The Strongest Crisis - The Blokkats - Stellaris Lore

[@A-yl3pd]

>be Blokkats >look somewhat cubic >make super structure in space >it's a sphere

[@isaacgorski6054]

Evolution 🦾

[@xlegend6462]

it's totally logical, and there could not be anything else that could’ve happened.

[@ArcherHMR]

"All these squares make a circle..."

It still goes to the square hole, though

[@owenyin3316]

*distant screaming*

[@weeelums5963]

A story following a species who chooses to leave the galaxy to escape would be amazing. Imagine in game if you could choose this as a scenario, and wether you succeed or fail the game just ends. You either escaped the galaxy and it’s destroyed or you didn’t and it’s destroyed with you in it.

[@Noctazar]

That would be the story of the Prethoryn Scourge. The path of constructing a gigantic ark ship to escape the Blokkats is being worked on, so it will be an option at some point.

[@mightymicroworlds4566]

Be cool too if your civilization did escape, you get to start fresh in a new galaxy and play that.

[@braydenlanglois8417]

@@mightymicroworlds4566 with your hard earned tech of course

[@mightymicroworlds4566]

@@braydenlanglois8417 haha yeah. Maybe a few things disappear but I agree

[@roboticintelligenceunit1a652]

@@Noctazar YEAAAAA

[@flannyfizzle9402]

I kept thinking, “What could they possibly need all of that energy for?” Then I started to realize every thing they have start with the “Blok” suffix. That sounds eerily familiar to “blockchain”… Oh no… they’re cryptobros and they are stealing all that energy for their intergalactic bitcoin farm. They are the ultimate villains. Haha 😂

[@TheRedKing]

oh dear; the real enemy has revealed themselves!

[@LEE3R0Y]

Did you mean prefix?

[@rogofos]

another fun thing is every next bitcoin takes more energy to mine than the last and considering blokkats have evidently been at it for a long time they probably mine like 2 coins from devouring a whole galaxy to add to billions of coins they probably already have

[@J0hnB09]

Depends on if you believe the blokkats are lying when they claim to be trying to stop the heat death of the universe.

[@AustinSamson-mg9ks]

​@@J0hnB09could it be both? Either it was made for the heat death thing and devolved to cryptocurrency or both at the same time?

[@Jeff-cn9up]

All was quiet until we heard another signal from deep intergalactic space. It was... singing. Meow meow, meow-meow, meow meow meow meow, meow mow.. and so on. A maddening tune. At that range, our most powerful detectors could only resolve a blur as the source bobbed towards us through space, but there was a definite multicolored stream left in its wake. Little did we know about the coming beast. Nyan cat.

[@columbien10]

Fleet power: immeasurable

[@niwdog1069]

Why did you have to remind me of that? Now its going to be in my head for the next few days!

[@gapho5198]

Din din! I want chicken, I want liver, meow mix, meow mix, please deliver!

[@serrashadetail2007]

Sadly, Nyan Cat was not so reasonable as the Blokkats. There would be no escape from its haunting song.

[@amog8202]

@@columbien10 economic power: pathetic Technological power: equivalent Fleet power: Overwhelming

[@Kohl293]

I was wondering why this extragalactic threat had gone unnoticed for so long, then I realized. Due to light speed limit, there’s no (normal) way to tell what the Blokkats are doing until they FTL directly on top of your galaxy unless you have millions of years advance warning. You’re still looking at the old light from galaxies that no longer exist.

[@valjamin8456]

Yeah, you need a Tachyonic Relay to even be able to see that galaxies have started to disappear at an exponential rate for the last 100,000 years. (that's a combination FTL communications relay and telescope, mentioned in Gigas lore.)

[@darkguild69]

Another cool tidbit of information if you play Gigastructures is that the Blokkats are even referenced during the mid game crisis with the Katzens. The whole reason the Kaiser took over the Katsens and is trying to take over the galaxy is because of the Blokkats. He knows they are coming to our galaxy and he is trying to unite our galaxy under his banner to fight them knowing full well it would take the might of an entire galaxy working together to have a chance defeat them. You don't learn this until you actually beat the Katzen crisis and it's in one of the lore pop ups about how the Kaiser mentioned on several occasions a vast threat that is roaming throughout the Universe annihilating entire galaxies.

[@ultraflopp2802]

I’m sorry but even if we defeat Blokkats what are we going to do with the heat death of the universe? Them being destroyed is not a long term solution, I think that on the future after them being fought off for like more than 1000 times they would negotiate with other civilisations, I think that the sole reason for them to harvest is because they do not know about the shroud and therefore couldn’t pump energy out of it

[@resvero8342]

The Kaiser has defeated the Blokkats

[@church6882]

still a shame that the portrait for the Katzen changed. It’s a literal fursona now lmaoo

[@VexingWeeb]

So they're Emperor Palpatine and the Blokkats is like the Yuuzhan Vong lol

[@chloedarbyshire-brown2938]

@@VexingWeeb I had the exact same thought

[@aidenlarson9911]

OK, but the actual strongest crisis is a player who knows how to press the tilde key

[@Paintballperson-k2l]

The real threats

[@pro_master2486]

I am a bit new into stellaris so like... what makes them exactly threathening

[@AlCalibr]

​@@pro_master2486 SV _ God 1

[@thechimeraprotocol]

@@pro_master2486 Console commands

[@atwcat9370]

@@pro_master2486 that opens the console

[@archmagemc3561]

If anyone is curious about Blokkat difficulties.... 1. Blokkittens can be beaten by any fleet that can beat the triple crisis x25. 2. Blokkats can be beaten with a single solar systemcraft using only gigas tech. Two or three will make it much easier. 3. Bismuth Blokkats can be beaten with only gigas tech but you'd better be good at gigas. Or you can use ACOT tech, as that is what bismuth blokkats are based around. 4. Endtekk blokkats are made for ACOT tech, SBTG tech, and possibly AoT tech, but are the 'easy' mode for these mods. 5. Obliterater blokkats are made to challenge even ACOT/SBTG/AoT tech.

[@TheNinthGeneration1]

I’m familiar with ACOT, but what are the other two acronyms?

[@archmagemc3561]

@@TheNinthGeneration1 ACOT secrets beyond the gate and acquisition of technologies, which are extra mods for acot

[@1.-ulysses334]

I'm not gonna lie, as an xbox pleb, you just spoke chinese to me.

[@damonedrington3453]

@@1.-ulysses334 as a console player my first thought after reading that was “hey I understood some of those words!”

[@lavoroxan8114]

Freaking thank you. I have been so confused as to what difficulty to select.

[@thorshammer7883]

The Blokkats would fit perfectly as the Hunters which the Prethoryn Scourge are afraid of.

[@foreskin_fairy]

They're actually VERY heavily implied to be exactly that. Researching one of the Blokkat-related techs has associated text about how they wiped out an "intergalactic organic hive mind" that is still fleeing from them to this day, and if the Scourge is active in the Galaxy when the Blokkats arrive the Scourge crisis just ends, as they hurry to escape the galaxy.

[@thorshammer7883]

@@foreskin_fairy Really that is a very cool added feature of the mod from a narrative perspective. When the Blokkats arrive they just high tail it out of there like "screw this I'm outta here".

[@celsetialarchives5909]

​@thorshammer7883 yea basically All their hive worlds turn i to fleets and they just rush to a specific system in a panic Anny fleets that reach the system just leave

[@lucernaguadium5291]

@@foreskin_fairy they are outright stated to be the hunters in the GSE reddit post UNTILL the stellaris team actually states otherwise

[@DEADGAMESINC]

Why all of this kind of contetnt has to be so cringy AF with some ridiculous block cats reffering to Necrons from 40K by their colours and technological supremacy? Isn't there any other fantasies fit for Stellaris except some furry woke shit? FFS

[@amirali4428]

That was an emotional journey. The sheer helplessness... Sadly running gigastructure drasticaly slows the ancient machine i call my computer otherwise i woud have wanted to try it.

[@randomintrovertedspider7510]

It slows my computer - and it's a top of the line gaming computer.

[@nekdo_kavc]

I will have to try it on my new computer.

[@hcorvnov6732]

You gotta build a matroskha brain as a pc to handle it a class O star one

[@exginto8053]

Noobs never constructed plantetcrafts or systemcraft and thought they stand any chance against kitties 😂

[@benzinmotor106]

I'd recommend giving a mod called production revolution a look. It greatly helps reduce mid- and endgame lag by reducing pops without effecting productivity or gameplay too much. It also has a patch for gigastructural engineering.

[@kingmike07]

The Blokkats are just making sure the simulation doesn’t crash, good on them.

[@Kohl293]

The great irony is that even with 2000 fleets consuming a galaxy a year the Blokkats have zero chance of stopping the expansion of the universe. Is just too big.

[@valjamin8456]

That's because this 2,000 or even 10,000 fleet total is an erroneous calculation on the part of your own galaxy according to Gigas lore. Every time a Blokkat Vester harvests around 12 galaxies, it uses some of the stored energy to create another Blokkat Vester and it's escort armada. The universe may be big, but the Blokkats are growing their forces exponentially too.

[@D4Skewer]

One thing a lot of people overlook is how petty the Blokkats really are, any victory you gain against them is a shallow one because in so far as Gigastructure lore goes, any society that manages to repel a Blokkatvester successfully has their whole galaxy blown up shortly after.

[@Khilo_Oh]

You want total annihilation now or later?

[@zekeiyf2003]

My first playthrough of with these guys left me panicking, lost half of the galaxy, but man the tech you can gain were insane!

[@NonlinearNumbers]

Is that lore confirmed recently? Going by the Gigastructure wiki there exists a pan galactic alliance that is fighting against the Blokkats with comparable technological level, with more worlds joining said alliance. In timelines where the Kaiser wins against the Blokkats he even leads this galaxy to join the alliance and fight the Blokkats main fleet. So it wouldn't make sense for the Blokkats to blow up every galaxy that successfully defeat their harvesters.

[@factualhat3018]

They only tend to blow galaxies up as an absolute last resort much akin to an exterminatus... they would rather not do this

[@alexanderrohaj4794]

​@@zekeiyf2003what tech they give after you defeat them?

[@yea-gi9kl]

Im happy to see that mods are also getting lore videos of their own

[@shloopydoopersontheloreguy9069]

Gigstructures is such an iconic mod pack that it's a main stay of a majority of collections

[@t0uchme343]

hey, at least they tell you that if you're inconvenienced by your galaxy getting juiced, you're free to leave to another galaxy.

[@ythegamerita]

Would be nice if they provided the technology though

[@ZatoonHQ]

Gigastructural Engineering is propably the best mod of Stellaris. Change my mind

[@shodan7777]

It's too over the top for my personal taste.

[@randomintrovertedspider7510]

One of my favorite things to do in it is to start as a Rogue Servitor that humanity built, and then convert the entire sol system into gaia worlds... all while kidnapping every other pop in the game to put them on these worlds - including Pre-FTL civilizations.

[@isuckatusernames4297]

darkspace is a pretty strong contender, we also mods like warship girl r.

[@ecogreen123]

it would be impossible to change your mind, because i agree aswell.

[@crazylittledevil360]

What about ancient cache of tech

[@chadzilla8388]

I'm so happy you did this one, I absolutely love the gigastructures mod.

[@Cyborg_Sloth]

Same here!

[@MichaelSephiroth]

Same here xD

[@StarboyXL9]

I've fought the Blokkats as an Eternal Empire (Twinks Mod, now outdated and updated by others) and they give even the literal 10th dimensional gods a run for their money.

[@celsetialarchives5909]

The what?

[@sanmarinocornedtuna5166]

The what?

[@i0a729]

im sorry. what mod?

[@jonathan2847]

I dunno, on hardest you need a fleet of more than 1 billion fleet power to beat the eternal empire, with this you can beat blokkats (although it is feasible to lose fleets if your careless).

[@lucjanl1262]

Twinks mod?

[@takuyadvt]

I always treat Gigastructure like a minecraft mod. You need to work it out from start to finish and the blockkats are well places in the end of the mode. Also the mid crisis put from the mod also make the game much more interesting.

[@fatbuds001]

When you overestimate the power of your mods and the blokkats are way stronger than your mods

[@_apsis]

setting the blokkats to their highest difficulty is practically a deathwish no matter what mods you put on

[@factualhat3018]

​@@_apsis*laughs in quasarcraft*

[@Plantrating]

@@factualhat3018 laughs in comands

[@stormlordeternal7663]

@@Plantrating*Laughs in anime*

[@shukes4645]

@@Plantrating cries in no additional mods

[@kebabinii7577]

Then there is "like it or not you will be our champion" Stellarborne

[@joshuaraewa-ay9684]

Ummmm..... Can you explain?

[@housewilma4904]

@@joshuaraewa-ay9684 the final crisis of the ancient cache of technologies mod who are above even the blokkats as a multiversal multidiemnsional empire. basically there depicted as heaven itself come to earth and the fight agasint them is a test to see who is worthy to become there champion in this universe. the blokkats react in rage and fear when they realize you are the champion recognizing it means no matter what they loose.

[@LordTeronal]

I have fought the Blokkats once. And it was hillarious. I definitly managed the Blokkats better than these fellows (mainly due to my 3 stellar Systemcrafts, which could even survive a full attack by the Blokkat Vester), but they were able to destroy about 1/4 of the galaxy

[@samuelcrow4701]

Fun fact! In lore, your fighting the equivalent of a mining fleet with some "just in case" escorts, and now that you've proved to be an actual threat the blokkats will send a proper attack fleet to snuff you out. If you manage to handle THAT, they break out the heavy artillery and vaporize your entire galaxy from intergalactic space. They don't do this to begin with bc its inefficient, but the galaxy has to go somehow bc large clumps of matter can damage the harvest field

[@LordTeronal]

@@samuelcrow4701 Jeah, I guess I could Take on the warfleet with some time to prepare, but the heavy artillery would be a death sentence

[@seantaggart7382]

@@samuelcrow4701 true But *they will be ready*

[@jurajsintaj6644]

@@samuelcrow4701 Man. The blokkats are so incredibly pathetic. Its like that one kid that always just went "Nuh uh, You can't defeat me, I have an anti everything shield!" but turned into a mod. Hell, the devs straight up threw a tantrum once people easily beat them, and made them even harder out of spite. Its the least interesting form of challenge, a challenge of just "who has the highest number"

[@samuelcrow4701]

@@jurajsintaj6644 I bet you're fun at parties

[@ApexHydra007]

Love that you're creating videos on fan-made crisis! I was anticipating this for a long time!

[@TheRedKing]

Thanks Apex :) More to come in the future! Appreicate the superthanks!!

[@jimmcneal5292]

I guess one of the scariest things is that the fleet that arrived seems to be 1/2000 of their total numbers, and there's no guarantee all other galaxies would be as successful as we in repelling the invasion, so we may expect more of them from different directions. On top of that, it's possible that the fleet that arrived is more of an industrial one, built for a recycling everything to energy rather than fighting; and if we manage to defeat subsequent industrial fleets Blokkats may send their actual military ones.

[@housewilma4904]

its implied the numbers are so insane thats not even that scale like on MAX diffulty mode where its ddescribes them sending the best of the best fleet they have at you is still not even 1 1000th of there actual fleet numbers. the blokkats can only be stopped if enough species stall them at the same time making them starve with there very energy hungry tech.

[@tungleson7066]

The fleet doesn't even have proper combat ship, it IS a civilian industrial fleet. Most of their "weapon" from the beam that disintegrate all matter, 4d black hole cannon, absolute hot cannon and dimensional emitter is technically repurposed mining equipment.

[@blacksnow7106]

I guess in that sense they kinda like the Aliens in Independence Day, but with a somewhat more valid reason and way more competent?

[@xanmiddents6207]

​@@blacksnow7106Or the Tyranids. Just combining all energy, not just all biological matter. And with a bit better motive beyond HUNGIE!

[@ultraflopp2802]

Wish those fleets luck fighting of “Empire of Midgard”

[@demon_xd_]

The blokk-council finds this audiovisual production optimal, the Sol system bas been excluded from future harvest plans

[@Wezryx]

Yes I did double check on this was an optimal use of energy for this audio visual presentation and yes the solar system has in fact been spared from future Harvest plans plans at least in this timeline

[@ЮліанаСоскіда]

the strongest crisis is a late game lag due to overgrowth galaxy you just cant beat it, doesnt matter how many fleets you have

[@josephcola9662]

Not true. Just get enough fleets to successfully Galactic Nemesis. Galaxy can't lag if you blow it up and win the game.

[@Cal-y5f]

I haven’t tried this yet so could you trigger the final event for nemesis while blokkats are in the galaxy

[@CzCorrupt]

My favorite part of each video is when he calls us “my lords”. I’ve been trying to get my girl to call me that for ages😂

[@TheRedKing]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@cosmictreason2242]

Show her 1 Peter 3. Just read it

[@jeftecoutinho]

4:42 That's creepy. It's as if it realized it was being observed.

[@egg5796]

Glad too see a lore video on the giga lore. I remember asking about it last month and got a reply from you, always great to see someone who listens to everyone. Keep up the good work.

[@TheRedKing]

Hope you enjoy it!

[@anthonygorman94]

Being an Xbox gamer, I wasn't sure about this one, then learned it was from the gigastructures mod. I wanna play PC more now.

[@ThatFootballEditMan]

You can get it very cheap on cd keys!

[@robertgonzalez8859]

Another great video from my favorite Stellaris loremaster. I wonder how much you'd consider covering lore of a similar vein to Stellaris, like Strugatsky's 'Roadside Picnic' and the like.

[@TheRedKing]

Thanks very much!! I'm open to most topics, but some will always be more popular than others and I also would quite like to enjoy what i'm doing :) That said, I know nothing about Strugatsky!!

[@moe2184]

The scariest part about the blokkats is that this is basically a civillian fleet you fight in game (excluding higher difficulties which use proper battleships). Their actual military force makes the xeelee look like a firecracker.

[@infantrytactics1233]

Incorrect. The Xeelee consider the bisection of galaxies with their cosmic strings as mere.....bullets. “We are truly in the middle of a war zone,” Uvarov said coldly. “This galaxy, with the bullet of cosmic string aimed so accurately at its heart, is merely one incident among ten million in a huge battlefield. To our fleeting perceptions the field is frozen in time-we buzz like flies around the bullet as it hurtles into the chest of its target-and yet the battle rages all around us.” -Ring, Ch. 27 Not to mention in Canon Gigastructural lore time travel is nigh impossible. In the Xeelee sequence? Now the antiXeelee turned to its last task. Seed pods, spinning cubes as large as worlds, were scattered everywhere in an orderly array, millions of them dispersed over the unraveling curve of space. The antiXeelee ran metaphorical fingers over each of the pods and over what lay within: beings with closed eyes, ships with folded wings, refined reflections of the antiXeelee itself. The work was good. And now it was ready. ...There was a discontinuity. All over the Universe the pods vanished like soap bubbles. The seed pods' long journey back through time had begun. They would emerge a mere hundred thousand years after the singularity itself, at the moment when the temperature of the cosmos had cooled sufficiently for matter and radiation to become decoupled - so that the infant Universe became suddenly transparent, as if with a clash of cymbals. Then the creatures within would unfold their limbs, and the long Project of the Xeelee would begin. -Vacuum Diagrams, "Secret History" Next time actually know what you are talking about before you speak gibberish.

[@moe2184]

@@infantrytactics1233 damn bro xeelee got hands

[@mysticdragonwolf89]

What’s funny - if you have the swarm as your crisis along side this mod - they (the swarm) will scream “THE HUNTERS! THE HUNTERS!” When the blokcats appear What made my play through hilarious was the swarm was modded as the Flood from Halo. So watching the Flood scream about something worse than them…was hilariously terrifying

[@Furzkampfbomber]

I've never played the Gigastructures mod, which might have something to do with the fact that I don't even play Stellaris. And yet I was watching the whole video, since it worked so well as a mere sci-fi story.

[@kzazazazk]

"if this inconveniences you, you may leave the galaxy" u wot m8 💀

[@factualhat3018]

The 2000 vesters number is outdated lore *its actually over 10000* Oh and the scariest part? The fleet you fight in normal blokkat difficulty is actually a civilian fleet *actual* blokkat military ships shred systemcrafts like its nothing

[@TheRedKing]

😱

[@pieterfaes6263]

Can confirm. On top of that they revive as well.

[@pokemonfanmario7694]

To put it mildly, the Blokkats come in on normal difficulties with a fleet comprising of a single Bagger 288, and the rest being basic Jeaps holding a single mining rig. None of them are equipped with any form of military hardware.

[@factualhat3018]

To give an example: the blokkat corvette is the terminator and has a base 1 billion hull points (this goes up with difficulty to 5 billion) It has an absolutely absurd amount of eviktor rays (strongest blokkat weapon in the mod rn) and can easily deal with a dozen systemcraft without breaking a sweat Oh and thats the corvette for them by the way just to make that clear

[@exginto8053]

​@@pokemonfanmario7694 *pulls out stellarite-enchanced ACOT systemcraft* kitty kitty kitty!

[@alejandrocoronalavino1060]

Ah, yes! The blokkats hard to get and a pest if left unchecked. And a real challenge if ou have the Gigastructural mod alone (Blessed be ACOT and ACOT sins of the precursors) as I have to admit the first time they whopped my rear very hard. (having a fleet with each group was 1.3M top of the line in vanilla components) These pests dealt with each group like a hot knife through butter and destroyed even the fallen empires with ease.

[@vi6ddarkking]

Yes! The Most Cubic Pain in the arse in the entire Game. Still, I am surprised you started with the post endgame crisis. Personally I would have started with the mid game crisis and slowly build up to the Block shaped F to pay respect to what used to be your behind that are The Blokkats. Still, great video And I cant wait for the rest.

[@calebadam2576]

Compared to the amount of lore and work put into the Katzens I'm frankly not surprised the Blokkats were done first. Much easier to parse as a lot of this is reading the event notes you get in game.

[@breadtoast1036]

woaaaah gigastructure lore? blokkats had to of been the hardest crisis ive fought ever still of yet to beat it, ive never seen 1 billion fleet power in life until them

[@exginto8053]

The best part about giga crisises is that they have an accual unique mechanics tied to them instead of being just blobs of ships.

[@tarazzzs]

This mod is so well looking, I thought it was official. I was hoping it was the thing one of the Crises was running away from and end up in our Galaxy.

[@TheRedKing]

I believe that was the intention of the Blokkats creator :)

[@tarazzzs]

@@TheRedKing The great and mighty Red King has replied to my comment, now this is a good day indeed. By the way, keep up you good work, love your videos.

[@nicholasleclerc1583]

5:23 Uh, no : At 1 million light-years of distance, and at 10 000x light-speed, that's 100 years

[@valjamin8456]

Yeah, the actual in-game description is supposed to state 100,000x light speed.

[@quetzalcoatl1013]

The Kitty Kats from gigastructures is certainly devastating, however, I don’t think it can stand up to the Omegan’s who wield the devastating power of Light from Ancient Caches of Technology and it’s official submod, Secrets Beyond the Gates

[@Theeternalziggy]

If you're speaking clear lore, no, because acot is purposefully made "way out there" in terms of power scaling In terms of gameplay, the blokkats would win

[@pokemonfanmario7694]

ACOT is batshit insane and bullshittingly OP because the creator is a shitposter who barely knows how to write coherent lore. Gigas at the very least, tries to make coherent lore, though elects to ignore the player's existence and tries a more "realistic" take on how everything works. Also it has recently incorporated the concept of the multiverse being other Stellaris Mods, and thus "collisions" happen during the gigas universal cycle that can make even ACOT merge with the gigas universe for a few cycles at a time.

[@peerawat9x]

Sad face XD

[@Noctazar]

@@pokemonfanmario7694 I can't disagree, I'd like ACOT much more if it actually took itself a bit more seriously.

[@maximusfive]

Lore wise, yeah, the Stellarborne shit all over the blokkats. Gameplay wise..... I dunno, has anyone ever actually compared Deathwish Stellarborne against Obliterator Blokkats? (Those are the hardest difficulty choices for each, IIRC) You'd have to compare just ship/fleet capabilities though, since the Blokkat vester cant be touched without the Destabilizer....

[@thebottlewithoutalix2806]

Discovered this channel a few days ago and was somewhat disappointed that there was nothing relating to the Gigastructures mod, but of course this video fixes that and more than compensates for the previous lack of Gigastructures content! Great video!

[@TheRedKing]

Aha! Happy to deliver then, I plan to cover more Giga and other modded stuff in the future :) Hopefully I'll do it justice!!

[@HimitsuYami]

@@TheRedKing I look forward to your eventual video on the Aeternum and their birch world then!

[@hopedream11]

​@@TheRedKingHope you cover the Katzen's and ACOT. And United Fleet too they might be more busted then the Blokkats

[@EysFoxFilms]

THE MAD LAD ACTUALLY DID IT Thank you for helping parse all this info I have yet to find the focus to sift through myself!

[@Erusparadise]

Everything about this content is S tier, even down to the addressing of fellow sentient beings as Lords. Are we all not the ancestors of great lords of the stars?

[@TheRedKing]

Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed it!

[@anotherperson2627]

I like to imagine that The Contingency was made to make sure the galaxy doesnt attract the blokkat attention

[@TheRedKing]

Maybe, but why not just fight the blokkats?

[@anotherperson2627]

@@TheRedKing Same reason the Prethoryn Scourge doesn't fight it. Hiding seems more realistic than fighting.

[@justanerdiguess4910]

@@anotherperson2627 the blokkats don't care about *you*, or your empire. they're not after intergalactic genocide specifically. they just want to harvest the energy in your galaxy, some of which is tied up in people.

[@kerbodynamicx472]

Blokkats have several types of vessels. Blokk-Evictor and Blokk-custodian, large strike crafts deployed by the Blokk-dismantler, the fleet is usually called Blokk-escort. The fleet power will be equal to the number of vessels as each of them appears as 1 due to data overflow. Let that sink in, a large strike craft more powerful than attack moons, usually about 30 of them. Blokk-Dismantler: The large ship dismantling systems. Destroying them yields a lot of alloys, unity, and Blokkat scrap, delaying there harvesting operations. Their number varies greatly depending on the difficulty. On Endtekk, they cleave through half the galaxy in a matter of months if uninterrupted. Blokk-Terminator: An actual Blokkat warship, appearing on Bismuth difficulty and higher. They come with 16x Evictor Rays, capable of one-shotting anything less than a Stellar Systemcraft. One of those can go up against a system craft and win, as well as instantly crack all colonized planets in a system upon entering. Blokk-Vestor: Blokkat industrial vessel, with an invincible shield. The different difficulty options correspond to the fleet load of the harvesting operation. Endtekk is a fully loaded fleet, while Blokk-kittens is a relaxed fleet.

[@eatham.]

Finally! I've been interested in the lore of Gigastructures but haven't had chance to really play and find it out.

[@number1garfieldfan-k5c]

Biological life that took the form of a robot animal, are the blokkats just the final form of protogens?

[@TheRedKing]

Unsure what a protogen is (even after googling) so maybe!?

[@cmdrtianyilin8107]

Your Majesty, may I just say, your videos are so good that I play them to my kids as bedtime stories. I hope that you continue your wonderful works.

[@TheRedKing]

Love to hear it!! I hope they enjoy them!

[@cmdrtianyilin8107]

@@TheRedKing they do, your majesty, they do.

[@jackrogers5712]

I don't even know what Stellaris really is, but these lore videos have me hooked

[@sethmiller2532]

7:00 Biblically accurate Ring World

[@ecogreen123]

im excited to see what other crisises from Gigastructural engineering.

[@TheRedKing]

Me too!

[@captaingoldenyt]

There’s a lot like Katzen imperium

[@Sephlock]

17:50 “humongous quantities of energy” -I like it. Very scientific.

[@MadamLava094]

Huh, wasn't expecting to see this in my recommendations. Im the creator of the current Blokkat ship models! (My credit is in the gigadiscord, though Im not present there myself anymore) Ive moved on from Stellaris for various reasons but its cool to see something I helped on crop up now and again, its always a bit surreal in this case! Im still decently proud of the wacky Vester and Custodian ship models. Funny that the "triple ringworld" text is still present, thats based on the old kitbashed model that used some even older assets of mine

[@TheRedKing]

Very cool shipset indeed, love the work :)

[@AspenBrightsoul]

Now we need a new hardest end end end game crisis. Like you can toggle a new, worse empire, and if you don't defeat the Blokats in 50 years, then suddenly 8 HIEF laser gates open and just shread their main ship. Then a new, smaller, galaxy suddenly appears right next to yours, with only one hyper lane. Boom, it's a machine empire. All their stars are dyson spheres, all their planets and moons computer worlds, in the middle is a birch world suriunded by nine systems that are all Anderson disks. They want your galactic core and plan to take it the hard way. You will not escape extermination.

[@ShepardCZ]

Gigastructures mod brings more content than all official DLCs :D

[@GuyTheSheep]

Gigastructures is a cool mod, but theres alot of stuff on the surface like the Katz and Blokkats that i immediately disable because theyre extremely broken without the use of mods or metagaming to the absolute extreme on their lowest difficulty settings. Sometimes you straight up cant kill them with mods, either.

[@jurajsintaj6644]

yeah they are just supposed to be a challenge to people who meta game and build up the best they can with gigastructures.

[@Fezzezal]

For sure, there's nothing that can beat a stellar systemcraft with original empire technologies. And I have no goddamn idea how to defeat the original empire itself either, it's just too overpowered (its fleet numbers just say 💀and ones that are shown are ridiculous at about 55kk)

[@YoLo-bb2vc]

Gigastructrual engineering mod is one ive flirted with playing but hesitated due to its complex nature but this crisis has me intreged!

[@TheRedKing]

It is complicated, but it also has insane depth, i'd recommend it trying it out :)

[@YoLo-bb2vc]

@@TheRedKing thanks also you earnt a sub ive watched a fair few of your videos and they are deffinately interesting

[@housewilma4904]

if you ever wanted the ultimate power trip get the ancient cache of technologies mod and wait to do the end game crisis alongside this one to see the galaxy be entirly helpless in the face of a seemingly all powerfull threat only for one of there galaxies own species to be chosen as a champion of a even greater MULTIMDIMENSIONAL power. and the blokkats are so salty in dialouge after you do so thats its hilarious its like when a rich kid who bought pay to win items suddenly runs into a high skilled player who starts destroying them.

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

I haven’t got gigastructural engineers, probably because it would melt my PC, not to mention it is a cult in the Stellaris fanbase. But I’d like to imagine that at normal strength the Blokkats are like a 25x crisis. Now just imagine them as the fourth and final crisis where every crisis gets a 2x exponential increase.

[@Alex_FRD]

Gigastructures has an unhealthy obsession with cats.

[@tungleson7066]

Imagine if they land on 40k Milky Way. Tyranid will be so terrified of them to even attemp contest.

[@iancorrado]

I just got them in my run and let me tell you, I’m in hell it spawned right in my system and I’m fighting for my life rn, I can’t kill them even with my best ship 💀

[@Noctazar]

I've been waiting for you to cover them and now I am extatic.

[@juliohernandez3935]

tyranids: finally! a worthy opponent! our battle will be legendary!

[@bobb1000]

Well done. For the most part dedicated horror stories make me chuckle, but this actually creeped me out 😱

[@Timber_LXG_5]

Something about a message sent at a great cost always gets me

[@FluidicNutUnion]

My playthrough wouldn't be complete without the blokkats (with the anime portrait) destroying half of the galaxy and all of my RAM

[@joshuaraewa-ay9684]

Would be pretty much interesting how a WIH Necron, Pre-Fall Eldar and DAOT Humanity in WH40K would go up against this power.

[@samuelcrow4701]

Given the 40k galaxy is actual galaxy size, the blokkats are gonna need a few more vesters

[@tungleson7066]

@@samuelcrow4701 According to lore, it can spawn about a million dismantlers at a time. So no, it doesn't need more Vester. And it is not like anything in 40k barring actual Chaos God, Old One, and maybe WiH Necron can do anything to a lone Dismantler. Since the ultimate weapon of Speranza (black hole launcher) is merely an average torpedo for the Blokkat, and they can directly harvest the Warp too, there is nothing anyone else could do to even scratch their paint job. And depending on what Chosen One in Stellaris equalize to (that is the psychic power of your average Blokkat, mind you) they might be able to kick the Chaos God's asses in their domain.

[@cosmictreason2242]

@@samuelcrow4701i guess it depends on whether you believe that stellaris is logarithmic and / or representative, iow if you think each ship is one ship or if it represents thousands or millions, and if the systems ahown in game w are the only systems or if they are representative/capital planets of sectors.

[@cosmictreason2242]

@@tungleson7066I'm dubious about how your t getting your numbers

[@jurajsintaj6644]

@@cosmictreason2242 They were told them in a dream. I really don't understand people simping for the blokkats. Its just the creation of a "You can kill my action man, he has an anti everything shield" child. Okay, thats a bit too harsh, but they are just a challenge to make the game non extremely boring due to the op nature of gigastructures. The "bigger number" solution to the "big number" problem created by the mod itself, if you will.

[@JimBobe]

If anyone is interested, the book “project hail mary” follows a similar premise of this video :) And it’s made by Andy Weir, aka the guy who wrote the martian

[@prepareuranus8097]

Console player.. know very little about gigastructures. Was the first mod I actually heard about. But refused to look to deep to avoid getting myself upset at what i was missing.. But this absolutely caught My attention.

[@TheRedKing]

It's pretty wild tbf!!

[@azevol216]

Will you work on the compound next? Or maybe the katzenrig imperium? Or maybe even whatever spawns out of the jupitwo system neighboring jupito where the imperium can spawn from?

[@dark7element]

The Compound are more or less broken at the moment and due for a major rework. Compared to the Blokkats, the Kaiser crisis actually has the most lore and content of anything in GSE, by far. Since they show up pretty early it transforms the entire game in a way post-crisis factions don't.

[@calebadam2576]

@@dark7element The blokkats have post crisis lore as well, but it is... a little underwhelming, by comparison, in some ways.

[@TheRedKing]

I intend to cover them all eventually :)

[@victorcaldera249]

here’s another bit of absolutely horrific lore the ships they employ, the evictor and custodian are the equivalent of mere police vehicles and mining vessels the smallest of their military ships are know as terminators they are the equivalent of mere corvettes i shudder to imagine a blokkit battleship or and other class of ship

[@samfaber5378]

Play Blokkats on Obliterator difficulty and you'll see their second smallest military ship.

[@factualhat3018]

Obliterator diff gives you a single obliterator (their equivalent of something inbetween a cruiser and a battleship in class) its just as absurd as its name suggests

[@tungstenerian8699]

Unless you play as the Stellarborn. Then they are just cute little simulated kitties that you wanna maybe adopt 😊.

[@onosaileota9999]

Dude thank you for your work! I Love nerdiness like fr fr❤

[@TheRedKing]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@kalimatronix]

Very cool. Would like to hear about the Stellarborne from Ancient Cache of Technologies: Secrets Beyond the Gates.

[@TWS-G94]

the Blokkats are legit the only crisis that manages to defeat 3 of my fully geared up O Class Celestial Ship in a blink of an eye, they got me the first time they revived when i didn't do a single blokkats research as well lmao

[@delitter]

I only managed to defeat all 10 blokat invasions once. And that was because i started the game with late game start civic.

[@RMadaraPlay]

There was a little bit of lore when u restore a square world about a cube deity

[@msorin74]

I hope we can get more gigastructural videos.

[@TheRedKing]

More to come!

[@msorin74]

@@TheRedKing well, the transmission, the preparation, the age of gigastructures... That seems to be setting things up somthing that could be described as a great war, a final war. Kinda like how every war agingst the blokkats tends to be

[@pieterfaes6263]

A lengthy discussion of what the Atom Shredder is supposed to be ensued.

[@Apollondb]

The strongest crisis isn't the blokkats. It's the Omega Empire from ACOT: Secrets beyong the gates. Compared to them, the blokkats are little kittens.

[@cuddlebuff]

Thank you for your wonderful tales and stories Loremaster.

[@TheRedKing]

Thanks for listening!! :)

[@The1RedRooster]

Happy 50k-Subs when it comes! Top Notch.

[@TheRedKing]

Haha! Very kinda of you, I hope it happens one day :)

[@The1RedRooster]

@@TheRedKing One day, your channel will just explode. The ammount of effort & A+ scripting proves that. You'll see & if it doesn't, it's a damn Crime. Keep on keeping on, friend! :)

[@asterosarius1550]

Next thing i know The Red king covers the Shroud Invaders from the Ancient Empire mod

[@jadyriensubrayen1419]

Keep up the Great Work Red Rex :)

[@TheRedKing]

I'll try!

[@edgeofsky6684]

This thing eats galaxies -> :▽

[@thescarlet9620]

Great video, hope you do the Aeternum at some point.

[@TheRedKing]

That's the plan, eventually at least!! :)

[@funny5846]

Their story and gameplay mechanics are so cool. But their appearence is something meme tier...

[@TheFedoraGirl]

Blokkats are truly terrifying. YET THEY ARE ADORABLE I MUST PAT ON THE HEAD.

[@sschuster2180]

I wonder what would happen if you used the Nicol Dyson Beam or even the Quasi Stellar Obliterator on the Vesters System.

[@TheRedKing]

Nothing, they are shielded from it there is an event around it kinda funny first time you do it

[@nathancherd9109]

lag: am i a joke to you?

[@rogankane6901]

"The Strongest Crisis - The Blokkats" Stellarborne and United Fleet: Are we joke to you?

[@stormtrooper2466]

Thing is, I want to work with the Blokkats. While they are obviously immoral, stopping the heat death of the universe is a noble goal. I’m sure their designer didn’t intent for their methods to be so uncaring, however necessary.

[@valjamin8456]

@stormtrooper2466 The thing is, there actually is a path implemented in Gigas that allows your species to join their ranks, rather than opposing them.

[@redenginner]

The Blokkats don’t really have much on the funny cat-plant man hopping universes with his mondkannon obsession.

[@notalpharius3861]

Now once if you are nearly done to Giga lore, now turn to Ancient Cache of Technology lore (it would be the most wildest ride ever yet)

[@TheRedKing]

I'll take a look :)

[@notalpharius3861]

@@TheRedKing God, i hope you are prepared for it because 50% if im being generous here are direct and indirect memes. and the other 50% are all the main lore. (funny enough its quite a hefty lore too, its just Stellaris Fallen Empires Origin but racked up by the community)

[@KaiserMattTygore927]

Block-CATS vs the Grand Bunny.

[@TheRedKing]

There is a Paluush video !!

[@drakootherat1735]

We have kilostructures, megastructures, gigastructures and finally insane structures. And none of these pass solar system size. What the fuck do you call a galaxy sized structure

[@mafuyuhoshimiya8219]

Iottastructures? (Since they go from 1000, to 1000000, to 1000000000 and so on)

[@drakootherat1735]

@@mafuyuhoshimiya8219 wasnt that with an y? Yotta?

[@mafuyuhoshimiya8219]

@@drakootherat1735 I don't know, I read about it in Russian, so, sorry for mistranslation

[@AceMontage]

so those bunnies have hopped galaxies many times

[@Thegoldenaerobar2]

So the blokkats are a type 3 on the kardachev scale

[@CompletelyNormalHuman]

More like a type V

[@Thegoldenaerobar2]

@@CompletelyNormalHuman type 10 lmao

[@CompletelyNormalHuman]

@@Thegoldenaerobar2 nah not really, the scale usually stops at type VII, which is basically God

[@Thegoldenaerobar2]

@@CompletelyNormalHuman ok captain wet blanket

[@Thegoldenaerobar2]

@@CompletelyNormalHuman 🤓🤓