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Custom Empires - Grand AI Tournament (Finals - Lithoids)

This mod expands the selection stock of pre-scripted empires with the final “best” 14 (custom user) AI empires (from over 70 participants from 16 galaxies) of the Grand AI Tournament “StarNet AI Finals” and the “Standard AI Finals” (- Lithoids Shelley - 2020-04-23 - Meet the BEST OF THE BEST -).

When starting a new game, Stellaris will randomly choose empires from the roster to seed throughout the galaxy.

“StarNet AI”:

1. Evil Empire (by InvisibleBison)
   
2. Fenrir Arms Ltd (by HugsAndSnuggles)
   
3. Antraxs Consciousness (by MelkorDarkstar)
   
4. Onyx Noir Technocracy (by Tech Noir Synth)
   
5. Citizen Trade Coalition (Militarist Oligarchy, made by the StarNet AI creator Salvor)
   
6. Cutie Mark Crusaders (by Shady_Love)
   
7. Merchants of Mtgre (by Uskazd)
   
8. Meldari Galactic Imperium (by Nazsgull)

“Standard AI”:

• Pleasure Paradise Planets (Autonomous Service Grid, Rogue Servitors - by Dragatus)
  
• Tech Traders (by zork283)
  
• Summa Imperii (by Aethuse)
  
• Giranshu Corporation ()
  
• Military-Industrial Complex (Fanatic Militarist Megacorporation)
  
• Foxia (by Ulflander)

“Origins”:
Added some fitting (mostly from 2.6 “Verne”). I'm still open for suggestions here. Not self-allowed origins: Lost Colony, Common Ground, Hegemony and Scion.

Credit goes to the tournament initiator Immanuel Can “Thoughtful Gaming LP” and the individual empire creators, see the comments in this thread.[forum.paradoxplaza.com]

This should be inherently compatible with all DLC. If you don't have a DLC (e.g. Lithoids Species Pack) for a specific species, the empire simply don't appear. All the flags and species appearance are from the vanilla stuff (initiated for 2.5+, but should also fully work for 3.2+).

The games checksum should even remain the same, which means this mod works in vanilla multiplayer games and in Ironman mode (the StarNet AI mod is optional but also Ironman compatible).

Theoretically only mods that make significant changes to default portraits, traits, ethics, and civics could may somehow break this mod.

• Smash or Pass: Species Phenotypes
  
• Custom Empires - Grand AI Tournament (3.3)
  
• No Default Paradox Species (Any Version)
  
• Never Empty L-Cluster