Stellaris has been a blast. Im on my third empire as a fanatical spiritualist/pacifist! I've uplifted one primitive species but during the process I lost a scientist,uh oh!? He later turned up having engrained himself into the population with the intent of leading them and revealed himself all, it was me dio!!! Style. After making them my vassal I incorporated them into my empire at the same time he claimed he would lead them to glory, feel bad for his failed plans. I started a war of liberation to try out the war mechanics and had a blast fighting a 2 on 1 war against a couple of guys that lasted about 3 decades with lots of pew pew pews untill I finally won and liberated one of the filthy xenos homeworlds for the kek,this new fledgling empire was then turned vassal by another empire ive had semi decent relationship with. But the orthorri empires in a federation with another guy who i dont get along with and they ended up going to war with me shortly after,my 2 friends were worthless in this fight so after about 40 years of fighting we ceded for peace and basically chunked one of my allies in the concessions. While observing another primitive species I once again lost another scientist and had a good idea of what would happen...i was wrong. The Surat exposed himself and claimed to be their new God king and flipped me the bird, I promptly landed a couple squads of psi warriors and killed their new God along with a number of his fanatical warriors and probably tainted their development, Spock would be pissed. Then war 2 electric boogaloo begun when the 2 biggest empires decided to have another go with me,throwing out 80k fleets at me that through guile,perseverance and sometime luck I have managed to fend off. 30 years into the war they are trying to make peace, but I've occupied a few of their world's and plan on sending small fleets of corvettes in to smash their resources as they have done to mine, turn about is fair play,quiaff?