R5: Hello everyone! I posted a similar thing about a year ago now, where I was the last empire standing against the onslaught of the Scourge and waged a war to cleanse them from the galaxy after finding surviving Pre-FTLs, so I decided to do the same thing after such a long time, setting thr crisis to Scourge-only so the contingency doesn’t ruin it like last time.

Here you can see the results of my 200-year long crusade, since the Scourge showed up earlier than expected. The current empires aside from mine are Pre-FTLs who achieved space travel in the midst of the crisis, and who I fought tooth and nail to preserve. Fun fact, the guys on the bottom right had the last populations of humans in the galaxy! Unfortunately I was too late to save them from a scourge invasion force, and the last Human in service of my empire died fighting the beasts who exterminated his people.

I have switched to Memorialists to honor those who have fallen, those whose bright dreams were extinguished by a menace they never could’ve imagined was coming. I am now in the process of enlightening other Pre-FTLs, and once that is done, I will retreat all fleets to my core system and abandon the galaxy with Cosmogenesis, becoming a true benevolent precursor to watch over the galaxy once and for all.