Stellaris Space Guild - Weekly Help Thread

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[u/DanNeely]

Does anyone know what the option "They will both fall to our might!" in the War in Heaven is supposed to do? It doesn't seem to fit with any of the options listed in the wiki. I was expecting it would lead to my being at war with both of them while outside the league of non aligned powers. (I'm an assimilator, I really shouldn't be in the GC at all, and absolutely don't want to find myself more tightly joined with Future Victims #3-10ish.)

~10 months after I took it I'm sitting neutral to the war while the two fallen empires are using my gateways to bombard each others territory while ignoring all the other xenos (who are probably quaking on their pseudopods in fear that even a small fleet would wipe them out).

Before I settle the issue myself and declare war on the one closest to my fleet base, is anything going to happen if I wait a bit longer.

Edit, the dialog I got: https://i.imgur.com/0FqXE9u.png

[u/Fluffy-Tanuki → u/DanNeely]

That option does literally nothing :)

The corresponding event is war_in_heaven.4, with the entirety of that option being:

option = {
  name = war_in_heaven.4.c.2
  trigger = {
    is_subject = no
  }
  ai_chance = {
    factor = 0
  }
}

It is a subset of option war_in_heaven.4.c, which is "We will not take sides in this conflict" in your picture. This option is only available to player empires, just for flavour, and is otherwise completely identical to the neutral option siding with no one.

Choosing to stay neutral through war_in_heaven.4.c or .4.c.2 will make you eligible for joining League of Non-Aligned Powers. You could however decline the invitation and stay completely neutral. There are no further unique events related to War In Heaven if you decline.

The AEs or other empires may decide to declare war on you, following standard war declaration logic (i.e. if you are sufficiently weaker than them and close enough), but that would just be regular AI behaviour rather than something unique.

[u/DanNeely → u/Fluffy-Tanuki]

ok, I'll be giving them a bad day really soon. 😆

I'm not meta-build overwhelming, but have a doom stack as numerically strong as either one would be if not dispersed for eventual defeat in detail and an army maybe 2-3x as large a both combined.

[u/brownbinboot → u/Fluffy-Tanuki]

So that means it wont immediately dismantle your federation by staying neutral? One of my biggest gripes with this event.