Fridge Horror kicks in when you realize that dust storm is probably an ice storm, as the sphere's completion has been plunging the planet into an eternal winter.From there, you can see a massive Dyson Sphere close across the entire star, sealing the seemingly abandoned planet in darkness. There were no words, just a scene from a planet in the middle of a dust storm, which is the only sound. And then there was the reveal trailer for Utopia.It looks like a gigantic xenomorph and is directly inspired by the patron saint of Cosmic Horror, Cthulhu himself.
Among other things like giant space dragons, an entity that literally feeds on stars, and creatures that come from the center of pulsars, we also have one called a Dimensional Horror (pictured above).
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Feel free to pit your enemy against your new pet Physical God. Transcendent Empires can get an option when interacting with The Shroud to spawn a Psionic Avatar as ground army or space fleet.Machine empires can eventually build Mega Warforms, which aren't quite as strong as a Titanic Beast, but don't have a build cap.If it's the former, what if they simply think they're playing with a toy or swatting a pest not knowing the mass death and terror they're inflicting? It's left vague if the Titanic creatures are simply (gigantic) animals, or have some degree of sapience.Thankfully an empire can only have three of them at once. And then there's the Titanic Army unit, which is basically a squad of Kaiju.Utopia adds the possibility that these Slave Armies are recruited from Battle Thralls, races that are literally born and bred for war by their masters.The armies are filled with people who have in many cases volunteered, simply to get away from slaving away in mines & fields. While other armies rely on superior skills, slave armies are so cheap that you can throw dozens and dozens of them into a meatgrinder without bothering to bombard the planet prior to their arrival. Slave Armies might be the least 'special' of the army types, but they are incredibly cheap.Clone Armies made up of thousands upon thousands of tank grown soldiers who are born to kill and to die, without caring about their own lives, they can be pumped out in prodigious numbers faster than any other army type in the game, which made them the go-to Zerg Rush unit pre-Cherryh.Psionic Armies could be easily described as an army of Force-sensitives who prefer to destroy the enemy morale before killing them.Or bio-engineered Warhammer 40,000 style Space Marines, hulking genetic freaks who are capable of fighting multiple lower tier armies each.They also have the highest collateral damage chance of any army post-Cherryh, meaning they're almost guaranteed to wreck the planet they're attacking if the battle persists long enough - just like their source material, they are a force of nature you can only just barely control, and only for so long. Their handlers even refuse to be on the battlefront with them, commanding them from a hardened bunker. Imagine facing an army comprised of thousands if not millions of Alien Xenomorphs.Several of the Army Types bring together typical sci-fi tropes and blow them up to planetary army scale.One animation performed by the second of those three examples looks like the host is screaming under the fungus.And if they aren't, it's mutual symbiosis, not parasitism.
Although there's no indication that the host species are sentient.Or how about having your body ◊ infested with mind-controlling fungus? ◊.Would you like a worm-like thing stuck on your head right into your brain? ◊ As the main page points out, some of the possible Alien races are Puppeteer Parasites.Because you just performed genetic brain surgery on all of them to manipulate them to feel social and happy. Gene modifying your population to become communal and charismatic.If they already didn't like you, they will be seriously considering a war declaration to put your hollow metal echoes out of their misery. The original species is actually completely dead and extinct, with robotic replicas left to act like them as a twisted mockery of their original selves. From their perspective, it means that everyone has merely copied themselves without passing their souls or actual consciousness to the robots. When you synthetically ascend, you will receive a message from a spiritualist fallen empire stating on how you've committed mass suicide and became soulless machines."And that's how I sold an empire's own people back to them as food."
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