u/amachinesaidiwasgood

I'm playing driven assimilators. I pissed off a FE by becoming the crisis. While they went off on a rampage attacking pointless systems I owned (I have over 200, knock yourselves out guys) I managed to get all my fleet assets into their system and slowly grind them down. I have a colossus that turns all the pops on a planet into me. I can get to the very last planet they own, the weapon halfway charged, I own everything else of theirs - starbases, planets, systems, everything but this ONE planet - and then they end the war.

That would be fine if I kept anything. But it all reverts to their control. All of it. Everything I spent the last 5 - 10 in game years claiming.

Everything I've read says that if you do settle status quo you keep what you've taken. But even if I settle the war before they do, even if I do achieve war goals, it all reverts to them.

See attached for what I mean. What gives? They get to be huge jerks and rampage through my galaxy and face no penalty at the end of it?

Testing out skin patterns and textures on a bunch of termagants. I think this is my favorite of the batch but I've stared at it so long I've lost all perspective. Need the hive mind's opinion

We got our 8yo an mp3 player and he asked that I load it with all the Metallica we listen to in the car, which is mostly their oldest stuff. After a week of listening to it he decided to create his own Metallica albums. I feel like he's got the vibe of the band in the 80's down pretty well

First full Soulblight unit. I learned a lot and very much enjoyed the process, with only the normal amount of self doubt and existential crises