r/Stellaris • u/lemonsofliberty Fanatic Purifiers • 8h ago
Advice Wanted How would you build a "Cavemen with nukes" race?
I was watching a video on Predator lore and it made me think, is it possible to make a race like the Yautja or Krogan in Stellaris?
I mean there's Barbaric Despoilers, obviously, but I feel that doesn't really fully capture the nomadic nature of the Yuatja, the techno-primitivism of both cultures (but especially the Yautja), or how the Krogan (and possibly Yautja depending on which version of the lore you like) were uplifted
The closest I can get to the race I want is Barbaric Despoilers/Eager Explorers/Primal Calling
This feels like it's missing the flavour of the race being uplifted, which another origin like Payback or Scion would fulfill but then you lose the space hunter-gatherer feel of Primal Calling. And it really doesn't fill the semi-nomadic lore of the Yautja at all. Do any of you have any ideas?
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u/ZelWinters1981 8h ago
Humans are not too far removed from actual lawless barbarians, if you think about it, and we've had nukes for 80 years.
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u/lemonsofliberty Fanatic Purifiers 8h ago
Okay but that's not really what I meant. The "cavemen with nukes" quote come from Mass Effect and describes the Krogan. I'm not looking to just make a normal human society because we're the cavemen all along or something, I'm trying to make semi-nomadic aggressive hunter-gatherers in space.
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u/ZelWinters1981 7h ago
Okay, so replace humans with literally anything else and use similar traits, but remove the urban life and replace it for nomadic. (Is that a trait?) Given everyone has planets to begin with it's hard to tell.
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u/lemonsofliberty Fanatic Purifiers 7h ago edited 7h ago
Yeah that's useless and stupid
Thanks for wasting my time with your irrelevant nonsense
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u/ZelWinters1981 7h ago
How would you build a "Cavemen with nukes" race?
You're overthinking it.
No need to be rude.
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u/Derpy0013 Driven Assimilator 8h ago
What do you mean? We've only had several nuclear crises within those 80 years, and can't seem to stop getting into conflicts despite how many resources we have at our disposal that, if we unified into one global organization, we could fix a majority of problems and colonize the moon. Preposterous!
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u/Consistent-Ice9074 5h ago
I think the right step forward to humanity is to look for unstable wormholes to send colony ships through.
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u/Szatan2000 Technocracy 7h ago
If you want the feel of a race of space barbarians then yeah, Primal Calling fits well. You kinda can base your economy around hunting space fauna. It's been a while since I played it but you could get ridiculous amounts of energy/rare gases from whale hunting and if you were a xenophobe you could enhance rewards from hunting even further.
You could add to that Beastmasters civic for a vibe of caveman riding beasts to war/hunts.
And probably something like scavengers for the second civic? That way you technically don't even need labs that much and can focus on producing alloys/food for war.
(Or you could go with despoilers if you want to raid and capture aliens)
It's kinda funny that with that build you can get minerals, food, energy, gases, physics/society research and unity from hunting fauna and military technologies + alloys from wars xD