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Explore a vast galaxy full of wonder! Paradox Development Studio, makers of the Crusader Kings and Europa Universalis series presents Stellaris, an evolution of the grand
strategy genre with space exploration at its core.
Featuring deep strategic gameplay, a rich and enormously diverse selection of alien races and emergent storytelling, Stellaris has engaging challenging gameplay that rewards
interstellar exploration as you traverse, discover, interact and learn more about the multitude of species you will encounter during your travels.
Etch your name across the cosmos by forging a galactic empire; colonizing remote planets and integrating alien civilizations. Will you expand through war alone or walk the
path of diplomacy to achieve your goals?
They tell me it began like this, with a world united. Decades of research, a global effort unlike anything that came before and will never come again, an endeavor that crossed
generations and borders. With the advent of faster-than-light travel, space was no longer an unforgiving abyss, the stars no longer mere lights in the night sky to be admired,
but a new map to be charted and conquered.
Our first steps into the expanse were made with caution. A single ship staffed with our homeworld's brightest minds and bravest explorers set out to distant stars and unknown
galaxies. Our people watched as first our own solar system was scanned and studied, and then beyond. But we soon discovered a shocking truth, a revelation that shattered
everything we knew and understood, that set the path for everything that came ahead.
We were not alone.
We were not alone. We were not special or unique. Rather than a shining diamond as bright as the stars we hoped to reach, our world was but a grain of sand among many.
Before our primitive technology looked beyond the borders of our galaxy and our ships lifted off into the unknown, empires had risen and fallen, civilizations had thrived and
traded, allied and annihilated, expanded and ended.
First contact was equal parts terror and curiosity. Even as our society reeled in response, we realized an entire universe worth of opportunities awaits us now. We build ships
armed for war and defense, wielding weapons and hulls developed with materials mined from other worlds. Our resolve remains ironclad. Our destiny will not be shackled by
wills of interstellar neighbors that scheme in languages and politics so unlike our own. Our science progresses onward, engineering incredible technology and bending physics
to our whim in our race to stand alongside other species as equals.
We will expand. We will forge our own alliances. We will protect our people whatever the cost. We will etch our names across the cosmos.
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