Who are The Chosen? - Stellaris Lore

[@aecides3203]

For me, the Chosen were a sign that my 'benevolent uplifter of a pre-ftl and fallen empire only galaxy" run was getting restarted.

[@alexkatc59]

Do not let xenos live.

[@icewolfwolfie173]

​@@alexkatc59fool u are purposely throwing away workforce and slaves. The insolence of these xenophobes

[@devinnie7572]

That sounds like a fun idea, not sure why I never thought of it. Will probably try one day.

[@aecides3203]

@@devinnie7572 It is pretty fun, and there are a few ways to play it - you can either sim up your empire and then just watch the 'younger races' and see what they do, or act as a kind of guide to them by immediately proposing subjugation as they reach ftl/uplifting them all yourself. In either case, I strongly recommend you subjugate the first primitives to become empires and set the terms to expansion prohibited until you've got the pre-ftl laws and at least moderate sanctions passed in the galactic community, or you tend to just end up watching the first AI to reach ftl gobble up (and often invade and enslave) the primitives. The easiest way to get the laws passed ASAP is to release 2-3 single system sectors as vassals with expansion prohibited early on, instead of waiting for pre-ftl's to grow up.

[@SprayandPrayman22]

Late to the party but the first time I ran into the Chosen was during a Protector of the Galaxy run. I like to play the Clone Army Origin by going Egalitarian or Xenophile with Fanatic Militarist so I can get Distinguished Admirality and Diplomatic Corps which allows me to make up the economic ground midgame by migration treaties and those I still "lag behind", I can just beat through pure weight of fire. I digress. Suffice it to be said, when the Chosen came through that wormhole and declared war on my neighbors, whom I had a defensive pact with, they didn't enjoy much success for long. The only reason they continued to exist after the war's conclusion is because my neighbors got rocked and accepted a Status Quo peace due to war exhaustion just as I was preparing to head through the wormhole and besiege their homeworlds.

[@ecogreen123]

my first encounter with them was very peaceful because the wormhole to their cluster was somehow wedged behind the fallen empire so they couldn't really do much and i could properly gauge the situation and prepare for a war of that scale.

[@florians9949]

The chosen: we are the chosen, the galaxy is our divine right and we will purge all that dares to lay hand on it. My determined exterminators being on the verge of completing the Aetherophasic engine: the only chosen in death.

[@LordDarthHarry]

Their little star cluster makes for an excellent "plan C" (the L cluster being plan B) in case of a Crisis getting out of hand. You can use astral threads to lock down the wormhole and sit there safe with 3 Gaia worlds and a bunch of Habitats. I case something goes wrong there the final isolated system is "plan D" since you can only access it with jump drives. You can build a gateway there and have completely safe fallback point though with very limited resources apart from the Gaia world.

[@TheRedKing]

Smart plan! Is Plan A just beat the crisis?

[@LordDarthHarry]

@@TheRedKing Well yeah. Not getting your Empire eaten in the first place is preferable of course!

[@benthomason3307]

I was playing a terrovore and this exact thing happened to me when the Benevolent Interventionists decided to wipe me off the map. the one isolated system was all I was left with, since apparently awakened empires aren't properly coded for actually using their jump drives. I can't make an attempt to expand beyond this system without immediately getting sumo'd back into the pit of shame, so I've been stuck in there for almost 400 years now researching cosmogenesis at a snail's pace.

[@UrbanImposter]

Ah the chosen. They have "chosen" to become the latest addition to my synaptic lathe after declaring war upon first contact.

[@pierrelindgren5727]

The Chosen completed my latest run's ascension to Galactic Emperor by declaring them a Crisis. Then I colonized the Ophala system, purged the pops, and made it the crown jewel and seat of my empire.

[@pride2184]

I didn't even notice them til the end of my emperor run, they were purged by a hive mind I saw the chosen didn't think much of em went in after the hive mind completing my galaxy domination.

[@seanfarrell6386]

Prikki vs The Chosen (vs the Kahn can you console command all 3 marauder groups to become Kahns) Battle Royale

[@art-games6230]

Me as a pacifist empire: aggressive popcorn crunching

[@ГригорийГ-ч4н]

Me as a militarist empire: hold my beer.

[@art-games6230]

@@ГригорийГ-ч4н someone’s gonna show them who the real fanatic purifier is

[@Zacharoni4085]

@Arts-Game Me as a Hive Mind with the Empathy perk : 👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁 👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁 - Please stop fighting 👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁👁

[@CreeperDude-cm1wv]

Prikkiti are the og™ fanatic purifiers

[@caboosethegoose]

Just got to say, I've been following you for a bit here and I love your videos, they actually got me back into playing Stellaris again! Keep up the fantastic work!

[@TheRedKing]

Happy to hear it, thanks very much!

[@TauromOG]

Yeah, in one of my more recent runs an AI encounter them quite too early (nod even mid game yet), so The Chosen proceeded to delete the 2 more stronger empires of the galaxy an then declared war on me... so yeah, it was time to start a new run sadly :'v

[@art-games6230]

I really despise that RNG is such a big part in whether your empire survives

[@TheRedKing]

In many ways its good though, no two runs are the same!!

[@keyboardtaskforcephi-3689]

Same, I was getting synthetic uprising achievement. Expecting an easy run. Then Khan show up, decided to ignore my just successful uprising machine Empire. Why? Because the Chosen are fighting him. I use the opportunity to gear up. Thought I'm strong enough, and I want my Chair. So I killed Khan. Then Discovered Chosen were far Stronger then me on top of them going Full Crisis. I have no Choice but to use other Empires as bait. Since I'm the second Strongest, so Chosen saved me for the last. Then when the last Empire have only 1 system left, I have no Choice but to declare war on Chosen I'm only having 90k fleet while the Chosen are 200-300k fleets. Have to do gorilla warfare to attempt to end the first war. Not sure how I did it. But it worked. After that, encomic caught up and I destroyed them.

[@TauromOG]

@@keyboardtaskforcephi-3689 It sounds like you play the game more than me, idk if I would be able to pull that as of now

[@art-games6230]

@@TheRedKing that part I like, I just don’t want the entire run to end in a single dice roll

[@philip2111]

I found this system just recently and rebuilt the shield. Cool storyline!

[@richard1493]

I’ve encountered The Chosen a few times now and I’m surprised that they never seem to leave their extra-galactic cluster, they just declare war on me and sit there until I decide to deal with them. I suppose this makes sense considering that when they first contact the player, The Chosen state that they have been trying to figure out wormhole technology for years but they haven’t been able to make it work. This seems to indicate that they simply don’t yet have wormhole travel, but I’ve forgotten about them before and played hours into games without them ever leaving. Maybe they never develop wormhole travel? I appreciate that they’re in the game but it seems like their only function is to wait to be eradicated.

[@impoppy9145]

Other empires usually put a dimensional lock on the other side of the wormhole and if they do, they'll keep refreshing the lock every 10 years so they'll never be able to leave.

[@blingsing5383]

I have nothing of note to say but the algorithm requires nourishment so il just say I really enjoyed this story thanks for the upload and have a great day

[@TheRedKing]

Thanks very much :) same to you!

[@CyberController-]

I usually just write some worldbuilding from my own games. It's fun at least.

[@blingsing5383]

@@CyberController- pretty cool hobby

[@majortnt2941]

Hell yeah, the Chosen are here! Stay winning Red King.

[@wyvernscale9634]

First time i ever met the chosen, they declared war on me in the late game and i just stomped them. Honestly didn't know where they came from (or that they were a unique empire) until i reached their capital system lol

[@parkmojo6168]

Wow, the prophetess really prophecies their doom

[@marcosbrenfa]

i never played this game, but im loving those videos

[@TheRedKing]

Happy to hear you're enjoying them!! Stellaris is free I believe all weekend, give it a go :)

[@marcosbrenfa]

@@TheRedKing oh, i have it from prime gaming, but i feel overwhelmed when i try a new game, too much info! i lost any desire to play before even start a new game sadly

[@ChristopherHilliard-dw3kt]

I got the chosen spawning in my last game and they were turtles and a couple games before that they were bubble parrots

[@cadinscarzella4542]

Love how you put music in nice touch

[@TheRedKing]

Thanks! I thought it mirrored the alarm claxons ringing quite nicely :)

[@cmdrtianyilin8107]

Just amazing and the story feels like an awesome bedtime story. Thanks, King. You are amazing.

[@TheRedKing]

Thanks Tian! Happy to see you here still after all this time :) glad you're still enjoying the videos!!

[@cmdrtianyilin8107]

@@TheRedKing Thanks, King. I've been busy with the Rohingya Refugee Project for a while, providing medical care and rehousing them in Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh, Under Plan International, and Save The Children. Hard work, but comforting.

[@TheRedKing]

I can only imagine; but I expect through that work you bring joy too many :) I had a read, it sounds like a noble cause indeed.

[@cmdrtianyilin8107]

@@TheRedKing Thanks, King. Well, for me, it's less than being a hero who pushes through the edge of the envelope but rather is a boring, pen-pushing, Excel Bashing technocrat. But at least, I've got to work with the real heroes like Doctors, Nurses and vaccine workers.

[@darcraven01]

currently playing a game where the chosen pre-ftl planet is outside jump distance, even with psi jump drives. i had to build a quantum catapult to launch myself down there and even then i barely made it given where my catapult was able to be built

[@JoshuaKevinPerry]

Cleanse with righteous justice.

[@lord0fmemes266]

Just encountered these dudes today never knew about them beforhand.

[@TheRedKing]

Today you learnt! Careful with them, they can be quite nasty if they breakout and start to snowball

[@trevorlee4306]

Your videos are pretty awesome man I’ve listened to every one while I’m at work lol. You should try and scrape together what info you can about the enigmatic cache and make a video about it! I don’t think I’ve ever heard you mention it.

[@TheRedKing]

Thanks!! :) It is on my list, perhaps one day

[@hko2006]

Redemption arc is so beautiful

[@mattg3710]

Very nice job. Always enjoy listening to your lore. I do have a question though. Is the Chosen in a DLC, or just a random spawn? I seem to be unable to locate them in multiple playthroughs. Same with Ultima Vigilis I think its called?

[@TheRedKing]

They were added with 3.8 but I _think_ you need First Contact installed as well

[@mattg3710]

@@TheRedKing Nice. Thank you. Still haven't gotten that one yet. Started playing in December and got everything that came previous of Aquatics. I will put that one to the top of the list. Thank you.

[@richard1493]

The Stellaris wiki states that it’s part of the First Contact DLC.

[@xzardas541]

Las time I seen those clowns thier wormhole spawned next to xenophobe isolationist FE and those wankers decided it is a good idea to build outpost there. Easiest 6 planets I ever got.

[@ditlev5154]

yup a banger

[@hal0justcal865]

If you so desire makes it sound like this 'loop' has something to do with worm or shroud entities

[@pyeitme508]

RAD!

[@glitchyzombie0002]

Hey if anyone knows the theme at 3:00 I would love to know what's it's called.

[@TheRedKing]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jnS2gaqciNyaaJY&ab_channel=StudioKolomna-Topic

[@glitchyzombie0002]

Thank you

[@tami8110]

I wonder if you will ever cover the Gigastructure lore. Like the Katzen or Blokkats

[@TheRedKing]

I will :)

[@yea-gi9kl]

@@TheRedKing yay mod love

[@factualhat3018]

@@TheRedKing yipeeeee

[@p4hagen197]

Funny, last game I encountered them, but I never got to Ophela, as I was a driven assimilator, and they held the last planets. First encounter with them was quite scary, as my 400k fleets were just annihilated by their kver a milljon strong combined fleets+starbases.😅

[@jay_sea2386]

wish i could spawn them in alongside ultima vigillis

[@velehksain7999]

Hi, I did search on upbeat, but I didn't find it. Do you still know what music starts at 2:30?

[@TheRedKing]

uppbeat.io/track/studiokolomna/the-black-beast

[@icewolfwolfie173]

Like a tempest? Maybe a...gray tempest?. Hmmmmm... Lore...the looooore ik u where the grey tempest

[@benthomason3307]

My latest game generated a freaking L-gate in the chosen's dwarf galaxy. kinda breaks the lore, don'tcha think?

[@dajmen5778]

Is this a mod? Or DLC?

[@TheRedKing]

added with First Contact or Paragons, but I believe it's base game

[@dajmen5778]

@@TheRedKing thanks

[@richard1493]

Requires the First Contact DLC, according to the wiki.

[@n.v.9000]

what is going on with the music volume

[@TheRedKing]

I was experimenting, do you mean the first part is loud?

[@n.v.9000]

@@TheRedKing yep... dubstep is too loud and some people use headphones... great video but only commercials have volume like that

[@eiohnanananunu9871]

Red King, are you the Chosen One? I ask because I found a data record named after you in my deep search for the Vultaum Simulation Emulator archives. Yours truly and pledging secret fealty,🧎‍♂ Not a Scion of a Fanatic Spiritualist Empire.

[@TheRedKing]

Can confirm, Chosen One status has been bestowed upon me 😇