Top products from r/Stellaris
We found 26 product mentions on r/Stellaris. We ranked the 51 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. In the Balance: An Alternate History of the Second World War (Worldwar, Volume 1)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 2
2. In the Balance (Worldwar, Book One) (Worldwar Series 1)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 2
6. Pandora's Star (The Commonwealth Saga Book 1)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
7. AcuRite 13003 7-Inch Digital Alarm Clock
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Automatically adjusts for Daylight Saving Time (DST)Large LED display area, Loud audible alarm, Snooze buttonElectric AC power cord with CR2032 coin cell battery backup (included)6-foot power cord, Time Zone settings for HAST, AKST, PST, MST, CST, EST and AST3.3-inch Height x 7.1-inch Width x 2.8-in...
8. Star Trek: The Next Generation / Doctor Who: Assimilation 2 Volume 1
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
9. Elite: Reclamation (Elite: Dangerous) (Volume 1)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
10. Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Simon Schuster
12. Diamond Star (Saga of the Skolian Empire)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
13. Ending the Death Penalty: The European Experience in Global Perspective
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
15. America in the World: A History in Documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Princeton University Press
16. Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
> they were solved by the threat of mutually assured destruction.
That most certainly explains why we didn't go to war with the Soviet Union, but the MAD theory doesn't explain why countries became democratic (and wealthier as a result) overtime. MAD was also aimed at countries with huge arsenals, of which non-nuclear countries are excluded (in other words - rest of the world). MAD isn't a driving factor in foreign policies currently.
>Not all of the countries we overthrew were authoritarian communists, Chile's only crime was democratically electing a marxist president
Right, and it would most certainly be a negative implication of the United States to purposefully install authoritarian yes-men in its pursuit for world domination, but that wasn't the case. There's important context you're omitting. For one, the United States feared Marxist governments (even democratically elected ones) would gravitate towards authoritarian systems, so it is better to have a friendly authoritarian country than a hostile Marxist one. It's a rational choice and still in line with Democratic Peace theory. Fidel Castro used democracy as a rallying cry until he got control of the state. Later, the Cuban missile crisis happened and America was fearful the Soviet Union had nukes so close to the United States. To this day Cuba is still authoritarian.
As for Chile? It is one of the best and most developed countries in Latin America. Pinochet would eventually cave into pressures from the people and the United States to create a democracy. You gotta remember, America wasn't thinking in "nows" only, they were in it for the long game. You can dispute it could have happened differently or America overstepped, but you cannot make the argument it is not in line with the Democratic Peace theory.
South Korea had a similar path. The United States wasn't about to jeopardize its geopolitical strategy and cause havoc while the country is turbulent in democratization. It kept the authoritarian regime in power. By the time the Soviet Union crashed South Korea was well on its way to democratization.
> I think of what America did in West Germany post WW2
Heavily occupy and change its politics until we knew it was a proper democracy? Indeed, but thinking every single country will be like that, or that America has the resources to occupy and democratize every single country is a foolish pipe dream; if not colonialism. America did what it had to with the resources it had to make tough decisions it'll be criticized for regardless of the outcome. The world isn't perfect. You don't just wave a wand and pray countries will become democracies. There's nuance, context, difficulties, opponents. You gotta create norms, you gotta create laws, institutions - it's a very difficult process. And I'm not arguing America was perfect. Vietnam was most certainly botched - but that isn't a good example disproving American's commitment to the Democratic Peace theory.
I don't mean to be rude, but I don't believe you have a grasp of proper context behind US foreign policy. I recommend you buy and read this book It uses first hand documents (relating to foreign politics of the United States) from history in chronological order to explain what politicians, people, or even opponents of the United States thought when they made decisions. It includes letters, speeches, political cartoons and goes into detail explaining, for example, why America planted authoritarians in countries like Greece or Chile. It's all very much in line with the Democratic Peace theory (or Democratic Crusaders in stellaris). Nothing you've said so far suggested at US being an imperialistic hegemony. Even opponents of American policy (the only people who really call America an imperialist country) admit it's trade at best and doesn't get to actual imperialism of land grabs and such (which is what Stellaris imperialist hegemony is really about).
This concept was actually a really big interest of mine in my graduate career (though specifically as it related to the Roman Empire). Peter Turchin has written some good and approachable books on how political instability rises as populations approach their maximum possible density.
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His first book on the subject that reads very nicely: https://www.amazon.com/War-Peace-Rise-Fall-Empires/dp/0452288193
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A short (though fairly jargon-y) article on these effects on Roman instability: http://peterturchin.com/PDF/Turchin_SDEAS_2005a.pdf
This is essentially the scenario that takes place in one of my favorite sci-fi novels ever, Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny. Would definitely recommend people check it out, it's considered a classic.
Here's the synopsis from Amazon:
"The gods are a starship crew who subdued a colony world; developed godlike--though often machine-enhanced--powers during successive lifetimes of mind transfer to new, cloned bodies; and now lord it over descendants of the ship's mere passengers. Their tyranny is opposed by retired god Sam, who mocks the Celestial City, introduces Buddhism to subvert Hindu dogma, allies himself with the planet's native "demons" against Heaven, fights pyrotechnic battles with bizarre troops and weapons, plays dirty with politics and poison, and dies horribly but won't stay dead. It's a huge, lumbering, magical story, told largely in flashback, full of wonderfully ornate language (and one unforgivable pun) that builds up the luminous myth of trickster Sam, Lord of Light. Essential SF reading."
And if you enjoyed The Expanse, novelwise I could recommend some of the Elite books. Similar aesthetics in terms of a "used" looking universe, and the struggle of independent pilots trying to make a living among the stars.
Specifically, Wanted or Reclamation are two stories I'd recommend.
Series of books by Jack Campbell. They are excellent and you should read them!
https://www.amazon.com/Dauntless-Lost-Fleet-Book-1/dp/0441014186
Sounds like a Turtledove novel: https://www.amazon.com/Balance-Worldwar-Book-One-ebook/dp/B000FBFOQY
Probably a few more I just can't remember. I played with so many event mods, it is hard to pinpoint which actually is just the vanilla game.
There was actually a novel along those lines: https://www.amazon.com/First-Cycle-H-Beam-Piper/dp/0441239196
If you have a hunger for this kind of thing there is an old book called Diamond Star
https://www.amazon.com/Diamond-Star-Saga-Skolian-Empire/dp/1416591605
It features an empathic human subspecies who run an empire that looks like a regular megacorp from the outside, but is a sadistic total slave state on the inside. The book is about a prince who runs away to become a rock star on earth.
They went 5th
edit: The fifth science quickly realised how unclear that is. Its a quote from this book. Going 5th would basically mean the entire civilisation merged there consciousness with a being that it created that is on a higher level of consciousness.
Amazon has them in kindle format Not Kindle Unlimited, though.
Why just a mod for Stellaris; why not something universal that will work for every game, Netflix, etc?
May I present, the time keeping monitor augment ^^^^Also ^^^^known ^^^^as ^^^^a ^^^^digital ^^^^alarm ^^^^clock.
Been using one for years, right next to my TV (couch gamers represent); time rarely gets away from me.
Stellaris: Infinite Frontiers
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stellaris-Infinite-Frontiers-Steven-Savile/dp/9187687607
https://www.amazon.ca/Stellaris-Infinite-Frontiers-Steven-Savile/dp/9187687607
I think I found it. Here's a Wikipedia link (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation/Doctor_Who:_Assimilation2) and an Amazon link (https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Generation-Doctor-Assimilation/dp/1613774036).
What we need is a Star Trek mod and Doctor Who mod that are compatible with each other so we can have chaotic events like this happen.
and many organisms do in fact have multiple well-defined genders, even vertebrates; scientists discover more all the time now that people are more willing to look past the male/female paradigm (and I'm speaking as a biologist).
A book on the subject: https://www.amazon.com/Evolutions-Rainbow-Diversity-Gender-Sexuality/dp/0520260120
It's just called "Thrawn"
10/10
Thrawn
This is the first book in his 8 book series that explores similar themes, discussed in a few other replies.
https://www.amazon.com/Balance-Alternate-History-Second-Worldwar/dp/0345388526/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1484408647&sr=8-1&keywords=in+the+balance
I can't claim complete merit for the idea; I first came across the term in this book
> Was it clear, that I oppose this smugness?
Yes. I intended to amplify your point, not try to contradict it.
> Also I don't understand the defensive posture he puts himself in.
I think he's in this defensive posture because, as an American in Germany, he's constantly involved in stupid arguments with ill-informed members of the middle-class telling him, a US lawyer, about US law etc.
He wrote a book about the death penalty so I'm pretty sure he's well-acquainted with the short comings of his own country.