Washington Resistance Army wrote:I started up my first Stellaris game in quite a while and it's been a lot of fun so far. I started as a Fanatic Materialist/Militarist empire with the Mechanist origin and decided I'd go all in on tech rushing and becoming the most advanced empire in the galaxy. Overall that's actually gone pretty well, it's about 2370 now and I've long since taken Synthetic Ascension and mind uploaded my entire species to further spec into research and I've gotten almost every tech in the game now, even the ones from Gigastructures. I do border a Fanatic Spiritualist FE who abhors me for becoming a machine species but thus far I've managed to avoid them declaring war on me and I'm at about 70k fleet power and still rapidly increasing that number so in another decade or two I should be ready to knock them out, especially if I build a Planetcraft or two to accompany my main fleets.
The big worry though is Aeternum, I explored the galactic core and found them and oh boy they're scary. Even in their fallen state they have millions of fleet power. I want to eventually conquer their Birch World but that is going to be an incredibly difficult war.
Aeternum?