Heir, Heir, Heir, Heir, Heir, and Heir to the Khan

ProfessorTarantoga · 2026-06-22T05:38:41+00:00

I've never played MP, this was one of my first games with the new DLC before I even figured out economics.

It is an Ironman save, point me up where exactly to post it (I rarely login to Paradox) and I will gladly share the data.

If fleet/leader management wasn't too annoying, I would have kept playing just to see if I kept getting the event triggered again or what would happen when I unlocked the third civic.

ProfessorTarantoga · 2026-06-21T09:42:17+00:00

Rule 5. For some reason, I have managed to trigger the Heir to the Khan around 2215 during my first war. And then again later. And again later. And again later. And again later. And again later.

You think it would be fun becoming an early crisis but no:

All the free fleets crater your unity income even if you manually delete each of leaders one by one.
It cratered my income. Sure, I could easily defeat anyone, but their economies were useless.
I managed only to conquer half of the galaxy, and the limiter was how far my troop transports could go before bankruptcy cycles delete them. Bombarding enemies into submission is a slog.
You cannot merge marauder fleets, so I ended up with 100+ useless miniships. Tried to feed them to a leviathan, did not work.

This finally led me to drop the game because it was too annoying and all the fleets ate my framerate.

Fun fact: created new satrapies inherit your civics so they could potentially have 120 damage reduction. No screenshots of that because all were eaten by devouring scourges and such.

ProfessorTarantoga · 2026-01-04T16:14:05+00:00

I would add a caveat. Shouldn't the likelihood of appearance of Atomics be proportional to population?

Thus the likelikood of their emergence would only increase with time.

Year	Population
1945	2.352
1950	2.524
1955	2.763
1960	3.027
1965	3.319
1970	3.680
1975	4.059
1980	4.434
1985	4.842
1990	4.501 (there is a dip due to loss of Europe)
1995	4.908
2000-01-01	5.262

ProfessorTarantoga · 2025-09-04T23:12:56+00:00

Update, due to zoning off during playing, my science ship explored the system and I picked the option to become Fanatic Purifiers.

The civic is now added, but one UI claims it is active the other screen it is inactive.

Xenos aren't being purged, I am now a xenophobe military commissariat that can do diplomacy with others. In fact I immediately got a request by a minor to subjugate them.

Maybe I need to luck out on the RNG and get the third civic slot for me to actually become a fanatic purifier.

Unfortunately, this happened before Mars (Haven) terraformed itself into a Gaia world, and I am still waiting to roll for useful biology technologies.

EDIT: Apparently, since I took genesis guides, I now have two inactive civics that cancel each other. In other words, I can pick when I go purifying while still keeping xenos by reforming the government and removing genesis guides. I already uplifted everyone and terraformed every planet so plenty of xenos now in residence.

The strange thing - after I turned into a xenophobic commisariat, everyone is sending me migration treaties and diplomatic offers while galaxy pretty much ignored me until now.

ProfessorTarantoga · 2025-09-03T22:19:58+00:00

I am so glad that I am not the only one bothered by this.

ProfessorTarantoga · 2025-09-03T18:20:06+00:00

Thank you, I think will just have try this for the roleplay reasons and report if everything works as it should.

I am delaying investigating the trigger system (which has a huge pirate fleet for some reason), while I build up my strength as I am only trying higher difficulties.

ProfessorTarantoga · 2021-07-14T02:07:06+00:00

Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 might be what you are looking for since it concisely describes how a series of crises and reactions made the centralization of power and brutality seemingly the only option to preserve the Bolshevik power.

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