@Neablis You said to ping:
[X] Plan: To Boldly Go
-[X] Name: Pax
-[X] A Man of Stone
-[X] On a habitable planet
Faster initial construction buildup, but also restricts void construction until launch facilities are built. Easier access to local civilizations for good and ill.
-[X] I was made with a goal in mind.
--[X] Exploring the galaxy is well and good, but once you've encountered new people, you need to actually live with them - a challenging task given both the differences in mentality and culture, and how realpolitik calculous often ignores the benefits of long-term cooperation in favor of short-term looting. Your purpose was to achieve stability through diplomacy - get very, very different people to sit together and talk their differences out. And through greater and greater diversity, achieve greater and greater prosperity. (+1 shiny)
Talk First, Shoot Last: You believe that every problem can be solved diplomatically. Even if everybody says somebody cannot be reasoned with, that there is no room for negotiation, that just means nobody has tried the right tactic. +10 bonus to diplomacy rolls (on top of the bonus from Man of Stone), but you must attempt diplomacy with every new faction you encounter. You are allowed to defend yourself, but you cannot wage offensive war until you've tried and
failed to negotiate.
-[X] Friendly Xenos (-1 shiny)
-[X] Heretical Humans (+1 shiny)
-[X] Sector Civilizations
--[X] A Space Marine Chapter (+1 shiny)
--[X] A powerful Ork empire. (+1 shiny)
--[X] A powerful Dogmatic Successor State. (+1 shiny)
--[X] A powerful Heretical successor state (+1 shiny)
-[X] Advanced technological shielding. (-3 shinies)
-[X] Advanced research (-2 shinies)
-[X] An advanced Database (-1 shinies)
-[X] Payloads
--[X] Psytech repository (-2 shinies)
--[X] A Fundamental Physics Module (-1 shiny)
--[X] A Cybernetics Suite (-1 shiny)
-[X] Diplomatic Suite (-3 shinies)
-[X] No knowledge (0 shinies) This galaxy is strange and new. What has occurred while you were sleeping? What does local space look like? Time to build some sensors and find out.