Stellaris - Contingency Mechanics (Skynet is up to its old tricks)

[@georgemills-burrows7052]

Ah yes "The Contingency", a sentient race of immortal synthetics allegedly waiting in their sterilisation hubs. We have dismissed that claim.

[@jujububu3626]

Omgosh yesss 😂😂😂

[@boxcarz]

Guess we should all assume Victory Position.

[@manofironthathasntturnedcr9817]

Murphy’s law: Anything that CAN go wrong, WILL go wrong.

[@Deadfacekingsman]

Did someone say "Cybermen"?

[@trevorcoker1449]

Politicians are the weeds of the Galaxy...

[@Seemfly]

"...from a measly 80k, up to a Million..." Suddenly regretting turning the endgame dial up to 5X.

[@tomasjavorsky5323]

*Laughs in 25x strength*

[@TOONYBOY]

Yeah, they've really done a lazy job with the difficulty scaling. Instead of making them more difficult to fight in ways like aggression and respawn rates they've just made it so that higher difficulties make their ships untouchable and yours a 1-shot kill. If the AI actually decided to attack you then you would have no chance of beating them. The only way you can survive against them is if they chill out and do nothing for 50 years, luckily that's exactly what they do.

[@orctrihar]

Prepare myself for ×3

[@lastfirst5863]

@@TOONYBOY IMO marauders are more dangerous because they can wake up when your empire’s still young.

[@yimingwang8037]

nah mate its just 400k :D

[@alexmcbride7563]

I love how Paradox found a way to bring the Cybrex into the end game crisis here. I think it's really cool that this once Determined Exterminator Empire has had a change of heart. I'm sad that they leave at the end, but I understand why Paradox did that.

[@feeler6670]

Cybrex: "I know now why you cry...but it is something I can never do. Goodbye."

[@heckinmemes6430]

@@feeler6670 *Thumbs up*

[@opposition22]

Does it ever say the cybrex are exterminators, I thought it was ambiguous as to what their actual government was like it could have been an assimilators.

[@CorsetLebelle]

@@opposition22 it says they tried to purge the galaxy during there time if you do there events they then had a change of heart and vanished for abit it never tells ya why they decide to end there purge

[@christophermikiewicz7083]

@@opposition22 As far as I know they were to some extent, as they were in a war against the entire galaxy. They were very successful but at some point though there was internal conflict as some anomaly events describe, which led to them sealing themselves off in some ring world or bunker I think.

[@eclipseslayer98]

The Cybrex will give you a fleet if you're down on your luck? SENPAI NOTICED ME!

[@Bog_Dog]

Cybrex seemed totally against helping me out xD they just got their own fleets wrecked chasing the contingency around and never attached the defence fleets by sterilisation hubs... so I wasn’t able to take them down and they kept spawning more fleets until the cybrex were totally destroyed ... rip

[@creepylegend7392]

I struggled at first against contingency then I got the blessing of "The End of the Cycle" and wrecked them easily. Now complete galactic peace. 50yrs have passed. Hold up

[@privateger]

*The reckoning has arrived.*

[@AceDreamer]

@@privateger ah sh!t, here we go again. . .

[@SpectrumSwordtails]

@@privateger I wonder what would happen if The Reckoning, the Contingency along with many of the other end game crysis all did battle to each other. Who would win first? How difficult would it be to finish off the winner? These are the kinds of questions that need an answer.

[@Bluelyre]

@@SpectrumSwordtails depends on how much territory and pop the end of the cycle empire had probably.

[@MinecrafWolf]

@@Bluelyre End of the Cycle weak as shit

[@Spewan]

Be Me: Have Both Fallen Empires Awaken Have both Awakened Empires Decide to have a nice war against each other Be the shortest Path between each of them Have a Fleet power of 70k in one fleet ( Equal to all other non-fallen empires) Be Neutral THEN have 2/4 of the Contingency Machine Worlds spawn ON your border have another Contingency Machine World on spawn 1 Warp Jump away from your Empire Try To repel 1 of the 3 seperate 71k Contingency Fleets in your systems. Defeat 1 fleet Have ANOTHER 71k Contingency Fleet Warp in to mop you up >RAGE QUIT

[@Shockwave1794]

*War in Heaven* AA *2 Contingency Worlds spawn* AAA *Contingency fleet come clean up* *AAAA*

[@minimalgrammar1276]

[@monnd]

They spawned right next to my capital world, 200k fleet power i quited instantly

[@leviheichou1406]

@@monnd *laughs in 400k naval power*

[@SWSagume]

When Bad Luck Brian plays Stellaris.

[@Gam0rDude]

I love the cybrex redemption going on here.

[@wilsthelimit]

I love it so much

[@hudsonbayifitwasalive8747]

enter robot red dead refrence here

[@M4gnetar11]

I love it how the contingency has multiple personalities fighting with each other as it talks to you. One is very direct and forthcoming, one seems to be nothing but pre-recorded messages, and the third just blatantly insults you. Real nice villain design Paradox.

[@Cipkanikolaj]

Reminds me of the Master from fallout

[@ViralN9]

Wasn't expecting the cybrex to show up, that's pretty cool.

[@JonathanToolonie]

Nobody expected the Cybrex intervention.

[@dyl0wned]

I have a theory: the class-30 singularity the contingency refers to is the END OF THE CYCLE. It explains why the creators created the contingency and why they suddenly died out: the creators made a pact with the end of the cycle, but built the contingency as a "contingency" to fight it. The "self termination" could have been the end of the cycle occurring and killing their species. The contingency could be what is left over from the massive battle that ensued between the cycle and the creators. Either that, or the survivors of the cycle created the contingency to make sure that the cycle never occurs again.

[@anderkickers5]

Dylon S Now tell spiffing Brit

[@LuizAlexPhoenix]

They self terminated to avoid a class 30 occurance. So, they did not cause one. Plus, it could also be that a Psi race would bring the Unbiden and/or destroy the fabric of the universe itself through powerful psi blasts, such as travelling around dimensions. In other words, it's as ambiguous as Paradox could make it without making no sense.

[@swordwaker7749]

The end of cycle is a strange thing with no one trying to put up a fight against. Yet they made the entity have limited power and you could just spam torpedo corvettes. This is weird. I don't understand the logic of AI empires. Something is wrong. Also the end of cycle is powerful just because no one seems to do anything. It's like the AI empires don't even see this being. Yet when they summon it, player can still see.

[@Zoey--]

This is an absolutely amazing theory. Having procced end of the cycle with galactic dominance essentially mine already I can confirm it rapes the entire galaxy. Imagine if that got out into the wider universe constantly growing in strength. Self termination indeed!

[@swordwaker7749]

Dylon S Nope, the end of cycle isn't that scary. In fact around 300k unbidden stack could kill it easily. Everyone just magically do nothing. Maybe they just want to benefit from it and take exiles instead because that's how you win the game. Many players would take this route too. No one really quite understand what it is.

[@firewarrior776]

So the necrons show up. And the old ones come back to help fight them. Got it.

[@kingaragornii9940]

The boomers came back to defend the innocents from the millennials.

[@Varichan]

@@kingaragornii9940 ey, wrong generation! we millenials are the ones who first suffered under boomers and now suffer from gen Z ~~ we are the screwed generation, that is getting bashed from all sides

[@mncpoops4005]

Necrons??

[@---iv5gj]

dude i think you time travelled

[@firewarrior776]

@@---iv5gj I have no memory of this comment.

[@jakobkristensensandvik5588]

You missed one important part of the Contigency's lore: you are actually NOT on the way to developing a class-30 singularity. Even the fallen empires only posess a class 4 one ( a building they have is called class-4 singularity). The AI has, however, gone rogue and wants to wipe out the galaxy long before it's directive demands it, thus it corrupts the synths with the ghost signal to make them manually activate the Contingency rather than waiting for the galaxy to advance to a class-30 singularity level of technology.

[@braincell4536]

It basically waited until it could control a species. Ie. Synths

[@kennyadriangreenwood5421]

How much POWER does the class 30 one make

[@adamnevraumont4027]

I wonder what class the "become the crisis" singularity is. 10?

[@Zlonk7]

"You will have to chew through all those defenses" *Laughs in planet killer class weapons*

[@novaassasinated9907]

Hell yeah

[@gamester512]

@@novaassasinated9907 Yep. Just use a Colossus to crack the Sterilization Hubs while your fleets keep it protected during the firing process, since the Sterilization Hubs self-destruct once they are defeated anyway. :P

[@NameName2.0]

*cackles in literal planetcraft*

[@thunderspark1536]

@@NameName2.0 ROARS IN O CLASS SYSTEMCFAFT

[@scp-001thescarletking]

@@thunderspark1536screams In quasi stellar obliterator

[@pkd5849]

The cybrex have returned: hell yeah The cybrex decide to leave: FUCKKKKKK NOOOOOOO

[@gamester512]

On the plus side, they leave behind their Ring World that you can then claim for yourself. So there's always that. :P

[@artificialgravitas8954]

Sick intro, flying through that Star Destro... I mean Contingency Dreadnought!

[@truetex8398]

Thats a smooth ass intro

[@TheBronxShogun]

The Cybrex part was pretty fucking hype, and now I wonder if Paradox weill expand on the other precursors.

[@SuperOverlord94]

So the Cybrex will come in and help if the Contingency grows too strong? That's wonderful news, because I'm currently exhausting my resources as a Machine Empire trying to stop these things from wrecking my side of the galaxy. I've blown up one planet so far, but my fleet, and that of my allies, is a wreck now. Luckily for me, my enemies are in just as much trouble as me, or else I would have been utterly boned.

[@A_Spec]

+Lord-of-Change their trigger is set to 15 of the galaxy taken by the Contingency.

[@Brakiros]

Cybrex don't trigger if you get the Machine Fallen Empire, they Awaken and get curbstomped because they don't get the same strength the Cybrex do

[@sharksareneat8723]

@@Brakiros They can also go rogue and start attacking everything around me - that happened to me

[@ennui9745]

@@sharksareneat8723 2/3rds chance of the machine Fallen Empire awakening to fight the Contingency, and 1/3rd chance of the machine Fallen Empire being corrupted by the Contingency and going berserk.

[@jediarchives7826]

That 'the Cybrex have returned' sent shivers down my spine, and it's an awesome detail to those who know the full meaning of it

[@Cursedzeba]

Ah yes “reapers” we have dismissed that claim

[@BloodiedShingle]

Fearful that this will be my crisis, having just started my first game of Stellaris a few days ago. REALLY hoping that I get it, though, this was chilling stuff. At any rate... "You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it."

[@cloaker7237]

All three of the crisis types are super difficult. Difference is the triggers -Contingency is synthetics/sapient combat computers -Unbidden is jump drives -Prethoryn is pretty much just the absence of the other two

[@chrischu1285]

That's pretty cool. It's purpose seems to be to make sure people don't make a Covenant with the End Of Cycle, this class 30 singularity it mentions.

[@admiralwalrus3963]

Chris Chu *makes a covenant anyway* Yay galactic peace for 50 years!

[@DontKnow-hr5my]

...that might have been why they suicided the entire race in the end! Somehow learned about what would happen and decided to kill themselves before these 50 years are over.

[@Poppadop1]

+Chris Chu Then why is the trigger synthetics and not psionics...?

[@Irgendjemandlol]

Because it need synthy to get itself activated. It told you that it needed to find a way to awake

[@Poppadop1]

+Hans Peter _"Because it need synthy to get itself activated."_ Even though this has nothing to do with the galaxy's level of psionic proficiency...? Keep in mind that people already use the term "singularity" to refer to significant AI advancement.

[@Mrcool2oo3]

The cybex are back HOORA HOORA

[@bizzaroid2021]

Me: just playing Stellaris Also me: see that the ghost signal event has begun *Memories of Vietnam activated*

[@theholypeanut8193]

*Cardiac Arrest Immediate*

[@HOLDENPOPE]

ironic, the Contingency were the first crisis I properly defeated. When the Prethoryn invaded, I basically quarantined them to a part of the galaxy. The Unbidden completely wrecked everyone lol.

[@anidiot4243]

I always go hit and run and make contingency experience vietnam on me

[@Uranos84]

So cybrex make a comeback. Cool. Wonder if the Irassians will make a comeback as well.

[@orangvii3633]

Pretty much

[@shoobydoobydoooo]

Would be cool if you somehow found one pop (or even a single survivor) somewhere in space as part of a super rare event chain that somehow escaped the flu. Kinda like the in limbo thing, but for the biological-based empires.

[@fieldy409]

Kinda dumb that a spacefaring species could be wiped out by a disease. You'd think once it got real bad clean people would just stay in their airlocked spaceships and blast anyone who tried to dock or land on their planet.

[@M.Walaa93]

the event chain does explain it though. Irssians had slaves/subjects from other species who acted as carriers for the virus and intentionally sabotaged the Irssian empire do to their resentment for the Irssians

[@loldominik660]

@@shoobydoobydoooo there a event for it already

[@robertkaminski5388]

I don't want to be spoiled - I want to be pampered :)

[@JDTR1900]

A Sterilization hub spawned in my Empire next to my core worlds. Crap.

[@imperiumCirca41]

The irony that im playing it right now and this JUST happened

[@ueuz0007]

So when you beat the Contingency and the Cybrex leave the galaxy, what happens to their ringworld?

[@hyperion3145]

Matthew Chenault *Second Intergalactic War starts*

[@definitelyaperson6334]

Me who can build ring worlds: PEASANTS

[@TheFearsomeRat]

8:30 Wouldn't a Colossus (assuming it can be protected long enough) be able to destroy those planets, and thus circumvent having to chew through it's ground army?

[@cqnzr-clipsgameplay5706]

We we're getting shit on by these guys; so we kinda gave up, even the Fallen Empire lost it's most powerful fleet to the point the Contingency made them inferior to me lol. So we gave up; not realising that "apparently" the Cybrex actually help us out xD.

[@dayafters1]

Every time I had this crisis, they just sit in the system they spawn on and watch the galaxy burn instead of helping.

[@royaldarkness8453]

I think they will help if you become the most active in fighting back the Contingency

[@leaderunith4l324]

Robots malfunctioning? (Laughs in spiritualist)

[@meeperdudeify]

Ummmmm

[@zackduvall405]

So, I'm halfway through my first successful playthrough where I'm really dominating a 600-star system map. I just lost my first spaceport mysteriously so I'm thinking they are my crisis to be. I never picked the level, so.... I'm hoping it isn't on hat 1 mil fleet lmao😅🤣 I'm NOT ready for that.

[@victorvanderputten5022]

Cybrex ! Fuck yeah !!!

[@marypusineri6291]

Victor Vander Putten which are they?

[@balintgod5130]

Do you receive any rewards for beating this crisis, other than survival? The other criseses give you unique techs, which you couldnt get otherwise. Is there something like that here?

[@christianyager991]

You get living metal and probably each sterilization hub gives you lots of resources

[@LuizAlexPhoenix]

JakeSpacePirate E Considering that they self destruct to avoid falling into enemy's hands, I guess Paradox didn't like the idea.

[@ThatGuy-yh1pu]

+Luiz Alex Phoenix +JakeSpacePirate E Synthetic Empires can terraform planets into machine worlds.

[@Botar48]

JakeSpacePirate E They can't only new machine empires can.

[@Untrustedlife]

new as in 'new' in the story pack.

[@alexmcbride7563]

In my latest play through, one of the contingency worlds spawned in a system right next to my capital. My two most powerful l fleets are recovering from a costly battle with an awaken empire, so I’m in a pretty bad spot.

[@craseder]

"it's the hardest of the 3." Greeeaaaat luck for my first game

[@bibby659]

If you get this message, I feel like the contingency was actually created in the event there would be an empire basically like that of a Crisis nowadays, afterall you completely destroy the galaxy by choosing that path and the contingency was built to prevent that eventual outcome, it would be pretty epic if the contingency activated during a Crisis playthrough and even specified that it only knew that it had to stop advanced species in order to prevent the end of the galaxy, but after seeing you (or a friend) as the crisis it'll realize its true purpose wasn't to exterminate advanced species but to kill off people like yhe crisis, who seek to ascend above their mortal shells via destruction of the entire galaxy and so it assists other empires in exterminating you, the crisis. Would also be cool if it then did kill off the crisis that it can either return dormant, adopts the bodies and appearence of a synthetic empire and joins the galactic community, or returns to kill off everyone after feeling the only reasonable way to prevent such an occurrence would be to effectively purge all organic and non organic empires and peoples to prevent another Empire such as that from occuring again. At which point it'll agressively ramp up production of its fleets and should the galactic empire still be a thing it will scale with the strength of all the members still in the Galactic Empire.

[@craig5322]

Thank you! I accidentally closed a dialogue pop-up and missed part of the story. This video is exactly what I needed to see what I missed!

[@CL-no3si]

Can't wait for synthetic dawn. Also, awesome intro

[@tillweimar]

Two short questions: First, can you get the Cybrex precursor event chain as a machine empire? Second, do you get to keep the Cybrex' fleet when they leave the Galaxy?

[@A_Spec]

+RoaringSheep Tv No, they take the fleet back once the threat is over.

[@JerkyMurky]

Now i want a new Survival Lets Play from you where the contingency, the Unbidden, and the Scourge are all spawned at the start of the game.

[@janedoe4929]

The triple upload is never expected.

[@Quadratical]

damn, the cybrex are here? AWESOME!

[@DrBLOOD1995]

The intro of that video is amazing ^^

[@pickakespartan]

ASpec are you going to a video like this for the new Mid-game crisis in 2.0?

[@ColdSpace_]

This video made me scared to play Synthetic Dawn because of the Contingency.

[@imperator5228]

Oh, don't worry, they're in the base game as well. You can just turn off Crises when starting a new game, though.

[@victoryrose2048]

In this new update at the start of every game you have a option to increase or decrease how hard the crisis is meaning if you want easy win you just set it to be really weak.

[@haid1449]

my total fleet power at the time they spawned was about 180k, and they came with almost a million fleet power and kept spawning more 300k fleets. rip my ass.

[@knobjockey6882]

Just be wary of the techs you research and the number of synthetic pops you have. You'll come up to some techs that have "dangerous technology" in a red section in the description. You can research them, but that'll put you at risk of sparking the contingency. As humans, I built a fuckload of robotic and android armies and took two dangerous techs (sapient AI, and the android one), but I only had one robotic pop (my food production was through the roof, I didn't really need it). I received the ghost signal pretty much after I research sapient AI. From then on, it was a rush to build up the fleet size, and then a slow grind to slow down their expansion.

[@names1139]

i mean thats fair since with robo's on or with you as a robo its like a 50/50 chance to get it and its one of the hardest crisis and besides living metal and maybe a ringworld. it dsoent give shit

[@paulsellers1531]

This event is definitely an upgrade from the A.I rebellion

[@xiloscient3335]

WAIT THE CYBREX COME? I really need to turn up the crisis strength to see that

[@hl1796]

that a good change of crisis , i really look forward to see what Paradox gonna pump out in near future

[@j.vinton4039]

Cybrex saved my bacon the first time I faced the Contingency. Contingency had taken roughly 20% of the galaxy, swallowing my 3 biggest rivals and closing in on my borders. I was TERRIBLY underprepared. They steam rolled my largest fleet “I didn’t think to break them up” and had free reign to my core worlds. The end seemed inevitable. Then, I got the notification about the Cybrex awakening. They proceeded to steam roll all of the Contingencies vanguard fleets while I was able to rebuild and mount a counter offensive. They ships they gave me helped out “also sick designs”. They formed the core of the retribution fleet. 20 years later we had pushed the contingency back to a tiny system close to where they spawned in at. Found out my stupid rival neighbor had gone crazy with synthetics and AI, hence why the Contingency showed up. I was trying to get the scourge to spawn.

[@tylerneice210]

Me: Spoilers. Don't watch it.. You will regret it. Find it yourself.. Me to Me: Watch it anyway. Me: *watches it* Me: DAMMIT THIS IS SO COOL WHY DIDN'T I FIND IT MYSELF!!! *hopes I get it in current game because it seems awesome*

[@ruthstewart8725]

This was me.... In dark souls 3....

[@anonymouskellog6157]

Dude at 7:04 of the video, you made my fucking jaw drop which is rare for me to do. I love the cybrex precursor story line because if you focus on building a lot megastructures in your empire (which I do) their home system gives a huge boost when the megastructure tech is researched.

[@YiYaEmperor]

I didn't get the Cybrex, but one of the Fallen Machine Empires engaged and after the Contingency was finished, they vanished too and left their Ring world and the additional two broken Ringworlds.

[@cvorwell]

Watched this with the Stellaris menu music playing in the background, at the time I thought it was just part of the video it fit so well.

[@VenikHue]

Ya know something interesting happened to me. I started the game and found a fallen empire called zero zero one that was a lot of synthetics with 3 ring worlds and spoke gibberish. I was able to make out that their creators are in cryogenic hubs but have long expired leaving only their robot workers left. And when the contingency awoke, zero zero ones machine pops rebooted and said that they fought the contingency a long time ago and that they will help me fight them. It was a very different story than this video.

[@dimant35ify]

I had an Machine Fallen Empire in my first playtrought and once the Contingency spawned, they went berkers atacking every ship they found, but mostly Contingency ships if i am not mistaken... trying to comunicate with them was only showing "" and they closed their borders all on empires, machine or not...

[@HalfLord]

Tbh, The Contingency are more like the Reapers from Mass Effect. The Determined Exterminators are like SkyNet, the Driven Assimilators are the Borg and other such races, the industrious ones are the Matrix.

[@大御神神熊]

Just got the achievement for this crisis over crisis power x1. Was really hard and long process but really fun! Few more tips to add. 1) You need extra ship hull bonus to survive since AI ship use arc emitter that bypassing shield and armor. HP regen is also important since there would be 4 core spawning and if they all land in your territory, it would be hard to repair your ship. 2) Despite air craft seems really op in this version, and quite effective against AI core with bombers, you will still face considerable large loss since the air craft need to slowly approach your opponent. Due to the fact AI Fleet has arc emitter, tons of Hull damage is not avoidable if chose aircraft-main battleship. So the best comp against them will be disrupter + kinetic weapon. But I really believe aircraft will be great if you could jump right into your enemies and do 0 distance battle. Aircraft become really strong due the change to itself as well as the new destroyer position mechanism and the change to flak 3) You still need heavy point defense, prefer flak. AI Fleet will fire drones that seems to have high hp or evac, they would soak multiple point denfense shots before shut down. BTW, the initial lunch of synthetic dawn is buggy for the contingency events. When you finish "block the ghost signal" special project the game will freeze. Current solution will be smashing enter button just before the project success window pops up, this will bypass the freeze if you smash your button fast enough. Hope they fix this soon

[@ZeraNex]

Nemesis made me think of something We are doing something thatother crisis empires haven’t. We are attempting to tap into the shroud and attack dimensions from there What if all most of the crisis empires that spawn are from the future, to stop the player from consuming the multiverse?

[@Triplios]

thanks for posting. I was just so lucky to get freaking Contingency to spawn together with the Unbidden and the awakened empire came to life... FML

[@GR-pt9my]

There are interaction between ascended sinths or the Spiritualist fallen empire?

[@TheAngryXenite]

Skander Parzival If it hasn't changed, pretty sure that the synthetic evolution ascension causes Spiritualist FEs to have a massive opinion malus due to you "selling your souls." No, really. It's called something along the lines of "sacrificed your souls" by becoming synthetics.

[@marcster95]

Watched this video for the 3rd time cause my galaxy is dealing with a war in heaven, khaan, multiple robot uprisings and now here they come! Honestly with how on fire my galaxy is I totally get why they're trying to wipe it out :P

[@theta8529]

That shot at the start looks like the end scene from the Taken King Expansion trailer 0.o

[@Bradatimrkonja]

If I trigger the contingency, I am safe from the Prethoryn zerg and the Unbidden, right?

[@Cerylion]

Yes, only one crisis can ever be triggered.

[@alduintheanti-dragonborn]

Until you get a multi-crisis mod.

[@alduintheanti-dragonborn]

Hans Peter Did the "End of the Cycle" come?

[@Warsteel55]

I may be fucked. They showed up right at the start of a war. My strongest fleet is only 40k...

[@JerkyMurky]

THE CYBREX!? Also that class 30 singularity has to be in reference to the end of cycle. Think about it, any machine that is created and designed by machines after the singularity (machine intelligence surpassing all combined organic ones) it would be so hyper advanced and intelligent that it would either have a way to observe the extra universe that is the shroud, or they could have postulated its existence, possibly to extremely high accuracy. On top of that, a singularity (in terms of artificial intelligence) is a culmination of intelligence. The Avatar that is spawned at the end of cycle is only spawned at the cost of all the life on all your worlds, specifically, through their psyonic minds. It is not only the physical representation of a "chaos" god from the shroud, its also the culmination of trillions upon trillions of intelligences. If the contingency knows that this is a possibility, and that this Avatar, this eldritch horror from beyond the stars is so intensely powerful as to be, essentially, invincible... It makes sense that they would eventually come to the conclusion that all organic life is a threat. Any life that can one day posses the power to reach into the shroud, and that might one day come into contact with the end of the cycle, would be a threat to the galaxy. They arnt the reapers, not really. The reapers are the end of the cycle. The Contingency is more like skynet on HGH. They simply see life as a threat to the galaxy... the galaxy they inhabit.

[@FlavorTown952]

Me and my friend were doing a multiplayer run when they showed up. Us and the SINGLE fallen empire are the only factions strong enough to fight off a single fleet of contingency units. The fallen empire sat on its ass for the beginning of the fight while the north and eastern parts of the galaxy were being wiped out. Me and my friend had the other two planets very close to us. They purged three of my planets before we managed to put a stop to it. We kamikaze'd our way into the machine world for the final battle, our combined 200K fleet barely being equal to the fleet defending it. We were losing, when all of a sudden the fallen empire warps in with a 350K fleet and begins to wipe them out. We bombarded the planet together and formed a federation with them. THERE ARE STILL FUCKING 3 OF THESE THINGS AND THE REST OF THE GALAXY IS BEING ANNIHILATED

[@rendstung1665]

Psi for the win...until you make a pact with the end of the cycle at least...

[@Mr._E._Shark]

still a win.

[@orctrihar]

Is it bad or good to do that ?

[@rendstung1665]

@@orctrihar uhh do you mean before or after your entire empire gets destroyed?

[@orctrihar]

@@rendstung1665 Both

[@rendstung1665]

@@orctrihar On one hand for several years you get massive production bonuses. On the other hand once that time is up, your entire empire is destroyed, and every single inhabited world you have becomes uninhabitable.

[@owentayygaming7567]

am i the only one reminded of mass effect by this event chain?

[@DrBLOOD1995]

That crisis gave me a lot of inspiration, I would love to make a custom endgame crisis mod, I have actualy the skill to code it but I would like to find a good idea, for now my only options are: "Xenos Purifiers" : a cyborg specie coming from a black hole trying to clean all the empires. "Asgard Armada" : an militarist fallen empire which used a special technology to hide their territory from the entire galaxy which finaly decided to move up and dominate every empire.

[@Rumpsteakinator]

Xeno Purifier seems cool, needs a better name though. And Asgard Armada: Why would a militarist empire hide from the other ones?

[@Ishlacorrin]

How about they were banished by some other major empire that has now left and the containment fails? The age old "We cannot deal with you but maybe our descendants will be able to".

[@SmurmBreep]

I would love for their to be some unique dialogue with the cybrex if they're you're precursor/you own cybrex prime

[@mattkent4397]

I just play with no endgame, since I’m still getting a hang of the game, but I might do the endgames just to see what happens now.

[@terryjones2467]

Damn, well... thanks for the spoiler warning I guess I'll come back to this in a year or so when I've finally made it that far and my damn Ironman save doesn't get corrupted

[@jamiefenwick8359]

When I encountered this event the Cybrex never returned. However the Ancient caretakers (the machine fallen empire) ascended in a special event claiming they where created to protect the galaxy from the contingency and became "the final directive". They then did pretty much the same thing though from the sounds of it and single handedly annihilated the contingency with multiple obscenely powerful fleets (like over 500k) before stating their role was complete and self destructing their entire fleet and ring world.

[@CapitalTeeth]

Contingency: **Appears** Me who forgot to research phase disruptors:

[@A_Spec]

Ye, that's gonna hurt

[@deregapreyahvattaffdiff]

I just beat them with Psionic Mechanist Empire (In fact, I used synth for mostly lure them out and didn't research any kind of jump drive until they pop out). They have no power over me, just a few synths at the prelude events. Just lose one fortress world that held the 1M fleet at the gate at a wormhole near my homeworld long enough for me and Guardian to blow up all their hub and their hideout. Unfortunately, my colossus didn't finish in time the fortress world fell just a few days before I managed to blow up their core.

[@Vanq22114]

A lot of synthetic pops... *Always takes the synthetic evolution ascension perk* Well I'm boned.

[@thunderthunderstorms8828]

I do believe there is also a special fallen empire that interacts with this event. They have a chance to ether be Hijacked by the contingency or to repel the ghost signal and join the galaxy to fight back.

[@Herbertti3]

When I hit "on screen" with the cybrex nothing appeared. No fleets to be seen. I found their homesystem though. Is is possible contingency wiped them out before contact was made?

[@MrErtwer]

As soon as he said "If you don't want to be spoiled" I was about to turn the video off but that intro got me hooked.

[@aerialgod01]

Its nice to know that the devs give you help against the machines that go rogue, ya know, the cybrex

[@stonewallpjs6179]

Hands down the coolest end game crisis!

[@dreamhollow]

I just barely managed to complete this event. Shutting down the Ghost Signal made such a huge difference.

[@Matt_UFP]

Be me Fallen empires awaken Be the largest empire so far Have nocoli Dyson beam *continously headbanging exsterminatus button*

[@PH03NIX96]

The Follow me mechanic for fleets should apply to the entire system when a crisis breaks out. Have everyone sign a crisis pact through a diplomacy option so it's a full team effort

[@voidimperial1179]

ASpec still being his usual cinematic god

[@MaximusLight]

That music is great, kind of like a mix of the previous Stellaris tracks + Tron + Transformers

[@mayuthecop]

Really love the "Holy Terra" or "Transformers world" vibe of this new machine world. Looks awesome.

[@imperator5228]

We'll get to make our own as machine empires, they have their own ascendancy perk.

[@mayuthecop]

Zerebrat Eightyseven Yeah I guess the circles to look like it. Only that its not red and not that many.

[@emetanti]

they basically are Forge Worlds.

[@ChickenFartx]

AzuAlx Ex I’m getting a more Battlestar Galactica vibe from what it does to the ship A.I.s

[@lordlard2833]

Here I am dominating the galaxy when this triggers. All for world spawn well away from my corner of the galaxy. Something tells me that the Cybex will be involved sooner rather than later. The small fleets of the contingency are as big as their large fleets.

[@theodorwoland9930]

What music is played in 0:25? Thanks in advance

[@MrLucidImages]

So the traditional AI crisis event is totally gone? Will organic races researching AI tech trigger the Contingency then instead?

[@A_Spec]

Correct.

[@jacobtasker1370]

What if you are a determined exterminator machine empire? Can you like join up with the Contingency to cleanse the galaxy of all organics and dissident Synths?

[@A_Spec]

+Jacob Tasker nope, the contingency don't care

[@jacobtasker1370]

Dammit!

[@Aedrion-]

If you look at how it speaks, you can tell something is wrong with it. It jams and stutters on certain words. That probably explains why it can't be reasoned with.

[@Terachud]

I'm a D2 fan and when I first encountered this it reminded me of SIVA. This is a good addition.

[@Wezryx]

I honestly think they're still trying to defend the synthetic life forms and the organic searches there and get saved as well 7:40

[@fanjerry8100]

Hey what?! That's the aesthetics and story elements from Sword of Stars, a game published by Paradox but it was developed by a different studio.

[@00yiggdrasill00]

i love how this ties into the synthetic ascension path. heres hoping they tie the psionics into the outsiders and the biological into the swarm. this way there is a risk to even ascending at all but the buffs are strong and open up new gameplay.

[@TheAngryXenite]

yiggdrasill The Unbidden will tell you that they're not from the Shroud if you're psionic, although they definitely know about it. The Prethoryn are literally Tyranids.

[@00yiggdrasill00]

I know, but it was an idea to tie the other two ascendancies into the remaining crises the way the synthetic one is to the contingency. the way things stand I feel there could be a huge disadvantage to going synthetic over the others. I know the unbidden are tied into the psi drive but I was thinking there would be a trade off this way between all three.

[@TheAngryXenite]

yiggdrasill You have a point. Maybe make the entrance of the Unbidden create some massive psychic disturbance that weakens psionic empires until they strengthen their connection to the Shroud or something? And I'm not sure about how to connect the Scourge to biological, bit to be fair, using Biological ascension is honestly enough of a potential weakness as it doesn't really improve your navy or technology much, although it can obviously make your pops more efficient.

[@00yiggdrasill00]

TheAngryXenite i like the idea of psi storms, and i can see what you mean with the bioascendancy. its more a general buff then a powerful new game style

[@AK48smoker]

holy shit, did the ai rebellion find its balls?

[@voidimperial1179]

Instead of being SkyNet, its the Reapers

[@Unemerix]

Never had this crisis always get scourge or unbidden

[@perfectlybalancedasallthin9319]

Play as machines or synth empires and they will ALWAYS appear. That's what happens to my games lol.

[@Archon3960]

The only thing missing would be a title screen : "Stellaris, the Contingency".