Documentation for Gigastructural Engineering & More

“This document will contain relevant information on the Gigastructural Engineering and More mod for Stellaris, which is held together by gigastructural duct tape, xeno-based glue and some hope.”

Table of Contents

Chapter 1.) Kilo, Mega, Giga, and Terastructures

Chapter 2.) Event Horizon Offset Facility (WIP)

Chapter 3.) Ascension Perks

Chapter 4.) Origins

Chapter 5.) Galactic Core

Chapter 6.) Resources

Chapter 7.) Other Additions

Chapter 8.) Jobs

Chapter 9.) Starbase Buildings & Modules

Chapter 10.) Special Systems (WIP)

Chapter 11.) Crises

Chapter 12.) Megastructure Spawning

Chapter 13.) Start Menu

Chapter 14.) Components

Chapter 15.) Ships

Chapter 16.) FAQ

Chapter 1.) Kilo, Mega, Giga, and Terastructures

1a.) Kilostructures

• Asteroid Artillery
• Asteroid Manufactory
• Atmospheric Purifier
• Dynamic Core Ignitor
• Event Horizon Offset Facility (E.H.O.F.) Alpha
• Event Horizon Offset Facility (E.H.O.F.) Lambda
• Geothermal Stabilizer
• Macroatmospheric Stabilizer
• Macroengineering Testing Station
• Orbital Artificial Ecosystem
• Stellar Particle Accelerator

Asteroid Artillery

“An Asteroid Artillery is a potent stationary defensive construct embedded into an asteroid, designed to repel enemy incursions.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

• Upgrade Points

• Default total of 3 points, can be increased to 11 through Modernized Asteroid Weaponry (+3), Reimagined Asteroid Weaponry (+3), and Enhanced Asteroid Shield Generators (+2).
• Upgrades cost 500 base, increases by 30% each level (500 -> 650 -> 845…).
• Upgrade points can be spent on upgrading the Asteroid Artillery in the following areas:

• Hull Reinforcement

• Increases hull points by 30%

• Enhanced Payload

• Increases damage by 20%

• Flash Coolants

• Increases fire rate by 20%

• Calibrated Sensors

• Increases range by 25%

• Regenerative Hull

• Increases hull and armor regen by 30%

• Precision Targeting

• Increases tracking by 30%

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Asteroid Manufactory

"A complete Asteroid Manufactory, harvesting raw materials from an asteroid and refining them into all sorts of useful products that are then exported as Consumer Goods to our populace."

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

• Requires no pre-existing megastructures or orbital stations around the asteroid
• Can’t be built if the asteroid has an unresearched anomaly

Atmospheric Purifier

“A massive facility built around a planet, capable of clearing the planet's atmosphere of toxins.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

* The planet will have no agricultural districts and will have the following modifiers:
        +10% minerals from jobs, +10% physics research, -50% food from jobs. (permanent)
        -10% habitability, +10% society research (1800 days)

• Must be built around a toxic planet
• Requires no pre-existing megastructures or orbital stations around the planet
• Can’t be built if the planet has an unresearched anomaly

Dynamic Core Ignitor

“A large construct built around a desolate world to make it more habitable.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

* The planet will have no agricultural districts and will have the following modifiers:
        +10% minerals from jobs, +10% engineering research, +15% build speed, -50% food from jobs.

• A ruined Dynamic Core Ignitor may appear in the game
• Must be built around a barren or frozen planet
• Requires no pre-existing megastructures or orbital stations around the planet
• Can’t be built if the planet has an unresearched anomaly

Geothermal Stabilizer

“A device capable of cooling and stabilizing a Molten World, rendering it habitable, albeit lifeless.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

* The planet will have no agricultural districts and will have the following modifiers:
        +10%  from jobs, +15%  from jobs, -50%  from jobs. (permanent)
        -15% Habitability, +10%  Research (1800 days)

• Must be built around a molten planet.
• Requires no pre-existing megastructures or orbital stations around the planet.
• Can’t be built if the planet has an unresearched anomaly.

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Global Land Unification Engine

“The Global Land Unification Engine or the G.L.U.E. for short, is capable of taking the remnants of a previously destroyed planet and reforming them into something closer resembling their original form."

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

• Must be placed on a Shattered or Broken World
• Requires no pre-existing Megastructures or Orbital Stations on the Planet
• Can’t be built if the planet has an unresearched anomaly

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Macroatmospheric Stabilizer

“A large ring-like construct around a Gas Giant which can stabilize its upper atmosphere.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

• Must be built around a gas giant.
• Requires no pre-existing megastructures or orbital stations around the planet
• Can’t be built if the planet has an unresearched anomaly.
• Can’t be built around a colonizable gas giant.`
• May spawn rare deposits that allow construction of unique buildings.

Colonizable Gas Giants have special districts:

• City District: 8 Housing, 1 Clerk job, +1 Building Slot; 2Upkeep; 400Cost; 220 Build Time
• Hive District: 8 Housing, 2 Maintenance Drones, +1 Building Slot; 2Upkeep; 400Cost; 220 Build Time
• Nexus District: 8 Housing, 1 Maintenance Drone, 1 Technician Drone, +1 Building Slot; 2Upkeep; 400Cost; 220 Build Time
• Industrial District: 3 Housing, Normal Industrial District Jobs; 2Upkeep; 400Cost; 220 Build Time
• Gas Giant Research Laboratory: 3 Housing, 3 Researcher jobs, with 2Upkeep; 400Cost; 220 Build Time
• Wind Turbine Arrays: 4 Housing, 4 Technician jobs, with 2Upkeep; 400Cost; 220 Build Time
• Gas Pumping Facility: 3 Housing, 3 Exotic Gas Harvester jobs, with 3Upkeep; 400Cost; 220 Build Time

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Macroengineering Testing Station

“This station, equipped with many science laboratories, as well as construction facilities, allows us to conduct a variety of tests related to our engineering research on the planet below.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

• A ruined Macroengineering Testing Station may appear in the game
• Must be built around a uninhabitable planet that is not a moon or asteroid
• Requires no pre-existing megastructures or orbital stations around the planet
• Can’t be built if the planet has an unresearched anomaly

Orbital Artificial Ecosystem

“A complete Orbital Artificial Ecosystem, filled with imported species as well as fabricated ones thanks to genetic engineering. This unique ecosystem can be modeled and deformed by our scientists at will to study how nature functions.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

• A ruined Orbital Artificial Ecosystem may appear in the game
• Must be built around a uninhabitable planet that is not a moon or asteroid
• Requires no pre-existing megastructures or orbital stations around the planet
• Can’t be built if the planet has an unresearched anomaly

Stellar Particle Accelerator

“An extremely big particle accelerator constructed around a star. It is capable of accelerating various kinds of particles to speeds almost equal to the speed of light, allowing us to greatly expand our understanding of what they're made of and how they interact.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

• A Ruined Stellar Particle Accelerator can be found
• Must be built around a star that is not a pulsar, a neutron star or a black hole
• Requires no pre-existing megastructures or orbital stations around the star
• Can’t be built if the star has an unresearched anomaly

Once every year, there is a chance that the megastructure will fail defined by the failure chance calculated in the charts below, giving three options:
- Option 1: “Shut it down and send 1500 to fix it immediately.” Which will result in no further effects

- Option 2: “Power it down for a year and undertake token repairs.” Which will result in a 20% chance of a catastrophic failure (The megastructure becomes ruined)

- Option 3: “It doesn’t matter!” Which will result in a 50% chance of a catastrophic failure (The megastructure becomes ruined)

The megastructure has three modes. Research production, Dark Matter production, and Quasi-Negative Mass production. See following table for exact stats.

1b.) Megastructures

• Attack Moon
• Automated Stripmine
• Biological Impetuous Growth Vat
• Crystal Megabore
• Event Horizon Offset Facility (E.H.O.F.) Omega
• Equatorial Shipyard
• Fusion Suppressor
• Interstellar Habitat [ Interstellar Ringworld ]
• Kaiser Moon
• Kugelblitz Containment Silo
• Lunar Speculorefractor
• Maginot World
• Neutronium Gigaforge
• Orbital Arcology
• Orbital Bastion
• Orbital Elysium
• Penrose Sphere [ Subspace Distortion Bomb | Stabilized Penrose Sphere - Ringworld Upgrade ]
• Planetary Computing Complex
• Planetary Dockyard/Driveyard/Defense Nexus
• Preservation Sphere
• Psionic Beacon
• Psychic Hypersiphon
• Sentient Metal Forge
• Star Lifter
• Stellarite Kaiser Moon
• Substellar Compressor
• Superatmospheric Umbegaseous Collecto-Condenser (S.U.C.C.)
• Titanic Ringworld
• Yggdrasil Orchid Complex

Attack Moon

“A truly insane engineering project. A massive particle lance, powered by a gigantic reactor within a small moon's core. Propelled by huge thrusters built on the other side of the moon, this weaponized planetoid is a sight to behold.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

• A Ruined Attack Moon can be found
• Must be built around a molten, barren, frozen, or disco moon of size 5-7
• Can’t be built if the moon already has a megastructure other than the Lunar Speculorefractor
• Can’t be built if the moon has an unresearched anomaly.

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Automated Stripmine

“A large structure built around a planet, in order to stripmine the planet's surface, gathering large amounts of minerals.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

• Must be built around a non-shrouded, non-moon uninhabitable terrestrial planet
• Planet must not have been strip-mined already
• Requires no pre-existing megastructures or orbital stations around the planet.
• Can’t be built if the planet has an unresearched anomaly.
• Can’t have more than one Automated Stripmine under construction.
• Automated Stripmine has finite working time and will last longer on larger planets. Every two years the size of the mined planet is reduced by 1. Once the size of the mined planet reaches 2, the Automated Stripmine will shut down.
• Once the stripmine shuts down, the planet will be changed to a Depleted World and gain a +20 minerals that can be collected with a traditional mining station.

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Biological Impetuous Growth Vat

"This is the largest cloning vat of its kind, capable of creating numerous massive clones. With 6 auxiliary vats and a gargantuan primary vat, this facility is fully ready to clone entire fleets of giant abominations."

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

• Check Chapter 15 for info on ship designs

Crystal Megabore

“A Crystal Megabore pulls large amounts of rare crystals and minerals from a molten planet's core.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

• Must be built around a molten planet of size > 5
• Requires no pre-existing megastructures or orbital stations around the planet
• Can’t be built around moons
• Can’t be built if the planet has an unresearched anomaly

Equatorial Shipyard

“Two rings around a Molten World, used for alloy processing and ship construction.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

• Can be built around a molten planet of size 25 or smaller without habitable moons
• Can’t be built if the planet already has a megastructure
• Can’t be built if the planet has an unresearched anomaly
• Can’t be built around moons or asteroids
• Only one Equatorial Shipyard can be built per system.
• Allows construction of a starbase building that adds 8 shipyards.
• Equatorial Shipyard habitat has unique districts:

• City District: 8 Housing, 2 Clerk Jobs; 3  Upkeep
• Alloy Processing Plant: 2 Housing; 2 Metallurgist Jobs; 2  Upkeep.
• Geothermal Generator: 3 Housing; 2 Technician jobs; 3  Upkeep.

• Equatorial Shipyard habitat has the following modifier:

• -10%  Happiness.
• -25%  Upkeep for all jobs.

Fusion Suppressor

“An advanced structure capable of manipulating a star through gravity modulation.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

• The process of turning a star into a neutron star will cause a supernova, which will destroy all ships in the system and creates an  Iodizium crystal deposit on every planet in that system.
• Must be built around a system-central star. Can’t be built around a pulsar, a neutron star or a black hole or in binary/trinary systems. Can’t be built in systems with habitable planets.
• Requires no pre-existing megastructures or orbital station around the star.
• Can’t be built if the star has an unresearched anomaly.
• Created neutron star will never be large enough to be used for the Nidavellir Hyperforge

Interstellar Habitat

“A vast space station built in interstellar space. It doesn't rely on a star to get its energy, and is fully self-sustaining thanks to a massive singularity reactor. Houses billions of inhabitants. The view is kinda depressing, though.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

• Must be built around a star.
• Can’t be built if another interstellar habitat had been built in this system.
• Can’t be built if a megastructure already exists around the star.
• Can’t be built if the star has an unresearched anomaly.
• The basic interstellar habitat has a size of 15.
• Once construction of the interstellar habitat is complete it is moved to its permanent location out of the solar system it was constructed in.
• Can be upgraded with a ringworld once appropriate tech has been researched.

Interstellar habitats have unique districts and jobs:

• Exploration bay: 2 Housing, 2 Interstellar Scavenger jobs, with 4  Upkeep.
• Interstellar research complex: 2 Housing, 4 Interstellar Researcher jobs, with 4 Upkeep.

Interstellar Habitat has the following modifiers:

• -5%  Happiness
• -10%  from Jobs
• +10%  Research from Jobs

Interstellar Ringworld

“A ringworld habitat built in interstellar space, around a central singularity reactor. Its surface is extremely urban and lit by massive amounts of artificial light.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

• Must be built around an existing interstellar habitat.
• Each Interstellar Ringworld Segment has a size of 10

Interstellar ringworld have unique districts and jobs:

• Commercial Segment: 20 Housing, 5 Merchant jobs, 5 Artisan jobs, 10 Clerk jobs, with 10  Upkeep and 2  Upkeep
• Research Segment: 20 Housing, 20 Interstellar Researcher jobs, with 10  Upkeep and 2  Upkeep
• Foundry Segment: 20 Housing, 20 Metallurgist jobs, with 10  Upkeep and 2  Upkeep

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Kaiser Moon

“A complete Kaiser Moon, equipped with a gigantic railgun capable of puncturing nearly anything, alongside atomic warhead launchers and vast arrays of kinetic batteries.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

Kugelblitz Containment Silo

“An incredibly advanced storage device, which can store energy and matter in the form of radiation.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

• A Ruined Kugelblitz Containment Silo can be found
• Can be built around any planet, moon or asteroid
• Requires no pre-existing megastructures or orbital stations around the planet/moon/asteroid
• Can’t be built if the planet/moon/asteroid has an unresearched anomaly

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Lunar Speculorefractor

“A device which projects marvelous auroras onto the skies of nearby planets, increasing amenities.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

• Must be built around a uninhabitable moon.
• Requires no pre-existing megastructures or orbital stations around the moon
• Can’t be built if the moon has an unresearched anomaly.
• Upon completion of the Lunar Speculorefractor, its parent planet and sister-moons gain the one of the following modifiers depending on the setting chosen

Once every year, there is a chance defined via the failure chance shown in the setting chart below that the megastructure will fail, giving two options:
- Option 1: “Shut it down and send  500 to fix it immediately.” Which will result in no further effects

- Option 2: “It doesn’t matter!” Which will result in a 50% chance of a catastrophic failure (The megastructure becomes ruined)

Maginot World

“A vast planet-spanning stronghold that seeks to be utterly unassailable for any enemy force.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

• Maginot Worlds will explode and destroy all orbiting ships if the colony is lost.
• Defensive systems can be upgraded through decisions.
• Jump Drives are blocked 2 systems out

Neutronium Gigaforge

“A big refinery capable of harvesting large amounts of neutronium from a neutron star, transforming it into Alloys.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

• A ruined Neutronium Gigaforge may appear in the game
• Must be built around a pulsar or a neutron star
• Requires no pre-existing megastructures, other than the Nidavellir Hyperforge, or orbital stations around the star.
• Can’t be built if the star has an unresearched anomaly

Orbital Arcology

“A small ringworld around a planet, providing additional district slots. More expensive for larger planets, but they benefit more.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

• Must be built around a colonized planet
• A planet can have only one orbital ring
• Can’t be built if the planet has an unresearched anomaly

Orbital Bastion

“A large orbital structure housing various facilities to improve the ability of our fleet military. Provides various buffs to our fleets.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

• Can be built around a planet or a moon
• Can’t be built if the planet/moon already has a megastructure
• Can’t be built if the planet/moon has an unresearched anomaly
• An empire may own up to 15 Orbital Bastions, 6 Military Administration Branches, and 3 Admiralty Operations

Orbital Elysium

“An Orbital Elysium is a form of advanced habitat orbiting a planet, providing lots of living space.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

• Can be built around a planet, moon or asteroid
• Can’t be built if the planet/moon/asteroid already has a megastructure
• Can’t be built if the planet/moon/asteroid has an unresearched anomaly
• Has unique buildings
• A Colonizable and a Non-Repairable Orbital Elysium can be found

Orbital Elysiums have special districts:

• City District: 8 Housing, 2 Clerk jobs, 2 Preserve Keeper jobs which give 4  and 4 ; 3 Upkeep
• Leisure District: 4 Housing, 2 Entertainer and 2 Culture Worker jobs; 3  Upkeep.
• Solar Farm District: 2 Housing, 2 Technician jobs; 2  Upkeep.

The Orbital Elysium Has the Following Modifiers:

• +10%  Happiness
• +10%  from Jobs

Penrose Sphere

“A large mirror built around a Black Hole. Radiations are bouncing back and forth between the mirror's inner surface and the Black Hole's ergosphere, generating energy.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

• Must be built around a black hole that is the main black hole in a system.
• Requires no pre-existing megastructures, other than the HRAE-MC, or orbital stations around the black hole
• Can’t be built if the black hole has an unresearched anomaly.
• After the initial stages of the Penrose Sphere are built, you get a choice to either turn it into a super-massive subspace distortion bomb, or stabilize it. In the latter case, it becomes a modest source of power that can later be upgraded with a ringworld.

Subspace Distortion Bomb

“A large mirror-like structure built around a Black Hole, capable of reflecting radiation back and forth between its inner surface and the Black Hole's ergosphere, causing superradiant scattering and exponentially amplifying the radiation's energy.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

Detonation Effect of the Subspace Distortion Bomb:

• In the system where the bomb was located, all planets and asteroid belts are removed, all ships are destroyed. Penrose Sphere is removed.
• In all systems in the immediate neighborhood of the Subspace Distortion Bomb detonation site all ships and stations take 10000 damage, all colonizable planets are turned into tomb worlds with an additional timed negative modifier.
• In all systems two jumps away from the Subspace Distortion Bomb detonation site all ships and stations take 2500 damage and all colonizable planets get a timed negative modifier
• All hyperlanes within 4 jumps from the Subspace Distortion Bomb detonation site are removed and randomly regenerated.
• The empire that detonated the Subspace Distortion Bomb gets a permanent negative opinion modifier with every other empire in the game. Actual value of the opinion modifier depends on the number and type of planets that were affected by the Subspace Distortion Bomb detonation.

Stabilized Penrose Sphere

“This Penrose Sphere has been stabilized with specialized constructs, allowing for more radiation to be contained within the mirror ball without risking an explosion. It therefore generates more energy.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

Penrose Sphere Ringworld

“Parts of this Penrose Sphere's output have been redirected towards supporting a massive and highly advanced ringworld built around it.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

• Each Penrose Segment has a size of 28, with standard Ringworld districts

Planetary Computing Complex

“A computer engulfing an entire planet, with immense processing power. Provides massive research bonuses and unique districts.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

• Must be built around a colonizable planet or a barren, cold barren or frozen world.
• Requires no pre-existing megastructures around the planet.
• Requires no orbital stations around the planet.
• Can’t be built if the planet has an unresearched anomaly.
• Can’t be built around asteroids.

Planetary Computing Complex provides 100% bonus to science generation and has special districts:

• Research Laboratory adds 5 Housing and 5 Researcher jobs, with 7  Upkeep and 2  Upkeep
• Administrative Node adds 6 Housing and 6 Bureaucrat jobs, with 7  Upkeep

Planetary Dockyard

“A Planetary Defense Nexus above this world is providing its inhabitants with plenty of military occupations and extensive protection from orbital bombardment.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

The Planetary Defense Nexus has the Strike Corvette system:

• Strike Corvettes are corvettes which do not have FTL capabilities, and are slightly faster and stronger.

• A base of 2 are built a month, with an extra 1 corvette a month per 20 pops.
• Base capacity is half the number of the pops on the planet

• Strike craft capacity can be increased through an engineering repeatable, up to 20 times, along with other misc. techs.
• A building can be built which increases the maximum number of strike corvettes.
• Doubled if the planet is a Maginot World

• Designs are randomly picked from the available designs in the Ship Designer

• Deployment:

• Can be configured to automatically deploy if enemy fleets enter the system, if they bombard the planet, or not at all
• Cannot be deployed if the planet is being invaded
• Cooldown of 3 months between deployments
• Can be deployed manually using the “Deploy Corvettes” button

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Preservation Sphere

“Capable of drawing unparalleled energy.”

Prerequisite Technology:

Construction stages:

Psionic Beacon

"A complete Psionic Beacon, a galactic lighthouse that is home to a powerful Shroud entity known as a Navigator."

Prerequisite Technology:

Technology is unlocked by an entity from the Shroud which has a 10% chance of contacting you the first year you have both the Mega-Engineering technology and a Chosen One leader, with the chance increasing by 5% each year after.

Construction stages:

• Must be built around a non-inhabitable planet
• Requires no preexisting stations or megastructures around the planet
• Requires no unresearched anomaly on the planet
• May be activated in six different ways, with each method consuming different amounts of Psionic Sublimate

Psychic Hypersiphon

“A fully operational and stabilized Psychic Hypersiphon. The portal connecting our reality with the Shroud has been fully activated, and this link to the shroud releases pure Shroud Essence, which greatly enhances our psionic potential.”

Prerequisite Technology: