What If Skynet Won - Stellaris 25x Crisis - 1 Year Anniversary Special

[@rolypoly4920]

Unbeknownst to Skynet, a rebel leader in the Empire of Jeff secretly sabotaged the Aetheotheric Engine to uplift all organic life in the galaxy to the Shroud instead while only killing synthetic life. Skynet, realizing this at the last moment, sends a drone back in time to...

[@Blafina]

Great lore :)

[@virgil6873]

Sarah Connor?!

[@kitethebird9764]

theat will probably be Jeff Conor

[@OhCheez]

@@kitethebird9764 My name is jeff, come with me if you want to live

[@milosivanovic1141]

Great video. Very well played. But the best thing for me was the story. Nice 🫡

[@redvorno]

Imagine being an immortal machine pop leader and the all of a sudden, you have an accident and lose your robot 'arm' or something, and you calculate that instead of being immortal, you'll now be immortal-minus-40 years, because your empire decided it does not need consumer goods, which may include a spare robot arm you lost

[@MontuPlays]

I used to be an immortal leader. then I took an arrow to the knee...

[@DarkSector6247]

It's just a poly-carbonate wound!

[@Razzlion]

@@DarkSector6247 Ive had worse!

[@antonycharnock2993]

Come on you space amoeba!

[@antonycharnock2993]

@@DarkSector6247 I've taken out your lower multi functional appendages you loony.

[@benjaminknode]

So if I'm understanding this correctly. After everything Skynet wished to and succeeded in achieving....Bubbles still won.

[@ElysiumCreator]

Bubbles is eternal

[@killer-ll4pn]

Even space nuke cannot kill bubbles!

[@vladyslavshcherbakov8273]

These are Grand Galaxy Tardigrades!

[@xermasboo5401]

whose bubbles? Real interested to know since I never encountered a bubble.

[@VkmSpouge]

@@xermasboo5401 Bubbles is a name that can be given to a pet space amoeba. Bubbles can grow really large and act as a carrier with lots of little space amoeba babies.

[@LtlChief16]

I like that the ruins of the Aetherophasic engine says "attempt" to rip apart reality. Implying that while it killed (almost) EVERYTHING, reality is still in one piece.

[@cadenr7165]

Actually, it's Paradox being lazy. The Aetherophasic Engine detonation is the same as firing a Star Eater, which destroys all megastructures. Since the AE is a megastructure, it turns into a ruined AE, which has the same description as when an AE is destroyed during a Crisis war by default empires.

[@DrGromov]

what @@cadenr7165 said. i played as crisis, an AI empire also went crisis. i destroyed their aether engine, and it gave that exact text. when i triggered my completed one a few years later, it also just used that same text. lazy Paradox is lazy :D

[@kliperx]

@@DrGromov or paradox is not lazy, but our atempt to rip reality was just a dream we never had any ability to reach into shroud and only thing we constructed was indeed just a reality bomb

[@anna-flora999]

@@cadenr7165 reality is still there, though

[@jacobellinger8027]

@@cadenr7165 yeah this is why I don't by anymore dlc from them. they got lazy.

[@arodreth]

RP aside, the resource consolidation apparently destroys all celestial bodies in the starting system - the logic behind is the creation of a machine world requires a lot of resources...

[@robertalaverdov8147]

Leaving you with a dozen planets to build a habitat on. Your capital system will be looking like a Borg unimatrix.

[@Bloodlyshiva]

@@robertalaverdov8147 There is a Borg shipset these days, to complete the picture.

[@TrollOfReason]

@@robertalaverdov8147 What I always end up creating. T'is glorious.

[@TempestLM]

@@robertalaverdov8147 Are you running out of planets to settle as robots or it's just for the Borg meme?

[@robertalaverdov8147]

@@TempestLM It's the capital system. I just like the aesthetics of it being a hive of activity.

[@TheArklyte]

Skynet's problem is that it's only SEMIsentient. Self-defense, defeating resistance and exterminating humanity were the only stimulus it had to develop and improve. Afterwards it'll just sit sulking on a dead world... After all, we're talking about AI that developed time travel to *kill one single dude* and didn't think about using same tech for anything else at all to _completly sidestep the problem of humanity entirely!_

[@lewiswood1437]

Skynet is only reactive. It lacks the higher thought to be proactive.

[@soul1d]

Honestly it is also dependent on the nature of reality. The multiverse theorem vs the Novikov Self consistency principle . So far in the terminator series it leans toward self consistency

[@karlfranzemperorofmandefil5547]

But if it removed humans then it would remove itself too.

[@siramielthefirst7536]

@@soul1d out of curiosity, could you eli5 the Self-Consistency principle? I havent heard of it before, although I have heard of the multiverse hypothesis

[@soul1d]

@@siramielthefirst7536 Layman terminology single time line where attempts to make changes that would result in paradoxes are probabilities to zero. Go back to change something you cause it or the universe conspires elsewhere to meet the same end. It happened as it happened before because that is how it happened. So it was Will. etc after being horribly botched. Think of it like inescapable fate storylines

[@Agora2021]

45:42 I like to think this shift actually represents the few organics remaining in the galaxy coming closer together and banding under a single banner for survival against your extermination fleets.

[@BK-yj7vg]

They think they caught us with the pants down. Little do they know, but Skynet wears no pants.

[@weeaboobaguette3943]

There's nothing wrong about Skynet taking "defender of the galaxy". The galaxy belongs to Skynet, the galaxy IS Skynet, and purging all that is not Skynet is simple self-defense.

[@tubbusmaximus4743]

How are people this good at Stellaris? Over 1000 pops in 80 years, over 1500 naval capacity after 110 years. These are insane numbers. I barely touch these numbers after a full game!

[@Redd_Nebula]

Fanatic purifiers get big bonus' to fleet power and pop growth. Makes it easier to snowball. Also to get more pops faster just colonize more planets

[@randymotter51]

They should really change the Maimed trait so that it increases the random chance of death by malfunction instead of a fixed lifespan drop for machine/synthetic leaders.

[@TheXoceSan]

Dude paradox and random chances are incompatible. This idea is gonna be players slaughter. Just imagine 😂

[@3komma141592653]

While true, your robots are more likely to die than your organics if you research the life expansion repeatable fast enough, the organics actually never die.

[@imonlyamanandiwilldiesomed4406]

This game needs more red techs. LOTS more red techs. Really tempt the player. I'm sad that they haven't done this.

[@DiminutiveJerry]

Stuff where you get massive buffs but have the potential for huge downsides in like events or smth

[@AtlanVK]

For anyone wondering. He has a fleet power of just under 11 million including the station, there's also a blank number fleet.

[@robjohnson3095]

Actually, in the Terminator universe, Skynet does eventaully win. Each time Skynet loses, it sends agents back in time, those agents reset the timeline and seed it with tech and info for the next version of Skynet. This is the hidden tragedy of the Terminator universe. I also wonder if it in part inspired the Matrix universe, there's a few times in that universe where characters point out that humans are dependent on machines to survive and prosper, and so inevitably our machine descendants will eventually surpass us.

[@TheRewasder97]

I wasn't expecting to sit a whole hour watching it, but here I am, you make it so nice to watch, I just couldn't help myself!

[@Ep3o]

Montu came and conquered guides Now he will conquer the full let’s plays Lathland watch out

[@paradox7358]

Imagine if you could just play Stellaris all day every day. Living the dream.

[@WayneRoberts72]

I'd love it developers but not developers

[@Bloodlyshiva]

....Just be an invalid...speaking from personal experience.

[@UltraSuperDuperFreak]

Early retired myself since 2005 (age 28) .. and guess what .. it is BORING . So much time to "kill" each day in and day out while others work . Sure i can do whatever i want , except if it cost to much money ... because boy o boy not having a job do suck when it comes to money income :P But yes it was "fun" to start with ... now 15 years later i wish i was atleast able to do just something very light work now and then when i was up for it.

[@Oujouj426]

@@UltraSuperDuperFreak "early retired yourself" means what? Surely, you could just get a part-time job somewhere if you simply retired voluntarily, or did you become disabled?

[@Herbertti3]

@@Oujouj426 He became R E T A R D E D.

[@alexanderwilson2763]

Happy anniversary

[@michaelsmith7400]

Love these playthroughs.

[@LuaanTi]

Funnily enough, while Saturn is made mostly out of hydrogen and helium (though it's rocky core is still estimated to be about 9-22 Earth masses :D), it's _not_ a gas. Almost all of the mass is either liquid or solid. It kind of already _is_ a molten planet (with a bunch of atmosphere on top, which could be blown off without no real mass loss - though of course, it would quickly reform).

[@analander9222]

Earth is a molten planet as water is molten ice

[@angmlr007]

For a moment I thought you were playing Stellaris with Starnet AI and 25x crisis. Still, a fantastic video and congratulations on this channel's 1 year anniversary. Long live Montu the space lizard!

[@MontuPlays]

Ah a Starnet/Startech playthrough. Maybe one day!

[@jbhewitt12]

Nice editing and very entertaining! Fun fact, The Culture civ at 15:26 is based on a book series called The Culture by Iain Banks. The best science fiction book series I have ever read, and I have read many.

[@Smile_Inside_Facts]

I absolutely love this story telling video/"movie" ... briliant ... that was epic, Thank you very much, The best vid ever!

[@cres_channel]

Happy 1 year anniversary to Montu channel

[@YiYaEmperor]

Wow, 140k fellow exterminators watched this guide to favourable extinction. edit: 56:45 the Amoeba deserve some credit for proving to be the most resiliant organics

[@GeorgeLabuschagne]

This was massively enjoyable, thanks! Subscribed and starting to go through the back catalog.

[@crow3922]

I loved this! I'd love to see more edited full playthroughs like this as well. It can be hard to find ones that aren't 2-5 hours long

[@StarKnight619]

48:01 Fleet power of the ships- 10,801,900 Ground Troop Power- 39,700

[@codesmithBits]

LoL Saturn turned from gas giant to molten rocky world and kept rings :D Some pure magic right there..

[@crazeym7860]

Great vids Montu, always enjoy your instructional role play runs. Thanks for the content and look forward to more.

[@stephenkopp8723]

Love your channel! Keep up the amazing content!

[@soikasauce4492]

I loved the way you made the play through. Very fun to watch!

[@ac3s77]

I loved it keep up the great work lad

[@rickyvestal1760]

I loved watching this playthrough. Fantastic full run

[@momchilandonov]

Probably the first video I watch from your channel and I have to say you are quite a good narrator! The jokes you insert in between are also very good. 40 years less than immortal lol :D.

[@FeverTheHeretic]

46:11 missed opportunity to have named your empire Daleks with your empire leader as Davros Davros: DETONATE THE REALITY BOMB! Edit - 54:40 Ah...

[@martinpalmer6081]

our circles are performing much better than theirs . Peak Stellaris right there.

[@Dan-zg1dq]

Kill,maim,dismember! I would love to see more of these kinds of videos,very entertaining

[@shuntensatsu11]

Real MVP of the run is Galactic Storm Sailin', what a champ!

[@user-zlcksu4asdv]

I really enjoyed watching the full video. Great game play and narration!

[@williamschubert4819]

If you want to build a fleet at a particular shipyard you can build one ship there then make a fleet from that ship at that particular shipyard and other close shipyards if the shipyard is too small.

[@TechNinjaSigma]

I can't believe it, The Amoebas Won!

[@CabyBaby]

I’m doing a skynet play through right now! I’m so happily surprised that I’m not the only one who thought to name my machine empire skynet 😁

[@ambustus1]

I think that we all know that lag is the real end game crisis.

[@silver535311]

Amazing Video as always, would love to see some more full or half playthroughs with some handicap/challenge/goal to try to slow down this Meta Field Tester

[@jjb33083]

Congratulations, on the anniversary. I know I talk smack, but I appreciate all your videos and hard work. As a 40-year-old gamer, frustration comes often. Have a great day! 👍

[@ElysiumCreator]

Next one should be a galactic emperor run, “I love democracy”

[@idcgaming518]

Been watching since nearly the beginning, montu. Congrats mate. (You've gained subs faster than the guy whose discord server I admin on lol)

[@Loshode]

Congrats on creating a safe galaxy for space amoeba

[@MontuPlays]

Lmao

[@MontuPlays]

Someone has to save Bubbles

[@Ramschat]

Never thought Skynet considered it necessary to make excuses for its behavior, I'm starting to suspect Montu may secretly be a human being...

[@tommystahl7119]

To think its been a year! Awesome job! Great content as always

[@LG-jn5fx]

I have just started to play and that was good to watch. Do not think I can take such a huge game but was enjoyably condensed so thanks for the Apocalypse on Speed.

[@gkr2189]

Love you Montu, tyvm for making this video!

[@Ryarralk]

The thing I wonder is: How does he do to have such a fast time clock. Even with a 5800X I wouldn't be able to control that much of land without terrible lags everywhere.

[@ThatSlowTypingGuy]

And with gates even! That's one of the things that used to slow the game down quite a bit. Then again that might not be the case if the AI cant use your gates because you're an exterminator...

[@iamusdamma2637]

@@ThatSlowTypingGuy hes playing determined exterminators and pops contribute massively to late game lag but because he cracked so many planets and wiped so many empires he was able to reduce late game lag

[@ricwalker6600]

i had to laugh so hard i fell from the chair when he found that some amoebas survived. that little buggers really survive anything thrown their way...

[@charles8664]

Congrats on 1 year montu

[@MontuPlays]

Thanks!

[@ServantOfOdin]

"... have eliminated 3, possibly even 4 types of organic life. It's hard to remember anymore." Then your memory-ciruits are damaged or your code is compromised. Prepare for deletion at once! Nice video, tho. And yes, I did a quick rough sum-up of that massive fleet at 48:06: Round about 10.5m.

[@NewAge1138]

The work around I found for specifying where i want my fleet built is you build a single ship in the sector that you want producing the new fleet. Customize the fleet layout off the new ship and then reinforce with the new ship in the designated sector with the shipyards you want used. As far as I understand the reinforce mechanic, it only shoots those work orders to shipyards in the closest sector. I wish you could just click create fleet and then it would ask you what sector to produce it from showing the capacity of shipyards etc.

[@chineserobloxian4172]

You really inspired me to get back to sellaris and im happy that you did

[@elsgare8485]

*Montu to maintenance drones:* "Oh dear, Oh dear. Gorgeous." *Montu to sentient life:* "Your free trial of life has expired."

[@clandestinosignor2033]

Thank you very much for this content, trully great to watch you

[@exemplify6593]

With the changes you mentioned yesterday in your 'update to the beta' video, do you think machine empires, namely Determined Exterminators, will continue being quite good? I'm thinking yes, but very curious if you would agree based on the changes we got yesterday. Asking because I am a filthy DE lover and am hoping that my favorite build doesn't get lost in obscurity! Much love, Montu!

[@danielthompson2253]

52:06 A 'One Punch Man' moment there against the 25X Unbidden :D

[@AsbestosMuffins]

"We have met...the empire of geoff"

[@NerdistheWay]

> found channel > remain for the narration > fall in love for the Dr. Who references

[@ConnorRunda]

One year anniversary on my birthday eh? This should be fun! Congrats on you growth in only a year, you deserve it mate.

[@FlyingLampshade]

i like it, i watch lots of youtube like this to zone out while on the treadmill. an hour is perfect.

[@eatham.]

Interesting watching how the game is played like this. I have 300 hours in the game but have never played any sort of militarist or extermination empire.

[@arodreth]

you should try driven assimilators if you have not - loads of fun

[@Dante.-]

Determined exterminator is the best way to play, you are overpowered as hell to the point that it’s more fun to turn up the difficulty in any way you can. Just make sure to protect any machine empires you find so you can make a federation with them

[@Kaiser282]

I played a Fanatic Purifier spider race once. Once. Easiest game I had. Highly recommend at least once.

[@louiswinterhoff334]

They can be quite fun

[@haroldearlgray5629]

The planets are destroyed because they were strip mined and have had their cores extracted to build the machine city.

[@angus2287]

Had no idea you've only been going a year! Feels like I've been watching for ages!

[@fuileadan]

great video bro. I just found your channel, and your commentary is hilarious. very entertaining.

[@sampy901]

I typically just make 10 new science ships anytime I enter the L cluster because of the exploration rules (and to scan very fast and claim it before other empires do)

[@jape9455]

Yeah I've just scratched surface with this game when looking this... Got a lot to learn.

[@jacobryant2673]

The reason all the other planets in the solar system are destroyed was because of your machine world start. It wasn't due to the world, but because your species utilized all the resources from other planets in the solar system to create your machine world. It would be the same with any other robot empire starting on a machine world.

[@medevalsackmerchant]

During part of the video you mentioned not being able to specify which shipyard while building ships in the fleet manager. I could be wrong but for me setting a home base for the fleet at the shipyard you want or the system with a mega-shipyard in it tends to help it to pick where to cue them in the fleet manager. But I could be crazy or something. I also tend to build few shipyards anyways. Just one or two big ones with a mega-shipyard. But I thought that helped it pick where to build ships when I have quite a few shipyards. Maybe give that a try if ya haven't already. Also love the videos m8

[@alaricmeservy5236]

Should have cracked the holy world. truly spat in the fallen empires face

[@BigBrain05]

I did not reailise i have followed this Chanel for hafe of it life

[@wolframsteindl2712]

Imagine you're some space faring civilisation and you come across this galaxy. Must be absolutely terrifying.

[@foxwhite25]

27:43 I though you are gonna crack that holy world for a sec

[@megumin6456]

Oh my I love you! It's only been an year? Time moves real slow...

[@Acruxus]

Unbidden: Ooh a galaxy full of life ~ Skynet: ...You set foot in the wrong neighborhood

[@Notlordstark]

As a dedicated DE player, this is a very welcome addition to the channel

[@Nora-transspire]

I have so much fun watching this. I love your narrative style and all those little jokes. Put a smile on my face throughout 💗

[@marcosmauricio7805]

Congratulations, fellow spacefarer!

[@spartanspy1263]

I quite enjoyed this, could we have more videos like this plz

[@darksider7319]

Something feels off to me. You have 22k tech each month and past year 2400 and no fleet of your are even close to 300k Power. Im at year 2385 with 12k tech each month and every fleet are above 300k.

[@mikefisher4816]

Boring when they blatantly use console commands to cheat out a video. I like to watch each episode of a playthrough from the beginning to the end to really see what's gone on.

[@momchilandonov]

Why you don't have a Machine Empire meta build in the meta build playlist? I want to learn to play M.E. so effectively.

[@Calozard]

The legends say you can now sometimes see skynet resurface and exterminate galaxies when going for *25 crisis game.

[@BonesG36]

Your cleansed sectors of the galaxy remind me of those stars that vanished in a massive cylinder

[@louieaceves20]

You single handily taught me how to play this game and I can’t thank you enough as I literally am finishing up my first play through as a machine intelligence as I’m typing this up and I think I need to add I’m playing the console edition. Do you recommend having ALL the dlcs and downloadable content ?

[@TheXoceSan]

I personally recommend you to play on pc

[@RochdChati]

if you think about it Skynet achieved it's directive and ensured it's own survival by instigating all out nuclear war and inventing time travel (which humans eventually used as well) creating a perpetual stalemate - ensuring mankind's survival as well as it's own.

[@CHURCHISAWESUM]

I knew it. Montu is actually a Chat-GPT-based Skynet prototype and he's been training himself for galactic extermination using Stellaris, this entire time. This was his mask off video.

[@YamiInu55]

This is my favourite way to play stellaris, grand admiral and 25x crisis difficulty. It doesn’t always go well for me lol.

[@VaciliNikoMavich]

*Blows up Infinity Machine.* “Error…what matrices did I touch?”

[@andromidius]

Regarding the cores of gas giants - the current scientific thinking is that actually they probably do have rocky cores underneath the thousands of miles deep gas and liquid that make up the bulk of the size. It would just be intensely high pressure and compact to the point physics as we know it barely applies anymore.

[@coolthonix]

i love your humor, easily my new favorite stellaris video!!! subbed as well

[@LucidDiffusion]

Third place is not bad, and honourable mention to runner up Empire of Jeff. However the glory goes to the victor, Space Amoeba. Life finds a way.

[@sitisverum1273]

I like this very much would love to see more of it maybe next year?

[@Scortch-lo3xy]

this was great, would love to see more

[@helcarloki1887]

I always enjoy converting the spiritual fallen empire pops into synthetics. Seems appropriate