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The Sleeper 3 - Fallen Hivemind - [3.14 Legacy]

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The Sleeper is an ancient hivemind used to be a great threat to all live in the galaxy, but for unknown reasons it has collapsed and fallen into a deep slumber. Its once tireless drones are now only barely controlled by its will, and its presence on the galactic stage has been diminished. How will this looming threat affect the younger nations?

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Originally posted by Smithy:

A quick overview of features:

The Sleeper is a FE, but with a twist. It has its own unique mechanics and interactions with the galaxy. This mod adds new events, galactic resolutions, a new mid-game crisis, techs, traits, two new colossus weapons and many new scenarios to the game:

• At the start of the game, the Sleeper is… well, asleep. It can only barely hold onto its many drones. You can not engage with it diplomatically, and it will attack anybody who dares to enter its borders. You are free to snoop around, though.
  
• There is a science station above its capital - a research AI has taken up residence, and it can tell you more about the Sleeper. And it is always looking for some helping hands/talons/fins/tentacles/any other acceptable equivalent
  
• Apart from its two main systems, most of the Sleepers territory can easily be taken by the lesser empires without (immediate) repercussions. So if you want those valuable systems, go ahead. Just be mindful to not cause too much disturbance…
  
• Certain actions or events in the galaxy will rouse the Sleeper (such as taking its systems, attacking its fleets, galactic crisis, etc.). If roused too much, it will be driven into a frenzy, violently invading everything around it with hordes of cheap, rushed fleets, until it falls back to sleep out of exhaustion or is killed. The research AI will warn you should the Sleeper come close to becoming feral. This will be either a huge risk to your empire, or may represent an interesting opportunity to deal with rivals and snatch some systems…
  
• Like any other Fallen Empire, the Sleeper can awake again and try to restore its former glory. The awakened sleeper will try to exterminate all robot, synth and hivemind empires, while subjugating the rest for food and cattle.
  
• Defeating the Sleeper will get you unique rewards, including new cattle traits and its unique colossus weapon!
  
• The mod also comes with easy to use debug-tools/cheats, accessed through the "Smithies Mods Debug" decision.

NOTE: The Sleeper will always spawn, no matter what. You will always get the amount of FEs you set at the start of the game + the Sleeper (so if you selected 4 FEs at the start, the Sleeper will spawn as a 5th FE).

• Small inbuilt support for the More Events Mod
• The Merger of Rules supported
• The former ACOT: Override "patch" (which makes the Sleeper stronger to keep up with the stuff added in ACOT) is now inbuilt.

The following vanilla keys had to be overwritten to make this mod possible:
Any other mod that replaces them may break something. The following compatibility patches are available:


(no promises though:))

• A new origin that makes you spawn next to the Sleeper. Think of Lovecraft’s theory why we have not encountered aliens yet.
  
• A special rival for the Sleeper: a pacifist FE.

LANGUAGES
• 🇨🇳 Chinese by 卡尔文迪斯梅特
• 🇺🇸 English fallback for all others.

Changes v.3.9:
• Increased compat (support The Merger of Rules)
• Code optimization (modernization)
• Added savegame support
This version is more or less in dev and test stage. Feel free to make hints and suggestions.

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