dream of conquering earth by sailing huge ships to Earth's copy. A distance several times the distance from earth to our moon.
Had to re-watch this twice to properly understand the storyline. If you think about it a Birch World at it's maximum capacity would be able to produce, manufacture, have access to more resources from a Super Black hole plus a massive industrial output more then all the Imperium of Man's million worlds and the Galactic Empire from Isaac Asimov's Foundation series 25 million worlds combined.
A Birch World is so massive it may rival even the Forerunner's feats and largest structures they made within slipspace instead of real space. Such as the Forerunner Shield World 006 Trevelyan with is 2 AU in diameter however it doesn't have as much layer depth like the Birch world does and is mainly hollow. Though I did hear discussions about 11th dimensional scaling but due to Halo's interdimensional cosmology being it's own I don't know how accurate that claim is.
It's levels of large its basically unquantifiable I feel, the numbers are just crazy
Not, a Birch world has a diameter of 1 light-year, a forerunner shield world only 1AU or under 9 light minutes.
A Birch world completely dwarfs any forerunner construct and all of them combined.
The only thing that comes closer is the city of Comorragh in the web way of Warhammer for which the dark Eldars need to steal several stars to light up and even it would fall short.
@@carlosdgutierrez6570 How do you steal a star let alone several of the them?
@@areth2228 in the same way that the Imperium of Man move planets around the galaxy, using enormous warp engines to fully transit a planet to a new location.
The difference is that the dark Eldars use humongous web way gates and gravity manipulation to move the star in the desired direction.
You don’t need any sort of warp travel to move a star. All you need is an array of mirrors called a Shkadov Thrusters The star will move itself.
I've never played stellaris, but I am an avid scifi reader and writer (just for fun, never published anything) This is genuinely a great concept, and I really enjoyed the narration. Thank you for your retelling of this bit of lore, I really enjoyed it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
There is a book called "Matter" by Ian M.Banks, The Culture series, which dives into a similar experience to this story including 4d engineering and societies. Might have been an inspiration.
The new dlc coming will give you lots of lore to go over cosmogenis is super cool
I am going to be very busy!!
First time I've seen someone besides Isaac Arthur mention a birch world. Awesome! 😄
Currently a little sick and your videos are so relaxing that I wanna fall asleep to them but too interesting so I wanna stay up and listen. Please help
Hope you feel better soon!
Love these videos! You make some of the super long drives I have to do on occasion so much more bearable and make the game even more fun! Thank you so much!
Glad to hear it! Enjoy the road trips
Really love your way of story tellling! This one had a "backrooms" vibe to it, with all those layers. Was really depressing to hear them fall to the blokk menace 😒
hell yeah, just played this origin as well, top tier timing
The more I see stuff from the giga structure mod the more I wish I had a pc and wasn’t on console
Mods are a wonderful addition to the game, and Giga is certainly up there!
Yeah that's fair
@@TheRedKing dam right it is you can turn the centre of the universe into a big cannon come on that’s bad arse
Sheesh, didn't know Blame!'s prequel would be a footnote in stellaris
This is my favorite origin from the Gigastructures mod! It's just a pity that with the recent tech rework it's really hard to progress with the exploration...
How is that?
@@jamesallen1563 The scaling research cost for every researched tech and the much more severe empire sprawl mean that it will take you on average 40-50 more years to get to megaengineering... And about 100 more years to get to tetradimensional engineering.
I turn the scaling down to 0.5 these days tbh, I used to play on .75 anyway
@@TheRedKing Does it make it slower or faster ?
@@mharizsaifuddin7059 lower number = faster
Our bone boy never fails to impress.
The amount of materials needed to build this is almost beyond your imagination
For real, an empire with probably an entire galaxy or at most a few galaxies worth of raw material. A truly unquantifiable number.
Starlifting.
Gotta love Stellaris Mods Lore. But I'm too deep (all DLC!) on console so unfortunately no mod for me. :'(
To be fair at that point just pirate it on PC you've already paid for it on console anyway
i just have one issu whit hte last sentence, "block like alien" meaning it mostlikely the blockcat, and the birch woudn't be standing, it would have been consume
out of that really nice video
The Blockats *can* lose though!! Glad you enjoyed it
@@TheRedKing true, but the way you said thing was like the entire galaxy got destroyed, and nobody could maintain the birch (which wouldn't have happen if at laest 1 empire was still alive), after it just me and my ussual misendesstanding of thing :)
@@galomir833 blokkats destroy all other empires -> birch having kills blokkats -> birch having collapses in on itself
@@cewla3348 still need someone to kill the cat before dying out themself, but yes could work (even if the birch have high chance of tanking for a REALLY long time the black hole)
@@cewla3348 this is what I assumed happened. Basically they beat the blokkats but the overall loses and damage across the builders empire caused a complete collapse of their society. As a result, no one was left to watch over the birch and over time like most things it slowly breaks down.
Love the videos man! Keep up the great work.
Thank you! Lots of exciting stuff coming, keep an eye out
This is my favourite video on the channel, its not like the others, appreciate the story, its something nice to just turn off and listen to
Enjoy a good part of the storytelling but also the civilisational development and industry
The origin itself is very similar to a Jules Verne book going to the center of the earth
Since this was discovered after the invasion of the Blokkats - and the galactic defenders evidently failed, wouldn't that mean every star in this galaxy is dead/gone and the Birch World and black holes are basically the only thing left? Where did the ones who discovered this story come from?
It could mean the Birch World was destroyed, but the galaxy didn't necessarily lose.
Nice , more lore to listen too and sleep too
Sleep well!
FINALY you did this.
I misread "Birch" with T instead of the R and I was like "Woah!"
Great video as always
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@TheRedKing I always do. Sometimes when I play I skip ALOT of the story stuff because im seen it all over and over so much. I end up missing something new. so its nice to see lore vids i can catchup on.
You should release the audio as a podcast like Isaac Arthur
On RUclips, or another platform?
@@TheRedKingSpotify
Great video , I love gigastructure engineering mod lore, they are like the expansion story of Stellaris, althought it was mod.
A banger I can't get enough of.
It's unfortunate that the writers had such a poor understanding of black holes. The distances they described with regards to the black hole would put the collection equipment layer deep within the ergosphere, where nothing, not even light, can stay stationary relative to the black hole (it's not the event horizon, since things can still escape, but nothing can move fast enough against the frame drag to not get twisted around with it). Due to the structure being so large, and even assuming stellaris space magic let things stay intact, this would result in a fairly significant time dilation effect on lower layers compared to the upper layers. They did nothing with this at all. Nor did they do anything with the concept of gravity gradients. Effectively, they treated it like a very normal large structure, albeit one that was much more easily traversable than should be.
The birch world origin is top notch story telling and it really sparks curiocity. The immense scale and time we are dealing with is incredible, how civilizations upon civilizations was born and wiped out over so meny millenia on a simple shell of a birch world. The structure is a universe in itself.
Its not really a balanced origin but its very entertaining :)
Should be way stronger as just the size would be larger then any other empire could ever hope if it was fully utilize.
Сфера Дайсона, построенная вокруг чёрной дыры - это Мир Бирча. Совсем иной тип астроинженерных сооружений.
A world like this must surely have a lot of Culture.
But how would constructing a Birchworld affect the trout populations on Ivampa Prime?
Just finished Matter by Iain M Banks again
If i was apart of the ninth expidetion and looked into the black hole...
That black hole would gain wome more mass... from my back end in the form of bricks.
They terrify me.
Talk about a gut punch, their fate lol
Pretty video
Rogue Servitor When?
Dammit i asked for you to do this and I missed due to college work...but well its still great though and thanks for doing it
Hope you enjoyed it 😊
How long can the imperium of man survive in stellaris?
With Big E leading them? They will dominate the galaxy!
Just wait until the imperium hears about planet cracking technology...
How dare you question the god emperor power 😂
I have a bug woth gigamod and UI dynamic overhaul. Planet UI is not modded. It's from vanilla. Did I miss any setting?
What was that artificial/robot voice? At 19:34 ish.
This some channel lore, A.R.G, or just wonky audio?
Nothing sounds off/different to me?
Nice
❤
So. No birches?
Hell yeah, birch. Not as great as a magnificent Ringworld however.
That's really not an efficient way of using resources by redirecting it all to your home world... the wierder thing is this automated system failed to the point of not being able to maintain itself... there should have been many contingency systems yet none of them kicked in...
Sadly this mod is outdated atm
I'm sure they'll update it, DLCs been out under a week
It's been updated already
Sorry, but did you record this in a bathtub? Something is way off in the recording.
Can confirm i did not record in a bathtub, it seems fine to me?
Your voice changes at the @20:00. @@TheRedKing
@@YuriXEstelle Yeah, that sadly was due to a mis-record of those few seconds so I had to redo it. Oddly the time of day I record appears to affect my voice and it's hard to get them to match up.