New Spy Operation Can Extinguish Stars

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1. In order to make Spionage more important they should rework it
   To play full spy empire you should be able to other things.
   Maybe full or almost total control of your own pops
   Maybe at lategame you can influence others factions/ethics

2. do this and then go to war and kill their science ship curing the star and end the war lol

3. "A natural disaster with extra steps." This killed me. Well played. This is nuts though I'm really glad they snuck this in made it fun to find

4. Might be an interesting counter, either as an actual strategy or even for RP, to move one's empire capital to a habitat in a lifeless star system, in a similar vein to the Asteroid Blast Door archaeology site. Then, if the star is devoured, any habitats (presumably) remain full of life. This, of course, assumes that they do not change the espionage to target specific star systems.

   In some ways it makes more sense to move the seat of government anyways like how capitals located in major cities tend to get choked out by the economic activities in those cities and so move to a relative backwater to expand more easily. Plus, some capitals have moved or are picked for defensive reasons, so when one sees that another empire has a stellar devourer hatchery, one might rightfully fear the destruction of their ancestral home and take steps to preserve it.

   An aside, I wonder if a non-solitary star would have each star devoured, or if the event text or number of steps in the operation changes based on the number of stars in the system. It'd be funny having a triple binary system to be used as extra insurance against this, although I suppose it might be like how the star-eaters detonate all the stars in a system simultaneously.

5. This is a crazy cool op. And we all know this is definitely how it would happen if such a thing were to exist.

6. a great start to hopefully improving operations and making them something worth using

7. laugh in void dwellerish

8. Wow thats just awesome

9. They ripped of Hux

10. I like to play a game with myself where I try to predict what Montu's going to say whenever he says "x that like button". This is one of those instances where my prediction was accurate.

11. Биолаборатории по выращиванию звёздных паразитов на границе с Объединёнными Нациями Земли, да за такое можно превентивный удар схлопотать

12. I think with the xenomorph armies we should be able to cause a xenomorph outbreak on a planet.

13. >Destroying Earth
    >DESTROYING HOLY TERRA

    H-heresy??

14. A nice easter egg like event. I discovered the Life Electric alternative as a lithoid and it was lovely.

15. I've always thought that they should have added separate agents for espionage rather than using Envoys.

16. Montu do you use any visual mods for humans? They look…GOOD! :O

17. CoM when UNE gets attacked by aliens: wages genocidal war in retribution for its sister civilisation
    CoM in its free time:

18. Is there a console command to do this, an AI empire killed it before I got the chance to, I would like to blow up their star just for taking this away from me

19. So OP.
    In MP if you have jump drive, nobody will stop your mission.
    Science ship is working on a project? Throw a corvette into system to engage science ship.

20. One question here.
    Can you retry it on the same star if failed ?

21. Yep, "mistery", certainly has nothing to do with the empire that encountered and defeated star-consuming monster and now has its eggsack in their capital on display for anyone to see))

22. Wow can you do it on Dyson sphere star? Imagine the rage of sphere owner lol

23. Perfect for Necron roleplay, UNLEASH THE C'TAN!

24. How to conquer the galaxy :
    Step 1: Build a spy network on all empires. Colonize a new planet (or build a habitat) and make it the new capital for good measure.
    Step 2: Kill Stellarite Devourer and retrieve its eggs.
    Step 3: Infest every single empire (including myself) with the Stellarite Devourers all at once just in time for the crisis.
    Step 4: Let the Crisis do the rest.

25. thats messed up. but it is as messed up as subjugating a hive mind into free empire? and then integrating them? i didnt realize at the time, but once i integrated them, they all started to die. their entire species died a year after integration. because they cannot survive once cut from the hive mind, and integrating them into a free society, cut them off.

    i mean, the path to hell is paved with good intentions no? we just wanted to free those poor creatures.

26. See if you gave us 10 cool options to do like this all of a sudden spy networks are important, it would be cool to see some sort of counterspy mechanic too so you can set your envoys to catch spies or something, because its either impossible to get a solid spy network on someone else, or useless, like why disable a space station when my 100k fleets disable them in the blink of an eye?

27. How does this fare if the target start praising the Worm midway through ?

28. I had jstanley try do this to me in the ranked pvp on wsc discord. Thankfully I had a science ship assisting research, and thankfully he alerted me to some incoming threat due to voice chat teasing. Moral of story, always assist research on your cap xD

29. Well one system challenges just got a lot harder

30. And that why you praise the worm , no sun to infest

31. This seems unfair to me… But at least it can be stopped or the pops moved.

32. … and here i just wached King of the Hill – Fire ant Infection Episode with Dale Bug Terminating before finding that on youtube … universe has some weird symmetries 😀

33. OP big events are nice sure, but what the system needs is an overhaul to make the standard ops more useful. The fun in a overpowered/underpowered dicotomy disapears after the first go.

    Ops to increase crime massively
    Ability to direct the empire you ruin relations with
    Fostering civil wars
    Even soft coups through factions

    Shit, you just have to read about the CIA for 5 minutes to get all the ideas you need

34. Hearsay can now result in big stellar blowouts

35. Rest of galaxy " why are you attacking them, they're a peaceful isolationist empire that hasn't started any wars"

    "BECAUSE THEY ATE OUR F***ING STAR!"

36. now with overlord expansion, I think it's time they focus on "masters of shadow" expansion which enhances espionage

37. Is this something you need the overlord dlc for or does it come with the free update? I presume you need leviathans in order to find the Stellar Devourer.

38. Anyone else think of the sg-1 Ancient torpedos blowing up the sun lollll

39. And suddenly, espionage has become cool in stellaris

40. This new spy mission is great, but one is surely not enough. I wish they would add more events like this to the espionage system, for now it's all just "assign and wait"

41. "Natural disaster with extra steps" – Hilarious! I love these kinds of underhanded options. Praise the stellar devourer! Thanks for sharing this with us 🙂

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