I think an archotech gave them the technology that made them into an interstellar empire. While a society like the shattered empire might keep their feudal society even though they are advancing technology. a archotech could have gave them the tech as an experiment of sorts, to see what would happen if a feudal empire gained extremely powerful technology, and just watched as they grew. Maybe that’s why the shattered empire worships archotechs, if the archotech left them alone and the empire wants more tech, so they worship the archotech thinking it will come help them.
I think the psylink neuroformers are archotech. They are a container of nanomachines that rewrite someone's brain and gives them psychic powers. They are also the trademark yellow-green of archotech stuff.
@@thenightarchives4148I have a question. If the empire never acquired archotech technology from the archotechs. Where do the archite capsules come from? Chipping apart the archotech structures that are part of the ascension ending?
To be a Sophian native feels like either you feed the machine as a cog, or risk your neck just by existing in the hierarchy until the time someone is sent after you by a patron looking for power, is tired of your shenanigans, or deserters looking to send a message. Trying to emigrate seems like a prison sentence with hard labor at the bare minimum regardless of social position; and probably land family/associates in hot water as well. Big fan of your content, keep it up!
Even if the empire didn't worship an Archotech, Archotechs would still be an essential part of their belief system; Psylink neuroformers and the psychic abilities they bring were created by Archotechs, and they are an essential part of titles and thus their societal hierarchy. That alone justifies them worshiping an Archotech to me. In fact, given the surprising amount of psylink neuroformers they have, I wouldn't be surprised if the emperor or some other high ranking empire nobility had some way of contacting an Archotech and doing favors for it in exchange for the Archotechnology they use and respect so much. Heck, given how highly the empire values receiving slaves as tribute, and the immense amount of severely warped humans Archotechs unleash in the Anomaly dlc, perhaps some of those slaves are 'donated' to the empires god as test subjects, to receive a fate far, far worse then death... Very speculative of course, but interesting to think about.
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Empire: We own this planet, just like all the other planets around here Me, who actually has a battleready ship in orbit: Yeah sure Empire: We don't really care what you do but if you help us out we give you magic Me: Deal
I feel like if you had to be born in the Shattered Empire and weren't lucky enough to be born a Noble then your best best (in my opinion) would to be a simple farmer on a highly productive farm. Your life wouldn't be anything special but at least you wouldn't have your life thrown away in war or your will to live sapped away in a soul crushing office job. It ain't much but it's honest work!
To be honest the military probably wouldn't even be that bad, yeah central command views you as being expendable, but at least for every quest I've ever received (admittedly random generated, but I've seen a lot) the Empire has always been VERY heavy handed when sending support troops. 9 out of 10 times if I'm hosting/protecting a noble and a raid of 6-12 people shows up, the Empire has a tendency to just send like 8 people in varying amounts of power armor, with an assortment of weapons from industrial all the way to charge weaponry. half the time the empire crashlands on my colony and the need to fight of a raid the random troops that land with the noble are usually enough to deal with the issue themselves. Point being, while your life, as an average soldier, may not be valued very highly in the grand scheme of things, I've rarely ever seen the Empire send 1 or 2 poorly armed/armored novices into a suicide mission, they seem to arrive in medium to large groups, with solid weapons and armor, and even various performance enhancing substances, and this is all when they're fighting in our colonies, our cities on the rimworld, I'd imagine the life of the average Trooper/Janissary is probably far more peaceful/comfortable when they're just guarding an actual Empire backed compound/city, like just being assigned to live in/guard some nobles estate/city perimeter has got to be a far safer/peaceful existence, at least compared to life in the average Imp tribe or Pig Union. Rimworld has always done exceptionally poorly when it comes to NPC generated Maps, basically all just copy/paste square building in the middle of a field, but wherever all these shuttles are being launched from and the nobles are living the other 40 days of the Rimworld year, has got to be pretty well developed/secure, and even if they get raided with the intensity we do (taking into account colony wealth) the majority of their faction's defenders use/wear endgame loot, and they can apparently sling around aerodrone salvos, and heatrays from orbit, and that's a quarter of the planet away from wherever they're based out of. Being a Janissary or even a Trooper in the empire is likely a pretty comfortable existance, at least in comparison to the surrounding cities in Rimworld, yeah the freelove stoner colony might be more laid back and comfortable, but I haven't seen a single one of them strap on a suit of cataphract armor before laying into a raider with their charge rifle, as their fellow soldier arms their triple barrel rocket launcher and their commanding officer calls in an aerodrone strike. Your best chance to avoid being cannibalized, stuffed into a gibbet, or having your head being used to build a decorative skullspike, is to be born into an Empire backed city.
@@christopherdalle8928 to back you up on this if we go by real life military unless you are deployed in a heavy combat zone which depending is like 1% to 5% of deployments you are just sitting around practically doing nothing bullshiting with your fellow soldiers and playing D&D or some other tabletop RPG on off duty Every Soldier I've ever met which is a lot plays D&D and they started because that's all they had to do in their spare time while deployed all the you have to deal with is the permanent ringing in your ears and rampant alcohol addiction
Imho "simple farmer" might be ideal potential conscript/grunt/cannon fodder - already familiar with waking up early, hard work, , bad weather, lack of luxuries, relatively low education (and potential "high" education might revolve around engines/vehicles).
Regarding the note at9:26, no clue. He's asking for 5 frames how to increase money quickly in runescape with all his stats in the lower 90s or late 80s, besides the heart symbol which is at lvl 72, and the nether star at 65.
The Empire’s ideological opposition to recreational drugs is ironic given the Empire’s reliance on Go-Juice dependent Hussars. But then, I suppose hypocrisy is to be expected. It is practically an endemic feature of human empires.
I think the exception is fair there. You wouldn't exactly call insulin a recreational drug. Go-Juice to Hussars is essentially what insulin is to someone with diabetes.
@thenightarchives4148 the difference, in my opinion, is that diabetes is a naturally occurring disorder, Hussars are an engineered xenotype. Someone chose to give them a genetic dependence on go-juice, specifically, not to make them resistant to addiction or its negative effects. It's mentioned that control of go-juice rations is an effective tool for keeping hussar soldiers in line, it would be doubly so in a society that rigidly opposes drugs, a hussar without the military to supply them has at most half a year before they die, so for the vast majority going AWOL or deserting is a death sentence!
Hello geode genius, about the archotech, since archotech seems to apretiate when people meditate (which one could compare to prayer), this re enforce the idea of them being gods and while this relativly doesn't matter, the parallel between this and standard religion would explain why humans don't just try to befriend the archotech (as much as one can) but activly worship them
Yeah, I actually realized later on after posting the video and much thinking, that the reason why the Empire worships archotech is because archotechs are the source of psycasts, which the Empire is very fond of. I will talk about it in the psycasting video.
Very well thought out. I'm really enjoying this. It's like reading ancient philosophers debate other civilization's beliefs and religious concepts, but it's old dumb Rimworld lol.
I don't know about old school (I play rs3) but bossing is the answer for money making, get an ok set and try to learn not so hard bosses with good drops and pray to the rng gods (that's also a very good way to go for 99 in your combat styles, try to see some yt guides, and if you don't have money for gear don't stress too much, I play ironman and its possible to do some pretty rough bosses with pretty bad gear, you just need patience to learn and again pray for the rng gods)
It really sound like a faction to mess with, because of how pretencious they are. *And by mess I do mean doing what rimworld players are excellent at-*
I think that the Imperials worship (or believe highly in) archotechs (in a general sense) due to the Imperials being a Psycaster-focused empire, and the archotechs are what enable psycasting itself. Due to this, and the fact all the nobles (actual nobles) in Rimworld that are encountered are psycasters, one can thus assume that the Emperor is either the most powerful or one of the most powerful psycasters the Empire itself has encountered. Sort of a physical reality of divine mandate. Psycasting is enabled and done via archotechs, thus the most powerful pyscaster(s) are the most favored by the archotechs. Before starting a game, when you're at the screen for altering the player ideology, you can also alter the other (known) ideologies, including the ideology of the Fallen Empire/Shattered Empire. The only memes they're allowed to have are those mentioned in this video, and 2 of them are required, much like how the always hostile raiding factions require raiding as one of their memes. Due to the lack of FTL travel in Rimworld's universe, it's likely that Stellarchs, those imperial nobles tasked with ruling a star system, are allowed certain amounts of leeway when it comes to ruling their star system, and thus probably explaining why male/female primacy becomes a common meme. It's also possible that the Empire believes that the archotechs are physical manifestation of a singular God in the physical world, and thus may believe that the archotech's powers are mere glimpses of the power of the God that the archotechs are a part of. Such a structure/belief system would work both with the backstories we see on characters in game, and also would fit the "archotechic" style of ideology better than abstract theist or embodied theist structure for ideology/religion.
Can you do a video on the archortech and void from anomaly, like both are closely and weirdly linked despite the stark differences. Is there truely a corrupted archotech that serves and the void, and is the void the true source of all evils in the multiverses? Edit: while explaining whether archotechs could be destroyed, could it have been possible that the shards of darkarchotechnology were from destroyed corrupted archotechs? If it is so, then what power does the entity of sorts in the void have?
I know physically nothing moves faster than light, but what about data? Like if a stelarch from planet A had a insect infestation problem and need a reinforcement from a neiboring empire ally,or a manufacturing planet projects its gonna be having a shortage of uranium and want to contact whoever runs the bulk goods ship to bring them extra of it how would that happen
Honestly? I think it wouldn't happen. Or it would, but it'd just take a considerable amount of time. This is why Stellarchs pretty much have dominion, since they are extremely isolated in terms of other equals or superiors.
Your videos might unironically change how many people view this game, usually the Empire is seen as a neutral/good guys by the playerbase but after this video I'm sure that number will decrease
On the one hand I’d prefer to be the elite rather than a cog in the machine, on the other I’m autistic as fuck and that political intrigue would get me killed in days. I think I just wouldn’t thrive in the Empire in any position tbh
It is outside of in-game lore, but many mod items line up with job descriptions and item descs too. So, VE stew is probably canon in-universe (but not in-game), while the exact text and item skins of VE deserters isn't
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I think an archotech gave them the technology that made them into an interstellar empire. While a society like the shattered empire might keep their feudal society even though they are advancing technology. a archotech could have gave them the tech as an experiment of sorts, to see what would happen if a feudal empire gained extremely powerful technology, and just watched as they grew. Maybe that’s why the shattered empire worships archotechs, if the archotech left them alone and the empire wants more tech, so they worship the archotech thinking it will come help them.
That makes sense, though none of the Empire's tech resembles archtechnology, so I suppose the archotech would've intentionally held back.
I think the psylink neuroformers are archotech. They are a container of nanomachines that rewrite someone's brain and gives them psychic powers. They are also the trademark yellow-green of archotech stuff.
It could explain the steady supply of paylinn neuroformers@@thenightarchives4148
@@thenightarchives4148I have a question. If the empire never acquired archotech technology from the archotechs. Where do the archite capsules come from? Chipping apart the archotech structures that are part of the ascension ending?
@@johnpellegrinoconnors3843scavenging just like the body parts and the neuroformers
To be a Sophian native feels like either you feed the machine as a cog, or risk your neck just by existing in the hierarchy until the time someone is sent after you by a patron looking for power, is tired of your shenanigans, or deserters looking to send a message. Trying to emigrate seems like a prison sentence with hard labor at the bare minimum regardless of social position; and probably land family/associates in hot water as well.
Big fan of your content, keep it up!
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@@422atm 1984, while Rimworld plays around at 5500s
Nice insight on the Sophian Empire!! Tho I find it... well... I can see where the Deserters are coming from. It is a tough life in the empire.
Yeah, not as tough as on a Rimworld tho
Even if the empire didn't worship an Archotech, Archotechs would still be an essential part of their belief system; Psylink neuroformers and the psychic abilities they bring were created by Archotechs, and they are an essential part of titles and thus their societal hierarchy. That alone justifies them worshiping an Archotech to me. In fact, given the surprising amount of psylink neuroformers they have, I wouldn't be surprised if the emperor or some other high ranking empire nobility had some way of contacting an Archotech and doing favors for it in exchange for the Archotechnology they use and respect so much.
Heck, given how highly the empire values receiving slaves as tribute, and the immense amount of severely warped humans Archotechs unleash in the Anomaly dlc, perhaps some of those slaves are 'donated' to the empires god as test subjects, to receive a fate far, far worse then death... Very speculative of course, but interesting to think about.
I assumed that the gold is used as tribute to the Archotechs because gold has more uses then just money but really good conductors and stuff
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Very cool video, was looking forward to it !
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Empire: We own this planet, just like all the other planets around here
Me, who actually has a battleready ship in orbit: Yeah sure
Empire: We don't really care what you do but if you help us out we give you magic
Me: Deal
I feel like if you had to be born in the Shattered Empire and weren't lucky enough to be born a Noble then your best best (in my opinion) would to be a simple farmer on a highly productive farm. Your life wouldn't be anything special but at least you wouldn't have your life thrown away in war or your will to live sapped away in a soul crushing office job. It ain't much but it's honest work!
To be honest the military probably wouldn't even be that bad, yeah central command views you as being expendable, but at least for every quest I've ever received (admittedly random generated, but I've seen a lot) the Empire has always been VERY heavy handed when sending support troops. 9 out of 10 times if I'm hosting/protecting a noble and a raid of 6-12 people shows up, the Empire has a tendency to just send like 8 people in varying amounts of power armor, with an assortment of weapons from industrial all the way to charge weaponry. half the time the empire crashlands on my colony and the need to fight of a raid the random troops that land with the noble are usually enough to deal with the issue themselves. Point being, while your life, as an average soldier, may not be valued very highly in the grand scheme of things, I've rarely ever seen the Empire send 1 or 2 poorly armed/armored novices into a suicide mission, they seem to arrive in medium to large groups, with solid weapons and armor, and even various performance enhancing substances, and this is all when they're fighting in our colonies, our cities on the rimworld, I'd imagine the life of the average Trooper/Janissary is probably far more peaceful/comfortable when they're just guarding an actual Empire backed compound/city, like just being assigned to live in/guard some nobles estate/city perimeter has got to be a far safer/peaceful existence, at least compared to life in the average Imp tribe or Pig Union. Rimworld has always done exceptionally poorly when it comes to NPC generated Maps, basically all just copy/paste square building in the middle of a field, but wherever all these shuttles are being launched from and the nobles are living the other 40 days of the Rimworld year, has got to be pretty well developed/secure, and even if they get raided with the intensity we do (taking into account colony wealth) the majority of their faction's defenders use/wear endgame loot, and they can apparently sling around aerodrone salvos, and heatrays from orbit, and that's a quarter of the planet away from wherever they're based out of. Being a Janissary or even a Trooper in the empire is likely a pretty comfortable existance, at least in comparison to the surrounding cities in Rimworld, yeah the freelove stoner colony might be more laid back and comfortable, but I haven't seen a single one of them strap on a suit of cataphract armor before laying into a raider with their charge rifle, as their fellow soldier arms their triple barrel rocket launcher and their commanding officer calls in an aerodrone strike. Your best chance to avoid being cannibalized, stuffed into a gibbet, or having your head being used to build a decorative skullspike, is to be born into an Empire backed city.
@@christopherdalle8928 to back you up on this if we go by real life military unless you are deployed in a heavy combat zone which depending is like 1% to 5% of deployments you are just sitting around practically doing nothing bullshiting with your fellow soldiers and playing D&D or some other tabletop RPG on off duty Every Soldier I've ever met which is a lot plays D&D and they started because that's all they had to do in their spare time while deployed all the you have to deal with is the permanent ringing in your ears and rampant alcohol addiction
Imho "simple farmer" might be ideal potential conscript/grunt/cannon fodder - already familiar with waking up early, hard work, , bad weather, lack of luxuries, relatively low education (and potential "high" education might revolve around engines/vehicles).
Regarding the note at9:26, no clue. He's asking for 5 frames how to increase money quickly in runescape with all his stats in the lower 90s or late 80s, besides the heart symbol which is at lvl 72, and the nether star at 65.
I was very confused about this comment I see it now and I'm still confused
@@1th_to_comment. Sorry for late response, I presume there was no image on your screen? I edited it to be 9:26 if you wanna try it now
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The Empire’s ideological opposition to recreational drugs is ironic given the Empire’s reliance on Go-Juice dependent Hussars. But then, I suppose hypocrisy is to be expected. It is practically an endemic feature of human empires.
I think the exception is fair there. You wouldn't exactly call insulin a recreational drug. Go-Juice to Hussars is essentially what insulin is to someone with diabetes.
@thenightarchives4148 the difference, in my opinion, is that diabetes is a naturally occurring disorder, Hussars are an engineered xenotype. Someone chose to give them a genetic dependence on go-juice, specifically, not to make them resistant to addiction or its negative effects. It's mentioned that control of go-juice rations is an effective tool for keeping hussar soldiers in line, it would be doubly so in a society that rigidly opposes drugs, a hussar without the military to supply them has at most half a year before they die, so for the vast majority going AWOL or deserting is a death sentence!
Always wonder what is it like to live in the empire! Great video!
Nice work, may it be easy for you to continue your endeavour, The Knight Night Archives.
Hello geode genius, about the archotech, since archotech seems to apretiate when people meditate (which one could compare to prayer), this re enforce the idea of them being gods and while this relativly doesn't matter, the parallel between this and standard religion would explain why humans don't just try to befriend the archotech (as much as one can) but activly worship them
Yeah, I actually realized later on after posting the video and much thinking, that the reason why the Empire worships archotech is because archotechs are the source of psycasts, which the Empire is very fond of. I will talk about it in the psycasting video.
Very well thought out. I'm really enjoying this. It's like reading ancient philosophers debate other civilization's beliefs and religious concepts, but it's old dumb Rimworld lol.
next (if you didn't do one already) could you do an indepth explanation of tribals
pls
I don't know about old school (I play rs3) but bossing is the answer for money making, get an ok set and try to learn not so hard bosses with good drops and pray to the rng gods (that's also a very good way to go for 99 in your combat styles, try to see some yt guides, and if you don't have money for gear don't stress too much, I play ironman and its possible to do some pretty rough bosses with pretty bad gear, you just need patience to learn and again pray for the rng gods)
It really sound like a faction to mess with, because of how pretencious they are.
*And by mess I do mean doing what rimworld players are excellent at-*
New Video, All right!
I think that the Imperials worship (or believe highly in) archotechs (in a general sense) due to the Imperials being a Psycaster-focused empire, and the archotechs are what enable psycasting itself. Due to this, and the fact all the nobles (actual nobles) in Rimworld that are encountered are psycasters, one can thus assume that the Emperor is either the most powerful or one of the most powerful psycasters the Empire itself has encountered. Sort of a physical reality of divine mandate. Psycasting is enabled and done via archotechs, thus the most powerful pyscaster(s) are the most favored by the archotechs.
Before starting a game, when you're at the screen for altering the player ideology, you can also alter the other (known) ideologies, including the ideology of the Fallen Empire/Shattered Empire. The only memes they're allowed to have are those mentioned in this video, and 2 of them are required, much like how the always hostile raiding factions require raiding as one of their memes. Due to the lack of FTL travel in Rimworld's universe, it's likely that Stellarchs, those imperial nobles tasked with ruling a star system, are allowed certain amounts of leeway when it comes to ruling their star system, and thus probably explaining why male/female primacy becomes a common meme.
It's also possible that the Empire believes that the archotechs are physical manifestation of a singular God in the physical world, and thus may believe that the archotech's powers are mere glimpses of the power of the God that the archotechs are a part of. Such a structure/belief system would work both with the backstories we see on characters in game, and also would fit the "archotechic" style of ideology better than abstract theist or embodied theist structure for ideology/religion.
Sike I side with the deserters
Highly reccomend vanilla psycasts expanded. It makes the empire seem a little more appealing.
I play with it, but find it a little too busted at times. Certain psycasts can trivialize a lot in terms of combat
Can you do a video on the archortech and void from anomaly, like both are closely and weirdly linked despite the stark differences. Is there truely a corrupted archotech that serves and the void, and is the void the true source of all evils in the multiverses?
Edit: while explaining whether archotechs could be destroyed, could it have been possible that the shards of darkarchotechnology were from destroyed corrupted archotechs? If it is so, then what power does the entity of sorts in the void have?
I will have a full video dedicated to archotechs and one on the anomalies
The Straight Edge ideology of the Empire explains why there is such a robust drug smuggling culture in the Rimworlds.
Easy silver though
Nice, New Video!
I know physically nothing moves faster than light, but what about data?
Like if a stelarch from planet A had a insect infestation problem and need a reinforcement from a neiboring empire ally,or a manufacturing planet projects its gonna be having a shortage of uranium and want to contact whoever runs the bulk goods ship to bring them extra of it how would that happen
Honestly? I think it wouldn't happen. Or it would, but it'd just take a considerable amount of time. This is why Stellarchs pretty much have dominion, since they are extremely isolated in terms of other equals or superiors.
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Your videos might unironically change how many people view this game, usually the Empire is seen as a neutral/good guys by the playerbase but after this video I'm sure that number will decrease
I don't think I've ever met anyone who believed the Empire to be the good guys
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@@TheDukeofDeath666 I think so? Depends on their grandiositys' whim
On the one hand I’d prefer to be the elite rather than a cog in the machine, on the other I’m autistic as fuck and that political intrigue would get me killed in days. I think I just wouldn’t thrive in the Empire in any position tbh
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I dunno wut dey want but dey mayke meeh paye thing colled 'texis' and aye dun' loik 'em.
Click bait it didn't suprise me that much
What if I included a jumpscare in the future videos?
im got a little interesting question about mods, is the vanilla expanded can be part of canon or lore of Rimworld?
It is outside of in-game lore, but many mod items line up with job descriptions and item descs too. So, VE stew is probably canon in-universe (but not in-game), while the exact text and item skins of VE deserters isn't
anyone else getting 40k vibes
Of course, Rimworld wears it's 40k influence on its sleeve from the very start
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