00:07Hi, I'm Martin Ennord, Game Director of Stellaris, and I'm here to talk about Utopia.
00:13Utopia is the first major expansion for Stellaris, focusing on empire customization and adding more ways to play the game.
00:20A major feature in Utopia is megastructures.
00:22Megastructures are enormous construction projects requiring advanced technology and the investments of massive amounts of resources and time.
00:30Through megastructures, you can build ring worlds, Dyson Spheres, and massive science and espionage stations that give you immense benefits
00:39for your empire.
00:41Another feature of Utopia is habitats.
00:44Habitats are huge buildable space stations that you can construct in orbit around planets.
00:48You can colonize habitats and send your pops to live on them, allowing you to more effectively use your space
00:55by adding additional artificial places for your population to live.
01:00Ascension is a feature in Utopia by which you can decide an endgame goal for your species.
01:07By accumulating the unity resource, you will be able to unlock traditions that specialize your empire in matters such as
01:14diplomacy, the economy, or conquest.
01:16And through them, unlock ascension perks that give you highly specialized benefits.
01:21Some ascension perks allow you to set a goal for your species, such as turning all of your people into
01:27robots, mastering genetic evolution, or awakening the psionic potential of your species.
01:33Through ascension, you will even be able to unlock new interactions.
01:37For instance, a psionically ascended empire can breach the shroud, entering another realm of existence and communicating with the beings
01:45there.
01:46Indoctrination is a feature in Utopia where you can use your observation stations to influence ethics of primitive species.
01:53By using the indoctrination mission, you will be able to shift their ethics towards your own over time, making them
02:00think and act like you, and preparing them for enlightenment or annexation.
02:05In Utopia, we've also added the ability to play as a hive mind.
02:10Hive minds are a special kind of empire that have no ethics.
02:13Their population are drones with no free will of their own who are not affected by happiness and will not
02:19join any political factions.
02:20However, though a hive mind experience no internal strife, they are mistrusted by other species and will be unable to
02:28rule over people that are not hive mind.
02:31Instead, any population from a non-hive minded empire enters into a hive mind will be attacked and processed as
02:38food for a swarm.
02:39Other new ways to play include the ability to have a syncretic evolution, several species evolving together on the same
02:47planet,
02:48to play as mechanists who have unlocked the secret of robotics even before reaching space,
02:53and to play as fanatical purifiers who will tolerate the existence of no other species and are unable to conduct
03:00diplomacy.
03:01Utopia will arrive along with the Bank's update, adding a number of new features,
03:07such as the ability to set rights individually for species in your empire,
03:13a new faction system where you can gain influence by policing the political entities in your empire,
03:19and a government civic system that allow you to customize your government in a wide variety of ways.
03:26You will be able to choose your own path to ascension when Utopia arrives on April 6th.
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