The "Peace" Bots are such a 180 from the Snivlets. Heartless machines that would shoot a child's parents in front of them if the new orphan's grief gave them bonuses to research.
Hey keep an open mind here. The "emotionally stabilizing teddy bear" observation insight reduces pop consumer goods upkeep by 5%; and you aren't going to get that one without a statistically rigorous population level analysis of as many anguished orphans as you can produce.
Episode 1: "Hi, we're the Peace Bots" LESS THAN TEN EPISODES LATER: "Hi, these people just achieved spaceflight, so we moved all of them off their planet into our brain-melting genocide machine and then abandoned the planet."
@@darkpixel1128 Slowly? Assuming the game wasn't paused when he did that only a few months would have gone by in game. I rewatched it (or rather, actually watched it, first time I was listening on headphones while doing chores) and yes, the game was paused when he juiced the bird people. Next time I hope Jon leaves exactly one pop of the original inhabitants, so there's the implied existential horror of being the last man on your world after you wake up one day and the entire population of your planet was replaced with AI overnight.
So, you're telling me Jon *once again* claims to be nice and helpful, only to *once again* turn out to be the most murderous being in the entire galaxy? NO WAY!
@@NoodleKeeper I think Jon has. I'd be more curious if you can play fanatical purifiers called the Kilgore Massacre-trons and then roleplay them as xenophile pacifists.
Brain juice isn’t the same without Zarqlan Day. Sure you’ve got the most valuable diamond in the world but how can it compare to putting up the Zarqlan tree and singing Zarqlan carols while drinking Zarqnog The Peace Bots truly have forgotten the true meaning of Zarqlan Day
Everyone calls it X-qlan now. They're trying to take the Zarqlan out of Zarqlan Day! It's heresy, I tell you. I'm starting to think those PeaceBots just don't have the Zarqlan spirit
Romans-The Power of Swords! Tabby’s-the power of headpats! Mighty Ducks-The Power of QUACK! Owlmerta-the power of money! Snivlets-The Power of Friendship! Peace Bots- The Power of Brain Juice!
Just incase no one has pointed it out yet. When you use the Baol technique to turn one of your planets into a Gaia World, it also creates you a number of very much organic Baol pops. Just saying.
Problem is that means Jon can't activate his diamond for ridiculous amounts of credits. And his empire is kinda relying on getting that massive injection of credits every 10 years, since the lathe needs lots of it.
That was his plan all along I'm pretty sure. He know he can't beat the end game crisis, that would be impossible with the settings he set at the start, so instead he's trying to become the crisis so that the normal crisis doesn't show up.
The problem is that the further you get along the Crisis chain the more likely the council will declare you the crisis and everyone declares war on you, which you wouldn't survive. Just be-careful how far down the chain you go and how quickly. If you get that seat on the council, you can always veto the act before it passes. I'd hate to see the impossible run end out of your own action, rather than at the hands of a real crisis! On one run through it happened to me when I had just tripped over to tier 3, which was rather annoying as I couldn't stop the act passing at that point!
its funny how Snivlet friendship in last impossible run were the objectively good guys who done nothing but make friends and try stop the crisis but in here? crisis showed up too late so jon becomes the crisis
"We came in peace" Now Jon, at the risk of being taken to the Synaptic Lathe, did you really ever intend peace in this galaxy? I feel like the vibes have been evil for longer than this, like when you first mentioned the "brain juicing facility" many parts ago.
As soon as Jon started calling everyone 'meat sacks' and opened the Synaptic Lathe, I had a bad feeling he'd start going a bit mad. I just didn't realize how quickly he'd embrace it
yeah, I thought that was going to be the plan he reveals this week. it really would be very powerful to periodically hoover up pops from nearby empires
@@AnitaMeitner I assume that this is to keep it from being utterly, brokenly good; but the one weird thing about Nihilistic Acquisition is how it specifically doesn't work if you occupy a planet. Apparently your raiders are good enough to be snagging people from still-contested planets; but if your army has set up shop and taken control they just can't anymore. I can understand the balance reasons for only allowing the fairly slow bombardment stance; rather than allowing wholesale depopulation in exchange for (typically fairly cheap) ground assaults; but it's hard to justify internally.
The red background and the past tense "came in peace" makes me worried that Jon is either becoming full blown baddie this episode, or he's getting wiped out ;-;
"becoming this episode"? He's been a full-blown villain like two or three episodes ago. And Jon ALWAYS ends up the most villainous empire in the galaxy in every playthrough.
41:13 "I'm just leaving these guys be. I get more out of watching them than I do for conquering them and juicing their brains." Alien Zoo Hypothesis be like.
Apparently the reason the Crystal of Odryskia's value is increasing is because the amount it gives you is "60 months worth of Energy Credits" according to the wiki.
The best way to steal pops is to use raiding stance bombardment. All you have to do is declare war and then park your fleet over the planet until you've abducted all their pops. You can then just settle the status quo when you're done abducting everyone.
So, for the record no, the build limit is not different from the upgrade limit for megastructures. It's just that neither arc-furnaces nor dyson swarms count as megastructures, at least not for like 99% of practical purposes.
In this sort of situation does it make sense to re-introduce a population of robots, modded for low cost and rapid assembly, so that you can generate your own pops for the lathe; for some alloys and considerably less energy and diplomatic blowback; or is the rate of increase just not fast enough to be worth the building slots?
Given the purge speed of the lathe is measured in months, and pop growth is significantly slower, you would have to do a *very* specific set up to attempt it. Maybe not impossible, but not viable for the peace bots.
I don’t think it’s viable now as he would need a base robot species to modify and you cannot remove the virtual trait. And as the other person said, they would be purged much faster than they would be built. However, one could create a secondary machine species on game start and switch assembly to that version on all planets. That way you would build up a significant number of these mark 2 machines before you take virtual. Virtuality is only added to your founder species upon adoption of the tradition tree. So, when you build the lathe, you would have a ready population of mark 2 machines that could be immediately sent to the lathe, thus giving you a head start.
@@nate1004 It looks like at least some robots are hitting the slave market; so getting a starter population of robotic pops(ideally pre-sentient ones; if that makes a difference for diplomatic impact) should be doable(though not a big, prebuild, chunk of them); I just wasn't sure if rebuilding the robotic assembly plants was a waste of the building slots or not.
@@fuzzyfuzzyfungus yeah it is definitely doable to get a starter robot species at this point, modify, and assemble them. However, the benefit would, I believe, be negligible and not worth the building slot as these new robots would be purged by the lathe much faster than they are assembled. The benefit of creating the secondary species at the beginning of the game is much greater. As you would have a population of mark 2 machines built up without virtual that could be sent immediately to the lathe upon its creation. Those pops would immediately be replaced by virtual pops from the primary species. Thus giving you a massive head start on lathe output with effectively no downside. If you are interested in the practical applications I direct you to the Montu Fallen Empire Virtual Rush video in which I learned this.
Does the "genocidal" status actually affect refugee resettlement logic at all; or is it purely a diplomatic problem that somehow never makes it out of official channels and down to the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free? I realize I've never paid attention to that; because determined exterminators and devouring swarms tend not to have an open door policy; so it's something of a special case to both welcome and massacre new pops.
It wouldn't surprise me if all of the genocide stuff is only known by Alien intelligence communities and rumors from spacers, and the average Stellaris citizen was none the wiser.
if the galactic council forms without Jon in a top 3 slot, and a resolution to officially address and denounce his genocidal ways passes the council, then yes. it won't prevent refugees, but if there is literally any other empire accepting refugees within range, the refugees will go there instead. which is one of the reasons why Jon wants to be in the top three for diplomatic influence.
I’m not even that into Stellaris but listening to Jon casually dump refugees (refugees that were promised by his empire to be a safe Haven for) into a giant brain juicing machine and the existential horror when the refugees realize their robot buddies only want to use their brains to essentially make robot adderall is hilarious.
@Jon So far you don't have even 1/10 of the fleet power needed to hold your ground against x25 crisis. And that's on top of the fact that you rely on a very small area to gather raw resources from. And if any of the crises spawns within your borders you won't have the resources needed to keep your fleets in the fighting shape. You might be restricted to few planets, but you absolutely need to expand your territory to secure more raw resource income, and dramatically strengthen your fleet, even if you will run it above the fleet capacity (which will be a lot easier if you have enough resources to back it up). Also, consider replacing your Functional Architecture perk with Ascensionists. It will increase the effects of the planetary ascension while making it cheaper too. Higher levels of ascension, with greater bonuses, will give you better return in the long run.
I'm not sure it's actually a good option(at least not compared to some of the late game ascension perks); but in cases where you want pops but don't want territory just going nihilistic acquisition and then starting stupid little wars as an excuse to use lots and lots of raiding stance is always hilarious.
Once those Riddle escort ships are researched, Peacebots should flip over to basically unstoppable. They can then systematically bring peace (ie deathly silence) to every planet in every empire.
As most comments have already stated this series started with, "we come in peace!" Then after an astronomical amount of scientific advancement it has changed to, "we came in peace and want your brains!" Stellaris is an amazing game. *Insert single tear cry meme here* Jynn: "... but I'm the Protector of Liberty."
I must admit I burst out laughing at 11:39 with the "raid planets to extract organics for the brain juicer" army being commanded by *the Protector of Liberty*.
"We came in peace for all mankind" (Seriously, all of them, and anyone else who looks more sentient than not. Do you have any idea how many pops the lathe needs?) -secret addendum to the Lunar plaque, probably.
35:42 The problem is, sending Envoys to Improve Relations maxes out at a +150 bonus to Opinion. The only benefit of sending more than one Envoy is that you reach the 150 faster.
Jon, if you want the Galactic Council to come faster it may be worth it to stop abstaining on the bills between it and the current vote. If you vote no, your influence tanks its ranking a bit. You can also change your vote on those in the queue so vote no on all that are higher than council until after council is passed
For the next Stellaris series Jon should attempt an actually impossible challenge, and try to go an entire game without doing anything horrifically evil.
I was kind of hoping for you to go the good route, I won't lie. It would be more fun to see you actually try to slug it out with 3 separate crisis at once.
Jon I think by now we know what the next crisis is, you 😂❤. Jon gets invaded=more brains for the juicer. Jon invades someone=more brains for the juicer 😂😂😂
Need to get the Interstellar Assembly built ASAP. It can buy you the time you need to finish the crisis, as it nearly negates the crisis relations penalty even at level 5.
Well, this is horrifying. I'm here for it! Although... didn't someone contact you asking if you knew about humans? And... you got some mysterious humans... but tossed them into the juicer...
Ok, i just had a thought, i give 10 to 1 odds that none of the Crisis trigger in the game do to Jon being or becoming the Crisis when he took the perk.
I now genuinely want Jon to lose. I was creeped out and distressed by his Brotherhood run of Fallout 4 but that was peanuts compared to this, at least the Brotherhood had good people in it and weren't actively working towards the end of everything. I know Jon has done Kill Everything Runs before but that was more like a little kid playing with his favourite toys with no sense to it beyond the chaos. Stellaris is such a good game that the other powers are responding reasonably and it is chilling. The fact that the Peace Bots invade and take planets just to ship everyone off and abandon the planets is just cold.
The "Peace" Bots are such a 180 from the Snivlets. Heartless machines that would shoot a child's parents in front of them if the new orphan's grief gave them bonuses to research.
"This infant organic secreted water from its ocular organs for 8 more hours than the last. Fascinating."
+1 Society Research
Hey keep an open mind here. The "emotionally stabilizing teddy bear" observation insight reduces pop consumer goods upkeep by 5%; and you aren't going to get that one without a statistically rigorous population level analysis of as many anguished orphans as you can produce.
Unit 731 would LOVE the Peacebots
@@PopeMetallicus Unit 731 is a fitting name for the main operator of the Lathe.
@@night4345 I hadn't thought of that, but that's excellent
Episode 1: "Hi, we're the Peace Bots"
LESS THAN TEN EPISODES LATER: "Hi, these people just achieved spaceflight, so we moved all of them off their planet into our brain-melting genocide machine and then abandoned the planet."
Don't forget that he slowly replaced the people he disappeared with virtual peace bots now doing their missing friends jobs.
@@darkpixel1128 Slowly? Assuming the game wasn't paused when he did that only a few months would have gone by in game.
I rewatched it (or rather, actually watched it, first time I was listening on headphones while doing chores) and yes, the game was paused when he juiced the bird people. Next time I hope Jon leaves exactly one pop of the original inhabitants, so there's the implied existential horror of being the last man on your world after you wake up one day and the entire population of your planet was replaced with AI overnight.
they truly are living up to the Way of Peace.
So, you're telling me Jon *once again* claims to be nice and helpful, only to *once again* turn out to be the most murderous being in the entire galaxy? NO WAY!
I'm getting Reaper vibes. Purge the organics every time they've sufficiently ascended...
Nothing is more worring than the past tense in the title and a red background...
Do not be alarmed, organic matter, all is well.
Ive been eagerly awaiting the red backround
@garrrettplayz4770 yes it's brings back memories of CK2 ... Skull mountain is missed
@ManyATrueNerd is that organic matter turning into ..... D.O.M (Dead Organic Matter) or as Jon calls it brain mush in the name of 'mad science' ...
@@shadowstrike5690 That is such a brilliant series, one I go back to again and again, the Lunacy War of Skull Mountain is with us, always.
I'm quite enjoying this story of Jon *becoming* the endgame crisis...
The crisis was taking too long to show up, so he's getting there first.
Yeah, I knew it, he's going to become the crisis and blow up the galaxy long before the regular crises get there.
Let's face it, no matter when it is, (Even the Medieval...no ESPECIALLY the Medieval period) Jon is usually the crisis
Jon is always the Crisis in Stellaris. And a few other games, too. And he always tries (and fails) to pretend he's still somehow the good guy.
11:45
Ah yes, the Peace Bot Advanced War Androids. Of course.
Wait...
This makes me want to build a machine empire that is a Fanatic Purifier named something like the "Peace Bot Collective".
@@NoodleKeeper I think Jon has. I'd be more curious if you can play fanatical purifiers called the Kilgore Massacre-trons and then roleplay them as xenophile pacifists.
Brain juice isn’t the same without Zarqlan Day.
Sure you’ve got the most valuable diamond in the world but how can it compare to putting up the Zarqlan tree and singing Zarqlan carols while drinking Zarqnog
The Peace Bots truly have forgotten the true meaning of Zarqlan Day
Don't worry, once the War in Heaven kicks off, the Spiritualist FE sitting right next door will be sure to remind them.
Everyone calls it X-qlan now. They're trying to take the Zarqlan out of Zarqlan Day! It's heresy, I tell you. I'm starting to think those PeaceBots just don't have the Zarqlan spirit
This is the “awake” galactic community we live in now people!! You can’t even wish someone merry Zarqlan Day in public anymore!
@@cmitchell6849 Zarqlan would be ashamed!
I think the real Zarqlan day is the brains we melted along the way
Seems like the Synaptic Lathe has successfully subsumed control of the Peace Bot Empire.
That's a nicer headcanon. Like the medieval empire that started worshipping an alien that ended up taking control of them.
I always love when Jon becomes a Star Trek villain in Stellaris
"It's people that matter" - Jon the Benevolent of the Peacebot Collective
Game: I present to you the late game Galaxy death invasion.
Jon: Joke's on you, I've been here this whole time.
*Sam Reich intensifies*
@@samuelstensgaard4828beat me to it 💀
*looks at hands*
Sam Says but all the instructions are “Sam says get in the Synaptic Lathe”
@@Lavarpsu10 with the glitching and cuts from the deja vu episode
Your scientists were so preoccupied whether or not they could liquefy organic brains, they didn't stop to think if they should.
Romans-The Power of Swords!
Tabby’s-the power of headpats!
Mighty Ducks-The Power of QUACK!
Owlmerta-the power of money!
Snivlets-The Power of Friendship!
Peace Bots- The Power of Brain Juice!
For the snivlets,it's more the power of a magic head.
@@necromancerwithhat2821 All glory to Zarqlan!
Drinking game: Take a shot every time Jon says "Now THIS is the moment things start accelerating!"
Jon is basically playing as the Reapers
My kind transcends your very understanding. We are each a nation - independent, free of all weakness. You cannot grasp the nature of our existence.
I presume the bodies post brain juicing are being used to construct his fleet....
I KNEW it reminded me of something.
Peace Bots decided the fastest way towards galactic peace is a lobotomy world-machine. Fascinating
Just incase no one has pointed it out yet.
When you use the Baol technique to turn one of your planets into a Gaia World, it also creates you a number of very much organic Baol pops. Just saying.
Problem is that means Jon can't activate his diamond for ridiculous amounts of credits. And his empire is kinda relying on getting that massive injection of credits every 10 years, since the lathe needs lots of it.
I love how Jon went from worrying about the endgame crisis to slowly becoming it.
That was his plan all along I'm pretty sure. He know he can't beat the end game crisis, that would be impossible with the settings he set at the start, so instead he's trying to become the crisis so that the normal crisis doesn't show up.
To be fair, basically all machine players are like this.
I love how Jons plan for beating all three 25x strength crises is essentially 'if you can't beat them, join them.'
Why is it Red Jon……….
Why is it Red….
It has always been Red. We just had not noticed until it was too late.
The problem is that the further you get along the Crisis chain the more likely the council will declare you the crisis and everyone declares war on you, which you wouldn't survive. Just be-careful how far down the chain you go and how quickly. If you get that seat on the council, you can always veto the act before it passes. I'd hate to see the impossible run end out of your own action, rather than at the hands of a real crisis!
On one run through it happened to me when I had just tripped over to tier 3, which was rather annoying as I couldn't stop the act passing at that point!
Hopefully he can get the Interstellar Assembly megastructure built. That negates nearly the entire crisis relations penalty.
@@corvididaecorax2991 It also adds immigration pull, so he'd get even more pops.
This is genuinely great news. So there is hope for the galaxy.
its funny how Snivlet friendship in last impossible run were the objectively good guys who done nothing but make friends and try stop the crisis
but in here? crisis showed up too late
so jon becomes the crisis
"We came in peace"
Now Jon, at the risk of being taken to the Synaptic Lathe, did you really ever intend peace in this galaxy? I feel like the vibes have been evil for longer than this, like when you first mentioned the "brain juicing facility" many parts ago.
Jon essentially roleplaying as some necron faction just makes me want a Warhammer stellaris even more!
As soon as Jon started calling everyone 'meat sacks' and opened the Synaptic Lathe, I had a bad feeling he'd start going a bit mad. I just didn't realize how quickly he'd embrace it
I feel like Nihilistic Acquisition would be a godsend for this run in acquiring more organics to juice. Also activating the Baol relic creates pops!
Also "brain juicing machine" is imagery that will stay with me forever...
yeah, I thought that was going to be the plan he reveals this week. it really would be very powerful to periodically hoover up pops from nearby empires
@@AnitaMeitner I assume that this is to keep it from being utterly, brokenly good; but the one weird thing about Nihilistic Acquisition is how it specifically doesn't work if you occupy a planet. Apparently your raiders are good enough to be snagging people from still-contested planets; but if your army has set up shop and taken control they just can't anymore.
I can understand the balance reasons for only allowing the fairly slow bombardment stance; rather than allowing wholesale depopulation in exchange for (typically fairly cheap) ground assaults; but it's hard to justify internally.
The red background and the past tense "came in peace" makes me worried that Jon is either becoming full blown baddie this episode, or he's getting wiped out ;-;
okay, he's officially an endgame crisis now
"becoming this episode"? He's been a full-blown villain like two or three episodes ago. And Jon ALWAYS ends up the most villainous empire in the galaxy in every playthrough.
@@gimok2k5doesn't everyone?
@@ryttyr14 I don't. I just end up getting half the galaxy as my vassals because they *all* go to me and ask. Every time, I can't help it!
“How to Serve Man” comes to mind.
How to cook forty humans
41:13 "I'm just leaving these guys be. I get more out of watching them than I do for conquering them and juicing their brains."
Alien Zoo Hypothesis be like.
Apparently the reason the Crystal of Odryskia's value is increasing is because the amount it gives you is "60 months worth of Energy Credits" according to the wiki.
The best way to steal pops is to use raiding stance bombardment.
All you have to do is declare war and then park your fleet over the planet until you've abducted all their pops.
You can then just settle the status quo when you're done abducting everyone.
So, for the record no, the build limit is not different from the upgrade limit for megastructures. It's just that neither arc-furnaces nor dyson swarms count as megastructures, at least not for like 99% of practical purposes.
Well I suppose when all life has been removed as chaotic factors in the galaxy and only the simulation remains, there will be peace. And silence.
In this sort of situation does it make sense to re-introduce a population of robots, modded for low cost and rapid assembly, so that you can generate your own pops for the lathe; for some alloys and considerably less energy and diplomatic blowback; or is the rate of increase just not fast enough to be worth the building slots?
Given the purge speed of the lathe is measured in months, and pop growth is significantly slower, you would have to do a *very* specific set up to attempt it. Maybe not impossible, but not viable for the peace bots.
I don’t think it’s viable now as he would need a base robot species to modify and you cannot remove the virtual trait. And as the other person said, they would be purged much faster than they would be built.
However, one could create a secondary machine species on game start and switch assembly to that version on all planets. That way you would build up a significant number of these mark 2 machines before you take virtual. Virtuality is only added to your founder species upon adoption of the tradition tree. So, when you build the lathe, you would have a ready population of mark 2 machines that could be immediately sent to the lathe, thus giving you a head start.
@@nate1004 It looks like at least some robots are hitting the slave market; so getting a starter population of robotic pops(ideally pre-sentient ones; if that makes a difference for diplomatic impact) should be doable(though not a big, prebuild, chunk of them); I just wasn't sure if rebuilding the robotic assembly plants was a waste of the building slots or not.
@@fuzzyfuzzyfungus yeah it is definitely doable to get a starter robot species at this point, modify, and assemble them. However, the benefit would, I believe, be negligible and not worth the building slot as these new robots would be purged by the lathe much faster than they are assembled.
The benefit of creating the secondary species at the beginning of the game is much greater. As you would have a population of mark 2 machines built up without virtual that could be sent immediately to the lathe upon its creation. Those pops would immediately be replaced by virtual pops from the primary species. Thus giving you a massive head start on lathe output with effectively no downside.
If you are interested in the practical applications I direct you to the Montu Fallen Empire Virtual Rush video in which I learned this.
I love watching the embassy recall alerts as Jon feeds the bird people into the brain juicer.
Does the "genocidal" status actually affect refugee resettlement logic at all; or is it purely a diplomatic problem that somehow never makes it out of official channels and down to the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free?
I realize I've never paid attention to that; because determined exterminators and devouring swarms tend not to have an open door policy; so it's something of a special case to both welcome and massacre new pops.
It wouldn't surprise me if all of the genocide stuff is only known by Alien intelligence communities and rumors from spacers, and the average Stellaris citizen was none the wiser.
if the galactic council forms without Jon in a top 3 slot, and a resolution to officially address and denounce his genocidal ways passes the council, then yes. it won't prevent refugees, but if there is literally any other empire accepting refugees within range, the refugees will go there instead.
which is one of the reasons why Jon wants to be in the top three for diplomatic influence.
Actual Stellaris impossible run: playing without becoming a dystopian evil empire.
I’m not even that into Stellaris but listening to Jon casually dump refugees (refugees that were promised by his empire to be a safe Haven for) into a giant brain juicing machine and the existential horror when the refugees realize their robot buddies only want to use their brains to essentially make robot adderall is hilarious.
Aah, good, a nice not-at-all ominous red thumbnail. Has Jon finally become the crisis?
The Neutrality Association? Beige Alert! Beige Alert! "If I die, tell my wife 'hello'"
Oh, you think you should destroy the hell-dimension thing that's holding and processing trillions of 'ganics, huh?
Funny, that.
I mean, he clearly doesn't want a competitor in that field.
“Don’t let us being robots intimidate you, organics are very valuable to us”
"No, no. This won't do. Into the lathe with you!" 🎶
@Jon
So far you don't have even 1/10 of the fleet power needed to hold your ground against x25 crisis. And that's on top of the fact that you rely on a very small area to gather raw resources from. And if any of the crises spawns within your borders you won't have the resources needed to keep your fleets in the fighting shape. You might be restricted to few planets, but you absolutely need to expand your territory to secure more raw resource income, and dramatically strengthen your fleet, even if you will run it above the fleet capacity (which will be a lot easier if you have enough resources to back it up).
Also, consider replacing your Functional Architecture perk with Ascensionists. It will increase the effects of the planetary ascension while making it cheaper too. Higher levels of ascension, with greater bonuses, will give you better return in the long run.
I'm not sure it's actually a good option(at least not compared to some of the late game ascension perks); but in cases where you want pops but don't want territory just going nihilistic acquisition and then starting stupid little wars as an excuse to use lots and lots of raiding stance is always hilarious.
It appears the Peace Bots are peaceful in the same way the Holy Roman Empire is holy and roman...
18:07 sure looking pretty juicy over there with all your “relinquish our system” talk
I love this series 🤣 I would never build a brain juicer myself but it's fun to watch Jon do it!
You've turned into the Collectors from Mass Effect 2, well done
Once those Riddle escort ships are researched, Peacebots should flip over to basically unstoppable. They can then systematically bring peace (ie deathly silence) to every planet in every empire.
Jon. Honey. You're the Reapers, now.
Watch out for a Shepard.
As most comments have already stated this series started with, "we come in peace!" Then after an astronomical amount of scientific advancement it has changed to, "we came in peace and want your brains!" Stellaris is an amazing game.
*Insert single tear cry meme here*
Jynn: "... but I'm the Protector of Liberty."
"Would nations really care that little about one of them doing genocide"
*looks at current events
"Oh..."
Does anyone else get really sad when the world's biggest diamond starts being sold, because it means more years without Zarqlan Day?
The entire economy subsisting on one colossal gem feels like a precarious position to be in
I must admit I burst out laughing at 11:39 with the "raid planets to extract organics for the brain juicer" army being commanded by *the Protector of Liberty*.
Oh good, Jon also noticed at 16:28 (I opted to give a comment to the algorithm god before finishing the video)
"We came in peace for all mankind"
(Seriously, all of them, and anyone else who looks more sentient than not. Do you have any idea how many pops the lathe needs?)
-secret addendum to the Lunar plaque, probably.
Just think of the Synaptic Lathe as you “freeing” these fleshy beings from their prisons and letting them join you in the Great Virtual Network
Jon doing his Reaper run. You should consider leaving one organic pop on your planets so they grow more pops you can juice.
35:42 The problem is, sending Envoys to Improve Relations maxes out at a +150 bonus to Opinion. The only benefit of sending more than one Envoy is that you reach the 150 faster.
Jon, if you want the Galactic Council to come faster it may be worth it to stop abstaining on the bills between it and the current vote. If you vote no, your influence tanks its ranking a bit. You can also change your vote on those in the queue so vote no on all that are higher than council until after council is passed
Jon should definitely make the mega shipyard first then the dyson sphere so he never worries about energy again.
For the next Stellaris series Jon should attempt an actually impossible challenge, and try to go an entire game without doing anything horrifically evil.
befriending the driven exterminators was cherry on top
Thank you for the video.
I was kind of hoping for you to go the good route, I won't lie. It would be more fun to see you actually try to slug it out with 3 separate crisis at once.
Peace Bot Research Collective might as well have been called "The Institute", got it 😅
Jon I think by now we know what the next crisis is, you 😂❤. Jon gets invaded=more brains for the juicer. Jon invades someone=more brains for the juicer 😂😂😂
Loving this series!
Rest in peace
Shouldn't "Cherks" be pronounced as "Charks"? Or is that only of a Cherk is a Clark? Or would that be a Chlark
I believe the big rock gives an amount of credits equal to your energy cap multiplied by 1.5 because it always seems to go over
Jesus Christ, the first three minutes are already............oh-no-he's-really-going-for-it-WOW
Need to get the Interstellar Assembly built ASAP. It can buy you the time you need to finish the crisis, as it nearly negates the crisis relations penalty even at level 5.
*Watches Jon turn into the Reapers from Mass Effect*
*Sips tea*
"This is fine."
I laughed so hard at 11:42 when I read Advanced War Androids (Peace bots 2.0)
Jonbots: We bring you piece.
Them: You misspelled peace.
Jonbots: Um, about that...
"Brain Juicer" may be some rebranding?
You should take over the fallen empire planets and then move your entire population base to those planets and abandon everything else.
Jon cozying up to the 0 index has some real Russia-North Korea vibe. Pariahs assemble!
1:11 what’s a little genocide between close friends
The peace bots turned into the reapers from mass effect
Of course Jon creates the Borg, id have been disappointed if he didn’t.
Well, this is horrifying. I'm here for it! Although... didn't someone contact you asking if you knew about humans? And... you got some mysterious humans... but tossed them into the juicer...
We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, we come in peace, shoot to kill, Scotty, beam me up!
Never ask the Peace Bots where the Immutharans of Istalonis ended up
TFW the killbots approve what the peace bots are doing...
Anyone else see him click each individual fleet to move them to one system? Ya know, instead of just double clicking all of them?
Has John figured out that there's not going to be an end-game crisis because he's the crisis?
You really should change "Soyen" to "Soylent" considering...you know, the whole Lathe thing
You cam in peace. You'll leave in pieces?
Should have left a single organic pop on each planet to grow naturally and harvest
Who else is seeing the red special resource count and assumes that he has run out of whatever special resource all those buildings require?
Please bring back PodCats, I don't know what to do during my existential crisis
why the background red
"welcome now please get in the tube"
Ok, i just had a thought, i give 10 to 1 odds that none of the Crisis trigger in the game do to Jon being or becoming the Crisis when he took the perk.
You could turn on capacity subsidies and take care of that energy problem
edit: he did
this utopia is becoming dystopia very very coking quickly🤣
This is the earliest I’ve ever been, Jon the thumbnail scare me
I now genuinely want Jon to lose. I was creeped out and distressed by his Brotherhood run of Fallout 4 but that was peanuts compared to this, at least the Brotherhood had good people in it and weren't actively working towards the end of everything. I know Jon has done Kill Everything Runs before but that was more like a little kid playing with his favourite toys with no sense to it beyond the chaos. Stellaris is such a good game that the other powers are responding reasonably and it is chilling.
The fact that the Peace Bots invade and take planets just to ship everyone off and abandon the planets is just cold.
Part 9: The Bots create a desert and call it peace