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(Depreciated, see description for link to new version) Mechroids: A Necrophage Origin Expansion

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Do you like the fantasy of playing as Cybermen, but don't want to bother chasing after Synthetic Ascension, or else think that Driven Assimilators are too much like the Borg? Are you a philosophy major who is squeamish about the problems that mind uploading has regarding personal identity over time? Do you love Necrophage gameplay mechanics so much that you don't want your primary species to grow AT ALL? Then give this mod a shot!


This mod's focus is a new "Mechroid" group of species portraits, which can only be selected if you have also taken the Necrophage Origin. This portrait set contains whatever Robot portraits your owned DLCs grant you access to, four of the more mechanical-looking Necroid portraits, and two new modified robot portraits that are available if you also own Synthetic Dawn.

Once a Mechroid portrait has been selected, your main species will get a second trait alongside Necrophage, titled "Mechroid": between this trait and the Mechroid species, your main race will receive:
100% habitability
30% increased army damage
15% worker output
No habitability preferences
-1000% modifier to Pop growth speed

You will also be unable to select the traits
Strong,
Very Strong,
Weak,
Rapid Breeders,
Slow Breeders,
Delicious,
Robust, or
Fertile
alongside the "Mechroid" trait; the species might have organic brains, but the rest of them are almost entirely robotic!


Not Cyberman enough for you? This mod also adds the "Emotional Suppressants" trait, which disables the effects of happiness on Pops.


To allow for the possibility of dominant species Pop creation even in absence of the Engineered Evolution Ascension perk and the Cloning Vats building it unlocks, the "Bio-Assembly Plants" building has also been added, which is unlocked by Mechroid-dominant empires after researching the new "Bio-Assembly Techniques" society technology. This building provides a measly 2 Organic Pop Assembly per month, but it can be doubled to 4 by using the Bio-Assembler jobs it provides... if you're willing to sacrifice normal Pop growth speed in the process.

As of 2.0, the newly-added Bio-Assembly Techniques also unlocks a few new technologies, including a new Colossus weapon if you own the Apocalypse DLC.


No one asked for this, but I like the Dalek/Cyberman portrait mod "Stellaris: Into the Whoniverse" [https://steamoss.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=1863812083] enough that I created a compatibility patch for it here: https://steamoss.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2537487430. Just drop the patch below both mods in your load order.

All it does is make the Dalek and Cyberman portraits added by the Whoniverse mod selectable under the "Mechroid" portrait set (and, when selected from that group, gain all the conditions and bonuses associated with it).

Ignore the Whoniverse mod being "outdated"; it's a basic portrait mod, it still works.


No files overwritten.

To ensure compatibility with mods that check species archetype, I have placed the Mechroid species under the BIOLOGICAL archetype rather than creating a new one. Unfortunately, this means that I can't add any Robotic traits to the Mechroid pool without adding it to all other BIOLOGICAL Pops' trait pools as well. Because of this, I have opted to exclude vanilla traits via trait exclusivity, rather than incur the compatibility problems that creating a hybrid trait pool for Mechroids would entail.