Summary
Every player ofStellariswill always find that there is a precursor empire that predates their civilization by millennia in every game, although researching and solving each precursor’s mystery might be a challenge due to both time and location constraints. Moreover, completing a precursor’s event chain can be quite challenging.
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Fortunately, every precursor has its own advantages and unique modifiers that will make all the efforts in pursuing it worthwhile. All precursors are randomly determined at every new game creation, so players will have the chance to experience a new precursor every time they start a new game. This guarantees a variety of strong precursors that can decide the survival of an empire.
7Yuht Empire
Uncover Yuht Empire’s Secrets For Fleet Upkeep
The Yuht Empire is quite a mysterious precursor that mainly gives advantages to empires with an aspiration of colonizing any habitable planet, no matter the atmosphere and the habitability modifier it provides. Completing the precursor event chain will give several planet habitability bonuses, such as the technology Atmospheric Filtering and Yuht Astronomical Interferometer.
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However, the main strength lies within its relic, the Yuht Cryo Core, with an active ability to reduce Ship Upkeep by−20%for 10 years, which is crucial when the game reaches the late stages, withmillions of powerful fleetsneeded to either fight a Crisis or other hostile empires.
6Irassian Concordat
Grow Colonies Faster With The Secrets Of The Irassian Concordat
Successfully researching the remnants of Irassian Concordat will give a huge boon towards growth for any empire that succeeds in doing so. The empire modifier gained from the Secrets of the Irassians guarantees a quickly growing population and the unique building, Irassian Naval Yards, is useful for boosting an empire’s fleet,especially when using Archaeotechnologies.
The powerful relic, Javorian Pox Sample, enables a devastating orbital bombardment policy that effectively purges a planet’s population without damaging its structures. A brutal measure, yet effective for empires that did not wish to integrate other species into their empire, such as Fanatical Purifiers.
5First League
Gain A Powerful Relic World Capable Of Boosting Research
At first glance, the precursor First League might not be attractive due to the absence of a relic when the event chain is completed. However, the lack of a relic can be effectively replaced by the powerful Relic World gained from it, which is the Fen Habbanis III.
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When the Relic World is successfully restored to an Ecumenopolis, it will be more powerful than the usual Ecumenopolis with its bonuses for research output. Moreover, the powerful Secrets of the First League also gives an empire a boost in its technological advancement, making it easier todestroy a powerful Leviathan.
4Baol
A Long Lost Empire Capable Of Granting Free Gaia Worlds
Gaia Worlds can be quite challenging to acquire during a game ofStellaris, especially when it is near a Spiritualist fallen empire that consecrated the world. However, uncovering the past of the Baol will make acquiring a Gaia World trivial, as it can be easily acquired by the active ability of The Last Baol relic.
When activated, the relic will turn a planet into a Gaia World within two years and also grant four pacifist populations with apowerful set of traits. This will enable any empire to colonize all planets within their borders without worrying about any habitability problems.
3Vultaum Star Assembly
Use Vultaum’s Fourth Wall Breaking Into Huge Advantages
The horrible fate of the Vultaum can be quite disturbing after they come to a sad realization of their universe, ending in a horrible fate for their species. Aside from the specific spoiler detail of Vultaum’s fate, the bonuses the precursor gives are quite nice, with a technological boost that enablesrare technologies to be acquired quite easily.
The Vultaum Reality Perforator relic is also quite powerful as it reinforces an empire fleet by a random select modifier. However, there is also a chance for all the modifiers to be activated, making the fleet more powerful than any other by a huge margin.
2Zroni
Desired By Every Psionics Empire For A Huge Advantage
Whileascension is something to be desiredby every empire, the Zroni perhaps took it too far by trying to ascend into the Shroud. Consequently, they have themselves removed from the plane of existence in an instant. Although their rapid ascension leaves a cautionary tale to other fledgling empires, the legacy they leave behind is quite powerful for every empire, more so for the Psionics empire.
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The powerful Psionics Archive relic enables easier Shroud breaching for any Psionics empire, while also having the active ability to grant strong bonuses, such as ship weapons damage increase.
1Cybrex
Formidable Precursor Able To Trivialize Megastructures And Fleet Building
Although it can be debated whether the Cybrex is truly extinct from the galaxy or not, it is not arguable that the precursor’s bonuses are something to be desired by everyStellarisplayer. The powerful Cybrex War Forge active ability enables a player to trade their minerals into alloy at a rate of 2,000 minerals for 1,000 alloys. The numbers also increase for every usage, up to 40,000 minerals for 20,000 alloys.
While the alloys can primarily be used for fleet building, they can also be used forMegastructure building with powerful modifiers, which is also made easier with its build speed increased by the Secrets of the Cybrex.
