Yes. Read the tech-levels in the species tab.
Oops — my bad. I completely forgot that lmao, all I remembered was "Advanced level" X technology, thanks!
"It turns out, jamming the "Use Slaves" button again and again doesn't actually get you the ability to outproduce a technologically sophisticated, unified society going All In on a megaproject, no matter how many slaves you reduce to bones in the process"
It's… just actually legitimately very sad? Like, I think the Imperator Somnium's size is probably a little bigger than we give it credit for, because it's described as the size of an Orbital Plate, but like…
We're confined to a fraction of a Sub-Sector, with a corresponding level of resources and we're about a thousand and change years old, but we built the Seyfert over the course of 30 years or so.
In contrast, the Great Crusade Imperium while about a sixth of our age had the resources of a Galaxy to draw upon and started at a better tech level / resources.
While the Imperator Somnium was used to break apart the Traitor Blockade of Terra and probably ate a few big hits there, your last tally of kills before being destroyed is 4 Heavy Cruisers and a Battle Barge is like, depressing?
The Seyfert's opening gambit is 3 combined fleet killing strikes combined into one fuckoff beam, so its like…
It pretty much does feel like an adult beating up a child at this rate, damn?